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Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960 (Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life)

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Not all the chapter titles in this book appealed to me, and I was prepared to skip past "Voice of Many Waters: Church Federation in the 20th Century" and "Minority on the Margins: Protestants and Education." To my surprise and pleasure, however, the authors of these and the other chapters grabbed my attention by means of excellent writing and a talent for elucidating important historical points. I finished wanting to conduct more research, to follow up on some of the fascinating stories told and points made. This is not a book for beginners in U.S. religious history - a goodly amount of knowledge is assumed on the part of readers - but for those interested in the evolution of the Protestant establishment, this book ought to be considered required reading.

Good book; I read it more than ten years ago. It gives a good picture of American mainstream Protestantism in the first half of the 20th century