A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada

Abstract

I: Beginnings -- European expansion and Catholic settlement -- The English re formation and the Puritans -- Other beginnings -- II: Americanization -- A renewal of piety, 1700-1750 -- The churches in the revolution -- The revolution in the churches -- III: The "Protestant century" -- Evangelical mobilization -- "Outsiders" -- "Evangelical America," 1800-1865 -- His dominion: "Christian Canada" -- The last years of "Protestant America," 1865-1918 -- IV: The emergence of religious pluralism -- The Civil War -- Non-white, non-Protestant -- Protestantism shaken -- Legacies of "Christian America" -- V: Wilderness once again? -- Turbulent decades -- Trends -- Communities -- Personalities, leaders, exemplars -- American Christianity, Christianity in America.