Provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America. Chronologically arranged, this set of books also contains useful chapter summaries and review questions. Designed for undergraduate religious studies and history students.
A History of Religion in America provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America, with the first volume covering the first settlements through to the Civil War and the second volume from the end of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century. The two volumes explore major religious groups in the United States and examine a range of topics:
- Native American religion
- Religion and the Founding Fathers
- Religion and reform in the 19th century
- The American Civil War
- Immigration's impact on American religion
- Religion in Cold War America
- Religion in Post-9/11 America
Chronologically arranged and integrating various religious developments into a coherent historical narrative, this set of books also contains useful chapter summaries and review questions. Designed for undergraduate religious studies and history students A History of Religion in America provides a substantive and comprehensive introduction to the complexity of religion in American history.
"It focuses student and faculty minds on important lessons of history from a particular time in history. Students who already believe that history is "one damn thing after another" are more likely to be able to say some definite things that they learned from the book and consequently the course using these texts as a result."
- James Hudnut-Beumler, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
