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The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat....

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A Copious Fountain
A History of Union Presbyterian Seminary, 1812-2012

By William B. Sweetser Jr.

A Copious Fountain tells the two-hundred-year-old story of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. From its first days at Hampden-Sydney College, Union Presbyterian Seminary has answered its call to equip educated ministers to serve the ch...

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A Political History of the Bible in America

By Paul D. Hanson

"Biblica l history, enriched by many religious and cultural traditions, flows into and is intertwined with our nation's epic, both for better and for worse. To ignore that history is to cut ourselves off from our roots and to deny the ancestral exper...

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A Violent Evangelism
The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas

By Luis N. Rivera

In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He reca...

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African American Religious Thought
An Anthology

By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Cornel West

Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of Africa...

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Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue, Second Edition
Black Theology in the Slave Narrative

By George C.L. Cummings, Dwight N. Hopkins

Drawing on slave narratives found in forty-one volumes of interviews and one hundred autobiographies by former slaves, these contributors explore how enslaved African Americans received the often oppressive faith of their masters but transformed it i...

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Eleanor: A Spiritual Biography
The Faith of the 20th Century's Most Influential Woman

By Harold Ivan Smith

More than fifty years after her death, Eleanor Roosevelt is remembered as a formidable first lady and tireless social activist. Often overlooked, however, is her deep and inclusive spirituality. Her personal faith was shaped by reading the New Testam...

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Faith and Knowledge
Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education

By Douglas Sloan

In this book, Douglas Sloan explores the impact that the Protestant theological renaissance had on American colleges and universities. In particular, Sloan focuses on the church's most significant claim to have a continuing voice in higher education:...

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Faith of Our Mothers, Living Still
Princeton Seminary Women Redefining Ministry

By Abigail Rian Evans, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld

This book presents an overview of the ministry of women associated with Princeton Theological Seminary over the last two hundred years. Beginning with a historical overview of early pioneering women at the seminary and a chapter highlighting selected...

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From Preachers to Suffragists
Woman's Rights and Religious Conviction in the Lives of Three Nineteenth-Century

By Beverly Zink-Sawyer

The women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America has primarily been interpreted as a secular movement. However, in From Preachers to Suffragists, Beverly Zink-Sawyer examines the lives of three nineteenth-century clergywomen--Antoinette Brow...

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The Genesis of Liberation
Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

By Emerson B. Powery

Considering that the Bible was used to justify and perpetuate African American enslavement, why would it be given such authority? In this fascinating volume, Powery and Sadler explore how the Bible became a source of liberation for enslaved African A...

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In Our Own Voices
Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing

By Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether

Drawing from primary source documents such as diaries, letters, speeches, sermons, essays, and books from seventeenth-century colonial settlements in North America to today, this volume recovers the contributions of women to American religion. With i...

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Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography
The Faith of a Boundary-Breaking Hero

By Chris Lamb, Michael G. Long

Jackie Robinson believed in a God who sides with the oppressed and who calls us to see one another as sisters and brothers. This faith was a powerful but quiet engine that drove and sustained him as he shattered racial barriers on and beyond the base...

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The Making of American Liberal Theology
Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805-1900

By Gary Dorrien

In this first of a three-volume, comprehensive series, Gary Dorrien mixes theological analysis with historical and biographical detail to present the first comprehensive interpretation of American theological liberalism. Arguing that the indigenous r...

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The Making of American Liberal Theology
Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950

By Gary Dorrien

In this book, the second of his three-volume history, Gary Dorrien explores American theological liberalism in its heyday--at the advent of the research university and the institutionally identified school. He argues that in its prime theological lib...

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