"Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the [book] introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S.

Americans as a religious people experience both tension and indecision as they wrestle with a variety of critical issues every day. American society continually

This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century's choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979),

Discusses the Cold War, communism, Eisenhower, the civil rights movement, African-Americans and religion, Mormons, Vietnam, Catholics, feminism, cults, creation

Identifying the major trends and telling moments within both major denominations and other less formal religious movements, Allitt asks how these religious grou