This authoritative and cutting edge companion brings togethera team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity andunique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of theUnited States.
* A groundbreaking new volume which represents the firstsustained effort to fully explain the development of Americanreligious history and its creation within evolving political andsocial frameworks
* Spans a wide range of traditions and movements, from theBaptists and Methodists, to Buddhists and Mormons
* Explores topics ranging from religion and the media,immigration, and piety, though to politics and social reform
* Considers how American religion has influenced and beeninterpreted in literature and popular culture
* Provides insights into the historiography of religion, butpresents the subject as a story in motion rather than a snapshot ofwhere the field is at a given moment