LibGuides: American Religious History: Religious History by Historical Period

Puritanism, Colonial New England

First prejudice: religious tolerance and intolerance in early America / by Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda
Call Number: BR517.F55 2011 (also ebrary)
From Jamestown to Jefferson: the evolution of religious freedom in Virginia / by Paul Rasor and Richard E. Bond, editors
Call Number: ebrary BR555 .V8 F76 2011
Jonathan Edwards : a life / by George M. Marsden.
Call Number: BX7260.E3 M412 2003 (also ebrary and Ebsco)
Jonathan Edwards and the American experience / by Nathan O. Hatch.
Call Number: Ebsco BX7260.E3 J65 1988
Liberty of conscience : Roger Williams in America / by Edwin S. Gaustad.
Call Number: BX6495.W55 G38 1991
Lives of David Brainerd: the making of an American evangelical icon / by John A. Grigg
Call Number: E99.M83 B734 2009
New England mind / by Perry Miller.
Call Number: F7.M54 1961 vol.1-2
New England soul : preaching and religious culture in colonial New England / by Harry S. Stout.
Call Number: Ebsco BV4208.U6 S75 1988
Pilgrim and the bee : reading rituals and book culture in early New England / by Matthew Pentland Brown.
Call Number: Z1003.3.N4 B76 2007
Practice of piety : Puritan devotional disciplines in seventeenth-century New England / by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe
Call Number: BV4490.H3 1982
Saints and strangers : New England in British North America / by Joseph A. Conforti.
Call Number: ebrary F7.C74 2006
Separating church and state : Roger Williams and religious liberty / by Timothy L. Hall.
Call Number: KF4783.H35 1998
To live ancient lives : the primitivist dimension in Puritanism / by Theodore Dwight Bozeman.
Call Number: F7.B75 1988
Under the cope of heaven: religion, society, and politics in colonial America / by Patricia Bonomi
Call Number: ebrary P37 .B66 2003 (also Ebsco)
Visible saints : the history of a Puritan idea / by Edmund S. Morgan.
Call Number: BX9322.M6
Women and religion in early America, 1600-1850: the Puritan and evangelical traditions / by Marilyn J. Westerkamp.
Call Number: ebrary BR520 .W47 1999
Worlds of wonder, days of judgment : popular religious belief in early New England / by David D. Hall.
Call Number: BR530.H35 1989

Revolution and Early Nation

America's God : from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln / by Mark A. Noll
Call Number: BT30.U6 N65 2002
Awash in a sea of faith : Christianizing the American people / by Jon Butler
Call Number: BL2525.B87 1990
Broken covenant : American civil religion in time of trial / by Robert Neelly Bellah.
Call Number: E169.1.B435
Christians in the American Revolution / by Mark A. Noll
Call Number: E209.N64
Establishment clause : religion and the First Amendment / by Leonard Williams Levy
Call Number: KF4783.L48 1986
Faith of the founders : religion and the new nation, 1776-1826 / by Edwin S. Gaustad
Call Number: BR520.G198 2004
First liberty : religion and the American republic / by William Lee Miller
Call Number: BR516.M545 1988
Fourth R: conflicts over religion in America's public schools / by Joan DelFattore
Call Number: LC111.D43 2004
God of liberty : a religious history of the American Revolution / by Thomas S. Kidd
Call Number: BR520.K53 2010 (also ebrary)
Lustre of our country : the American experience of religious freedom / by John T. Noonan.
Call Number: Ebsco BR516.N59 1998
Neither king nor prelate : religion and the new nation, 1776-1826 / by Edwin S. Gaustad
Call Number: BR516.G36 1993
Preaching politics : the religious rhetoric of George Whitefield and the founding of a new nation / by Jerome Dean Mahaffey
Call Number: ebrary BX9225.W4 M34 2007 (also Ebsco)

Early Republic

Citizens of Zion: the social origins of camp meeting revivalism / by Ellen Eslinger
Call Number: BV3798.E75 1999
Cradle of the middle class: the family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 / by Mary P. Ryan.
Call Number: HQ555.N7 R9
Democratization of American Christianity / by Nathan O. Hatch.
Call Number: BR525.H37 1989
Disappointed : Millerism and Millenarianism in the nineteenth century / by Ronald L. Numbers.
Call Number: BX6115.D57 1987
Evangelicals and politics in antebellum America / by Richard Carwardine.
Call Number: BR1642.U5 C378 1997
From Jamestown to Jefferson: the evolution of religious freedom in Virginia / by Paul Rasor and Richard E. Bond, editors
Call Number: ebrary BR555 .V8 F76 2011
God and Mammon : Protestants, money, and the market, 1790-1860 / by Mark A. Noll.
Call Number: BR525.G63 2002 (also ebrary and Ebsco)
Great Revival [computer file] : beginnings of the Bible belt / by John B. Boles
Call Number: Ebsco BV3773.B65 1996
Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life / by Joan D. Hedrick.
Call Number: PS2956.H43 1994
Politics of domesticity : women, evangelism, and temperance in nineteenth-century America / by Barbara Epstein
Call Number: HQ1423.E67
Prophetess of health : Ellen G. White and the origins of Seventh-Day Adventist health reform / by Ronald L. Numbers.
Call Number: BX6193.W5 N85 1992
Protestants in an age of science : the Baconian ideal and ante-bellum American religious thought / by Theodore Dwight Bozeman.
Call Number: BL245.B7 (also ebrary)
Restless visionaries [computer file] : the social roots of antebellum reform in Alabama and Michigan / by John W. Quist.
Call Number: Ebsco HN79.A42 T876 1998
Shopkeeper's millennium : society and revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 / by Paul E. Johnson.
Call Number: BV3775.R62 J63 1978
Slavery and sin: the fight against slavery and the rise of liberal Protestantism / by Molly Oshatz
Call Number: BR525 .O84 2012

Civil War

Awaiting the heavenly country: the Civil War and America's culture of death / by Mark S. Schantz.
Call Number: ebrary E468.9.S33 2008
Broken churches, broken nation: denominational schisms and the coming of the American Civil War / by C.C. Goen.
Call Number: BR525.G56 1985
Civil War as a theological crisis / by Mark Noll.
Call Number: ebrary E468.9.N65 2006
God's almost chosen peoples: a religious history of the American Civil War / by George C. Rable
Call Number: ebrary E635.R33 2010
Religion and the American Civil War / by edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson.
Call Number: Ebsco E468.9.R46 1998
Rock in a weary land : the African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction / by Clarence E. Walker
Call Number: BX8443.W27 1982
Slavery, Civil War, and salvation: African American slaves and Christianity, 1830-1870 / by Daniel L. Fountain.
Call Number: ebrary E443 .F68 2010
This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War / by Drew Gilpin Faust
Call Number: E468.9.F385 2008

Gilded Age / Progressive Era

Age of social responsibility : the social gospel in the progressive era, 1900-1920 / by Donald K. Gorrell.
Call Number: BT738.G64 1988
Consuming faith: the social gospel and modern American culture / by Susan Curtis
Call Number: BR525.C87 1991
Darwinism and the divine in America : Protestant intellectuals and organic evolution, 1859-1900 / by Jon H. Roberts.
Call Number: BT712.R63 2001
Errand to the world : American Protestant thought and foreign missions / by William R. Hutchison.
Call Number: BV2410.H87 1987
Frances Willard : a biography / by Ruth Bordin.
Call Number: HV5232.W6 B67 1986
Kingdom is always but coming : a life of Walter Rauschenbusch / by Christopher H. Evans.
Call Number: BX6495.R3 E83 2004
Religious roots of American sociology / by Cecil E. Greek
Call Number: HM22.U5 G74 1992
Social gospel in black and white: American racial reform, 1885-1912 / by Ralph E. Luker.
Call Number: Ebsco E185.61.L85 1991
Taking heaven by storm : Methodism and the rise of popular Christianity in America / by John H. Wigger
Call Number: ebrary BX8236.W44 1998
When all the gods trembled [computer file] : Darwinism, Scopes, and American intellectuals / by Paul Keith Conkin.
Call Number: Ebsco BL245.C66 1998

Contemporary Trends

Act of providence: a history of Houston Baptist University, 1960-2010 / by Don Looser.
Call Number: LD2281.H732 L863 2010
After heaven: spirituality in America since the 1950s / by Robert Wuthnow
Call Number: Ebsco BL2525.W85 1998
Black church in the post-civil rights era / by Anthony B. Pinn
Call Number: BR563.N4 P49 2002
Countercultural conservatives: American evangelicalism from the postwar revival to the new Christian right / by Axel R. Schafer
Call Number: ebrary BR1642.U5 S33 2011
Faith in nature: environmentalism as religious quest / by Thomas R. Dunlap
Call Number: ebrary BL65.N35 D86 2004
Fourth R : conflicts over religion in America's public schools / by Joan DelFattore
Call Number: LC111.D43 2004
God's Own Party: the making of the Christian right / by Daniel K. Williams
Call Number: BR1642.U5 W535 2010
Horizons of the sacred: Mexican traditions in American Catholicism / by Timothy Matovina.
Call Number: BX1407.M48 H67 2002
Modern American religion / by Martin E. Marty.
Call Number: BL2525.M37 1986 vol.1-2
Original sin and everyday Protestants: the thology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an age of anxiety / by Andrew S. Finstuen
Call Number: ebrary BT720.F56 2009
Restructuring of American religion : society and faith since World War II / by Robert Wuthnow
Call Number: BL2525.W88 1988
Sharing the journey : support groups and America's new quest for community / by Robert Wuthnow
Call Number: BL2525.W885 1994
To serve God and Wal-Mart : the making of Christian free enterprise / by Bethany Moreton
Call Number: ebrary HF5429.215.U6 M67 2009
Uneasy in Babylon : Southern Baptist conservatives and American culture / by Barry Hankins.
Call Number: BX6462.3.H36 2002 (also ebrary and Ebsco)

Liberalism and Modernism

Between the times : the travail of the Protestant establishment in America, 1900-1960 / by William R. Hutchison
Call Number: BR526.B47 1989
Church people in the struggle : the National Council of Churches and the Black freedom movement, 1950-1970 / by James F. Findlay
Call Number: Ebsco E185.61.F47 1993
Harry Emerson Fosdick : preacher, pastor, prophet / by Robert Moats Miller
Call Number: ebrary BX6495.F68 M54 1985 (also Ebsco)
Politics of authenticity : liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America / by Douglas C. Rossinow
Call Number: HN90.R3 R64 1998
Presbyterian controversy : fundamentalists, modernists, and moderates / by Bradley J. Longfield
Call Number: BX8937.L65 1991