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General Histories

Armentrout, Donald S., and Robert Boak Slocum. Documents of Witness: A History of the Episcopal Church, 1782-1985. Church Publishing Incorporated, 1994.

Caldwell, Sandra M, and Ronald J Caldwell. The History of the Episcopal Church in America, 1607-1991. Garland Science, 1993.

Hein, David, and Gardiner H Shattuck. The Episcopalians. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2004.

Holmes, David L. A Brief History of the Episcopal Church : With a Chapter on the Anglican Reformation and an Appendix on the Annulment of Henry VIII. Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1993.

Prichard, Robert W. Readings from the History of the Episcopal Church. Morehouse Publishing Company, 1986.

Prichard, Robert W. A History of the Episcopal Church – Third Revised Edition. Church Publishing, Inc., 2014.

Webber, Christopher. Welcome to the Episcopal Church : An Introduction to Its History, Faith, and Worship. Harrisburg, Pa: Morehouse Pub, 1999.

Institutional Histories

Emery, Julia C. A Century of Endeavor, 1821-1921: A Record of the First Hundred Years of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Department of Missions, 1921.

Foster, Walter Roland. The Role of the Presiding Bishop. Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement Publications, 1982.

Gent, Barbara. The National Altar Guild of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A: It’s First Seventy-Three Years 1927-2000. Brandon, VT: Otter Valley Press, Inc., 2006.

Martin, Harold C. Outlasting Marble and Brass: The History of the Church Pension Fund. Church Publishing, 1986.

Sherman, Margaret Marston. True to Their Heritage: A Brief History of the Woman’s Auxiliary. New York: The National Church Council, 1958.

Young, Frances M. Thankfulness Unites: A History of the United Thank Offering. Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement Publications, 1979.

African-American Ministries

Bragg, George Freeman, Jr. History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church. Baltimore, MD: Church Advocate Press, 1922.

Johnson, Karen. Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs. Routledge, 2013.

Lewis, Harold T. Yet With a Steady Beat: The African American Struggle for Recognition in the Episcopal Church. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1966.

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent. Oxford University Press, 1989.

Rodman, Edward. Let There Be Peace Among Us: A Story of the Union of Black Episcopalians. Lawrenceville, VA: Brunswick, 1990.

Shattuck, Gardiner H., Jr. Episcopalians & Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky Press, 2002.

Smith, Richard W. Bishop McIlvaine, Slavery, Britain and the Civil War. Xlibris LLC., 2014.

Townsend, Craig D. Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City. Columbia University Press, 2005.

Indigenous Ministries

Allen, Ann Beiser. And the Wilderness Shall Blossom: Henry Benjamin Whipple, Churchman, Educator, Advocate for the Indians. Afton Historical Society Press, 2008.

Anderson, Owanah. 400 Years: Anglican/Episcopal Missions Among American Indians. Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement Publications, 1997.

May, Marjorie S. and Donna A. Knox, eds. The Highly Adaptable Gospel: A Journey through the Life of H. Baxter Liebler. DV Polymedia, 2003.

Latino Ministries

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 4th ed. 1987. Reprint, San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2012.

Aponte, Edwin David. ÁSanto!: Varieties of Latino/a Spirituality. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011.

Elizondo, Virgilio. Gallilean Journey. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005.

Francis, Mark R. Local Worship, Global Church. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2014.

García, Francisco. “Sanctuary and Sacred Resistance in the Diocese of Los Angeles: A Theopolitical Reflection from a Priest-Organizer.” Anglican Theological Review 101, no. 4 (September 2019): 651–62.

González, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York: Penguin, 2011.

Heaney, Sharon E. Engaging Latino/A/X Theologies. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2024.

Nanko-FernándezCarmen. Theologizing En Espanglish: Context, Community, and Ministry. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010.

Oliver, Juan. Ripe Fields. New York: Church Publishing, Inc., 2009.

Oliver, Juan M. “Liturgia Latina.” Anglican Theological Review 101, no. 4 (September 1, 2019): 573–86.

Rodríguez, Albert R. “Transcultural Latino Evangelism: An Emerging New Paradigm.” Anglican Theological Review 101, no. 4 (September 2019): 673–83.

Rodriguez, Daniel. A Future for the Latino Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2011.

Roland, Carla E. Unmasking Latinx Ministry for Episcopalians. New York: Church Publishing, Inc., 2020.

Romero, Robert Chao. Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/O Social Justice, Theology, and Identity. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2020.

Yuriria Rodríguez. “El Coro Latinoamericano: Redefining the Choral Model for the Latino Congregations of the Episcopal Church.” Anglican Theological Review 101, no. 4 (September 1, 2019): 697–713.

Women and Ministry

Allen, Julia M. Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins. State University of NY Press, 2013.

Bozarth-Campbell, Alla. Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey. New York: Paulist Press, 1978.

Bozzuti-Jones, Mark Francisco. The Miter Fits Just Fine: A Story About the Rt. Reverend Barbara Cementine Harris, Suffragan Bishop, Diocese of Massachusetts. Cowley Publications, 2003.

Darling, Pamela W. New Wine: The Story of Women Transforming Leadership and Power in the Episcopal Church. Boston: Cowley Publications, 1994.

Donovan, Mary Sudman. A Different Call: Women’s Ministries in the Episcopal Church, 1850-1920. Wilton, CT: Morehouse-Barlow Publishing, 1986.

Carter, Heyward. A Priest Forever, the Formation of a Woman and a Priest. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Kujawa-Holbrook, Sheryl A., ed. Freedom is a Dream. Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, 2002.

Louise, SSM, Sr. Catherine. The Planting of the Lord: The History of the Society of Saint Margaret in England, Scotland and the U.S.A., 1855-1995. 1995.

