New Directions in American Religious History Book

	Introduction	3
1	Studies of Religion in American Society: The State of the Art	15
2	Narrating Puritanism	51
3	"Christianizing the South" - Sketching a Synthesis	84
4	"As Canadian as Possible Under the Circumstances": Reflections on the Study of Protestantism in North America	116
5	God's Designs: The Literature of the Colonial Revivals of Religion, 1735-1760	141
6	Religion and the American Revolution	173
7	Protestantism, Voluntarism, and Personal Identity in Antebellum America	206
8	Ethnicity and American Protestants: Collective Identity in the Mainstream	239
9	Protestants and Economic Behavior	260
10	Protestant Success in the New American City, 1870-1920: The Anxious Secrets of Rev. Walter Laidlaw, Ph.D.	296
11	The Spirit and the Flesh: Gender, Language, and Sexuality in American Protestantism	334
12	From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions Since World War II	362
13	Experience and Explanation in Twentieth-Century American Religious History	394
14	On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Margins, Center, and Bridges in African American Religious History	417
15	Recent American Catholic Historiography: New Directions in Religious History	445
16	Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Public Culture in the Twentieth Century	462
17	Later Stages of the Recovery of American Religious History	487