The Immigrants and Their Gods
A New Perspective in American Religious History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3174547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay P Dolan (University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-72 |
| Publication date | 1988-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3165903 |
| OpenAlex | W2045540562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 20 |
Twenty years ago Jerald Brauer wrote an essay on the writing of American church history entitled, "Changing Perspectives on Religion in America." In this essay he noted that "change in perspective marks the writing of the history of religion in America." After discussing the work of Robert Baird and William Warren Sweet, the two historians whose perspectives most influenced the writing of American church history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, Brauer then directed his attention to a third and new perspective. This new perspective had developed in the post-World War II era and was the result of the work of Sidney E. Mead, Sydney E. Ahlstrom, Winthrop S. Hudson, and others. Brauer described the new perspective by pointing out how it differed from the work of Sweet. It was clear to Brauer, however, that no one historian or school of historians had yet emerged whose perspective was able to dominate the landscape in the manner that Baird and Sweet had. There really was no new single perspective, but a variety of approaches and interpretations. In other words, in the late 1960s the discipline of American church history was in a state of flux, and "a number of young historians" were, in Brauer's words, "anxious to develop a new perspective through which to view the development and nature of Christianity in America
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |