Today the study of American religion continues to move away from an older, European American, male, middle-class, northeastern, Protestant narrative concerned primarily with churches and theology and toward a multicultural tale of Native Americans, African Americans, Catholics, Jews and other groups. Many of these new studies cut across boundaries of gender, class, and region, and pay particular attention to popular religion. Most current textbooks remain wed to the older Protestant narrative. The purpose of this reader is to expose students to a broad overview of the work emerging from this rapidly changing field
This second edition includes ten new articles that have appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1995. Three are in the area of gender, two concern Native Americans, two consider new immigrants while others advance the study of African-Americans, popular culture, and the sociology of religion. The intention of all of the readings is neither to provide a new narrative nor simply assemble a random assortment of readings; rather, through a loose chronology, attention to recurrent themes, and brief introductions to each selection, this reader offers a selection of the new and diverse work being done in the field of American religious history.

David G. Hackett is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and is the author of The Rude Handof Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, NewYork 1652-1836 (Oxford, 1991).

Acknowledgments;Introduction to the First Edition;Introduction to the Second Edition;PART ONE EARLY AMERICA 1500-1750;1. The Pueblo Indian World in the Sixteenth Century RAMON A. GUTIERREZ; 2. A World of Wonders: The Mentality of the Supernatural in Seventeenth-Century New England DAVID D. HALL; 3. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience DANIEL K. RICHTER; 4. African Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel ALBERT J. RABOTEAU; 5. Women and Christian Practice in a Mahican Village RACHEL WHEELER; PART TWO REVOLUTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1750-1865; 6. The Dialectic of Double-Consciousness in Black American Freedom Celebrations, 1808-1863 WILLIAM B. GRAVELY; 7. From Middle Ground to Underground: Southeastern Indians and the Early Republic JOEL W. MARTIN; 8. Women's History IS American Religious History ANN BRAUDE; 9. Believer I Know: The Emergence of African-American Christianity CHARLES JOYNER ; PART THREE THE MODERN WORLD 1865-1945; 10. The Religion of the Lost Cause: Ritual and Organization of the Southern Civil Religion, 1865-1920 CHARLES REAGAN WILSON; 11. The Easter Parade: Piety, Fashion, and Display LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT; 12. The Debate Over Mixed Seating in the American Synagogue JONATHAN D. SARNA; 13. The Feminist Theology of the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1900 EVELYN BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM; 14. The Prince Hall Masons and the African American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1831-1918 DAVID G. HACKETT ; 15. The Lakota Ghost Dance: An Ethnohistorical Account RAYMOND J. DEMALLIE; 16. He Keeps Me Going: Women's Devotions to Saint Jude Thaddeus and the Dialectics of Gender in American Catholicism, 1929-1965 ROBERT A. ORSI; PART FOUR CONTEMPORARY LIFE 1945-PRESENT; 17. Old Fissures and New Fractures in American Religious Life ROBERT WUTHNOW; 18. Seeking Jewish Spiritual Roots in Miami and Los Angeles DEBORAH DASH MOORE; 19. Martin and Malcolm: Integrationism and Nationalism in African American Religious History JAMES H. CONE; 20. Searching for Eden with a Satellite Dish: Primitivism, Pragmatism, and the Pentecostal Character GRANT WACKER; 21. Submissive Wives, Wounded Daughters, and Female Soldiers: Prayer and Christian Womanhood in Women's Aglow Fellowship R. MARIE GRIFFITH ; 22. The Church of Baseball, the Fetish of Coca-Cola, and the Potlatch of Rock'n'roll: Theoretical Models for the Study of Religion in American Popular Culture DAVID CHIDESTER ; 23. Spirituality for Sale: Sacred Knowledge in the Consumer Age CHRISTOPHER ROWANIÉN:TE JOCKS; 24. Diasporic Nationalism and Urban Landscape: Cuban Immigrants at a Catholic Shrine in Miami THOMAS A. TWEED; 25. The Hindu Gods in a Split-Level World: The Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple in Suburban Washington, D.C. JOANNE PUNZO WAGHORNE; 26. Is There a Common American Culture? ROBERT N. BELLAH