Peter Cassel and Iowa's New Sweden

Edited by Hauna Ondrey and Mark Safstrom, this Festschrift is a tribute for Philip. J. Anderson, longtime professor of church history at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, and president of the Swedish-American Historical Society for the past thirty years. The essays touch on various cultural and religious aspects of life in Swedish America, the intersections of faith and wilderness, and Lutheran and Evangelical Covenant Church history. Authors and contributors include: James Amadon, William Beckstrand, David Bjorlin, Dag Blanck, Ann Boaden, Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom, Rune W. Dahlén, Scott Erickson, Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, Joy Lintelman, Carol M. Norén, Anita Olson Gustafson, Hauna Ondrey, Glenn Palmberg, John E. Phelan Jr., Kevin Proescholdt, Mark Safstrom, Stephen Spencer, Mark Tao, Thomas Tredway, and C. John Weborg.