Reimagining Denominationalism

Robert Bruce Mullin is Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning Professor of History and World Mission and Professor of Modern Anglican Studies in the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Russell E. Richey is William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

• Contributors Introduction Russell E. Richey and Robert Bruce Mullin I. OverviewsThe Death and Rebirth of Denominational HistoryHenry Warner Bowden Denominational Studies in the Reshaping of American Religious HistoryWilliam R. Hutchinson The People as Well as the Prelates: A Social History of a DenominationJay P. Dolan Denominationalism and the Black ChurchLaurie F. Maffly-Kipp Denominations and Denominationalism: An American MorphologyRussell E. Richey The Question of Denominational Histories in the United States: Dead End or Creative Beginning?Charles H. Long II. ModelsDenominations: Who and What Are We Studying?Nancy T. Ammerman ''Have You Ever Prayed to Saint Jude?'': Reflections on Fieldwork in Catholic ChicagoRobert A. Orsi Denominations as Bilingual CommunitiesRobert Bruce Mullin Remembering, Recovering, and Inventing What Being the People of God Means: Reflections on Method in the Scholarly Writing of Denominational HistoryJan Shipps III. Case StudiesDenominational History When Gender Is the Focus: Women in American MethodismJean Mill Schmidt Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism in America: Is There an Alternative to Denominationalism?Marc Lee Raphael African Methodisms and the Rise of Black DenominationalismWill B. Gravely Presbyterians and the Mystique of Organizational Efficiency, 1870-1936James H. Moorhead ''Denominational'' Colleges in Antebellum America? A Case Study of Presbyterians and Methodists in the SouthBradley J. Longfield Denominational History as Public History: The Lutheran CaseChrista R. Klein Index

The interpretive essays gathered here constitute a significant contribution to the study of denominations. The volume boasts a wide variety of methodologies and commentators ... In helping us to reimagine denominationalism, the present volume lays an indispensable groundwork from which to survey the changing landscape of religion in America.