TY - BOOK AU - Marty,Martin E. TI - Righteous empire: the Protestant experience in America T2 - Two centuries of American life: a bicentennial series AV - BR515 .M33 U1 - 280/.4/0973 PY - 1970///] CY - New York PB - Dial Press KW - Protestant churches KW - United States KW - Église KW - Histoire KW - États-Unis KW - Églises protestantes KW - Protestantisme KW - gtt KW - Church history N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Clearing space: the removal of the Native American: the American Indian -- The builders of the empire: the white Anglo-Saxon -- The overlooked Protestants: the black American -- A charter for the empire: the civil and religious settlement -- Enlarging the territory: from the east to west -- Dividing the territory: north and south -- The invention of forms: denomination, parish, education -- The command of Christ, interpreted: theological interpretation -- Forays for reform: means of reformation and serving -- The great transformation: present city, the industrial beginnings -- The fire from the fringes: Protestants beyond the evangelical churches -- The beginning of the end: stresses and strains before the civil war -- The failure to bind: reconstruction and after -- A decorous worldliness: popular Protestant accommodation -- Perils: the city: a bewildering urban-immigrant environment -- A private place for religion: life in the churches -- The two-party system: a division within Protestantism -- From providence to progress: a new theology -- Protestant for protest: progressives, reformers, the social gospel -- Conflicting experiences: controversies through the twenties -- Two styles of complacency: Southern and urban ways of life -- The church against the world: the recovery of protest and realism -- Any number can play: the rise of ecumenism and pluralism -- Everything can become almost anything else: the revival and the revolution UR - http://www.archive.org/details/righteousempirep00martrich UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL5315052M ER -