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Tseng, Timothy. "Protestantism in Twentieth-Century Chinese America: The Impact of Transnationalism on the Chinese Diaspora." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 13, no. 1-2 (2006): 121–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187656106793645196.

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AbstractThis article examines how an indigenous form of evangelicalism became the predominant form of Chinese Protestantism in the United States since 1949. Chinese-American Protestantism was so thoroughly reconstructed by separatist immigrants from the Diaspora and American-born (or American-raised) evangelicals that affiliation with mainline Protestant denominations and organizations is no longer desired. This development has revitalized Chinese-American Protestantism. Indeed, Chinese evangelicalism is one of the fastest-growing religions in China, the Chinese Diaspora, and among Chinese in America. Though the percentage of Chinese Americans affiliated with Christianity is not nearly as high as that of Korean Americans, Chinese-American Protestantism has achieved impressive numeric growth over the past fifty years. Much of this growth can be attributed to the large number of Chinese who have migrated to North America since World War II.
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Barreto Jr., Raimundo César. "Pistas sobre o pensamento ético-social protestante latino-americano." REFLEXUS - Revista Semestral de Teologia e Ciências das Religiões 11, no. 18 (December 17, 2017): 307. http://dx.doi.org/10.20890/reflexus.v11i18.552.

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This article argues that in order to think about a Latin American Protestant social ethic one needs to understand the ethos in which it emerges. Such an ethos forms in the context of the development of Protestant social thought in Latin America. This article revisits some important moments and movements for the formation of this Protestant social thinking in the region in the course of the 20th century. Five moments are highlighted. Firstly, the awareness of Latin American Protestantism is identified as the starting point for the formation of a Protestant ethos in the continent. In a second moment, the search for autonomy of Latin American Protestantism stands out. Next, the moment is discussed when, in rupture with a reformist and socialist social vision, Protestant sectors for the first time embraced a more radical project. The fourth moment presents a brief evangelical response in the context of integral mission. Finally, the current challenges in a context marked by indigeneity and pentecostality are briefly addressed.Propõe-se que para pensar uma ética social protestante latino-americana precisa-se entender o ethos no qual ela emerge. Tal ethos se forma no contexto do desenvolvimento do pensamento social protestante na América Latina. Esse artigo revisita alguns momentos e movimentos importantes para a formação desse pensar social protestante na região no decorrer do seculo XX. Cinco momentos são destacados. Primeiramente, identifica-se a tomada de consciência do protestantismo latino-americano como ponto de partida para a formação de um ethos protestante no continente. Num segundo momento, destaca-se a busca por autonomia do protestantismo latino-americano. Em seguida, discute-se o momento quando, em ruptura com uma visão social reformista e desenvolvimentista, setores protestantes abraçaram pela primeira vez um projeto mais radical. O quarto momento apresenta uma breve resposta evangélica no contexto da missão integral. Por fim, aborda-se brevemente os desafios atuais num contexto marcado pela indigeneidade e pentecostalidade.
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KEMENY, P. C. "University Cultural Wars: Rival Protestant Pieties in Early Twentieth-Century Princeton." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53, no. 4 (October 2002): 735–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046902008734.

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, liberal Protestants, not fundamentalists, attempted to preserve Princeton University's traditional religious mission during the rapid intellectual and social change reshaping American higher education in the early twentieth century. In fact, when fundamentalists in the university community demanded the secularisation of the undergraduate programme, liberal Protestants spurned their efforts. Although American liberal Protestantism gradually dissolved into the surrounding secular culture over the course of the twentieth century, the conflict between the rival pieties of liberal and conservative Protestants reveals how and why liberal Protestantism was able to maintain hegemony over one key institution of American culture – the university – well into the mid-twentieth century.
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Swatos, William H. "On Latin American Protestantism." Sociology of Religion 55, no. 2 (1994): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3711857.

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Barreto, Raimundo. "The Church and Society Movement and the Roots of Public Theology in Brazilian Protestantism." International Journal of Public Theology 6, no. 1 (2012): 70–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973212x617190.

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Abstract Brazilian Protestantism in its origins tended to develop a kind of pietistic and individualistic spirituality without much concern with the social structures of Brazilian society. Nevertheless, in its historical relation with a reality marked by poverty, social injustice and oppression, some Brazilian Protestants began to develop a sense of social responsibility and social justice, which has been manifest in different ways. This article is an overview of the first attempt from a Protestant viewpoint to develop a public theological discourse in Brazil, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It focuses on the Religion and Society movement, which not only preceded liberation theology in Latin America, but also dialogued with liberationist thought and influenced it, as well as other later public discourses among Catholics and Protestants in Latin America. Richard Shaull was the first significant organic intellectual who mediated the dialogue between European/North American theologies and the Latin American public theology, which was in the making.
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Martínez-Barrera, Jorge. "A Surprising Closeness in Latin American Academia: Luther and Certain Neurosciences." Open Theology 4, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 677–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opth-2018-0051.

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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show a surprising coincidence between Lutheran Protestantism and physicalist neurosciences regarding the negation of free will and how this issue can begin to be studied in Latin American academia. The current advance of Protestantism in Latin America, accompanied by a decline in Catholicism, is simultaneous with a growing presence of the physicalist neurosciences. It can be seen that the development of Protestantism and neurosciences coincide historically in Latin America, unlike what happened in other parts of the world, where Protestantism has a much more extensive history. This allows us to suppose that the discussion on free will will be installed as a matter of research and discussion in the Latin American academia, which had not happened until now. In this work we also seek to identify what could be the common element that unites the Lutheran conception and the arguments of the physicalist neurosciences about the negation of free will. We will show that this common element is the aversion to metaphysics as an explanatory dimension of free will. The strong opposition to metaphysics is probably the most important common element between Lutheran Protestantism and the physicalistic neurosciences. This will allow us to show that the proximity between the two is not such an extravagant idea.
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King, David P. "The West Looks East: The Influence of Toyohiko Kagawa on American Mainline Protestantism." Church History 80, no. 2 (May 13, 2011): 302–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640711000023.

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Toyohiko Kagawa served as the leading Christian voice in Japan from the 1920s through the 1940s. While nationally respected throughout Japan, he also became a hero among American Protestants. Kagawa's popularity in the West rose during a time of transition for mainline Protestantism. The American mainline's optimism and dominance as the religious “establishment” began to falter. It faced both religious and economic depression, internal theological divisions, and a reassessment of their mandate for missions. In the 1930s, mainline Protestants in America were searching for a voice, and Kagawa provided one. Long before the recent scholarship on the rise of global Christianity, the mainline had turned to World Christianity as a model. It was not simply Kagawa's message as a world statesman, however, that drew American Protestants. They also employed him as a symbol for their own aims and ambitions. At a time of reevaluating the foreign mission enterprise, Kagawa and an indigenous Eastern church reminded the mainline of past success while promising hope for the future. As an interpreter of social issues, Kagawa likewise spoke a contemporary idiom. For a short time, the Japanese Christian Toyohiko Kagawa became a Western hero, but a hero shaped through a particular Western lens.
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Morgan, David. "The Visual Culture of American Protestantism in the 19th Century." Caminhando 25, no. 2 (September 29, 2020): 143–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15603/2176-3828/caminhando.v25n2p143-165.

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The study of Protestant visual culture requires a number of correctives since many scholars and Protestants themselves presume images have played no role in religious practice. This essay begins by identifying misleading assumptions, proposes the importance of a visual culture paradigm for the study of Protestantism, and then traces the history of image use among American Protestants over the course of the nineteenth century. The aim is to show how the traditional association of image and text, tasked to evangelization and education, evolved steadily toward pictorial imagery and sacred portraiture. Eventually, text was all but eliminated in these visual formats, which allowed imagery to focus on the personhood of Jesus, replacing the idea of image as information with image as formation.
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HUMMEL, DANIEL G. "POWER AND PLURALISM: AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY." Modern Intellectual History 17, no. 3 (April 2, 2019): 903–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244319000106.

