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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:39:28, subject to the Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700070116 https://www.cambridge.org/core CONTENTS 643 Calvin: A Prophet without a Prophecy Max Engammare 662 Augustine and the Amerindian in Seventeenth-Century New France Peter A. Goddard 682 Thomas Jefferson, Religious Freedom, and the Supreme Court Edivin S. Gaustad 695 Revivals and Revolution: Historiographie Turns since Alan Heimert's Religion and the American Mind Philip Goff 722 The Rise of Southern Gospel Music James R. Goff Jr. 745 Books Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700070116 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:39:28, subject to the Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700070116 https://www.cambridge.org/core