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.
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