Author: Sydney Ahlstrom Merchant: ChristianBook Manufacturer: Yale University Press Price: $30.00
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One of the most complete yet liveliest books on American religious history yet written. This book is not a survey, but a saga. Showing various groups such as the Irish Catholics, Hasaidic Jews, Mormons, Poles, Black Baptists and Episcopalians and how they all have contributed to the flavor of the American religious spirit. Leaders such as Cotton Mather, William Penn, Adam Clayton Powell, and others are highlighted giving greater insight into the make-up of the character of men and women that helped develope America. Notes, bibliographies, and index. Sections include: European Prologue The Protestant Empire Founded The Century of Awakening and Revolution The Golden Day of Democratic Evangelicalism Countervailing Religion Slavery and Expiation The Ordeals of Transition The Age of Faltering Crusades Toward Post-Puritan America Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, and chosen as Religious Book of the Decade by The Christian Century in 1979. Sydney E. Ahlstrom is a professor at Yale University.
