Christian Churches & Denominations

Winner of the Mormon History Association Best International Book Award The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with lo...

Winner of the Mormon History Association Best International Book Award The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with lo...

While born into a working-class Methodist family in a small English town, Catherine Booth (1829-1890) went on to become one of the most influential...

A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividl...

A companion volume to their massive bibliography Studies in Mormon History, 1830–1997, this descriptive history by a team of top Mormon scholars pr...

This book examines the state of Christianity in the United States, considering trends in religious beliefs and affiliation over the last forty year...

Through ethnographic research, Killian examines vitality in Philadelphia and Berea, two Christian Intentional Communities whose participants live i...

Easter Sunday, 2009, was the Sunday heard ‘round the evangelical internet: NewSpring Church, the second-largest church in the Southern Baptist Conv...

Covering the entire trajectory of his religious life, this meticulously researched book identifies the roots of political and social order in Pope ...

In Rediscovering Japan, Reintroducing Christendom Japan's unvoiced Christian history and cultural roots are examined from an alternative perspectiv...

Andrew Jenson undertook a lifelong quest to render the LDS historical record complete and comprehensive. As Assistant Church Historian of The Churc...

In Tropical Idolatry, R.L. Green examines how thinkers within the Society of Jesus attempted to convert indigenous peoples of New Spain, the Philip...

Covering the entire trajectory of his religious life, this meticulously researched book identifies the roots of political and social order in Pope ...

The Alleluia Community is a unique Christian community of over three hundred committed charismatic Christians in Augusta, Georgia, who live a coven...

Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to...

A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividl...

In this monograph, the author demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles is a highly creative hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians...

These essays emerged from papers presented under the auspices of the American Academy of Religion. The contributors explored cases that highlight t...

Many American Christians have come to understand their relationship to other Christian denominations and traditions through the lens of religious p...

While born into a working-class Methodist family in a small English town, Catherine Booth (1829-1890) went on to become one of the most influential...

In the latter part of the eleventh century a revolutionary group within the Western Church, centered in the papacy, attempted to overthrow the earl...

In 1934, during the Nazi regime in Germany, members of the Confessing Church issued the Declaration of Barmen, which reaffirmed their primary loyal...

This book presents a historical study of the phenomenon of Holy Land tourism among American Protestants during the second half of the nineteenth ce...

Today, a wave of change is on the horizon. It manifests itself in various ways. It is causing a radical break with our old way of life and introduc...

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and ev...

Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter...

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's or...