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

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 mediaimmigration, 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

Introduction by Philip Goff.List of Contributors.Interpreting American Religion.Surveying Religion in America (Philip Goff, IndianaUniversity - Purdue University, Indianapolis).Religion in American Society and Culture.American Revolution (Thomas Kidd, Baylor University).Borderlands (Kristy Nabhan-Warren, AugustanaCollege).Church and State (Derek Davis, University of MaryHardin-Baylor).Civil Religion (Ira Chernus, University of Colorado).Class and Labor ((Richard Callahan, University ofMissouri).Denominations (Russell Richey, Emory University).Economics (James Hudnut-Beumler, VanderbiltUniversity).Family (Rebecca Davis, University of Delaware).Film (Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University).Gender (Sarah Johnson, Gustavus Adlophus College).Health (Christopher White, Vassar College).Sensory Cultures Material and Visual Religion ((Sally PromeyYale University and Shira Brisman, Yale University).Media (Robert Fortner, Calvin College).Millennialism (Stephen Stein, Indiana University).Missions (Wilbur Shenk, Fuller Graduate School ofIntercultural Studies).Piety, Practice, and Ritual (Kathryn Lofton, YaleUniversity).Popular Culture (John Schmalzbauer, Missouri StateUniversity).Race and Ethnicity (Robero Trevino, University ofTexas).Regions (Philip Barlow, Utah State University).Revivals (Michael McClymond, Saint Louis University).Science (William Durbin, Washington TheologicalUnion).Social Reform (Zoe Trodd, UNC-Chapel Hill).Theology and Beliefs (Robert Brown, James MadisonUniversity).Women (Susanna Morrill, Lewis & Clark College).Traditions and MovementsAmerican Indians (Tracy Leavelle, CreightonUniversity).Anabaptists ((David Weaver-Zercher, Messiah College).Baptists (Paul Harvey, University of Colorado).Black Church (Sylvester Johnson, Indiana University).Buddhism (Charles Prebish, Utah State University).Catholicism to 1945 (Michael Pasquier, Louisiana StateUniversity).Catholicism since 1945 (Philip Gleason, University of NotreDame).Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (David WhittakerBrigham Young University).Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Amy Slagle, University ofSouthern Mississippi).Evangelicalism (Darren Dochuk, Purdue University).Hinduism ((Khyati Joshi, Fairleigh DickinsonUniversity).Holiness and Pentecostalism ((Jonathan Baer, WabashCollege).Islam (Edward E. Curtis IV, Indiana University-PurdueUniversity).Judaism (Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina))Lutherans (Susan McCarver, Lutheran Theological SouthernSeminary).New and Homegrown Religions (Sean McCloud, University ofNorth Carolina).Protestant Liberalism (Mark Hulsether, University ofTennessee).Reformed Protestantism (Darryl Hart).Wesleyan Tradition (Christopher Evans, Colgate RochesterCrozer Divinity School).