Edith L. Blumhofer

This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.

Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.

This challenging collection of essays offers a refreshing approach to the troubling–and timely–subject of religion and public policy in American, and the ways in which issues of church and state affect our national identity.

This collection of provocative and timely essays addresses the ways in which religious and educational institutions have come to define one another and American culture and identity.