This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century’s choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.

This pathbreaking book tells the story of American metaphysical religion more fully than it has ever been told before, along the way revising the entire panorama of American religious history. Catherine L. Albanese argues that metaphysical religion has been more influential than previously recognized and that it offers key insights into mainstream American religion.

Mr. Bercovitch's subject is the development of the concept of American identity; his method is comparatism to specify the uniqueness of that development; and his discussion, centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context.

Designed specifically for the classroom, this volume presents the accurate and definitive version of Sinners, accompanied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon.

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi’s classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life.

This prize-winning book tells the story of American women’s devotion to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes, one of the most popular saint in the American Catholic pantheon. Robert Orsi examines St. Jude's rise from obscurity to national popularity, beginning in Chicago in 1929, and he shows how the daughters and granddaughters of Catholic immigrants called on the saint to help them make...

In the mid-1700s, an outbreak of religious revivals shook American colonial society. This book provides a definitive history of these revivals, called the First Great Awakening, and shows how the evangelical movement’s radical notions of the spiritual equality of all people encouraged the democratic style that later came to characterize the American republic.

The miraculous cure of a Washington D.C. widow's ravaging cancer in 1824, purportedly through the intervention of a charismatic German prince, ignited political, social, and religious controversy. This gripping book captures the drama of the miracle and its repercussions.

As the most accurate and readable version of the Book of Mormon ever published, Royal Skousen’s corrected text represents a work of remarkable dedication and a landmark in American religious scholarship.

This enlightening book examines an array of physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eighteenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners’ lives and religious practices.

Historian John Lynch presents a brilliant capstone work encompassing the Latin American people's reception of Christianity from the Spanish Conquest and the arrival of evangelists to the dictators and repressive regimes of the twentieth century.

Rejecting the extreme arguments of today's debates, this book examines what the framers of the Constitution actually said about religious freedom and how it can inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.

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