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Heritage
Sunday 2001
"Let
Justice Roll Down Like Waters":
Presbyterians and Social Justice
A
select bibliography
Short Histories of Presbyterianism in the USA:
- James H. Smylie, A Brief History of the Presbyterians (1996).
- Randall Balmer and John R. Fitzmier, The Presbyterians (1994).
Thematic Histories of American Religious History:
- Robert T. Handy, A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical
Realities (second ed., 1984).
- Mark A. Noll, One Nation Under God? Christian Faith and Political
Action in America (1988).
- George L. Hunt, ed. Calvinism and the Political Order (1965).
- Ernest R. Sandeen, ed. The Bible and Social Reform (1982).
Religion and Reform in America by the Era:
- Patricia U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion,
Society, and Politics in Colonial America (1986).
- John R. McKivigan, The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism
and the Northern Churches, 1830ñ1865 (1984).
- Timothy L. Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform in Mid-Nineteenth
Century America (1957).
- Paul S. Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820ñ1920
(1978).
- C. Howard Hopkins, The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism,
1865ñ1915 (1940).
- Paul Allen Carter, The Decline and Revival of the Social Gospel:
Social and Political Liberalism in American Protestant Churches, 1920ñ1940
(second ed., 1971).
- Donald B. Meyer, The Protestant Search for Political Realism, 1919ñ1941
(second ed., 1988).
- Robert Wuthnow, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society
and Faith since World War II (1988).
- Benton Johnson, ìFrom Old to New Agendas: Presbyterians and Social
Issues in the Twentieth Century,î in: Coalter, Mulder, and Weeks, eds.
The Confessional Mosaic: Presbyterians and Twentieth-Century Theology
(1990).
Biographies of our celebrity Presbyterians:
- Isabelle Graham: DAB; NAW.
- William Sheppard: Stanley Shaloff, Reform in Leopoldís Congo
(1970); Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed,
Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998); autobiographical,
Presbyterian Pioneers in Congo(1917).
- Donaldina Cameron: NAW; Carol Green Wilson, Chinatown Quest: The
Life Adventures of Donaldina Cameron (1931; reprint 1974); Mildred
Crowel Morgan, Chinatownís Angry Angel: The Story of Donaldina Cameron
(1977).
- Charles Stelzle: DAB, autobiography Son of the Bowery (New
York, 1926).
DAB: Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribnerís
Sons, 1929).
NAB: Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (Cambridge:
Belknap Press, 1980).
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