These works have been used at some point in the construction of this web-site and of the course that the web-site is intended to complement.
Ahlstrom, Sydney E, and David D Hall. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Albanese, Catherine L. America, Religions and Religion. Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth Pub. Co, 1992.
Finke, Roger, and Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-2005 : Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
A new approach to American religious history -- The Colonial era revisited -- The upstart sects win America, 1778-1850 -- The coming of the Catholics, 1850-1926 -- Methodists transformed, Baptists triumphant -- Why unification efforts fail -- Why "mainline" denominations decline
Fogel, Robert William. The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Gaustad, Edwin S, and Leigh Eric Schmidt. The Religious History of America. [San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002.
Gaustad, Edwin Scott. Historical Atlas of Religion in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Herberg, Will. Protestant, Catholic, Jew; an Essay in American Religious Sociology. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday. 1955.
A classic work of religious sociology. Herberg identified three main religions in American society,
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. 1902.
This book is regarded as one of the major philosophical discussions of religion; it iis available as an electronic text from Gutenberg, and Michael E. Nielsen, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology at Georgia Southern University has a large web-sitge devoted to it at http://www.psywww.com/psyrelig/james/toc.htm.
Jones, Maldwyn Allen. The Limits of Liberty : American History, 1607-1992. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Wills, Garry. Under God : Religion and American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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(The Pew Forum presents itself as a non-partisan organization that studies the interaction of religion and politics in the US.)
Pew Forum. Public Divided on Origins of Life. 2005. http://http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=115.
Results of polls and surveys on the relations of religion and politics and on the public's views on evolution, "intelligent design", etc.
Pew Forum. The Biology Wars: The Religion, Science and Education Controversy. 2005. http://http://pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=93.
Transcript of an "event", in which Edward Larson, author of "Summer for the Gods", discusses some features of the controversy over religion and science in public education today.
Ruse, Michael. Creationism. http://http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2003/entries/creationism/.
This is the official URL for a standard version (2003) of an on-line document that almost by definition is constantly evolving :). The most recently updated version is at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/creationism/.