Dissent in American Religion, originally published in 1973, was the first book to present religious dissent in the United States as a pervasive but hidden and often-ignored stream in American life. The first volume in the Chicago History of American Religion series, it reviewed the history of our nation’s longest dissenting tradition—a tradition older and richer in the realm of religion than in any other facet of national life. Indeed, Edwin Scott Gaustad argued that religious dissent was essential to the character of the American religious experience and stood in profound disagreement with society’s orthodox values and beliefs.This new edition, which reinaugurates the Chicago History of American Religion series under the new editorship of John Corrigan, features new commentary by Gaustad and Corrigan on the past thirty years of American religious history and the importance of understanding dissent in American religion today.“This is an important and erudite work which shows the originality and scope which scholarship can bring to human experience.” —Los Angeles Times“We shall understand the religious past and present better for reading Gaustad’s brief, well-written, helpful book.” —Commonweal

Product Description: "In this little volume Gaustad has provided us with fine primary source material on a little-known Baptist of the 17th century. [Obadiah Holmes's] document itself is of considerable interest, since we have so few personal accounts from early Baptists, besides the outstanding men like Roger Williams...read more

Product Description: Described by Choice magazine as "the best source book available", A Documentary History of Religion in America has been a standard resource for nearly a decade. In two substantial volumes, Gaustad has compiled hundreds of intriguing documents that chronicle the multi-faceted history of religion in America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This examination of the origins of the relationship between church and state in America explores the deep ambivalence between a nation under God and the need for religious liberty

Product Description: Gaustad skillfully tells the story of Roger Williams: founder of Rhode Island, a defender of religious liberty, and a man of deep religious and political convictions.

Product Description: Described by Choice magazine as "the best source book available", A Documentary History of Religion in America has been a standard resource for nearly a decade. In two substantial volumes, Gaustad has compiled hundreds of intriguing documents that chronicle the multi-faceted history of religion in America...read more

Product Description: The second edition of this comprehensive reference features important new documents such as recent Supreme Court decisions (through the summer of 1992) and up-to-date bibliographies. Volume Two deals with American religion since 1865.

Product Description: "In this little volume Gaustad has provided us with fine primary source material on a little-known Baptist of the 17th century. [Obadiah Holmes's] document itself is of considerable interest, since we have so few personal accounts from early Baptists, besides the outstanding men like Roger Williams...read more

Product Description: This anthology offers a fascinating entry in the study of American religious experience during the past three centuries. Compiled and edited by a foremost historian of American religion, these twenty-six spiritual autobiographies uniquely capture the nation's soul in the words of the people who helped shape it...read more

Product Description: In two editions over 40 years, Edwin Gaustad's Atlas of American Religion has been an essential guide to the American religious experience. Now the New Historical Atlas of Religion in America takes the story into the new millennium...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This anthology displays the tapestry of religious experience in America during the past three centuries. Compiled and edited by a foremost historian of American religion, these twenty-six spiritual autobiographies, ordered chronologically, uniquely capture the nation's soul in the words of the people who helped shape it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Surveys the life of the Baptist clergyman whose belief in the separation of church and state, and disapproval of offical policy toward Native Americans, caused his exile from Massachusetts, and who helped to found Rhode Island. (view table of contents)

A biography of Jefferson focuses on the religious and spiritual influences on his life, and describes his own beliefs about religion.

A revised edition of the classic text covers the religious dimensions of American history, offering increased discussion of African American and Native American religious life, Eastern religions, and spiritual seeking.

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Examines the different roles played by church and state in considerations of religion throughout the history of the United States, beginning with concerns of the original colonists through the current debate about religion in schools. (view table of contents)