history of Christianity

Books

A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story

Diana Butler Bass

A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story

Jun 16, 2009 reviewed by Robert Cornwall
Books

The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia

Charles F. Irons

To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast

Rachel Wheeler

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Daniel Walker Howe

Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900

Heather D. Curtis

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

Thomas S. Kidd

God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America

E. Brooks Holifield

God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America

E. Brooks Holifield

Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church

Philip L. Wickeri

Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America

Paul Freston, ed.

African Pentecostalism: An Introduction

Ogbu Kalu

A Short World History of Christianity

Robert Bruce Mullin

Take and read

Oct 21, 2008 selected by Mark A. Noll
This well-researched and carefully nuanced study argues that southern white evangelicals became defenders of slavery because of—and through intimate association with—black evangelicals.
Books

Late Ancient Christianity

Virginia Burrus, ed.

Christian Origins

Richard A. Horsley, ed.

Hidden history

Sep 19, 2006 reviewed by Scott W. Sunquist