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Title: disappointing
Review: Rhodes describes a huge variety of American denominations. In each case he gives a tiny bit of history, something about beliefs - usually taken from official statements, statistics, and contact information.The book is very useful for those who want to sort out and keep straight the various conservative "splinter" groups which have recently been established. It is less useful in describing the larger, older, "mainline" denominations which these protest denominations regard as "liberal." Despite other reviews to the contrary, I thought the author's conservative bias was pretty evident. He cannot be expected in a very brief description to go into nuances of history, but he makes many factual errors which will be obvious to the well informed and misleading to a casual reader.Anyone interested in the subject will be better served by Mead, Hill, and Atwood's Handbook of Denominations in the United States.
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