new and forthcoming
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes
Pentecostals in America Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh
Maggie Hennefeld
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes offers close consideration of hundreds of littleknown silent films. Maggie Hennefeld argues that they provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century and that slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language and experimentation with the visual and social potentials of cinema.
Arlene M. Sánchez Walsh provides a thematic overview of Pentecostalism in America, covering Pentecostal faith and practices, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, trends and offshoots, and the future of American Pentecostalism. She also places it in context within the larger narrative of American religious history. Pentecostals in America is an essential study of a vibrant religious movement.
$30.00 / £24.95 paper 978-0-231-17947-8
$90.00 / £74.95 cloth 978-0-231-14182-6
$90.00 / £74.95 cloth 978-0-231-17946-1
June 2018 208 pages
March 2018 320 pages 43 Illus.
Columbia Contemporary American Religion
Film and Culture Series
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
$30.00 / £24.95 paper 978-0-231-14183-3
Series
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Down the Up Staircase Three Generations of a Harlem Family Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch
Edited by James HudnutBeumler and Mark Silk DOWN THE
UP STAIRCASE Three Generations of a Harlem Family
Experts in American religious history and the sociology of religion examine the decline of mainline Protestantism over the past half century and assess its future. The book argues that the mainline Protestant movement will continue to be a vital remnant in a culture torn between the contending forces of secularism and evangelicalism. $30.00 / £24.95 paper 978-0-231-18361-1 $90.00 / £74.95 cloth 978-0-231-18360-4 March 2018 248 pages
The Future of Religion in America
Down the Up Staircase traces the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. Haynes and Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed them forward through the twentieth centu as well as the forces that ravaged black communities. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling threestory brownstone in Sugar Hill that once hosted Harlem Renaissance elites and later became an embodiment of the family’s rise and demise. $30.00 / £24.95 cloth 978-0-231-18102-0 2017 240 pages 13 photographs
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