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The study of US foreign relations (what is now often called “America and the World”) has been in a protracted “religious turn” for at least a decade. One of the most prominent statements of the turn was Andrew Preston's article in Diplomatic History from 2006, “Bridging the Gap between the Sacred and the Secular in the History of American Foreign Relations.” Preston, a trained diplomatic historian who made an indelible contribution to the turn with his later Sword of Spirit, Shield of Strength: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (2012), called for “paying more attention” to religion in the field of American foreign relations. More precisely he urged historians to make of religion “a systematic rubric under which various moments in the history of American foreign relations, or the whole history itself, can be analyzed and explained.”
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Synan, Vinson, Edith L. Blumhofer, Russell P. Spittler, and Grant A. Wacker. "Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism." American Historical Review 105, no. 4 (October 2000): 1325. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2651481.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American Protestantism"

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Hayat, Cyrus. "Billy Sunday and the masculinization of American Protestantism : 1896-1935 /." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1860.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.
Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Kevin C. Robbins. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).
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Ginn, Craig Warryn Clifford. "Theological authority in the hymns and spirituals of American Protestantism, 1830-1930." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12735/.

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This dissertation examines theological authority in the hymns and spirituals of American Protestantism within the period 1830-1930. It investigates the deuterocanonical status of hymns in hymnic-theological commentary, and demonstrates the functional canonicity of hymns in three case studies (children's hymnody, African American spirituals, and hymns of marginalized groups), and two representative areas of praxis (conversion and missions). This dissertation consults a variety of primary source materials, both elite and popular, including journals, biographies, conference minutes, academic addresses, theological works, hymn prefaces, domestic novels, newspapers, and poetry. These sources are used to situate the hymnal in the cultural context of American Protestantism and determine the status and role of hymnody. As the Bible is acclaimed the exclusive canonical text of Protestantism, consideration of the hymnal's theological authority in canonical terms is at odds with Protestant biblicism. As such, this dissertation's claim that the hymnal shared, to a significant degree, the Bible's place as a textual source of theological authority, is intellectually innovative. In identifying didactic and doctrinal themes in hymnals, primarily through systematic theology, this dissertation shows the role of hymns and spirituals in regulative theology and audible faith. Thus defended in this dissertation, is the hymnal's capacity to adjudicate on matters of faith and praxis. Of additional importance to this dissertation is its contribution toward hymnic theology, as well as demonstrating the hymnal's influence upon historical theology, liturgical theology, cultural theology, and evangelistic theology. This dissertation yields various insights for theology, especially the soteriological efficacy· of hymnody, the role of hymns in regulative theology, and the discussion of antiSemitism and black-liberation theology in African American spirituals. In applied theology and congregational studies the ramifications are critical, with the analysis of hymnic authority, the intersection of singing and doctrine (lex cantandi lex credendi), and the Bible and hymnal as mutually constitutive, all of paramount importance.
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Piedra, Solano Arturo. "Latin American Protestantism from the neglected continent to the continent of opportunity : an assessment of the justification for Protestant expansion in Latin America, 1894-1960." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30649.

