Divining America: Religion in American History - Reading List

prepared by Durham County Library staff

To read essays by leading scholars about religion in American history, visit: National Humanities Center’s TeacherServe website . Or, visit the Library of Congress Religion and the Founding of the American Republic website. Selet this list of items available in the North Carolina Collection that are related to Durham churches and religion. And check out the following books from the Durham County Library.

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General history

Religion in America since 1945: a history
Allitt, Patrick
200.973 ALLITT

The religious history of America
Gaustad, Edwin S. and Leigh E. Schmidt
200.973 GAUSTAD

Modern American Religion (3 vols).
Marty, Martin
291.097 MARTY

Pilgrims in their own land: 500 years of religion in America
Marty, Martin
291.097 M

Religion in nineteenth century America
Wacker, Grant
200.973 WACKER

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Deism and the Founding of America

The faiths of the founding fathers
Holmes, David L.
200.973 HOLMES

American gospel: God, the founding fathers, and the making of a nation
Meacham, Jon
322.109 MEACHAM

Founding faith: providence, politics, and the birth of religious freedom in America
Waldman, Steven
323.442 WALDMAN
323.442 W (Books On Disc)

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Puritanism and Dissent in Early America

Religion in colonial America
Butler, Jon
200.973 BUTLER

Puritanism in America, 1620-1750
Emerson, Everett
285.6 E

The Puritans in America: A narrative anthology
Heimert, Alan and Andrew Delbanco (eds.)
285.9 PURI

American Jezebel: the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
LaPlante, Eve
Biography, HUTCHINSON, A.

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Native American Religion in Early America

The spiritual legacy of the American Indian
Brown, Joseph Epes
299.7 B

A Native American theology
Kidwell, Clara Sue, Homer Noley and George E. Tinker
299.7 KIDWELL

The land looks after us: A history of Native American religion
Martin, Joel W.
299.7 MARTIN

Cherokee dance and drama
Speck, Frank and Leonard Bloom
793.31 SPECK

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Mormonism, Polygamy, and the Limits of Religious Freedom

Building the kingdom: a history of Mormons in America
Bushman, Claudia Lauper and Richard Lyman Bushman
289.373 BUSHMAN

Joseph Smith and the beginnings of Mormonism
Bushman Richard L.
289.309 BUSHMAN

Mormons in America
Bushman, Claudia Lauper and Richard Lyman Bushman
289.373 BUSHMAN

History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in North Carolina: with a detailed record of the church in Durham
Draughon, Wallace R.
289.375 DRAUGHTON

Mormon Polygamy: A history
Van Wagoner, Richard S.
289.3 VAN WAGONER

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African American Religion from Emancipation to Jim Crow

The Black church in the African-American experience
Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence H. Mamiya
277.308 LINCOLN

Terror and triumph: the nature of Black religion
Pinn, Anthony B.
200.899 PINN

Canaan Land: a religious history of African Americans
Raboteau, Albert J.
200.899 RABOTEAU

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"The Almighty has His own purposes": Religion in the American Civil War

The origins of proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Irons, Charles F.
241.675 IRONS

Religion and the American Civil War
Miller, Randall M., Harry S. Stout and Charles Reagan Wilson (eds.)
973.778 RELI

The Civil War as a theological crisis
Noll, Mark A.
277.308 NOLL

(on order)
Slave religion: The "invisible institution" in the Antebellum South
Raboteau, Albert J.
299.6 RABOTEAU

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The Scopes Trial

The Scopes trial: a photographic history
Caudill, Edward
345.028 CAUDILL

In the beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes trial, and the making of the antievolution movement
Lienesch, Michael
231.765 LIENESCH

Inherit the wind [videorecording]
FEATURE INHE

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The Rise of Fundamentalism

Revive us again: The reawakening of American Fundamentalism
Carpenter, Joel A.
277.3 CARPENTER

Heaven below: early Pentecostals and American culture
Wacker, Grant
289.94 WACKER

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Religious Freedom and the Needs of Special Children: Kiryas Joel Goes to the Supreme Court

To an unknown God: religious freedom on trial
Epps, Garrett
342.085 EPPS

Between church and state: religion and public education in multicultural America
Fraser, James
379.28 FRASER

Liberty of conscience: in defense of America’s tradition of religious equality
Nussbaum, Martha
323.442 NUSSBAUM

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Intersection of Religion and Politics in the 20th century

God in the White House: a history: how faith shaped the presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
Balmer, Randall
973.099 BALMER

A stone of hope: prophetic religion and the death of Jim Crow
Chappell, David L.
323.119 CHAPPELL

Redeeming America: Piety and politics in the new Christian Right
Lienesch, Michael
261.8 LIENESCH

Faith in the halls of power: how evangelicals joined the American elite
Lindsay, D. Michael
277.308 LINDSAY

With God on our side: The rise of the religious right in America
Martin, William
261.8 MARTIN

Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial period to the present
Noll, Mark A. and Luke E. Harlow (eds.)
322.109 RELI

Last Update: January 5, 2009