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The Mainline churches founded many colleges, universities and divinity schools.  They were leaders in many reform movements, ranging from anti-slavery to temperance to the [[Social Gospel]] and [[Civil Rights Movement]].  They are organizers and dominate the [[National Council of Churches]].

The Mainline churches founded many colleges, universities and divinity schools.  They were leaders in many reform movements, ranging from anti-slavery to temperance to the [[Social Gospel]] and [[Civil Rights Movement]].  They are organizers and dominate the [[National Council of Churches]].

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Ahlstrom, Sydney E. ''A Religious History of the American People'' (1976; 2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Religious-History-American-People/dp/0300100124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243520377&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]; see [[A Religious History of the American People]]

* Ahlstrom, Sydney E. ''A Religious History of the American People'' (1976; 2004) [https://www.amazon.com/Religious-History-American-People/dp/0300100124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243520377&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]; see [[A Religious History of the American People]]

* Balmer, Randall. ''Grant Us Courage: Travels along the Mainline of American Protestantism'' (1996) [http://www.questia.com/read/106364823?title=Grant%20Us%20Courage%3a%20%20Travels%20along%20the%20Mainline%20of%20American%20Protestantism online edition]

* Balmer, Randall. ''Grant Us Courage: Travels along the Mainline of American Protestantism'' (1996) [http://www.questia.com/read/106364823?title=Grant%20Us%20Courage%3a%20%20Travels%20along%20the%20Mainline%20of%20American%20Protestantism online edition]

* Balmer, Randall, and Fitzmier, John R. ''The Presbyterians'' (1993). 274 pp. excellent survey by scholars

* Balmer, Randall, and Fitzmier, John R. ''The Presbyterians'' (1993). 274 pp. excellent survey by scholars

* Hutchison, William R. ed. ''Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960'' (1990) [https://books.google.com/books?id=wMH7PRqQDGkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22neo+orthodoxy%22+barth+OR+niebuhr&lr=&num=30&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 excerpt and text search]

* Hutchison, William R. ed. ''Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960'' (1990) [https://books.google.com/books?id=wMH7PRqQDGkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22neo+orthodoxy%22+barth+OR+niebuhr&lr=&num=30&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 excerpt and text search]

** Marty, Martin E. "The Establishment That Was," ''Christian Century'' [http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=906 November 15, 1989, p. 1045. online]  

** Marty, Martin E. "The Establishment That Was," ''Christian Century'' [http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=906 November 15, 1989, p. 1045. online]  

* Marty, Martin E. ''Modern American Religion, Volume 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-American-Religion-Irony-1893-1919/dp/0226508943/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260105143&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]; ''Modern American Religion, Volume 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-American-Religion-Conflict-1919-1941/dp/0226508978/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260105143&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]; ''Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960'' (1999), [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-American-Religion-Indivisible-1941-1960/dp/0226508994/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260105143&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search];the best historical overview

* Marty, Martin E. ''Modern American Religion, Volume 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919'' (1997) [https://www.amazon.com/Modern-American-Religion-Irony-1893-1919/dp/0226508943/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260105143&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]; ''Modern American Religion, Volume 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941'' (1997) [https://www.amazon.com/Modern-American-Religion-Conflict-1919-1941/dp/0226508978/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260105143&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]; ''Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960'' (1999), [https://www.amazon.com/Modern-American-Religion-Indivisible-1941-1960/dp/0226508994/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260105143&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search];the best historical overview

*  Roof, Wade Clark, and William McKinney. '' American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future'' (1990) [http://www.amazon.com/American-Mainline-Religion-Changing-Future/dp/0813512166/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243520093&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]

*  Roof, Wade Clark, and William McKinney. '' American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future'' (1990) [https://www.amazon.com/American-Mainline-Religion-Changing-Future/dp/0813512166/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243520093&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]

* Tipton, Steven M. ''Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life'' (2008) [http://www.amazon.com/Public-Pulpits-Methodists-Mainline-Churches/dp/0226804747/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243520489&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Tipton, Steven M. ''Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/Public-Pulpits-Methodists-Mainline-Churches/dp/0226804747/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243520489&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Wuthnow, Robert,  and John H. Evans, eds. ''The Quiet Hand of God:  Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism,'' (2002), 430 pp.; essays by scholars

* Wuthnow, Robert,  and John H. Evans, eds. ''The Quiet Hand of God:  Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism,'' (2002), 430 pp.; essays by scholars

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