A Peculiar Beat: St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Decatur, Illinois: A Microcosm of Traditioned Innovation and Adaptive Change in American Protestantism

dc.contributor.advisorPolk, Andrew
dc.contributor.advisorMcCusker, Kristine
dc.contributor.authorBrowning, Robert Michael
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-26T18:03:52Z
dc.date.available2017-05-26T18:03:52Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-05
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT
dc.description.abstractSince World War II the historiography of American Protestantism has identified two simple categories of Protestants: liberal mainline and conservative evangelical. However, social changes in American Protestantism, especially since the 1960s, reflect not only evidence of amalgamation of Protestantism in America but also the need to identify a category of Protestants that no longer fits the dominant dichotomy. I argue for at least a third category of American Protestants, which I term traditionalist innovators. These college-educated evangelicals have held to traditional biblical theology but have been willing to innovate in the use of modern technology, music, and intellectual/academic pursuits. To make this case, I apply the work of both American religious historians and ethnomusicologists to a case study of a midsized industrial city in the Midwest and one of its Lutheran-Missouri Synod churches to exhibit, in microcosm, the adaptations of American evangelicals that have produced traditionalist innovators over time.
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/xmlui/handle/mtsu/5330
dc.publisherMiddle Tennessee State University
dc.subjectContemporary Christian Music
dc.subjectEvangelical
dc.subjectInnovation
dc.subjectLutheran
dc.subjectProtestantism
dc.subjectTradition
dc.subject.umiReligion
dc.subject.umiMusic
dc.subject.umiHistory
dc.thesis.degreegrantorMiddle Tennessee State University
dc.thesis.degreelevelMasters
dc.titleA Peculiar Beat: St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Decatur, Illinois: A Microcosm of Traditioned Innovation and Adaptive Change in American Protestantism
dc.typeThesis

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