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America’s Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the post-9/11 world, it is not difficult to see how important religion remains in America and around the globe. An older generation of scholars expected that America and the rest of the Western world was headed inexorably toward secularization and the end of religion. America is undoubtedly secular in many ways, and our constitutional order requires a clear distinction between faith...

he was marrying her for the “glory of God … and for the converting to the true knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, an unbelieving creature, namely Pocahontas.” If the marriage signaled hope for improved English-Powhatan relations, that hope collapsed in 1622. That year, the Powhatans rose up in a concerted attack to destroy the Virginia colony. After the Anglo-Powhatan War, Virginia colonists expressed doubt that the Indians could ever become real Christians. Royal English authorities took over the
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