First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bret Carroll is the author of Spiritualism in Antebellum America . He is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus.

Foreward Introduction Part II: European Christianity Colonizes America, 1500-1867 22 Part III: Colonial Formations, 1607-1800 30 Part IV: Protestant Expansionism in the Nineteenth Century Part V: World Religions and Growing Pluralism, 1850-Present Part VI: Religions of the Modern Age Epilogue: American Religious Regions Chronology Further Reading Index Acknowledgements