Protestant Umbrella Movements

The broad Protestant categories recorded in this atlas that cut across denominations rather than naming one church body: Protestantism itself, which originated in the Protestant Reformation, and the interdenominational evangelical movement, together with the mainline, historically Black Protestant, nondenominational and missionary alliance labels that scholars and surveys use to sort Protestant churches. This group holds Christian and Missionary Alliance, Evangelicalism, Historically Black Protestant Tradition, Mainline Protestantism, Nondenominational Christianity, Protestantism. Placing these churches together lets a reader compare one church family at a time, from the tradition as a whole to its national and denominational bodies, and follow how each body describes its own governance, worship and history. Each entry keeps its own description, sources and Browse By pages.