Awash in a Sea of Faith by Jon Butler
Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience, Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development.
Anyone who wants to know about religion in America up to the Civil War would do well to read Jon Butler’s rich, comprehensive and—it must be said—contentious account-- David Martin * Times Literary Supplement *
Throughout, the richness of detail, nuance, and illustration is superb and often eye-opening… In all, it is a daring work of synthesis…meticulously researched… This book ranks among the most challenging and far-ranging historical analyses of religion in America to date. -- Leigh Eric Schmidt * Journal of Church and State *
This is one of those rare books that historians await impatiently for years. It is also one of those rare and remarkable books that prove worth the wait. It fulfills extravagantly the promise of those pathbreaking and pugnacious articles that made magic an essential reality of the seventeenth century and the Great Awakening an interpretive fiction of the eighteenth. It is, by far, the best account we have of early American religious life, and the most radiantly original. -- Michael Zuckerman * Journal of the Early Republic *
Throughout, the richness of detail, nuance, and illustration is superb and often eye-opening… In all, it is a daring work of synthesis…meticulously researched… This book ranks among the most challenging and far-ranging historical analyses of religion in America to date. -- Leigh Eric Schmidt * Journal of Church and State *
This is one of those rare books that historians await impatiently for years. It is also one of those rare and remarkable books that prove worth the wait. It fulfills extravagantly the promise of those pathbreaking and pugnacious articles that made magic an essential reality of the seventeenth century and the Great Awakening an interpretive fiction of the eighteenth. It is, by far, the best account we have of early American religious life, and the most radiantly original. -- Michael Zuckerman * Journal of the Early Republic *
Jon Butler is Howard R. Lamar Emeritus Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University and Research Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. His books include the Los Angeles Times bestseller Becoming America and the prizewinning Awash in a Sea of Faith and The Huguenots in America. He is a past president of the Organization of American Historians.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674056015 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674056019 |
| Title | Awash in a Sea of Faith |
| Author | Jon Butler |
| Series | Studies In Cultural History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1992-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
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