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No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S. intellectual, cultural, and religious history from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries.
This collection of essays uses the career of George M. Marsden and the remarkable breadth of his scholarship to measure current trends in the historical study of American evangelical Protestantism and to encourage fresh scholarly investigation of this faith tradition as it has developed between the eighteenth century and the present. Moving through five sections, each centered around one of Marsden’s major books and the time period it represents, the volume explores different methodologies and approaches to the history of evangelicalism and American religion.
Besides assessing Marsden’s illustrious works on their own terms, this collection’s contributors isolate several key themes as deserving of fresh, rigorous, and extensive examination. Through their close investigation of these particular themes, they expand the range of characters and communities, issues and ideas, and contingencies that can and should be accounted for in our historical texts. Marsden’s timeless scholarship thus serves as a launchpad for new directions in our rendering of the American religious past.
“. . . this volume [is] a sort of a double tribute. On the manifest level, it pays tribute to Marsden in words, but on the latent level, the overall substance of this volume is itself a reflection of Marsden’s lasting influence upon the writers.” —Fides et Historia
Kurt W. Peterson is director of development, Office of Advancement, Loyola University Chicago.
Foreword: George Marsden as Scholar, Christian, and Friend Nathan Hatch, Mark Noll, Harry Stout, and Grant Wacker
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Puritan Beginnings
1. Jonathan Edwards and the Study of His Eighteenth-Century World: George Marsden’s Contribution to Colonial American Religious Historiography by Douglas A. Sweeney
2. Jonathan Edwards: A Life by Thomas S. Kidd
3. Jonathan Edwards and Francis Asbury by John Wigger
Part 2. Protestantism’s Century
4. The Evangelical Mind and the Historians by Margaret Bendroth
5. The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience by Peter J. Wallace
6. The African American Great Awakening and Modernity, 1866–1900 by Jay R. Case
Part 3. Protesting Modernity
7. Marsden and Modern Fundamentalism by Barry Hankins
8. Fundamentalism and American Culture by William L. Svelmoe
9. Reorienting American Religious History in the Age of Global Christianity: The Case of Katharine Bushnell by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
10. A Gilded Age Modernist: Reuben A. Torrey and the Roots of Contemporary Conservative Evangelicalism by Timothy E. W. Gloege
11. The Interdenominational Evangelicalism of D. L. Moody and the Problem of Fundamentalism by Michael S. Hamilton
Part IV. Pluralism’s Challenge
12. Marsden and Secularization by John Schmalzbauer
13. The Soul of the American University by Steven M. Nolt
14. More Than a Footnote? Evangelical Ministries and the Secular University John G. Turner
15. The Southernization of the Evangelical Mind by Rick Ostrander
Part 5. Pluralism’s Blessing
16. Marsden and Fundamentalist Resurgence by Garth M. Rosell
17. Reforming Fundamentalism by Darren Dochuk
18. Missionary Realities and the New Evangelicalism in Post–World War II America by Kathryn T. Long
19. The Evangelical Left and the Politicization of Evangelicalism by David R. Swartz
Conclusion: How an Evangelical Won the Bancroft Prize by Mark Noll
Appendix: List of George Marsden’s Doctoral Students and Their Dissertations
Selected Bibliography of George Marsden’s Works
List of Contributors
Index