| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.4

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Charles D. Cashdollar. A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 336. Cloth $65.00, paper $22.50.

The focus of many historical studies has been the successes and failures of churches in attracting those who did not attend them. This book, in contrast, is concerned with churches from the perspective of ordinary folk who did attend them. The specific topic under consideration in Charles D. Cashdollar's book is the congregational life of British and American Reformed churches from roughly 1830 to World War I. The Reformed community, tracing its ancestry to John Calvin, included Presbyterians and Congregationalists divided into eight churches during the period under consideration. All shared a heritage of ideas while maintaining some differences in theology and polity. The most notable difference in the last category was the established status of the Church of Scotland, in contrast with the Free Church of Scotland, the Scottish United Presbyterians, the Presbyterian Church of England, the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the United Presbyterian Church of North America, the English Congregationalists, and the American Congregationalists. . . .

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