A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E Ahlstrom

A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E Ahlstrom

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), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.
Praise for the earlier edition:
An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language.--B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World
The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition.--Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review
An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor.--America
The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority.--Christianity Today
No one writing or thinking hereafter about America's past will be able to ignore Ahlstrom's magisterial account of the religious element.--American Historical Review

Sydney E. Ahlstrom, an eminent scholar of the history of religious thought in America, taught at Yale University for more than thirty years and held the Samuel Knight Chair in American History and Modern Religious History at the time of his death in 1984. David D. Hall is Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School.

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ISBN 13	9780300017625
ISBN 10	0300017626
Title	A Religious History of the American People
Author	Sydney E Ahlstrom
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	1974-09-10
Number of pages	1184
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.