Suggestions for Further Reading:

Public Protestantism

Brauer, Jerald C. Images of Religion in America. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1967.

Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Davidson, James West. The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth-Century New England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Hammond, Phillip E. The Protestant Presence in Twentieth-Century America: Religion and Political Culture. SUNY Series in Religion, Culture, and Society. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992

Handy, Robert T. A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Hatch, Nathan O., and Noll, Mark A., eds. The Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Hutchison, William R., ed. Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900 -- 1960. Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Johnson, James Turner, ed. The Bible in American Law, Politics, and Political Rhetoric. The Bible in American Culture. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, and Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985.

Marty, Martin E. Protestantism in the United States: Righteous Empire. 2d ed. New York: Scribner's, 1986.

McLoughlin, William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform. Chicago History of American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Mead, Sidney E. The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Moore, R. Laurence. Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Niebuhr, H. Richard. The Kingdom of God in America. 1937. Reprint. New York: Harper & Row, Harper Torchbooks, 1959.

Phy, Allene Stuart, ed. The Bible and Popular Culture in America. The Bible in American Culture. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, and Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985.

Richey, Russell E., ed. Denominationalism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1977.

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

Sandeen, Ernest R., ed. The Bible and Social Reform. The Bible in American Culture. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, and Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.

Sizer, Sandra S. Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Revivalism. American Civilization Series. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978,

Tuveson, Ernest Lee. Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Tyler, Alice Felt. Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Civil War. 1944. Reprint. New York: Harper & Row, Harper Torchbooks, 1962.

Weber, Timothy P. Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875 -- 1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Wind, James P., and Lewis, James W., eds. American Congregations. Vol. 2: New Perspectives in the Study of Congregations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.