Beyond Establishment: Protestant Identity in a Post-Protestant Age

This book takes a novel cultural approach to studying mainline denominations focusing on the denominations religious and moral vision--the beliefs values symbols stories and style that make a denomination distinct. Of special concern are the ways in which denominations passed on their vision and how they maintained plausibility under changing circumstances. Contributors include a variety of authors historians sociologists anthropologists educators and liturgists who examine ways in which denominations have sought to transmit their culture with varying degrees of success or failure.