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Chronicles the rise and fall of the Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, documenting the ways in which they stopped shaping American culture and began to be shaped by it

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Genesis of the Mainline 2 Building the New Jerusalem: The High Tide of the Seven Sisters 3 A Mighty Fortress in Decline 4 The Politics of Decline 5 In a State of Perpetual Decline 6 Unto the Ends of the Earth: Global Christianity and Mainline Decline 7 The Emergence of a New Mainline Notes Index About the Author

About the Author

Jason S. Lantzer is Adjunct Professor of History at Indiana University Purdue University and at Butler University. He is the author of Prohibition is Here to Stay: The Rev. Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America.

Reviews

"Provides a wide-ranging survey and trenchant critique of the history of mainline Christianity in America. Lantzer's cautionary tale of the mainline's decline offers a stimulating introduction tothese denominations--Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopal, and others--which remain the church home for tens of millions of American Christians." Thomas S. Kidd, Baylor University, author of God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution