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A religious history of the American people

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YALE University Press, 2004 - 1192 pages
This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century’s choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.
Praise for the earlier edition:
“An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language.”—B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World

“The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition.”—Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review

“An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor.”—America

“The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority.”—Christianity Today

“No one writing or thinking hereafter about America’s past will be able to ignore Ahlstrom’s magisterial account of the religious element.”—American Historical Review

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Review: A Religious History of the American People

User Review  - Eric Lazarian - Goodreads

From my 2008 Amazon Review: The finest single volume work on American religious history December 18, 2003 By Eric Lazarian "New England Calvinist" I cannot praise this work enough. The time invested ... Read full review

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User Review  - Rick - Goodreads

At about 1100 pages, this book is loaded with information. I simply ran out of steam at about 400 pages, which only got me up to about the early nineteenth century. Read full review

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Sydney E. Ahlstrom A Religious History of the American People ...
The 1973 National Book Award review for Sydney Ahlstrom's A Religious History of the American People observed that the book was "no survey, but a saga. ...
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JSTOR: A Religious History of the American People
A Religious History of the American People. By SYDNEY E. AHLSTROM (New Haven and London: Yale up, I972. ?7.95). To say that this formidable offering by ...
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Integrating the Issue of Race into the History of Christianity in ...
Integrating the Issue of Race into the History of Christianity in America: An Essay-Review of Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People ...
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Sydney E. Ahlstrom: A Religious History of the American People. Author: Quadrio, Philip1. Source: Journal of Religious History, Volume 30, Number 2, ...
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Thomas A. Tweed - Religion and the American Nation: Historiography ...
... century to the publication of Sydney Ahlstrom's A Religious History of the American People (1972), which served as "the culmination of an era" (p. 28). ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ catholic_historical_review/ v090/ 90.2tweed.html

H-Net Review: Erin A. Smith on Religion and the American Nation ...
The movement culminates in and--in turn--is undermined by Sydney Ahlstrom's magisterial 1160-page A Religious History of the American People (1972), ...
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250 journal of religious history David Pecotic
Sydney E. Ahlstrom: A Religious History of the American People, 2d ed. New. Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. This is an immense and immensely interesting ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/ doi/ pdf/ 10.1111/ j.1467-9809.2006.00468.x

H-Net Review: Jeffrey Marlett <marlettj@mail.strose.edu> on ...
For roughly twenty years Sydney Ahlstrom's A Religious History of the American People has stood as the reigning study. However, Peter Williams writes, ...
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Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People ...
Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. American Jewish Historical Society. ...
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About the author (2004)

SYDNEY E. AHLSTROM, an eminent scholar of the history of religious thought in America, taught at Yale University for more than thirty years and held the Samuel Knight Chair in American History and Modern Religious History at the time of his death in 1984.

David D. Hall is professor of American religious history at Harvard Divinity School.

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