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Religions covered in the book include Episcopalians, Lutherans, Millerites, Campbellites, Latter-day Saints, Pentecostalism, New Age movements, African-based and Native American religions, and more. [1] It is also not confined to modern movements but spans America's religious history, beginning with the pre-Columbian traditions of Native Americans.
A Religious History of the American People (1st edition 1972, 2nd edition 2004) is a book by Sydney E. Ahlstrom and published by Yale University Press. [1] The first edition was 1,158 pages in length, the second 1,192.
The Second Great Awakening exercised a profound impact on American religious history. By 1859 evangelicalism emerged as a kind of national church or national religion and was the grand absorbing theme of American religious life. The greatest gains were made by the very well organized Methodists.
The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America. Malden, Ma; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-6936-3. (43 essays by scholars) Hall, D. D. (2019). The Puritans: A transatlantic history. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Koester, Nancy (2007). Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States. Minneapolis ...
John Gordon Melton (born September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion [1] and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he resides. [2]
"The Encyclopedia of American Religions". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 48 (3): 474– 475. Lippy, Charles H.; Peter W. Williams (December 1990). "The Encyclopedia of American Religions". Church History. 59 (4). American Society of Church History: 596– 598. doi:10.2307/3169191. JSTOR 3169191. S2CID 163136444.
Religion and politics in the United States presidential campaign, 2008; Religion of Black Americans; Religion in United States prisons; Religious affiliation in the United States House of Representatives; Religious affiliation in the United States Senate; Religious affiliations of presidents of the United States; A Religious History of the ...
The work is an introduction to Albanese's "metaphysical thesis" of American religious history: metaphysical religion (sometimes described by "the occult"; its adherents are sometimes called "metaphysicians") has a major role in the development of American religiosity rather than a minor one.