America's Religious History

Thomas S. Kidd (PhD, Notre Dame) is distinguished professor of history at Baylor University. He has written many books, including America’s Colonial History and The Great Awakening, and also writes and appears regularly in mainstream media. A past winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, he tweets at @ThomasSKidd.

'America's Religious History offers a comprehensive account of the history we must know in order to understand our present and pave a better way forward. The book is remarkable in its breadth and depth, in its precision and scholarship, and in its sheer readability. Thomas Kidd is a great gift to the contemporary American church, and this book demonstrates why.'

• Introduction: Religious Vitality, Conflict, and Liberty in America1.Early America2.Awakenings and Empire3.Religion and the American Founding4.The Era of the Second Great Awakening5.Global and Domestic Missions6.Moral Reform and Slavery7.The Civil War8.Immigration, Temperance, and Gilded Age America9.Evolution, the Bible, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy10.The World Wars and the Rise of Neo-Evangelicalism11.Protest and the Revolutions of the 1960s12.Immigration and New Religious Diversity Since 196513.Church-State Relations, the “Silent Majority,” and Jimmy Carter14.The Reagan Revolution and the Moral Majority15.Post 9-11 AmericaConclusion: A Post-Christian America?