Acknowledgments
This atlas owes its existence to many people. Mark Carnes, general editor of this atlas series, has offered friendly advice on mapping and has been helpful in many ways besides.
Editor Kevin Ohe and cartographers Elsa Gibert and Malcolm Swanston have worked closely and—patiently with the author throughout. Peter Williams, David Narrett, and Sam Oppenheim have read portions of the manuscript and must take credit for some of its strengths—though no blame for any of its imperfections. Philip Barlow and Ed Gaustad, both well familiar with the process of mapping American religion, have also been helpful with their suggestions; the latter in particular has been a pioneering and inspirational figure in this area. Also inspirational have been Laurie Maffly-Kipp, who has called for the kind of geographic decentering of America religion scholarship that this atlas attempts, and Diana Eck, whose emphasis on the United States as home to world religions has informed Part Five. The library faculty at California State University, Stanislaus have been ever ready and willing to help from the inception of this book, never seeming to mind being deluged with questions and interlibrary loan orders.Several other people deserve special mention for their help with various phases and aspects of this atlas. They are:
Jo Antonson, Historical Society of Alaska
Ken Bowers, National Teaching Office, Baha’i National Center
Orienne Denslow, Sitka Historical Society / Isabel Miller Museum
Richard Francaviglia, University of Texas at Arlington
Kit Goodwin, University of Texas at Arlington
Mandi Johnson, Georgia Historical Society
Eric Komori, Hawaii State Historic Preservation Division
Arthur J. Krim
Jerald T. Milanich, University of Florida
Debbie Newman, Arizona Historical Society
Mohamed Nimer, Council on American Islamic Relations
Lucinda Glenn Rand, Graduate Theological Union
Philip Schanker, Family Federation for World Peace and Unity USA
Barbara S.
SmithRobert Stockman, DePaul University
Helen Tanner, Newberry Library
Mark Turdo, Moravian Historical Society
Richard White, Stanford University
Mary Wyant, Map and Geographic Information Center, University of New Mexico
Rev. Stephen Yale, Graduate Theological Union
Most important are the three people mentioned in the dedication. My father, Gilbert Carroll, early encouraged my love of maps and atlases, but is not here to see this book. My mother, Judith Moskowitz, always a source of strength and support, will doubtless view this atlas with his eyes as well as her own. My wife, Iris Carroll, has patiently and lovingly witnessed the atlas-making process at far closer range than either of them. My debt to all three is far greater than words can express.
Last, I think that the same page listing illustration credits should include a few map credits as well, as follows:
Quakerism map and colonial religious regions maps are adapted from The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) Philip L. Barlow and Edwin S. Gaustad.
African missions map: adapted from Walter L. Williams, Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982), xviii.
Data for the map on page 103 was provided by the Council on American Islamic Relations, Washington, D.C.
Current religious regions map: Adapted from Wilbur Zelinsky, An Approach to the Religious Geography of the United States: Patterns of Church Membership in 1952, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 51, June 1961: pp. 139–193.
Pictures are reproduced by permission of, or have been provided by the following:
Arcadia Editions Limited: p. 22
Author: p. 106
Mary Evans Picture Library: p. 36
New York Public Library, Astor Lennox and Tilden Foundation: p. 40
Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library: p.23
Southwest Museum, Los Angeles: p. 16
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison/Abertype Collection: p. 99
Private Collections: pp. 12, 13, 27, 30, 44, 49, 55, 58, 68, 70, 82, 84, 90, 94, 112, 113, 125
Design: Elsa Gibert, Malcolm Swanston.
Cartography: Elsa Gibert, with Jeanne Radford, and Malcolm Swanston.