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...

The Other Side of the Story

For too long, the history of Christianity has been told as the triumph of orthodox doctrine imposed through power and hierarchy. Here, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and ...

In this highly readable volume, Robert Bruce Mullin surveys the rise and spread of Christianity throughout the world. Global in focus and covering the expanse of Christian history, the book unveils the challenges that Christianity has faced throughou...

A Way of Being the Christian Community

A concise and readable study for laypersons and clergy alike, this book is indispensable for all informed people in many different confessional communities. With the passion of one who not only observes but believes, John Leith touches on all aspects...

A Global History

In this cogent volume, historian Martin Marty gives readers of all faiths a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it grew from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world's largest religion. A remarkable testament to how C...

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...

The Future of Jewish and Christian Life

In this book, Marc Ellis wrestles with some of the critical issues of contemporary Jewish and Christian life, in particular the issues of Jewish and Christian religiosity after Auschwitz and 1492, two events that are historical and contemporary in th...

A Paraphrase of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love

Many people, including trained church professionals, find Julian of Norwich very difficult to read. Translations in modern English don't even seem to help. It's hard to get past her medieval Catholicims to her radically inclusive ideas--to the insigh...

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...

Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

Inspired by Miller's Newsweek cover story "Visions of Heaven," Heaven offers a 2,000-year tour through the fascinating history and intellectual geography of this transcendent territory.

Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but most are not aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy ...

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...