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Bratt, James D., 1949-

Dutch Calvinism in modern America : a history of a conservative subculture / James D. Bratt. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c1984. - xiv, 329 p., [24] p. of plates ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 307-324.

The Netherlandic background. Secession and its tangents -- Abraham Kuyper and Neo-Calvinism -- Dutch, reformed, and Americans: definitions, 1900-1916. Varieties of reformed experience -- Reconnoitering America -- Politics: theory, taste, and trouble -- Wars without and within, 1917-1928. Dutch Americans and World War I -- Forming hte battle lines, 1919-1920 -- The resolution, 1921-1928 -- The consolidated community, 1928-1948. A religious fortress -- Calvinists in a darkening world -- Rebellion and refraction. Four renegade novelists -- At home and uneasy, 1948-1970s. Americanization again, 1948-1963 -- Evangelical and ethnic, 1964-1970s.

ISBN: 0802800092 9780802800091

LCCN: 84013717

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Reformed Church--History.--United States
Dutch--Religion.--United States
Calvinism--History.--United States

LC Class. No.: BX9495 / .B73 1984

Dewey Class. No.: 285.77 / B824D