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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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An Introduction to the Reformed Tradition
A Way of Being the Christian Community

By John H. Leith

A concise and readable study for laypersons and clergy alike, this book is indispensable for all informed people in many different confessional communities. With the passion of one who not only observes but believes, John Leith touches on all aspects...

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Christmas in the White House

By Albert J. Menendez

This enjoyable book illuminates the long-held traditions and rare occurances that have shaped Christmas at the White House over the course of its history. Albert Menendez poured through diaries, memoirs, letters, newspapers, and more to compile the s...

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Ending Auschwitz
The Future of Jewish and Christian Life

By Marc H. Ellis

In this book, Marc Ellis wrestles with some of the critical issues of contemporary Jewish and Christian life, in particular the issues of Jewish and Christian religiosity after Auschwitz and 1492, two events that are historical and contemporary in th...

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The Essence of Julian
A Paraphrase of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love

By Ralph Milton

Many people, including trained church professionals, find Julian of Norwich very difficult to read. Translations in modern English don't even seem to help. It's hard to get past her medieval Catholicims to her radically inclusive ideas--to the insigh...

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Four Modern Prophets
Walter Rauschenbusch, Martin Luther King Jr, Gustavo Gutierrez, Rosemary Ruether

By William M. Ramsay

Four Mordern Prophets explores the life and thought of four twentieth-century Christian leaders who epitomize the struggle for freedom and justice. William Ramsay summarizes the work of these four modern thinkers and challenges us to join in the stru...

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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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Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction
Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation

By Rodney Clapp

Holiness and hedonism. Lonesomeness and community. Tradition and progress. Highly regarded commentator on Christianity and popular culture Rodney Clapp argues that these great tensions form the bedrock of American history and our current culture. Uti...

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The Legacy of Billy Graham
Critical Reflections on America's Greatest Evangelist

By Michael G. Long

Perhaps no individual has had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, whose work has been widely influential in arenas from the rising evangelical movement to the White House. Although G...

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Presbyterians and American Culture
A History

By Bradley J. Longfield

This book provides a history of Presbyterians in American culture from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Longfield assesses both the theological and cultural development of American Presbyterianism, with particular focus on the ma...

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Spiritscapes
Mapping the Spiritual and Scientific Terrain at the Turn of the Century

By Mark Parent

Aternative medicine. Quantum mechanics. Gaia. Near-Death Experiences. The New Age. Fundamentalism. Feminist and Liberation Theology. These are just some of the nine most significant spiritual/scientific movements analyzed by Mark Parent in his latest...

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Touchdown Jesus
The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History

By R. Laurence Moore

This book is an intriguing narrative of the interplay between American religion and patterns of American culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. R. Laurence Moore considers the ways nationalism, the separation of church and state, democrat...

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Vanishing Boundaries
The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers

By Dean R. Hoge, Benton Johnson, Donald A. Luidens

This in-depth survey provides a vivid overview of the religious world of the Baby Boomers. The authors worked with a national sample of persons confirmed in the Presbyterian Church, examining the religious faith of Baby Boomers and exploring the reas...

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The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History

By Susan Hill Lindley, Eleanor J. Stebner

During the past four decades, large numbers of women have entered ordained leadership positions in American religious bodies, resulting in changes in aspects of church life from liturgy and theology to pastoral leadership. At the same time, an explos...

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With Liberty for All
Freedom of Religion in the United States

By Phillip E. Hammond

The United States is founded upon the principles of freedom of religion, although it has been difficult at times to understand and apply those principles. Phillip Hammond argues that the Constitution assumes a radical religious liberty, which protect...

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