E. Brooks Holifield
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- PhD Religion Duke University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, E. Brooks Holifield is an American religious historian and the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of American Church History at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, where he taught until his retirement in 2011. He has been called "a giant among historians of religion."
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- The Democratization of American Christianity. (1990) (652)
- Slaves and Gentlemen: Religion in the Antebellum South@@@The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1975-1860.@@@Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. (1979) (279)
- A history of pastoral care in America : from salvation to self-realization (1983) (106)
- Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (2003) (78)
- A history of pastoral care in America (1983) (59)
- The Covenant Sealed: The Development of Puritan Sacramental Theology in Old and New England, 1570-1720 (1974) (39)
- The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795-1860 (1979) (37)
- God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America (2007) (34)
- Mental status testing in elderly Hispanic populations: special concerns. (1992) (29)
- Peace, conflict, and ritual in puritan congregations (1993) (15)
- America's God (2003) (14)
- Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714: Variety, Persistence, and Transformation (2011) (14)
- Health and medicine in the Methodist tradition : journey toward wholeness (1986) (12)
- Forum: The Place of Religion in Urban and Community Studies (1996) (11)
- The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England (1983) (9)
- Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900–1960 Edited by William R. Hutchison Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. 322 pp (1990) (8)
- A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 (2002) (8)
- Edwards as theologian (2006) (7)
- The Penurious Preacher? Nineteenth-Century Clerical Wealth : North and South (1990) (6)
- Theology as Entertainment: Oral Debate in American Religion (1998) (5)
- The Evangelical Historians: The Historiography of George Marsden, Nathan Hatch, and Mark Noll . By Maxie Burch. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996. ii + 130 pp. $29.50. (1997) (5)
- Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 269 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-19-510452-8.) (1999) (5)
- Why Are Americans So Religious? The Limitations of Market Explanations (2015) (5)
- READING THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (2016) (4)
- Let the Children Come: The Religion of the Protestant Child in Early America (2007) (4)
- Theology in America (2017) (4)
- One Family under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism (2012) (3)
- The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680–1840. By W. M. Jacob. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii + 360 pp. $99.00 cloth. (2009) (3)
- On Toleration in Massachusetts (1969) (3)
- The Renaissance of Sacramental Piety in Colonial New England (1972) (3)
- Religion and Order in England and America (1983) (2)
- On Teaching the History of Christianity: Traditions and Presuppositions (2003) (2)
- On Saying too Little and Saying too Much (1989) (2)
- Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons (2005) (2)
- The Sermon Notebook of Samuel Parris, 1689-1694 (1994) (2)
- Puritan Gravestone Art. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1976. Ed. by Peter Benes. (Dublin, N.H.: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife/Boston University, 1977. 142 pp. Illustrations, charts, and bibliography. Paper, $5.95.) (1979) (1)
- Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Darrel W. Amundsen New York, MacMillan, 1986. 581 Pp. $29.95 (1988) (1)
- The Intellectual Sources of Stoddardeanism (1972) (1)
- Republican Dialect or European Accents? The Sound of American Theology3 (2003) (1)
- The Hero and the Minister in American Culture (1977) (1)
- Elizabethan Puritanism: A Library of Protestant Thought, edited by Leonard J. Trinterud. 454 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1971. $11.50 (1971) (1)
- Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture. By Grant Wacker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvi + 364 pp. $35.00 cloth. (2002) (1)
- The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion & Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (review) (2005) (1)
- Ethical Assumptions of Clinical Pastoral Education (1979) (1)
- The English Methodist Response to Darwin (1972) (1)
- The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. By Mark A. Noll. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii + 203 pp. $29.95 cloth. (2006) (0)
- Jonathan Edwards: Ecclesiastical Writings . Edited by David D. Hall. The Works of Jonathan Edwards 12. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994. x + 644 pp. $70.00. (1996) (0)
- 3. Rationalism Resisted (2017) (0)
- History and Selfhood: An Historian's View (1974) (0)
- 4. Nature, the Supernatural, and Virtue (2017) (0)
