Christian Churches & Denominations

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...

Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently refle...

The Mormon faith may seem so different from aspirations to transcend the human through technological means that it is hard to imagine how these two...

Schism is the first ethnographic and historical study of Seventh-day Adventism in China. Scholars have been slow to consider Chinese Protestantism ...

Lisa Kaaren Bailey's Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul is th...

In this single volume you will find nearly three-and-a-half thousand terms and names from the history, teachings, and liturgy of the church. Terms ...

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose...

Seeking to understand the doctrine of justification by way of biblical hermeneutics, this book uncovers the differences between Martin Luther and t...

This volume reframes the narrative that has too often dominated the field of historical study of religion and politics: the culture wars. Influence...