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The Puzzle of American Methodism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Nathan O. Hatch
Nathan O. Hatch
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professor of history and vice president of graduate studies and research in the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
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Picture, if you will, the rich landscape of American religious history that has taken shape over the last half century. At least three features of this terrain stand out, the first being a richly-textured panorama before us, a recognizable field of study that has come into existence in a relatively short span of time. This field has been shaped by a varietyof forces, among them the vast expansion of religion departments since 1960, the recovery of the role of religion in the broader disciplines of history, literature, sociology and political science, and the stubborn persistence of religion in modern American life which scholars struggle to explain.

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Church History , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 175 - 189
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1994

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