Books and Other Publications Produced by the Greenberg Center
Future of Religion in America Series
The Future of Evangelicalism in America
Edited by Candy Gunther Brown and Mark Silk
Columbia University Press, April 2016
In The Future of Evangelicalism in America, thematic chapters on culture, spirituality, theology, politics, and ethnicity reveal the sources of the movement’s dynamism, as well as significant challenges confronting the rising generations. A collaboration among scholars of history, religious studies, theology, political science, and ethnic studies, the volume offers unique insight into a vibrant and sometimes controversial movement, the future of which is closely tied to the future of America.
Volume Editor:
Candy Gunther Brown is professor of religious studies at Indiana University. Her books include The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 (2004); Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (2012); The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America (2013); and Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (2019).
Contents:
Series Editors’ Introduction: The Future of Religion in America, by Mark Silk and Andrew Walsh
Introduction, by Candy Gunther BrownAmerican Evangelicalism: Character, Function, and Trajectories of Change, by Michael S. Hamilton, professor emeritus of history at Seattle Pacific University.Sound, Style, Substance: New Directions in Evangelical Spirituality, by Chris R. Armstrong, senior editor of Christian History Magazine
The Emerging Divide in Evangelical Theology, by Roger E. Olson, professor of theology at the George W. Truett Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Evangelicals, Politics, and Public Policy: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future, by Amy E. Black, associate professor of poltics and international relations at Wheaton College.
The Changing Face of Evangelicalism, by Timothy Tseng, Pacific Area Director for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries
Conclusion, by Candy Gunther Brown
PUB DATE: April 2016
ISBN: 9780231176118
272 pages
FORMAT: Paperback
LIST PRICE: $35.00£27.00
PUB DATE: April 2016
ISBN: 9780231176101
272 pages
FORMAT: Hardcover
LIST PRICE: $105.00£81.00
PUB DATE: April 2016
ISBN: 9780231540704
272 pages
FORMAT: E-book
LIST PRICE: $34.99£27.00
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
Edited by James Hudnut-Beumler and Mark Silk
Columbia University Press, January 2018
Volume Editor:
James Hudnut-Beumler is the Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University. His books include Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945–1965 (1994); Generous Saints: Congregations Rethinking Ethics and Money (1999); and In Pursuit of the Almighty’s Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism (2007)
As recently as the 1960s, more than half of all American adults belonged to just a handful of mainline Protestant denominations—Presbyterian, UCC, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and American Baptist. Presidents, congressmen, judges, business leaders, and other members of the elite overwhelmingly came from such backgrounds. But by 2010, fewer than 13 percent of adults belonged to a mainline Protestant church. What does the twenty-first century hold for this once-hegemonic religious group?
In this volume, experts in American religious history and the sociology of religion examine the extraordinary decline of mainline Protestantism over the past half century and assess its future. Contributors discuss the demographics of mainline Protestants; their beliefs, practices, and modes of worship; their political views and partisan affiliations; and the social and moral questions that unite and divide Protestant communities. Other chapters examine Protestant institutions, including providers of health care and education; analyze churches’ public voice; and probe what will come from a diminished role relative to other groups in society, especially the ascendant evangelicals. Far from going extinct, the book argues, the mainline Protestant movement will continue to be a vital remnant in an American religious culture torn between the contending forces of secularism and evangelicalism.
Series Editors’ Introduction: The Future of Religion in America, by Mark Silk and Andrew H. Walsh
Introduction, by James Hudnut-Beumler
The State of Contemporary Mainline Protestantism, by Graham Reside, Executive Director, Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership for the Professions, sssistant professor, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
The Beliefs and Practices of Mainline Protestants, by David Bains, Professor Department of Biblical and Religious Studies Howard College of Arts and Sciences Samford University
Futures for Mainline Protestant Institutions, by Maria Erling, professor of modern church history and global mission at United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A Divided House, by Daniel Sack. Program officer in the research division of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Mainline and the Soul of International Relations, by Andrew H. Walsh, associate director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, Hartford.
