Contents

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

PART I: INDIGENOUS AMERICAN RELIGIONS, PREHISTORY–PRESENT

Northern Hunting Religions

Southern Agricultural Religions

Ancient Hawaiian Religion

Postcontact Revitalization and Accommodation

PART II: EUROPEAN CHRISTIANITY COLONIZES AMERICA, 1500–1867

Spanish Catholic Colonization

French Catholicism in North America

Russian Orthodoxy Colonizes America

PART III: COLONIAL FORMATIONS, 1607–1800

The Church of England in Colonial America

Puritanism in New England

Colonial Presbyterianism

The Rise and Fall of Quaker Regions

The Rise of the Baptists

The Development of American Methodism

Lutheran and Reformed Groups

German Sectarians in British America

Catholicism and Judaism in the Colonies

The Great Awakening

PART IV: PROTESTANT EXPANSION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

The Second Great Awakening

The Baptists and Methodists Surge

Missionary Outreach

Restorationism and the Disciples of Christ

Unitarians and Universalists

American Metaphysical Movements

Communitarian Aspirations

Mormonism

African-American Churches

PART V: WORLD RELIGIONS AND GROWING PLURALISM, 1850-PRESENT

The Growth of American Catholicism

The Development of American Judaism

Eastern Orthodoxy in America

Islam in America

Hinduism and Sikhism in America

Buddhism in America

PART VI: RELIGIONS OF THE MODERN AGE

Fundamentalist Protestantism

Holiness and Pentecostalism

Urban African-American Religions

Unificationism, Scientology, and Baha’i

EPILOGUE: AMERICAN RELIGIOUS REGIONS

CHRONOLOGY

FURTHER READING

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS