Religion & American Culture

A Brief History   --   third edition   --   In this thought-provoking book George Marsden, a leading historian of American religion, engagingly tells the story of the paradoxical relationship between religion and American culture.  Surveying the historical landscape from colonial America onward up to the present, Marsden here offers the kind of historically and religiously informed scholarship that has made him one of the nation's most respected and decorated historians.