Introduction

PART I AMERICAN RELIGION AND SOCIETY

1 Studies of Religion in American Society: The State of the Art

Harry S. Stout

Robert M. Taylor, Jr.

PART II PROTESTANTISM AND REGION

2 Narrating Puritanism

David D. Hall

3 "Christianizing the South"--Sketching a Synthesis

Donald Mathews

4 "As Canadian as Possible Under the Circumstances": Reflections on the Study of Protestantism in North America

Phyllis D. Airhart

PART III THE STAGES OF AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM

5 God's Designs: The Literature of the Colonial Revivals of Religion, 1735-1760

Allen C. Guelzo

6 Religion and the American Revolution

Gordon S. Wood

7 Protestantism, Voluntarism, and Personal Identity in Antebellum America

Daniel Walker Howe

PART IV PROTESTANTISM AND THE MAINSTREAM

8 Ethnicity and American Protestants: Collective Identity in the Mainstream

John Higham

9 Protestants and Economic Behavior

Robert Wuthnow

Tracy L. Scott

10 Protestant Success in the New American City, 1870-1920: The Anxious Secrets of Rev. Walter Laidlaw, Ph.D.

Jon Butler

11 The Spirit and the Flesh: Gender, Language, and Sexuality in American Protestantism

Susan Juster

12 From Missions to Mission Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions Since World War II

Dana L. Robert

13 Experience and Explanation in Twentieth-Century American Religious History

Richard Wightman Fox

PART V PROTESTANTS AND OUTSIDERS

14 On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Margins, Center, and Bridges in African American Religious History

Judith Weisenfeld

15 Recent American Catholic Historiography: New Directions in Religious History

Patrick Carey

16 Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Public Culture in the Twentieth Century

David A. Hollinger

AFTERWORD

17 Later Stages of the Recovery of American Religious History