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In this thesis, we explore the reasons that led North American Protestant missionary societies to consider Latin America as a mission field. During the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century the Protestant mission among the Spanish-speaking poplation in Latin America was largely conducted by individual Europeans and Latin Americans. The zeal of these individuals, however, was not sufficient to inspire the main demoninations to invest significant human and financial resources there. Realising that Protestant missionary societies were not prepared to place Latin America on the same footing as Asia and Africa, these individuals became discouraged and began to refer to Latin America as 'the neglected continent'. Interest in the expansion of Protestantism in Latin America was intrinsically linked with the consolidation of the political and military interests of the United States in the region. The Spanish-American War (1988) was one of the major events that brought about the conditions for Protestant expansion on a larger scale. However, it was not until the creation of the Committee of Cooperation in Latin America (CCLA) in 1914 that Latin America began to be advocated as a major field for Protestant work. The Panama Congress, called and organised by the CCLA in 1916, was the symbol of the transition from the 'neglected continent' to the 'continent of opportunity'. If the expression 'the neglected continent' became a symbol of the frustration of nineteenth-century Protestants interested in Latin America, the expression the 'continent of opportunity' became the signal for a new North American outlook on Latin America. In the twentieth century Latin America offered an opportunity not only for business or political interests but for religious interests as well.
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Chad, Bretton. "Compounding the Sacred and the Profane: How Economic Theory Brings New Insight to the Growth and Decline of American Protestantism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1263.

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In this thesis, economic theory and models will be used to analyze trends of religious growth and decline within the United States. These theories and models, such as Rational Choice Theory, will be applied in order to better understand and gain new insight into shifts and changes within the religious landscape of the United States. Recent trends of growth and decline within Protestantism, the most prominent Christian tradition in America, will be the focus of the investigation. As its main focus, this thesis will ultimately demonstrate that the trends of decline in the mainline Protestant tradition opposed to the trends of growth in the evangelical Protestant tradition can be best understood by focusing on the unique relationship between a religious organization’s degree of tension with society and that organization’s congregational attendance.
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Biggs, Austin R. "The Southern Baptist Convention “Crisis” in Context: Southern Baptist Conservatism and the Rise of the Religious Right." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1967.

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From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a minority conservative faction took over the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). This project seeks to answer the questions of how a fringe minority within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination could undertake such a feat and why they chose to do so. The framework through which this work analyzes these questions is one of competing worldviews that emerged within the SBC in response to decades of societal shifts and denominational transformations in the post-World War II era. To place the events of the Southern Baptist “crisis” within this framework, this study seeks to refute the prevailing notion put forth in earlier works that the takeover was an in-house event, driven purely by doctrinal disputes between conservative Southern Baptists and SBC leadership. Illustrating the differences between rhetoric and action on both sides of this intra-denominational conflict, this work seeks to provide perspective to the narrative of the Southern Baptist “crisis” by asserting that the worldviews guiding the opposing factions diverged not only on doctrine, but culture and politics as well. Placing the events of the “crisis” within the context of broader worldviews, this project highlights and examines the intertwined nature of religion, culture, and politics in modern American society.
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Dias, Filho Ailton Gonçalves. "A imigração norte-americana e a implantação do protestantismo em Americana e Santa Bárbara d Oeste, SP." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2659.

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The only moviment of North-American immigration happened between the years 1866 and 1890 to Brazil. After the civil war, a great number of families from the north of the US headed to Brazil looking for a new home. Some regions took those immigrants, creating the immigrant colonies. The colony that has succeeded and has developed the most was the once which has established itself in the region of Campinas, in the cities of Americana and Santa Bárbara d‟Oeste in the state of São Paulo. Those immigrants were mostly protestants. Their arrival has contributed to the development of the region in several aspects. Nobody can deny the fact that the presence of the American colony in the region has contributed abundantly with the introduction of machines and agricultural equipments to the racional and productive development of the existent crops. This presence has also contributed to the implantation and expansion of the Protestantism in the region.
O único movimento de imigração de norte-americanos aconteceu entre os anos de 1866 a 1890 para o Brasil. Após o fim da guerra da secessão, inúmeras famílias do sul dos Estados Unidos rumaram para o Brasil procurando um novo lar. Algumas regiões acolheram esses imigrantes, formando colônias de imigrantes. Contudo, a que logrou êxito e se desenvolveu foi a que se estabeleceu na região de Campinas, mas precisamente nas cidades de Americana e Santa Bárbara d‟Oeste, no interior do Estado de São Paulo. Estes imigrantes eram quase todos de origem protestante. Sua chegada na região contribuiu para o desenvolvimento da região em vários aspectos. É fato incontestável que a presença da colônia americana na região contribuiu em muito com a introdução de máquinas e equipamentos agrícolas no desenvolvimento racional e produtivo das lavouras existentes. Esta presença contribuiu também com a implantação e expansão do protestantismo na região. Assim, a educação, a agricultura, o comércio, a indústria e a religião, vão receber a influência desta presença norte-americana.
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Silva, Ivan Dias da. "Opção fundamentalista ou opção liberal? controvérsias teológico-políticas e cisão na Convenção Batista do Sul dos EUA." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2012. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1899.

