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Book Review


From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History. By Anne C. Loveland and Otis B. Wheeler. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xii, 307 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8262-1480-0.)
Evangelical Protestantism is thriving in the United States. That is the appearance at least from weekly news magazines that regularly feature cover stories on evangelicals. An even better sign of evangelical vitality is the favorable coverage it continues to receive from religious historians. Four decades ago, before the historical profession studying the United States had taken the religious turn, historians often dismissed born-again Protestantism as strange and off-putting. Today such assessments are much harder to find. This book is evidence of that shift. . . .
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