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  • Reckoning with History

    Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and the Making of American Christianity

    by William Yoo ...
    A hard, haunting, and hopeful history that will leave an indelible mark and transform your understanding of both Christianity and the United States.Reckoning with History confronts the histories of settler colonialism and slavery and illumines how these two devastating realities informed and ultimately deformed Protestant Christianity in the North American colonies and antebellum United States. In ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Kind of Christianity

    A History of Slavery and Anti-Black Racism in the Presbyterian Church

    by William Yoo ...
    2023 Award of Excellence, Religion Communicators CouncilLike most Americans, Presbyterians in the United States know woefully little about the history of slavery and the rise of anti-Black racism in our country. Most think of slavery as a tragedy that “just happened,” without considering how it happened and who was involved. In *What Kind of Christianity,*William Yoo paints an accurate picture of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Presbyterian Experience in the United States

    A Sourcebook

    by William Yoo, William Yoo ...
    This book introduces readers to the Presbyterian movement in the United States as told by those who lived through and contributed to its history. William Yoo has drawn together essential documents from the colonial period to the present that illustrate and illumine U.S. Presbyterianism across diversities of race, ethnicity, geography, gender, age, and theological position. Readers will follow the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • American Missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the Changing Shape of World Christianity, 1884-1965

    by William Yoo ...
    Series series Perspectives on Modern America
    This book examines the partnerships and power struggles between American missionaries and Korean Protestant leaders in both nations from the late 19th century to the aftermath of the Korean War. Yoo analyzes American and Korean sources, including a plethora of unpublished archival materials, to uncover the complicated histories of cooperation and contestation behind the evolving relationships ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Reckoning with History

    Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and the Making of American Christianity

    by William Yoo ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    Reckoning with History confronts the histories of settler colonialism and slavery and illumines how these two devastating realities informed and ultimately deformed Protestant Christianity in the North American colonies and antebellum United States.This book explains how Christians engaged the sinful realities of Indigenous land dispossession and Black enslavement, shaping American Christianity in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America

    by Thomas S. Kidd ...
    In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rally the Scattered Believers

    Northern New England's Religious Geography

    by Shelby M. Balik ...
    "An important new interpretation of how religious change shaped American cultural identity in the early republic." — Journal of American HistoryNorthern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. Using the methods of spatial geography, Shelby M. Balik examines how migrants adapted their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Country

    Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era

    by Grant Brodrecht ...
    "A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era." — Civil War NewsNorthern evangelicals' love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves' emancipation—but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for a Christian America, northern evangelicals contributed to a Reconstruction that failed to ensure the ex-slaves' full freedom and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Reforming People

    by David D. Hall ...
    A revelatory account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution.Distinguished historian David D. Hall looks afresh at how the colonists set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land. Bringing with them a deep fear of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers

    by Daniel L. Dreisbach ...
    No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Come Shouting to Zion

    African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

    by Sylvia R. Frey, Betty Wood ...
    The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Lincoln's God

    How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation

    by Joshua Zeitz ...
    Lincoln’s spiritual journey from spiritual skeptic to America's first evangelical Christian presidentbeliever—a conversion that changed both the Civil War and the practice of religion itself.Abraham Lincoln, unlike most of his political brethren, kept organized Christianity at arm’s length. He never joined a church and only sometimes attended Sunday services with his wife. But as he came to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook