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Encyclopedia of religious controversies in the United States
By Shriver, George & Leonard, Bill J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-31329-691-8
- Publisher
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 2, 1997
Editors Shriver (history, Georgia Southern Univ.) and Leonard (dean, Divinity Sch., Wake Forest Univ.) introduce their work by observing that religious controversy, while sometimes discouraging, is also "illustrative of lively and creative process and structure." Their reference work captures some of that process in approximately 350 signed entries, written by religion or history scholars and ranging from a few paragraphs to eight pages. Diversity is evident in the wide range of subjects, e.g., Methodists, Baptists, hyper-Calvin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
