Secure Your Copy New Directions In American Religious History Constructed By Harry S. Stout Compiled As PDF

eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of.
Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized both where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come.

The essays are organized according to four general themes: places and regions, universal themes, transformative events, and marginal groups and ethnocultural "outsiders, " They address a wide range of specific topics including Puritanism, Protestantism and economic behavior, gender and sexuality in American Protestantism, and the twentiethcentury deChristianization of American public culture.
Among the contributors are such distinguished scholars as David D, Hall, Donald G. Matthews, Allen C. Guelzo, Gordon S. Wood, Daniel Walker Howe, Robert Wuthnow, Jon Butler, David A, Hollinger, Harry S. Stout, and John Higham.
Taken together, these essays reveal a rapidly expanding field of study that is breaking out of its traditional confines and spilling into all of American history.
The book takes the measure of the changes of the last quartercentury and charts numerous challenges to future work,
Harry Stout is Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History, having been Professor here since, He taught previously at the University of Connecticut, He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including Mellon, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships, He is General Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and General Editor of the Religion in America series at Oxford University Press, He also serves as editor to Cobblestone Magazine, Studies in Puritan American Spirituality, and American National Biography, In addition to numerous articles, he has authored or co authored the following books: The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England Pulitizer Prize finalist An Enemy Among Them The Divine Harry Stout is Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History, having been Professor here since.
He taught previously at the University of Connecticut, He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including Mellon, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships, He is General Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and General Editor of the Religion in America series at Oxford University Press, He also serves as editor to Cobblestone Magazine, Studies in Puritan American Spirituality, and American National Biography, In addition to numerous articles, he has authored or co authored the following books: The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England Pulitizer Prize finalist An Enemy Among Them The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism Pulitzer Prize nominee A New England Congregation: First Church, New Haven,and Upon the

Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War.
Books he has edited or co edited are: Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Christianity in America and Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the American Experience.
Professor Stout also was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library,, sitelink.