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The Christian Century and the Rise of Mainline Protestantism
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Authors: Elesha J. Coffman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Since the 1972 publication of Dean M. Kelley's Why Conservative Churches Are Growing, discussion of the Protestant mainline has focused on the tradition's decli
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
Language: en
Pages: 163
Authors: James Hudnut-Beumler
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-09 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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As recently as the 1960s, more than half of all American adults belonged to just a handful of mainline Protestant denominations—Presbyterian, UCC, Disciples o
The Rise of Liberal Religion
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Matthew Hedstrom
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Best First Book Prize of the American Society of Church History Society for U. S. Intellectual History Notable Ti
Mainline Christianity
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Jason S Lantzer
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-30 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Since the Revolutionary War, Mainline Christianity has been comprised of the Seven Sisters of American Protestantism—the Congregational Church, the Episcopal
The Unexpected Christian Century
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Scott W. Sunquist
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-29 - Publisher: Baker Academic

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In 1900 many assumed the twentieth century would be a Christian century because Western "Christian empires" ruled most of the world. What happened instead is th