Work We Have to Do: A History of Protestants in Am

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Work We Have to Do: A History of Protestants in America

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By Mark A. Noll (au)
Year: 2002
Pages: 154
Binding Paperback
ISBN 0-19-515497-5

Product Code: 1422356167

Description

Since the earliest European settlers reached the shores of Mass. & Virginia in the 17th cent., Protestantism has been inextricably linked with Amer. politics & culture. Here, Noll explores the evolution of the many denom’s. collected under the umbrella of Protestantism, incl. Puritans, Episcopalians, Pentecostals, Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, & Presbyterians. Follows their impact on Amer. public life -- from temperance to the civil rights movement, from meetinghouses to the White House. Covers the establishment of such influential Protestant org. as the Amer. Bible Soc., the Nat. Baptist Conv., & the Salvation Army, & the significant expansion of the denom’s’ ethnic base since the first African-Amer. Protestant churches were built in the 1770s. Illus.

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