Charting the history and geographic development of the major American religions, this atlas displays in vibrant visual detail the intimate relationship between American religion and the events that formed the nation. First published in 2001.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I: INDIGENOUS AMERICAN RELIGIONS, PREHISTORY-PRESENT; Northern Hunting Religions; Southern Agricultural Religions; Ancient Hawaiian Religion; Postcontact Revitalization and Accommodation; PART II: EUROPEAN CHRISTIANITY COLONIZES AMERICA, 1500-1867; Spanish Catholic Colonization; French Catholicism in North America; Russian Orthodoxy Colonizes America; PART III: COLONIAL FORMATIONS, 1607-1800; The Church of England in Colonial America; Puritanism in New England; Colonial Presbyterianism. PART V: WORLD RELIGIONS AND GROWING PLURALISM, 1850-PRESENTThe Growth of American Catholicism; The Development of American Judaism; Eastern Orthodoxy in America; Islam in America; Hinduism and Sikhism in America; Buddhism in America; PART VI: RELIGIONS OF THE MODERN AGE; Fundamentalist Protestantism; Holiness and Pentecostalism; Urban African-American Religions; Unificationism, Scientology, and Baha'i; EPILOGUE: AMERICAN RELIGIOUS REGIONS; CHRONOLOGY; FURTHER READING; INDEX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Rise and Fall of Quaker RegionsThe Rise of the Baptists; The Development of American Methodism; Lutheran and Reformed Groups; German Sectarians in British America; Catholicism and Judaism in the Colonies; The Great Awakening; PART IV: PROTESTANT EXPANSION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; The Second Great Awakening; The Baptists and Methodists Surge; Missionary Outreach; Restorationism and the Disciples of Christ; Unitarians and Universalists; American Metaphysical Movements; Communitarian Aspirations; Mormonism; African-American Churches