In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield explores the long intertwining of religion and co...

Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound im...

Healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Jes...

Protestants have been the dominant religious group since the colonial period, and they remain a v...

This introductory textbook describes and compares six religious traditions - Native American, Chr...

American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days...

The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American ...

Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian his...

Amanda Porterfield documents the claim that for Puritan men and women alike the ideals of selfhoo...

'Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in...

Religious diversity is more prolific and wide-ranging in the United States than in any other coun...

After the Reformation, Christians found themselves living amidst wars of religion, Enlightenment,...

Religious diversity is more prolific and wide-ranging in the United States than in any other coun...

Throughout the history of the United States, religion contributed both to forces of diversity, fr...