| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Do Real Men Pray? Images of the Christian Man and Male Spirituality in White Protestant America. By Charles H. Lippy. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. xviii, 275 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-358-8.)
This book, by a professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, attempts to argue, through a summary of religious trends and movements, and case studies of several individuals, that American men have had a broader and deeper history of religious belief than has been traditionally concluded.	1
Do Real Men Pray? constructs archetypes of popular images of Christian men and gives examples thereof. The eighteenth century is illustrated by the "Dutiful Patriarch" and Samuel Sewall (p. 19). The early to mid-nineteenth century is termed the period of the "Gentleman Entrepreneur," represented by William E. Dodge (p. 45). The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were led by the "Courageous Adventurer," and the example given is Robert E. Speer (p. 79). The pre–World War II period is shown through the "Efficient Businessman," portrayed in more detail by Bruce Barton (p. 113). Since then, we have lived through the times of the "Positive Thinker" (see Robert H. Schuller) and the "Faithful Leader" (exemplified by Bill McCartney) (pp. 143, 175).	. . .

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