A RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Sydney E. Ahlstrom
"The frontier preachers, the earnest founders of holy commonwealths, the visionary utopians, the ecstatic seers of mountain visions and kingdoms coming. Here is not only the most complete but one of the liveliest books on American religion yet written. This is no survey, but a saga. Yet the jagged pieces -- of Irish Catholics, Hasaidic Jews, Mormons, Poles and Puerto Ricans, Black Baptists, Occultists, and Episcopilians -- all fit together. Aimee Semple McPherson and Cotton Mather, William Penn and Adam Clayton Powell, all find their place in this story of the American Spirit ... "
From Citation for the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion.
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