Review:
speaks with authority and verve...thoughful and nuanced...essential reading for all concerned with American religion--James Carroll "American Catholic Studies "
Allitt's book is a splendidly accessible narrative...His historical narrative is remarkably comprehensive, urbane and fair-minded.--David Hempton "Times Literary Supplement "
A lucid, compelling narrative of recent U.S. religious history...Scholars, teachers and students of religion in contemporary America are the fortunate beneficiaries of his noteworthy achievement.--William Vance Trollinger "Journal of Church and State "
This volume, manageable in size and engagingly written, is accessible to the general as well as the specialist reader and will surely find extensive textbook use.--Debra Higgs Strickland "Journal of Religion "
Allitt has written a lucid and accessible survey. Allitt also deserves kudos for devoting considerable space not only to popular religious culture but also to theological developments.--Eugene McCarraher, Villanova University "Journal of American History "
An engaging and easy-to-read text.--Howell Williams "H-Net Reviews "
Allitt presents the main events, trends, and movements within the religious world as well as the connection between religion and the major issues in national life at the time... As a general survey, this one is accurate and readable enough to interest informed readers at many levels.--Library Journal
Allitt has written a very good book about religion in America over the past half century... Allitt reminds his readers just how extraordinary our shared experience has been, and how distressful our diversity.--America Magazine
Patrick Allitt of Emory University has written a very impressive book, Religion in America Since 1945: A History. What has been said about America must also be said about religion in America: it is so vast and various that almost anything said about it is amply supported by the evidence. Unlike too many historians, Allitt understands that the subject of America and the subject of religion in America are not two subjects but one.--First Things
Allitt's work is impressive, providing a learned and engaging narrative of a critical epoch in American religious history.--Religious Studies Review
About the Author:
Patrick Allitt is professor of history at Emory University. He is the author of Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985, Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome, and the editor of Major Problems in American Religious History.
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