| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915. By Charles D. Cashdollar. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-271-02014-8. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-271-02015-6.)

Charles D. Cashdollar, the author of The Transformation of Theology, 1830–1890: Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America (1989), turns in this book to social history. He tells the story of religious life from the inside and from the perspective of the laity. By "reformed congregations" he means local bodies in several denominations sharing the theological heritage of John Calvin, including English and American Congregationalists and Presbyterians, the Church of Scotland, and some dissenting Scottish denominations. Cashdollar's sample is not statistically representative but is still broad, comprising 150 congregations. Because his broader narrative is about how congregational life changed under the influence of industrialization and urbanization, churches from rural areas, the American South, and the Scottish Highlands are underrepresented in his sample. Also underrepresented are poor or laboring-class people, except as objects of these congregations' ubiquitous mission and social service projects; these church folk were overwhelmingly middle class. . . .

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