The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism

Jason E. Vickers · Jennifer Woodruff Tait

may 2022 · Cambridge University Press

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American Protestantism has been the dominant form of Christianity in United States since the colonial era and has had a profound impact on American society. Understanding this religious tradition is, thus, crucial to understanding American culture. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview of American Protestantism. It considers all its major streams—Anglican, Reformed, Lutheran, Anabaptist, Baptist, Stone-Campbell, Methodist, Holiness, and Pentecostal. Written from various disciplinary perspectives, including history, theology, liturgics, and religious studies, it explores the beliefs and practices around which American Protestant life has revolved. The volume also provides a chronological overview of the tradition's entire history, addresses its prominent theological and sociological features, and explores its numerous intersections with American culture. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, as well as an interested general audience, this Companion will be useful both for insiders and outsiders to the American Protestant tradition.

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Jason E. Vickers is Professor of Theology at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY. He is a past president of the Wesleyan Theological Society, editor of the Wesleyan Theological Journal, and author or editor of a dozen books, including Methodist Christology: From the Wesleys to the Twenty-First Century (2020), and The Cambridge Companion to American Methodism(2013).

Jennifer Woodruff Tait is the editor of Christian History magazine, the leading magazine about church history for a popular audience. She is the author of The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharist Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism (2011) and Christian History in Seven Sentences (2021).