RELIGION IN AMERICA unfolds the colorful panorama of American religious life from earliest colonial times to the present:
. . . . the joining of forces by French explorer-adventurers and Jesuit missionaries
. . . . witchcraft hysteria kindled by fear of the supernatural
. . . . the frontier circuit rider
. . . . denominational schisms over the slavery question
. . . . theological debate involved in the Scopes trial
. . . . the influence of theological existentialism
This is a perceptive, lively account of religion as a dynamic force in American life.