| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century. By David Hein. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xiv, 182 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02643-8.)

Noble Powell (1891–1968) was the influential dean of the Washington National Cathedral and the Episcopal bishop of Maryland. He was influenced by the practices of southern religion in his native Alabama; he was raised a Baptist and confirmed in the Episcopal Church while a student at Auburn University. David Hein, a professor of religion and philosophy at Hood College in Maryland, offers this rich biography, which seeks to juxtapose Powell's life against the changing context of American religious life during the 1950s and 1960s. "His years as bishop occurred during what one might call an Indian summer for the Episcopal church—and the rest of the Protestant establishment—in America," Hein writes. 1

This book is the seventh in the Studies in Anglican History series published by the University of Illinois Press. Hein views Powell as among the last of the great "parson bishops" of the Episcopal Church before the eras of social activism and cultural turbulence began. Powell ended his episcopacy just as heated debates over civil rights and the ordination of women and homosexuals were beginning. During Powell's last year in office, Hein notes, "Maryland Episcopalians were travelling to Washington to march for civil rights [and] the final disestablishment of mainline Protestantism was under way." Powell's successor, Harry Lee Doll, was installed on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. . . .

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