Ebook: New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase

The process of transforming the Louisiana Territory into U.S. territory meant shaping the space to conform to American cultural and religious identity, and this volume investigates continuities, disruptions, and changes relating to religion in this context. Initial chapters offer fresh perspectives on the new territory by those who settled it, primarily easterners. Subsequent essays take up the religious history of the region from the perspective of New Orleans and the Caribbean.