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. Overviews ; The Death and Rebirth of Denominational History ; Henry Warner Bowden ; Denominational Studies in the Reshaping of American Religious History ; William R. Hutchinson ; The People as Well as the Prelates: A Social History of a Denomination ; Jay P. Dolan ; Denominationalism and the Black Church ; Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp ; Denominations and Denominationalism: An American Morphology ; Russell E. Richey ; The Question of Denominational Histories in the United States: Dead End or Creative Beginning? ; Charles H. Long ; II. Models ; Denominations: Who and What Are We Studying? ; Nancy T. Ammerman ; "Have You Ever Prayed to Saint Jude?": Reflections on Fieldwork in Catholic Chicago ; Robert A. Orsi ; Denominations as Bilingual Communities ; Robert Bruce Mullin ; Remembering, Recovering, and Inventing What Being the People of God Means: Reflections on Method in the Scholarly Writing of Denominational History ; Jan Shipps ; III. Case Studies ; Denominational History When Gender Is the Focus: Women in American Methodism ; Jean 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 Denominationalism ; Will B. Gravely ; Presbyterians and the Mystique of Organizational Efficiency, 1870-1936 ; James H. Moorhead ; "Denominational" Colleges in Antebellum America? A Case Study of Presbyterians and Methodists in the South ; Bradley J. Longfield ; Denominational History as Public History: The Lutheran Case ; Christa R. Klein ; Index

The interpretive essays gathered here constitute a significant contribution to the study of denominations....The present volume lays an indispensable groundwork from which to survey the changing landscape of Religion in America