Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765-1996

Donald C. Swift is a professor of history at Edinboro University of Penn>sylvania. His special interests are American religious, cultural, and social history, and he has worked in a number of interdisciplinary situations.

Introduction 1. Religion in the New Republic 2. Early African American Religion 3. Native American Religion 4. Societal Change and the Second Awakening 5. Women, the Churches, and Empowerment 6. Reform, Political Divisions, and Disunion 7. Postbellum African American Religion 8. Beyond the Mainstream: Immigrants, Nativism, and Cultural Conflict 9. Socioeconomic Change and Politics 10. Fundamentalists Versus Modernists 11. The Contemporary Scene