Religion and American Culture: A Brief History

While Americans still profess to be one of the most religious people in the industrialized world, many aspects of American culture have long been secular and materialistic. That is just one of the many paradoxes, contradictions, and surprises in the relationship between Christianity and American culture. In this book George Marsden, a leading historian of American Christianity and award-winning author, tells the story of that relationship in a concise and thought-provoking way.

Surveying the history of religion and American culture from the days of the earliest European settlers right up through the elections of 2016, Marsden offers the kind of historically and religiously informed scholarship that has made him one of the nation’s most respected and decorated historians. Students in the classroom and history readers of all ages will benefit from engaging with the story Marsden tells.

• Fundamentalism and American Culture (New Edition)
• A Documentary History of Religion in America
• Christ and Culture (Torchbooks)
• Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
• Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Revised Edition: A Historical Introduction
• Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience
• Theology and Culture: A Guide to the Discussion (Cascade Companions)
• Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930
• Theology of Culture (Galaxy Books)
• Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be