Table of Contents
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
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