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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo geral apresentar as controvérsias entre as perspectivas teológicas liberal e fundamentalista ocorridas no âmbito da Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), nos EUA, iniciadas na década de 60, com seu ápice na década de 80 e desdobramentos que resultaram na cisão da referida Convenção no final do século XX. A SBC é a maior denominação do cristianismo protestante do mundo, com cerca de 16 milhões de membros e poderosa influência nos ambientes religioso e político norte-americano. Os conflitos intra-denominacionais tiveram como alvo o controle dos recursos e direção ideológica da SBC. De um lado estavam os fundamentalistas, que defendiam a Bíblia como inerrante e entendiam que a tendência modernista presente na denominação era um grande mal a ser extirpado. Do outro se encontravam os liberais, que valorizavam a abordagem histórico-crítica às Escrituras, a teoria da evolução, a filosofia existencialista e o estudo das religiões comparadas. A diferença entre estas perspectivas teológicas tornou a convivência no mesmo ambiente denominacional inviável, gerando um conflito que veio a culminar com a emergência fundamentalista ao poder na SBC, destituindo os outrora solidamente estabelecidos liberais de suas funções de comando na Convenção.
This Master’s thesis’ general goal is to present the controversies between the liberal and fundamentalist theological perspectives which have occurred within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), that have been initiated in the beginning of the 1960’s, with its apex in the 1980’s and developments that led to a split in the Convention at the end of the 20th century. The SBC is the largest world’s Christian protestant denomination, whith approximately 16 million members and powerful religious and politics influence in the USA. These denominational conflicts targeted to control the resources and the ideological direction of the Southern Baptist Convention. On the one hand were the fundamentalists, upholding the Bible as an inerrant book and believing that the modernist tendency was the great evil to be purged from the denomination. On the other were the liberals that appreciated the historical-critical approach to the Bible, the theory of evolution, the existentialist philosophy, and the study of comparative religions. For these different theological perspectives their coexistence at the same denominational scope became unfeasible, giving rise to a conflict that resulted in the fundamentalist’s emergence to the Conventions’ leadership, removing the liberals that once was well-established in charge in the SBC.
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Schlaupitz, Sheila M. "Race, Religion, And Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment: A Test Of Attribution Theory." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000228.

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Gilmore-Clough, Gregory Kipp. "The Social is Personal: Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Riverside Church, and the Social Gospel in the Great Depression." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/243237.