- The Unusable Past: America's Puritan Tradition, 1830–1930 . By Jan C. Dawson. Studies in the Humanities 4. Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1984. viii + 155 pp. $16.50 cloth; $10.95 paper. (1985) (0)
- Solomon Stoddard . By Ralph J. Coffman. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., Twayne Publishers, 1978. xv + 224 pp. $9.95. (1980) (0)
- Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps (1985) (0)
- Regeneration and Morality: A Study of Charles Finney, Charles Hodge, John W. Nevin, and Horace Bushnell . By Glenn A. Hewitt. Chicago Studies in the History of American Religion 7. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1991. xvii + 234 pp. $50.00. (1992) (0)
- Ethical Assumptions of Clinical Pastoral Education (1980) (0)
- Religious Thought: The Pre-Columbian Era to 1790 (2000) (0)
- Jack P. Greene. The Intellectual Construction of America, Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1993. Pp. 216. $29.95 (1995) (0)
- David W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney, editors. Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xxiii, 330. $59.95 (2005) (0)
- 11. Episcopal Theology and Tradition (2017) (0)
- 23. The Mercersburg Theology: Communal Reason (2017) (0)
- The Persistence of Purgatory . By Richard K. Fenn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. viii + 209 pp. $49.95 cloth; $26.95 paper. (1997) (0)
- The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America. By Paul conkin . Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvii + 326 pp. $39.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. (1996) (0)
- The wealth of nineteenth-century American physicians. (1990) (0)
- A Preface to Theology . By W. Clark Gilpin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xxvi + 211 pp. $38.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. (1998) (0)
- Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837 . By Jeffrey Robert Young. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv + 336 pp. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. (2001) (0)
- Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (2006) (0)
- The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England By Harry S. Stout New York, Oxford University Press, 1986. 398 pp. $29.95 (1987) (0)
- Sacramental Theology in America: Seventeenth–Nineteenth Centuries (2015) (0)
- Altered Landscapes: Christianity in America 1935–1985 Edited by David W. Lotz with Donald W. Shriver, Jr., and John F. Wilson Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans, 1989. 387 pp. $27.95 ($17.95 paper) (1989) (0)
- The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of American Methodism: By A. Gregory Schneider Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN, Indiana University Press, 1993. 257 pp. $29.95 (1994) (0)
- Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture . By Joseph A. Conforti. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiv + 267 pp. $29.95 cloth; $13.95 paper. (1996) (0)
- A History of Pastoral Care edited by G. R. Evans: London, Cassell, 2000. 476 pp. $82.95 (2002) (0)
- Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) (2011) (0)
- The Shape of the Puritan Mind: The Thought of Samuel Willard . By Ernest Benson Lowrie. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. xi + 251 pp. $12.50. (1975) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Jonathan Edwards: A Life George M. Marsden (2004) (0)
- Puritan Studies and Intellectual History@@@The Covenant Sealed: The Development of Puritan Sacramental Theology in Old and New England, 1570-1720.@@@The Shape of the Puritan Mind: The Thought of Samuel Willard. (1975) (0)
- Book Review:America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards Robert W. Jenson (1990) (0)
- The Methodists. By James E. Kirby, Russell E. Richey, and Kenneth E. Rowe. (Westport: Greenwood, 1996. xvi, 399 pp. $75.00, ISBN 0-313-22048-4.) (1997) (0)
- On Faithfulness in Health Care (1991) (0)
- Book Review: Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America (1995) (0)
- E. Brooks Holifield papers, 1962-2008 (2016) (0)
- The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values . By James Oscar Farmer Jr Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1986. viii + 295 pp. $24.50. (1989) (0)
- The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards: Edited by Sang Hyun Lee, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 331 pp. $45.00 (2006) (0)
- Thomas S. KiddGod of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. New York: Basic Books. 2010. Pp. vi, 298. $26.95Reviews of BooksCanada and the United States (2012) (0)
- Biographies and Biopsies@@@Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet. (1986) (0)
- CHH volume 71 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2002) (0)
- CHH volume 72 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2003) (0)
- Reading the Signs of the Times@@@The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism. (1977) (0)
- Lincoln A. Mullen. The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America. (2018) (0)
- BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOPSIES (2016) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons David W. Kling, Douglas A. Sweeney (2005) (0)
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