A religious history of the American people / Sydney E. Ahlstrom.
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TextPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2004.Edition: 2nd ed. / foreword and concluding chapter by David D. HallDescription: xxiv, 1192 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0300100124 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780300100129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century's choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.
Praise for the earlier edition:
"An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language."--B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World
"The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition."--Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review
"An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor."-- America
"The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority."-- Christianity Today
"No one writing or thinking hereafter about America's past will be able to ignore Ahlstrom's magisterial account of the religious element."-- American Historical Review
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1119-1162) and index.
Part I. European prologue -- Part II. The Protestant empire founded -- Part III. The century of awakening and revolution -- Part IV. The golden day of democratic evangelism -- Part V. Countervailing religion -- VI. Slavery and expiation -- VII. The ordeals of transition -- VIII. The age of faltering crusades -- IX. Toward post-Puritan America.