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This project follows recent scholarship that challenges an older paradigm of the social gospel tradition's demise after World War I. It undertakes a multifaceted analysis of Harry Emerson Fosdick, his local and national audiences, and his context of The Riverside Church--as building and as congregation--as a means of tracing the contours of the social gospel through the Great Depression. Fosdick was an internationally known liberal Protestant minister who was prominent in efforts to rearticulate the social gospel and maintain its relevance in the postwar period. He grounded his interpretation of the social gospel in personalist philosophy, which asserted individual personality as irreducible, yet also shaped within social networks. Personalism manifested liberal Protestantism's emphasis on experience, pairing well with the interest in psychology that burgeoned in the early twentieth century, and which was prominent in Fosdick's preaching and writing. I refer to this threefold convergence of liberal theology, social gospel critique and activism, and personalist philosophy as social gospel personalism. While social gospel personalism promoted activity to bring about social change, I find within it a rhetorical tendency to prioritize attention to the psychological development of personality as the primary means through which the aim of transforming society would be met. In this dissertation, I attend to the ways in which social gospel personalism as articulated by Fosdick and embodied in The Riverside Church was particularly classed, with attendant blind spots and limitations, while simultaneously serving to provide its white, middle class adherents with a religious grounding that helped them weather a period of acute social and economic upheaval. Recent scholarship on American religious liberalism seeks to move beyond the narratives of Protestantism, but I argue that Fosdick and Riverside, by virtue of their cultural prominence, represent an important attempt to find personal grounding amidst depersonalizing social currents, and a religious vocabulary for critiquing those social forces that diminished the person. To make this argument, I engage social gospel personalism from multiple angles. I begin with an analysis of Fosdick's preaching and writing, situating him within the social gospel tradition and tracing the presence of personalist thought throughout his message. I then consider Fosdick as a mediated phenomenon, allowing an examination of the ways in which his message was received and utilized by his multiple audiences, suggesting that the dynamics of mediation tended to heighten the individual, existential elements of Fosdick's message. In turning to the Riverside Church itself, I interpret the building as a site within which social gospel personalism was embodied and enabled, attending to the utilization of space as both reflective of and formative of religious practice. Finally, I analyze two of Riverside's programmatic responses to the vast unemployment engendered by the Great Depression as a means of illuminating the ways in which social gospel personalism was and was not prepared to meet the crisis.
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Scott-Coe, Justin M. "Covenant Nation: The Politics of Grace in Early American Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/45.

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The argument of this dissertation is that a critical reading of the concept of "covenant" in early American writings is instrumental to understanding the paradoxes in the American political concepts of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American literature from the theological expressions and disputes in Puritan Massachusetts through Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of Will and the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, showing how the covenant theology of colonial New England dispersed into more "secular" forms of what may be called an American political theology. The first chapter provides an overview of recent attempts to integrate theology and theory, specifically comparing Jacques Derrida and Zizek to better understand the latter's theology of materialism which relies on as well as informs the Reformed Protestant covenantal dichotomy of grace and works. The second chapter establishes the complicated architecture of the covenant concept within seventeenth-century New England Reformed Protestantism, and uses church membership transcripts along with Ann Hutchinson court trial documents to demonstrate how this inherently unstable theology created unintended slippage between God's grace and mankind's works, resulting in a theological formulation remarkably open to Zizek's analysis of political ideology. The third chapter demonstrates how Jonathan Edwards, through his ingenious counter-argument in Freedom of Will, provides a theoretical foundation for an uneasy but necessary alignment of the covenants of works and grace, releasing the subjunctive potential of grace to operate through history as a predeterminer of meaning and, potentially, freedom. In the last chapter, I argue that Emerson finally converts the covenant from a politically conceptualized theological framework for radical grace into a personal institutionalization of grace itself. Stanley Cavell's exploration of Emerson's "constitution" in light of the covenant motif demonstrates the political (im)possibilities inherent in America's self-conceptions of personal liberty and civic equality. In the end, complexities inherent in the concept of the covenant, especially its creative failure to control the radical nature of "grace," are determinative factors in our contradictory American egalitarian ideals.
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Books on the topic "American Protestantism"

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Faces of Latin American protestantism: 1993 Carnahan lectures. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1997.

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Littell, Franklin Hamlin. American Protestantism and antisemitism. [Jerusalem]: Shazar Library, Institute of Comtemporary Jewry, Viidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1985.

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Los Protestantes: An introduction to Latino Protestantism in the United States. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger, 2011.

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Martínez, Juan Francisco. Los Protestantes: An introduction to Latino Protestantism in the United States. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger, 2011.

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Hutchison, William R. The modernist impulse in American Protestantism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.