Murray, Pauli. Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest and Poet. The University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Murray, Pauli. Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat : Memoir of an American Pilgrimage. New York: HarperCollins, 2018.

O’Dell, Darlene. The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven. Seabury Books of Church Publishing Inc, 2014.

Prelinger, Catherine M. Episcopal Women : Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline Denomination. New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Schiess, Betty Bone. Why Me, Lord?: One Woman’s Ordination to the Priesthood with Commentary and Complaint. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

Thompsett, Fredrica H. and Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, eds. Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church. Church Publishing, 2005.

Specialized Ministries

Berg, Otto B. A Missionary Chronicle: Being a History of the Ministry to the Deaf in The Episcopal Church, 1850-1980. Hollywood, MD: St. Mary’s Press, 1984.

Brewer, Clifton Hartwell. A History of Religious Education in the Episcopal Church to 1835. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1924.

Brown, Leo Maxwell, Davidson, William, & Brown, Allen. Vision Fulfilling: The Story of Rural and Small Community Work of the Episcopal Church during the Twentieth Century. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing. 1997.

Cully, Kendig B. (Ed.). The Episcopal Church and Education. New York: Morehouse-Barlow, 1966.

Otani, Andrew N. A History of Japanese-American Episcopal Churches. Privately published, 1980.

Rousmaniere, Leah Robinson. Anchored Within the Vail: A Pictorial History of the Seamen’s Church Institute. New York: Seamen’s Church Institute, 1995.

Liturgy

Hatchett, Marion J. The Making of the First American Book of Common Prayer. New York: Seabury Press, 1982.

Meyers, Ruth A. Continuing the Reformation: Re-Visioning Baptism in the Episcopal Church. New York: Church Publishing Incorporated, 1997.

Moriarty, Michael. The Liturgical Revolution: Prayer Book Revision and Associated Parishes: A Generation of Change in the Episcopal Church. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1996.

Stuhlman, Byron D. Eucharistic Celebration, 1789-1979. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1988.

Foreign Missions

Chen, Kaiyi. Seeds From the West: St. John’s Medical School, Shanghai, 1880-1952. Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2001.

Clymer, Kenton J. Protestant Missionaries in the Philippines, 1898-1916: An Inquiry into the American Colonial Mentality. Urbana & Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Douglas, Ian T. Fling Out the Banner! The National Church Ideal and the Foreign Mission of the Episcopal Church. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1996.

Dunn, D. Elwood. A History of the Episcopal Church in Liberia, 1821-1980. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992.

Hemphill, Elizabeth Anne. The Road to KEEP: The Story of Paul Rusch in Japan. New York: Walker/Weatherill, 1969.

Rubinstein, Murray A. The Origins of the Anglo-American Missionary Enterprise in China, 1807-1840. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Wheaton, Philip E. Triunfando Sobra las Tragedias: Historia Centenaria De La Iglesia Episcopal Dominicana, 1897-1997. Iglesia Episcopal Dominicana, 1997.

Yarsiah, James T. Early Missionary Work of the Protestant Episcopal Church (DFMS) in Liberia and their Differential Effects, 1821-1871, 2010.

Colonial Anglicanism

Bridenbaugh, Carl. Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faiths, Ideas, Personalities, and Politics 1689-1775. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

Cornwall, Aaron Woolley. A Pictorial History of the Anglican Churches in Colonial America, 1607-1776. Winston-Salem, NC: Hunter Publishing Company, 1988.

Doll, Peter. Revolution, Religion, and National Identity: Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745-1795. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.

Ritchie, Carson. Frontier Parish: An Account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Anglican Church in America, Drawn from the Records of the Bishop of London. Associated University Presses, Inc., 1976.

Rhoden, Nancy. Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy During the American Revolution. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Upton, Dell. Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Winner, Lauren F. A Cheerful & Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Yale University Press, 2010.

Woolverton, John Frederick. Colonial Anglicanism in North America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984.

Anglican Communion

Doe, Norman. Canon Law in the Anglican Communion: A Worldwide Perspective. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Jasper, R.C.D. The Development of the Anglican Liturgy, 1662-1980. London: SPCK, 1989.

Sachs, William L. The Transformation of Anglicanism: From State Church to Global Community. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Booty, John E, Stephen Sykes, and Jonathan Knight, eds. The Study of Anglicanism. Fortress Press, 1998.

Other Special Area Studies

Adams, Elizabeth. Going to Heaven: The Life and Election of Bishop Gene Robinson. Soft Skull Press, 2006.

Harp, Gillis J. Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2003.

Kano, Hisanori. Nikkei Farmer. Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska/Texas Tech University Press, 2010.

Radloff, Nancy Saultz. At All Proper and Usual Times: The Use of the Organ in the Anglican/Episcopal Church in America Before 1830. UMI Dissertation Services, 2003.

Robertson, David M. A Passionate Pilgrim: A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike. Vintage Books, 2004.

Schori, Katharine Jefferts, and Richard Schori. Through the Lens: A Presiding Bishop’s Ministry to the World. Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement, 2015.

Skardon, Alvin W. Church Leader in the Cities: William Augustus Muhlenberg. Antony Rowe, Ltd., 1986.

Slocum, Robert Boak, ed. Prophet of Justice, Prophet of Life: Essays on William Stringfellow. Church Publishing, Inc., 1997.

Woolverton, John F. Robert H. Gardiner and the Reunification of Worldwide Christianity in the Progressive Era. University of Missouri Press, 2005.

Reference Sources

Armentrout, Donald S, and Robert Boak Slocum. An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church : A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians. New York: Church Publishing, 2000.

Church Publishing. Episcopal Clerical Directory 2023. Church Publishing, Inc., 2023.

Wall, John N. A Dictionary for Episcopalians. Cowley Publications, 2000.