Year Book Of American Churches - A Record Of Religious Activities In The United States For The Year 1932 (Paperback)

YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN CHURCHES A Record of Religious Activities in the United States for the Year 1932 Issued under the auspices of the FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA Edited by HERMAN C. WEBER, D. D. With the assistance of the Department of Research and Education of the Federal Council ROUND TABLE PRESS, INC. NKW YORK 1938 Copyright, 1933, by ROUND TABLE PRESS, INC. A II rights reserved Entered in the Booklist of the AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CONTENTS SECTION I. RELIGIOUS DATA. Ecclesiastical Calendar for 1983 3 Table of Easters 1901 to 1950 4 Outstanding Ecclesiastical Events. 1932 5 Calendar, 1933 and 1934 6 Coming Events, 1933 7 Cycle of Uniform Sunday School Lessons 9 Mission Study Cycle 10 Primary Selections of Religious Book Club in 1982 10 Supplementary Recommendations of Religious Book Club in 1932 11 Catholic Book Survey 15 Books of Interest in the Jewish Field 16 Bibliography 17 Articles on Religion in Secular Magazines, 1932 23 Necrology 25 SECTION II. TRENDS IN ORGANIZED RELIGION IN 1932. Theology in the United States in 1932 81 By Henry P. Van Dusen Evangelistic Trends in 1932 34 By Jesse K. Bader Social Service in 1932 87 By Benson Y. Landis Trends in Religious Education in 1932 40 By F. Ernest Johnson The Church and Rural Life 42 By Benson 7. Landis Race Relations, 1932, 45 By George Edmund Haynes Inter-Faith Relations 48 By Everett R. CUnchy The Churches and International Justice, Goodwill and Peace 49 By Sidney L. Oulick The Churches and Economic Problems 53 By James Myers Church and State in 1932 56 By F. Ernest Johnson Church Union and Federation 59 By Samuel McCreu Cavert SECTION III. SURVEY OF 1932. The International Religious Field 65 ByHenry 8. Leiper The Roman Catholic Field 70 By Charles A. McMahon The Jewish Field 78 By Harry Schneiderman The Protestant Field of Religion 88 By Herman C. Weber Survey of Home Missions, 86 By William JR. King The Churches and Motion Pictures 92 By Worth Marion Tippy CONTENTS PAGE The Laymens Foreign Missions Inquiry 94 By Benson F. Landi The Church and Radio 96 By Framk 0. Goodman Some Accomplishments in Church Cooperation in 1932 98 By Samuel McGrea Cavert SECTION IV. DIRECTORY OF RELIGIOUS BODIES IN THE U. S. Directory of Religious Bodies 103 The Adventists 104, Baptists 106 Catholic Other than Roman and Eastern Orthodox 116 Catholic Roman 118 Christian Science 121 Churches of God 122 Congregational 122 Disciples 125 Dunkers 127 Eastern Orthodox 130 Eastern Separated Churches 132 Episcopal 132 Evangelical Bodies 138 Friends 142 Holiness Bodies 145 Jewish Congregations 153 Latter-day Saints 154 Lutherans 156 Mennonites 174 Methodists 177 Moravians 189 Presbyterians 191 Plymouth Brethren 200 Reformed 200 River Brethren 204 Salvationists 206 Swedenborgian 207 Theosophists 208 Unitarian Churches 209 United Brethren Bodies 210 Universalist Church 211 Miscellaneous 212 SECTION V. THE COOPERATIVE WORK OF THE CHURCHES IN THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA. Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America 219 Executive Committee 222 The Reorganization of the Federal Council 226 Actions of the Quadrennial Meeting of the Federal Council 227 Bodies Related to the Federal Council 228 Other Organizations in Correspondence with the Federal Council 289 SECTION VI. SERVICE AGENCIES. International Agencies 248 Research Agencies 250 Welfare Agencies 252 CONTENTS PAGE PeaceAgencies 263 Educational Agencies 266 Young Peoples Agencies 271 Missionary Agencies 274 Evangelistic Agencies 277 Agencies for Unity 279 Agencies for Negro Work 280 Sabbath Agencies 282 Temperance Agencies 282 Motion Pictures 285 Jewish Agencies 286 Catholic Agencies 289 SECTION VII. STATISTICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION...