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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...

either old or young, that was left unconcerned about the great things of the eternal world.… And the work of conversion was carried on in a most astonishing manner, and increased more and more; souls did as it were come by flocks to Jesus Christ. From day to day, for many months together, might be seen evident instances of sinners brought out of darkness into marvelous light.” A Faithful Narrative went on to become perhaps the best-known account of a revival in Christian history, outside of the book
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