Table of Contents
I. BEGINNINGS
- European Expansion and Catholic Settlement
Roman Catholicism in New Spain
Catholic Missions in New France
The Emergence of a French-Catholic Society
Roman Catholics in Maryland
- The English Reformation and the Puritans
Puritanism in England
New World Settlements
Virginia
Plymouth
Puritan Life and Faith in America
The Puritan Way
Troubles
Massachusetts and Virginia: A Comparison - Other Beginnings
Alternatives to the Puritans
Baptists in Early America
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
The Mosaic Takes Shape: Protestants outside of New England
The Church of England
The Quakers and Pennsylvania
Presbyterians
The Reformed and Continental Pietists
Early Protestants in Canada
Native Americans and Slaves
Native Americans
Slaves
II. AMERICANIZATION
- A Renewal of Piety, 1700-1750
The Early Eighteenth Century
Solomon Stoddard and Cotton Mather
Regional Developments
The Great Awakening
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
In the Wake of Revivals
Regional Effects
The Great Awakening and the Baptists
From English Puritanism to American Evangelicalism
Preaching to the Under Classes
The Awakening and America - The Churches in the Revolution
The Christian Patriots
Republicanism
Contributions to the Cause
Loyalists
Canadian Loyalism: Quebec
Canadian Loyalism: The Maritimes
Canadian Loyalism: Upper Canada
Pacifists
The Faith of the Founders
The Religious Problem of Slavery in the American Revolution - The Revolution in the Churches
The Separation of Church and State
Interpreting the First Amendment
A New Era of Populist Democracy
No Creed but the Bible
The Effect of Populist Democracy
Theology in an American Key
The American Christian Enlightenment
Theological Developments
Countervailing Trends III. THE "PROTESTANT CENTURY"
- Evangelical Mobilization
The Second Great Awakening
The West
The East
First and Second Awakenings Compared
Exemplary Leaders
Francis Asbury and the Rise of Methodism
Charles Finney and Modern Revivalism
Mobilization of the Baptists
A New Visibility for Women
Phoebe Palmer and the Appeal of Holiness
Public Life
A Missionary Vision
The Ambiguous Mission to the Cherokees
Interpretations - "Outsiders"
Millerites and Mormons
The Adventism of William Miller
The New Religion of Joseph Smith
Alternative Communities
African Americans Organize Their Own Churches
Richard Allen and the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Organization North, Perseverance South
Roman Catholics
John Carroll and an American Catholic Church
Protestant Opposition
Catholic Women
Immigrant Protestants
The Lutherans
- "Evangelical America," 1800-1865
In Foreign Eyes
Protestant Life in "Christian America"
Converting the West and the South
Mass Communications and Popular Thought
Education
A Flourishing of Protestant Theology
The Heirs of Calvinism
Mediating Theologies
Politics - His Dominion: "Christian Canada"
The Canadian Political Context
The Catholic Story
The Triumph of Ultramontanism in Quebec
Catholicism beyond Quebec and Protestant-Catholic Hostility
The Meaning of Catholic-Protestant Tension
The Protestant Story in the Atlantic Provinces
The Protestant Story in Ontario and the West
A Confluence of Opposites
Between Britain and America
Adjustments after 1867
The Rise and Limits of Protestant Ecclesiastical Nationalism
- The Last Years of "Protestant America," 1865-1918
Evangelists at Home and Abroad
Dwight L. Moody
Missionary Entrepreneurs
American Protestants to the Ends of the Earth
The Moral Reform of Society
Prohibition
The Culmination of Protestant Politics
William Jennings Bryan
Woodrow Wilson
The Cities and the Social Gospel
The Ecumenical Movement and World War I IV. THE EMERGENCE OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
- The Civil War
The Civil War as a Religious War
Christian Activity during the Conflict
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War as Turning Point
Abolition
Opening the West
Republican Virtue
Civil Religion
- Non-White, Non-Protestant
African Americans in Control of Their Destinies
Denominational Initiatives
Other Institutions
Church and Society
The Orthodox in America
Catholics
An Immigrant Church
Journey to Rome: Isaac Hecker
"Americanism"
Growing Maturity
A Changing Landscape - Protestantism Shaken
Intellectual Challenges
The New University
Historical Criticism of Scripture
Moderates, Mediators, and the Unexpected
The Disruption of Protestant Theology
Modernism
Fundamentalism and the Rise of Dispensational Theology
Holiness
Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
Pentecostalism: A New Departure - Legacies of "Christian America"
A Puritan-Evangelical Politics, with Alternatives
Alternatives: Separation, Natural Law, Canada
America's Book, America's Icon: The Bible
Printing, Translating, and Distributing
A Cultural Force
A Literature Preoccupied with God
Literature of Christian Moral Purpose
Christianity in the Literary Canon
V. WILDERNESS ONCE AGAIN?
- Turbulent Decades
Legacies of the 1920s
Hard Times, 1929-1939
War and Its Aftermath, 1939-1960
Revolutions and Counterrevolutions, 1960-1980
The Second Vatican Council
A Quiet Revolution
Charismatic Renewal
State in Church
The Reagan Era and Beyond - Trends
The Christian Map in the 1920s
Rises and Declines since World War II
Mostly White Denominations
Black Denominations
Canada
Regional Strengths
General Trends - Communities
European Ethnic Enclaves
Dutch Protestants
Lutherans
The Southern Baptist Convention
Hispanics
African Americans - Personalities, Leaders, Exemplars
Personalities, Leaders
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Billy Graham
A Public Role for Women
Aimee Semple McPherson
Dorothy Day
Mahalia Jackson
Flannery O'Connor
Catherine Marshall
Personalities of Theology
Reinhold Niebuhr
H. Richard Niebuhr
- American Christianity, Christianity in America
Twentieth-Century Missions
Ecumenism
Making Sense of the Story
Black and White
The United States and Canada
The Varying Pace (and Diverse Meanings) of Secularization
Wilderness Once Again? Bibliography of General Works
Index