Ebook: The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America

This authoritative and cutting edge companion brings together a team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity and unique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of the United States.

• A groundbreaking new volume which represents the first sustained effort to fully explain the development of American religious history and its creation within evolving political and social frameworks
• Spans a wide range of traditions and movements, from the Baptists 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 been interpreted in literature and popular culture
• Provides insights into the historiography of religion, but presents the subject as a story in motion rather than a snapshot of where the field is at a given moment

Content:
Chapter 1 Surveying Religion in America (pages 1–13): Philip Goff
Chapter 2 The American Revolution (pages 15–28): Thomas S. Kidd
Chapter 3 Borderlands (pages 29–41): Kristy Nabhan?Warren
Chapter 4 Church and State (pages 42–56): Derek Davis
Chapter 5 Civil Religion (pages 57–70): Ira Chernus
Chapter 6 Class and Labor (pages 71–89): Richard J. Callahan
Chapter 7 Denominations (pages 90–104): Russell E. Richey
Chapter 8 Economics (pages 105–116): James Hudnut?Beumler
Chapter 9 Family (pages 117–129): Rebecca L. Davis
Chapter 10 Film (pages 130–146): Judith Weisenfeld
Chapter 11 Gender (pages 147–162): Sarah E. Johnson
Chapter 12 Health (pages 163–176): Christopher G. White
Chapter 13 Sensory Cultures: Material and Visual Religion Reconsidered (pages 177–205): Sally M. Promey and Shira Brisman
Chapter 14 Media (pages 206–214): Robert S. Fortner
Chapter 15 Millennialism (pages 215–227): Stephen J. Stein
Chapter 16 Missions (pages 228–241): Wilbert R. Shenk
Chapter 17 Piety, Practice, and Ritual (pages 242–253): Kathryn Lofton
Chapter 18 Popular Culture (pages 254–275): John Schmalzbauer
Chapter 19 Race and Ethnicity (pages 276–290): Roberto R. Trevino
Chapter 20 Regions (pages 291–305): Philip L. Barlow
Chapter 21 Revivals (pages 306–320): Michael McClymond
Chapter 22 Science (pages 321–337): William Durbin
Chapter 23 Social Reform (pages 338–352): Zoe Trodd
Chapter 24 Theology and Belief (pages 353–375): Robert E. Brown
Chapter 25 Women (pages 376–394): Susanna Morrill
Chapter 26 American Indians (pages 395–416): Tracy Neal Leavelle
Chapter 27 Anabaptists (pages 417–428): David L. Weaver?Zercher
Chapter 28 Baptists (pages 429–445): Paul Harvey
Chapter 29 The Black Church (pages 446–467): Sylvester Johnson
Chapter 30 Buddhism (pages 468–477): Charles S. Prebish
Chapter 31 Catholicism to 1945 (pages 478–490): Michael Pasquier
Chapter 32 Catholicism Since 1945 (pages 491–507): Philip Gleason
Chapter 33 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter?Day Saints (pages 508–526): David J. Whittaker
Chapter 34 Eastern Orthodox Christianity (pages 527–539): Amy A. Slagle
Chapter 35 Evangelicalism (pages 540–558): Darren Dochuk
Chapter 36 Hinduism (pages 559–568): Khyati Y. Joshi
Chapter 37 Holiness and Pentecostalism (pages 569–586): Jonathan R. Baer
Chapter 38 Islam (pages 587–598): Edward E. Curtis
Chapter 39 Judaism (pages 599–613): Yaakov Ariel
Chapter 40 Lutherans (pages 614–635): Susan Wilds McArver
Chapter 41 New and Homegrown Religions (pages 636–648): Sean McCloud
Chapter 42 Protestant Liberalism (pages 649–668): Mark Hulsether
Chapter 43 Reformed Tradition (pages 669–683): D. G. Hart
Chapter 44 Wesleyan Tradition (pages 684–698): Christopher H. Evans