Suggestions for Further Reading:

Many Centers Meeting

Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Billington, Ray Allen. The Protestant Crusade, 1800 -- 1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism. 1938. Reprint. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964.

Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Religion in North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Dinnerstein, Leonard, ed. Antisemitism in the United States. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961.

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966.

Franchot, Jenny. Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Gaustad, Edwin Scott. A Religious History of America. Rev. [3d] ed. San Francisco: Harper R Row, 1990.

Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951.

Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860 -- 1925. 2d ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Hudson, Winthrop S., and Corrigan, John. Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American Religious Life. 5th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Hunter, James Davison. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: Basic Books, 1991.

Lippy, Charles H., and Williams, Peter W., eds. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1988.

Marty, Martin E. Modem American Religion. Vol. 1, The Irony of It All, 1893 -- 1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

_____. Modern American Religion. Vol. 2, The Noise of Conflict, 1919 -- 1941. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

_____. Modern American Religion. Vol. 3, Under God Indivisible, 1941 -- 1960. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

_____. A Nation of Behavers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

_____. The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good. The Johanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture on American Civilization and Government. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997,

_____. Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

_____. Religion and Republic: The American Circumstance. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Moore, R. Laurence. Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Roof, Wade Clark, and McKinney, William. American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Williams, Peter W. America's Religions: Traditions and Cultures. New York: Macmillan, 1990.

_____. Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective. Rev. ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.