Conclusion: The Quakerization of Mainline Protestantism, by James Hudnut-Beumler
PUB DATE: January 2018
ISBN: 9780231183611
248 pages
FORMAT: Paperback
LIST PRICE: $30.00£24.00
PUB DATE: January 2018
ISBN: 9780231183604
248 pages
FORMAT: Hardcover
LIST PRICE: $90.00£70.00
PUB DATE: January 2018
ISBN: 9780231545037
248 pages
FORMAT: E-book
LIST PRICE: $29.99£24.00
The Future of Catholicism in America
Edited by Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk
Columbia University Press, April 2019
Catholics constitute the largest religious community in the United States. Yet most American Catholics have never known a time when their church was not embroiled in controversies over liturgy, religious authority, cultural change, and gender and sexuality. Today, these arguments are taking place against the backdrop of Pope Francis’s progressive agenda and the resurgence of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. What is the future of Catholicism in America?
This volume considers the prospects at a pivotal moment. Contributors—scholars from sociology, theology, religious studies, and history—look at the church’s evolving institutional structure, its increasing ethnic diversity, and its changing public presence. They explore the tensions among members of the hierarchy, between clergy and laity, and along lines of ethnicity, immigration status, class, generation, political affiliation, and degree of religious commitment. They conclude that American Catholicism’s future will be pluriform—reflecting the variety of cultural, political, ideological, and spiritual points of view that typify the multicultural, democratic society of which Catholics constitute so large a part.
Volume Editor:
Patricia O’Connell Killen is professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University. Her books include The Art of Theological Reflection (1994) and Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone(2004).
Contents:
Series Editors’ Introduction: The Future of Religion in America, by Mark Silk and Andrew H. Walsh
Introduction: The Future of Roman Catholicism in the United States: Beyond the Subculture, by Patricia O’Connell Killen.
Catholicism Today: Adrift and/or Adjusting, by William D. Dinges, Ordinary Professor of Religion and Culture at the Catholic University of America.
Becoming Latino: The Transformation of U.S. Catholicism, by Timothy Matovina, professor of theology at Notre Dame University.
Since Vatican II: American Catholicism in Transition, by Steven M. Avella, professor of history at Marquette University.
Who Pastors: The Priest, the Context, and the Ministry, by Katarina Schuth, holds the Endowed Professorship for the Social Scientific Study of Religion at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinityat the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul.
A Pluriform Unity: A Historian’s View of the Contemporary Church, by Joseph P. Chinnici, professor of church history at the Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego.
Catholic Worship in a Contentious Age, by Andrew H. Walsh, associate director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life.
Public Catholicism:Contemporary Presence and Future Promise, by Richard L. Wood, is professor of sociology and Director of the Southwest Institute on Religion, Culture, and Society at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Conclusion: The Shape of the American Catholic Future, by Patricia O’Connell Killen
PUB DATE: April 2019
ISBN: 9780231191494
384 pages
FORMAT: Paperback
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PUB DATE: April 2019
ISBN: 9780231191487
384 pages
FORMAT: Hardcover
LIST PRICE: $105.00£81.00
PUB DATE: April 2019
ISBN: 9780231549431
384 pages
FORMAT: E-book
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Religion by Region Series
One Nation, Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics
Examining each region in turn, Mark Silk and Andrew Walsh provide historical context, stories that reveal the current cultural dynamics, and analyses of current politics to create rounded portraits of each region. They then present a compelling new account of the evolution of national religious politics since World War II. In doing so, they suggest that the regional religious forces that have fueled recent culture wars may be giving way to a less confrontational style rooted in different regional realities.
Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits Changing Slowly
Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America’s Common Denominator?
Other Publications:
Andrew Walsh, ed. Can Charitable Choice Work?: Covering Religion’s Impact on Urban Affairs and Social Services (Hartford, CT: Pew Program on Religion and the News Media and the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, 2001), 200 pages. (online edition requires Acrobat Reader)
Mark Silk, ed. Religion on the International News Agenda (Hartford, CT: Pew Program on Religion and the News Media and the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, 2000), 144 pages. ( online edition requires Acrobat Reader)
Mark Silk, ed. Religion and American Politics: The 2000 Election in Context (Hartford, CT: Pew Program on Religion and the News Media and the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, 2000), 88 pages. ( online edition requires Acrobat Reader)
Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Mark Silk, and Dennis Hoover, eds. Religious Persecution as a U.S. Policy Issue (Hartford, CT: Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, 2000), 60 pages. (pdf Acrobat file)
Is Religion Compatible With Liberal Democracy?, 1999 (22 pages)
by Marc D. Stern
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust: Perspectives on the Vatican Statement, We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah, 1998 (42 pages) (with the complete text of “We Remember”)
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