Crossroads of American Religious Life

The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat....

How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation

This exploration of the new religious landscape of America traces the history of freedom of religion in the United States and highlights the challenges posed by intolerance and hatred.Eck reveals how the world's religions are no longer on the other s...

This enjoyable book illuminates the long-held traditions and rare occurances that have shaped Christmas at the White House over the course of its history. Albert Menendez poured through diaries, memoirs, letters, newspapers, and more to compile the s...

In the Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, Randall Balmer pulls together insightful information about the people, events, and institutions that have shaped the powerful and influential evangelical movement. This highly accessible book reads more like a c...

Walter Rauschenbusch, Martin Luther King Jr, Gustavo Gutierrez, Rosemary Ruether

Four Mordern Prophets explores the life and thought of four twentieth-century Christian leaders who epitomize the struggle for freedom and justice. William Ramsay summarizes the work of these four modern thinkers and challenges us to join in the stru...

A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea

Using icons from music, literature, film, and politics, David Dark hopes to provide fodder for lively conversation about what it means to be Christian and American in this day and age. The end result of this conversation, Dark hopes, will be a better...

Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing

Drawing from primary source documents such as diaries, letters, speeches, sermons, essays, and books from seventeenth-century colonial settlements in North America to today, this volume recovers the contributions of women to American religion. With i...

Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation

Holiness and hedonism. Lonesomeness and community. Tradition and progress. Highly regarded commentator on Christianity and popular culture Rodney Clapp argues that these great tensions form the bedrock of American history and our current culture. Uti...

Critical Reflections on America's Greatest Evangelist

Perhaps no individual has had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, whose work has been widely influential in arenas from the rising evangelical movement to the White House. Although G...

Mapping the Spiritual and Scientific Terrain at the Turn of the Century

Aternative medicine. Quantum mechanics. Gaia. Near-Death Experiences. The New Age. Fundamentalism. Feminist and Liberation Theology. These are just some of the nine most significant spiritual/scientific movements analyzed by Mark Parent in his latest...

The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History

This book is an intriguing narrative of the interplay between American religion and patterns of American culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. R. Laurence Moore considers the ways nationalism, the separation of church and state, democrat...

The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers

This in-depth survey provides a vivid overview of the religious world of the Baby Boomers. The authors worked with a national sample of persons confirmed in the Presbyterian Church, examining the religious faith of Baby Boomers and exploring the reas...

A Historical Introduction

Fea offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past t...

During the past four decades, large numbers of women have entered ordained leadership positions in American religious bodies, resulting in changes in aspects of church life from liturgy and theology to pastoral leadership. At the same time, an explos...

Freedom of Religion in the United States

The United States is founded upon the principles of freedom of religion, although it has been difficult at times to understand and apply those principles. Phillip Hammond argues that the Constitution assumes a radical religious liberty, which protect...