A Documentary History of Religion in America

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.

• The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today
• A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada
• The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity
• The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
• The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
• Christian History Time Line (2,000 Years of Christian History at a Glance!)
• Religion in America
• Has American Christianity Failed?
• Religion and American Culture: A Brief History
• Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)