Dutch Calvinism in Modern America: A History of a Conservative Subculture - Softcover

Bratt, Mr. James D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802800092 ISBN 13: 9780802800091

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source, 1984

Synopsis

In this scholarly yet entertaining book, James D. Bratt takes a look at the Dutch in America from the late 19th century to the present. A comprehensive study of an ethnic subculture, the book is in large part a study of the group's religious history as well, since, as Bratt points out, the contours of the Dutch presence in America have been overwhelmingly shaped by the church and its subsidiary organizations. / Although the book is extensively and scrupulously documented, Bratt has infused his scholarship with a considerable amount of anecdote that is by turns poignant and tragic and hilarious. / In Bratt's analysis of the fitful progress of Americanization that this close-knit religious community has undergone, we are treated to the sharp insights of a bemused and sometimes disaffected insider. Included is a chapter on novelists Arnold Mulder, David Cornel DeJong, Frederick Manfred, and Peter DeVries — four sons of the Dutch who fled the subculture only to reflect upon it almost obsessively from the outside. / Well written, scholarly, and highly readable, Dutch Calvinism in Modern America will have wide appeal among both academic and general readers

About this title

About the Author:

Professor of history at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0802800092
• ISBN 13: 9780802800091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368