History of Religion in America

Bryan F. Le Beau is retired from the University of Saint Mary, where he served as Professor of History, Provost, and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He is the author of several books on American cultural and religious history.

"It focuses student and faculty minds on important lessons of history from a particular time in history. Students who already believe that history is “one damn thing after another” are more likely to be able to say some definite things that they learned from the book and consequently the course using these texts as a result."- James Hudnut-Beumler, Vanderbilt University Divinity School

• Volume One:List of figuresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Native American Religion and Its European Encounter2. British Colonization and the Origins of American Religion3. Religion and the American Revolution4. Religion and the Early Republic5. Religion and the Age of Reform6. A People Apart7. Civil War and the ChurchesIndexVolume Two:List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Challenges of Immigration, Growth, and Diversity2. Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Social Gospel, Here and Abroad3. Science Versus Religion: Action and Reaction4. Religion in America between the World Wars5. Religion in Post-World War II America, 1945 to 19606. Religion in an Age of Turmoil – the 1960s and 1970s7. An Equal and Opposite Reaction: Conservative Retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s8. Whither Religion in the Twenty-First Century?Index