Further Reading

Space does not permit a complete list of studies of the many religious groups and movements mentioned in this atlas. Instead, a list of general reference works is offered. Those in the first four categories below identify further reading on specific aspects of American religious history.

Atlases

Gaustad, Edwin S., and Philip L. Barlow. The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Encyclopedias

Hirschfelder, Arlene B. Encyclopedia of Native American Religions. Revised ed. New York: Facts on File, 2000.

Lippy, Charles L., and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988.

Queen, Edward L., II, Stephen R. Prothero, and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. The Encyclopedia of American Religious History. 2 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1996.

Melton, J. Gordon. The Encyclopedia of American Religions. 6th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1999.

Melton, J. Gordon, and James Sauer. The Encyclopedia of American Religions, Religious Creeds. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1988, 1994.

Murphy, Larry G., J. Gordon Melton, and Gary L. Ward, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Religions. New York: Garland, 1993.

General Narratives and Surveys

Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Albanese, Catherine L. America: Religions and Religion. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1999.

Eck, Diana L. On Common Ground: World Religions in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Gaustad, Edwin S. A Religious History of America. Revised ed. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990.

Hudson, Winthrop S. Religion in America. 4th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Marsden, George. Religion and American Culture. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Miller, Timothy, ed. America’s Alternative Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1992.

Nuesner, Jacob, ed. World Religions in America: An Introduction. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994.

Wentz, Richard E. Religion in the New World: The Shaping of Religious Traditions in the United States. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.

Williams, Peter W. America’s Religions: Traditions and Cultures. New York: Macmillan, 1990.

Dictionaries

Bowden, Henry Warner. Dictionary of American Religious Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1977.

Melton, J. Gordon. Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect Leaders. New York: Garland, 1986.

Reid, Daniel G., et al. Dictionary of Christianity in America. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1990.

Statistics

Bradley, Martin B., Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil. Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center, 1992.

Johnson, Douglas W., Paul R. Picard, and Bernard Quinn. Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1971. Washington, D.C.: Glenmary Research Center, 1974.

Quinn, Bernard, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting, and Peggy Shriver. Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1980. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center, 1982.

United States Bureau of the Census. Religious Bodies: 1906. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906.

United States Bureau of the Census. Religious Bodies: 1916. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919.

United States Bureau of the Census. Census of Religious Bodies: 1926. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929.

United States Bureau of the Census. Religious Bodies: 1936. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936.

Geographic Perspectives

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie, Eastward Ho! American Religion from the Perspective of the Pacific Rim, in Thomas A. Tweed, ed., Retelling U.S. Religious History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970.

Shortridge, James. A New Regionalization of American Religion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 16, June 1977, pp. 143–154.

Zelinsky, Wilber. 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.