A religious history of the American people

A religious history of the American people by Ahlstrom, Sydney E.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300014754.

This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Centuryâ s choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day. Praise for the earlier edition: “An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language.⠗B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World “The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition.⠗Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review “An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor.⠗America “The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority.⠗Christianity Today “No one writing or thinking hereafter about Americaâ s past will be able to ignore Ahlstromâ s magisterial account of the religious element.⠗American Historical Review