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Kyle Roberts explores the role of evangelical religion in the making of antebellum New York City and its spiritual marketplace. Between the American Revolution
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Categories: History
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A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the sup
Shaking the World for Jesus
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Pages: 267
Authors: Heather Hendershot
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In 1999, the Reverend Jerry Falwell outed Tinky-Winky, the purple character from TV's Teletubbies. Events such as this reinforced in many quarters the common id
The Chance of Salvation
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Authors: Lincoln A. Mullen
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The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have often thought that people’s faith determines their eternal destinies. The
Soft Patriarchs, New Men
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Authors: W. Bradford Wilcox
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In the wake of dramatic, recent changes in American family life, evangelical and mainline Protestant churches took markedly different positions on family change