A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, 2nd ed.

by Mark Noll

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2019

Overview

A best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years.

Mark Noll’s A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada has been firmly established as the standard text on the Christian experience in North America. Now Noll has thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded his classic text to incorporate new materials and important themes, events, leaders, and changes of the last thirty years. Once again readers will benefit from his insights on the United States and Canada in this superb narrative survey of Christian churches, institutions, and cultural engagements from the colonial period through 2018.

Key Features

• Explores the great variety of Christian experience in North American history
• Focuses on denominations, theology, hymnody, intellectual life, and national politics
• Expands on treatment of women, ethnic minorities, and social history

Contents

• Part I: Beginnings
• Part II: Americanization
• Part III: The “Protestant Century”
• Part IV: Tumultuous Times, 1900–2018
• Part V: Reflections

Top Highlights

“Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)” (Page 187)

“Their aggressive strategies for outreach, their combination of determined congregationalism and institutional association, and their traditional Calvinism adjusted to the American environment made Baptists an especially powerful force in the South and on the frontier.” (Page 164)

“The first well-established Christian institutions in the New World came from the work of Catholics” (Page 13)

“England’s first permanent settlement was the Virginia colony, established at Jamestown in 1607” (Page 32)

“The state of Christianity in the United States after the American Revolution was not good.” (Page 152)

Praise for the Print Edition

A new standard for textbooks on the history of North American Christianity.

—James Turner, University of Notre Dame

Scholars and general readers alike will gain unique insights into the multifaceted character of Christianity in its New World environment. Nothing short of brilliant.

—Harry S. Stout, Yale University

An excellent study that will help historians appreciate the importance of Christianity in the history of the United States and Canada.

—The Journal of American History

Product Details

• Title: A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, 2nd Edition
• Authors: Mark A. Noll
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2019
• Pages: 592
• Resource Type: History
• Topic: Church History

About Mark Noll

Mark A. Noll (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is Francis McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Noll’s main academic interests concern the interaction of Christianity and culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American societies. He has published articles and reviews on a wide variety of subjects involving Christianity in modern history. Some of his many books include The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Is the Reformation Over?, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys, and The Old Religion in a New World.

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