Hoosier Faiths: A History of Indiana's Churches and Religious Groups by L. C. Rudolph (review)

512BOOK REVIEWS Cape May by the author of the letter had to be from Cairo in Illinois, not m Mississippi (p. 248). Unfortunately,the editor does not give a bibUography. His footnotes lack a reference to some rather important works. For example, any treatment ofthe New York draft riots should include the reference to Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significancefor American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (NewYork, 1990). Zanca quotes a diary by John Morgan, SJ.,which refers to a French mulatto who sang the Mass on November 26, 1863 (p. 183)-The French mulatto is identified as a priest by Professor Zanca.An effort should have been made to identify this mulatto priest.Was it James Augustine Healy,who was ordained in France in 1854, or was it his brother, Sherwood A. Healy, ordained in Rome in 1858? FinaUy, the work closes with an excerpt from the pastoral letter ofthe Second Plenary CouncU ofBaltimore in 1866.The short comments about the emancipated slaves in the closing pastoral letter gave no hint of the bitter division regarding the freed slaves that characterized a secret session of the second plenary council, the records of which are to be found Ln the Baltimore Archdiocesan Archives, never translated and never pubUshed . It would be good to publish them, for they would remind us that many of the American bishops faUed in compassion and understanding for the African American population during the darkest days of United States history. As the study of Black CathoUc sources advances, any future anthology of this sort wiU need to devote more space to the Black Catholic reality; for CathoUcism is greater than the narrow perspectives of a pro-slavery episcopate and laity. American CathoUcism is also revealed in the faith, holiness, and humanity of Black CathoUcs Uving in an age of chains. Professor Zanca is to be commended for making a good beginning. Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. St. Meinrad School ofTheology Hoosier Faiths:A History ofIndiana's Churches and Religious Groups. By L. C. Rudolph. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1995. Pp. xv, 710. $39.95.) This massive volume results from the author's audacious effort, probably unprecedented , to survey the major religious traditions found in a single state. Through 700 double-columned pages, Rudolph provides fifty-three essays, most of which describe individual traditions with a summary of their history before treating Indiana developments."Narratives end," the author notes,"as a conversation or lecture might,when the basic identity ofthe group seems to be estabUshed and when some of its characteristic stories have been told." An essay's length is not always adjusted to a group's size. Denominations with limited membership but a complex history may have essays as substantial as those dealing with the influential Methodist and CathoUc churches, whose combined BOOK REVIEWS513 membership claimed 40% of the state's religious adherents by 1990.With emphasis on each tradition's story, the author does not aim at a general interpretation of religion's role in shaping culture. Though not known as a home to diverse groups, Indiana, as the volume reveals , has accommodated a wide range ofreUgious expressions.The author starts with an essay on Indians, then moves to Methodists and CathoUcs.The stories of mainline Protestant denominations loom large in the state's nineteenth-century reUgious development. The essay on "Christians," the book's longest, portrays Alexander CampbeU, his movement, and its importance for Indiana, home to denominational headquarters of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Articles also appear on such antebeUum movements as Rappites, Owenites, Shakers, Swedenborgians, and RationaUsts. For the twentieth century, the religious scene becomes more complex. Rudolph introduces movements that depart from mainline Protestantism with an overview essay on "Holiness and Pentecostal Development." Separate essays then foUow on denominations within the latter traditions, ofwhich several have importance to Indiana, location of denominational headquarters of the Wesleyan Church, Free Methodist Church, Church of God (Anderson), Missionary Church, United Brethren, and Pentecostal AssembUes of the World. The state's developing ethnic complexity is addressed in an overview essay on "Major Minorities " before presenting separate essays on four black Methodist denominations , black Baptists, ethnic...