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- 1 Christendom and American Origins - 2 Religion and the American Revolution - 3 The Age of Democratic Revivals - 4 Protestant and Progressive America: 1860-1917 - 5 Pluralistic America: 1860-1917 - 6 Keeping the Faith in Modern Times - 7 A Return to Faith and the Quest for Consensus: 1941-63 - 8 The 1960s and Their Legacy-A Fragmented Nation in Search of a Soul - 9 The Twenty-First Century

While Americans still profess to be one of the most religious people in the industrialized world, many aspects of American culture have long been secular and materialistic. That is just one of the many paradoxes, contradictions, and surprises in the relationship between Christianity and American culture. In this book George Marsden, a leading historian of American Christianity and award-winning author, tells the story of that relationship in a concise and thought-provoking way. Surveying the history of religion and American culture from the days of the earliest European settlers right up through the elections of 2016, Marsden offers the kind of historically and religiously informed scholarship that has made him one of the nation’s most respected and decorated historians. Students in the classroom and history readers of all ages will benefit from engaging with the story Marsden tells.