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American Protestantism in the age of psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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American Evangelical Protestantism and European immigrants, 1800-1924. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2011.

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Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the new millennium. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1997.

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Bonino, José Míguez. Faces of Latin American protestantism: 1993 Carnahan lectures. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 1996.

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All is forgiven: The secular message in American Protestantism. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "American Protestantism"

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Crocker, Richard R. "American mainline Protestantism." In The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World, 157–63. New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315142852-8.

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Bastian, Jean-Pierre. "Pentecostalization of Protestantism in Latin America." In Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions, 1283–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4_505.

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Bastian, Jean-Pierre. "Pentecostalization of Protestantism in Latin America." In Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions, 1–5. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_505-1.

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Wilson, John F., and Donald L. Drakeman. "The Era of Republican Protestantism (1820–1860)." In Church and State in American History, 98–143. Fourth edition. | New York : Taylor & Francis, 2019. | Previous edition cataloged under title as both “authors” considered editors.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429022401-5.

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Rosenthal, Michele. "American Protestantism and the Television: A Paradoxical Relationship." In American Protestants and TV in the 1950s, 7–19. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230609211_2.

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Bruce, Steve. "American Protestantism." In A House Divided, 178–208. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429399053-9.

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Marsden, George M. "Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism." In The Soul of the American University Revisited, 329–50. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073312.003.0024.

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After World War II universities often added religious programs. But these seldom touched the heart of the enterprise. Mainstream American Protestants typically saw religion as an add-on, in contrast to John Henry Newman’s Catholic Idea of a University with theology and philosophy at the center. Nathan Pusey’s efforts to strengthen religion at Harvard illustrate the problem. Will Herberg and John Courtney Murray each pointed out the limits of generalized American religion. Religion departments acted as a palliative. But especially in the 1960s legitimate concerns for pluralism and diversity undermined specifically Protestant teachings in favor of a generalized ethic, as illustrated by Harvey Cox in The Secular City. Mainline Protestant campus ministries declined rapidly in the later 1960s. By the 1970s and 1980s ideals of inclusiveness displaced any specifically Protestant heritage. Some see a “cultural triumph of liberal Protestantism,” but the laudable inclusive ideals by themselves also bring cultural fragmentation.
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Noll, Mark A. "3. Pietists, the American colonies, evangelicals, and the Enlightenment." In Protestantism, 43–57. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199560974.003.0004.

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Agonito, Joseph. "Catholic Opinion of Protestants and Protestantism." In The Building of An American Catholic Church, 179–204. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315102795-10.

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"Acknowledgments." In Reinventing American Protestantism, IX—X. University of California Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520922662-001.

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Conference papers on the topic "American Protestantism"

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Giarola, Flávio. "Representações dos Estados Unidos e a propaganda republicana nas páginas do jornal A Pátria Mineira (São João Del-Rei, 1889)." In Simpósio Internacional Trabalho, Relações de Trabalho, Educação e Identidade. Appos, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47930/1980-685x.2020.0903.

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O presente artigo analisa as representações dos Estados Unidos no periódico A Pátria Mineira, da cidade de São João del-Rei, no ano de 1889, antes da proclamação da República no Brasil. Nosso objetivo é entender como a próspera nação da América do Norte foi usada tanto para defender a ideia republicana como para criticar a Monarquia e mostrá-la como incoerente com a América. Para isto, utilizamos vários artigos publicados no periódico, que mostravam os Estados Unidos sob diferentes ângulos: político, econômico, religioso, racial e histórico. Todas as representações procuravam expor as qualidades e os êxitos dos estadunidenses, ocultando aspectos que poderiam prejudicar a ideologia republicana, tais como a escravidão e o protestantismo. Como resultado, os republicanos são-joanenses difundiram um conjunto de imagens sobre os norte-americanos que estavam enraizadas nos adeptos do partido em todo o país e que ajudariam na derrubada da Império e na ascensão dos Estados Unidos do Brasil.
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