New Directions in American Religious History

The eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. 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 twentieth-century de-Christianization of American public culture.