Daniel Ott is assistant professor of religious studies at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, where he teaches courses on the history of Christian theology, Martin Luther King Jr., and contemporary movements in Christian thought. Hannah Schell is professor of religious studies at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois.
Description
1. Introduction; 2. "Errand in the Wilderness": Colonists in the New World; 3. Religious and Political Awakenings: The Revolution; 4. Religious Thought in the New Republic: Something New, Something Old; Revival and Restoration; 5. New Paths in the Nineteenth Century; 6. Times of Turmoil: The Civil War; 7. Spreading the Word: Victorian Evangelicalism and the Varieties of Protestantism; 8. Progressivism and Its Discontents; 9. Twentieth Century Developments; 10. Into the Twenty-First Century.