TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lantzer,Jason S.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Mainline Christianity : : The Past and Future of America's Majority Faith / 
SN  - 9780814753323
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Protestantismus
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Christentum
KW  - Congregationalisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Christian Churches
KW  - Baptisten
KW  - Methodisten
KW  - Presbyterian Church in America
KW  - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
KW  - Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - USA
KW  - Verenigde Staten
KW  - United States
KW  - fast
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Church history
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - The genesis of the mainline -- Building the new Jerusalem: the high tide of the seven sisters -- A mighty fortress in decline -- The politics of decline -- In a state of perpetual decline -- Unto the ends of the earth: global Christianity and mainline decline -- The emergence of a new mainline; Open Access
N2  - Since the Revolutionary War, Mainline Christianity has been made up of the Seven Sisters of American Protestantism--the Congregational Church, the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist Church, the American Baptist Convention, and the Disciples of Christ. These denominations have been the dominant cultural representatives since the nineteenth century of how and where the majority of American Christians worship. Today, however, the Seven Sisters no longer represent most American Christians. The Mainline has been shrinking while evangelical and fundamentalist churches, as well as nondenominational congregations and megachurches, have been attracting more and more members. In this comprehensive and accessible book, Jason S. Lantzer chronicles the rise and fall of the Seven Sisters, documenting the ways in which they stopped shaping American culture and began to be shaped by it. After reviewing and critiquing the standard decline narrative of the Mainline, he argues for a reconceptualization of the Mainline for the twenty-first century, a new grouping of Seven Sisters that seeks to recognize the vibrancy and fluidity of American Christianity--Publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/20727/
ER  -