Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, 2nd edition

Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart's Seeking a Sanctuary, Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, published by Indiana University Press in its second edition of 2007, is the standard social and doctrinal history of Seventh-day Adventism, covering the Millerite Great Disappointment of 1844 and the movement's subsequent adoption of seventh-day Sabbath observance and distinctive health and prophetic teachings. Its strength is combining doctrinal history with sociological analysis of how Adventism situated itself within, and against, broader American culture, a dual approach neither a purely theological nor a purely sociological study alone would offer. Its limit is that the book's American focus centers the denomination's US development, so a claim about Adventism's growth and adaptation in the many countries where it is now numerically much larger than in the United States needs a source with that international scope rather than this primarily American history.