A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF RELIGION IN AMERICA

Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, and Heath W. Carter, eds

ISBN 10: 0802873588 / ISBN 13: 9780802873583

Published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, 2019

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768p. A glossy hardcover book in near-fine condition. Diocesan stamp on title page and small label on rear pastedown, but otherwise clean and tight, as if unread.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF RELIGION IN AMERICA
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids
• Publication Date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0802873588
• ISBN 13: 9780802873583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 4th edition, 2nd printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

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Synopsis

Up-to-date one-volume edition of a standard text

For decades students and scholars have turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to American religious history from the sixteenth century to the present. This fourth edition—published in a single volume for the first time—has been updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily cover the material in a single semester.

With more than a hundred illustrations and a rich array of primary documents ranging from the letters and accounts of early colonists to tweets and transcripts from the 2016 presidential election, this volume remains an essential text for readers who want to encounter firsthand the astonishing scope of religious belief and practice in American history.

About the Authors

Edwin S. Gaustad (1923–2011) was Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He also taught at Shorter College, the University of Redlands, Baylor University, and Auburn University. He received a B.A. from Baylor University and a M.A. and a Ph.D. from Brown University. He is the author of, among other works, Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson, Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America, Historical Atlas of Religion in America, The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today (with Leigh Schmidt), and Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: A History of Church and State in America."

 

Mark A. Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. His other books include A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, and Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity.

Heath W. Carter is associate professor of American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. Prior to coming to Princeton, he taught at Valparaiso University from 2012–2019. His writing has been featured in publications such as The New Republic, Comment, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and Sojourners. He is the author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago.