History of Religion in America

Bryan F. Le Beau is retired from the University of Saint Mary, where he served as Professor of History, Provost, and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He is the author of several books on American cultural and religious history.

• Introduction1. The Challenges of Immigration, Growth, and Diversity2. Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Social Gospel, Here and Abroad3. Science Versus Religion: Action and Reaction4. Religion in America between the World Wars5. Religion in Post-World War II America, 1945 to 19606. Religion in an Age of Turmoil – the 1960s and 1970s7. An Equal and Opposite Reaction: Conservative Retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s8. Whither Religion in the Twenty-First Century?Index

"LeBeau's extensive, detailed, and expertly written survey brings a wide knowledge, sympathetic understanding, and critical perspective to American religious history. The volume has particular strengths in the subjects of science and religion, free thought and humanism, and contemporary religious pluralism." Paul Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA"It focuses student and faculty minds on important lessons of history from a particular time in history. Students who already believe that history is “one damn thing after another” are more likely to be able to say some definite things that they learned from the book and consequently the course using these texts as a result." - James Hudnut-Beumler, Vanderbilt University Divinity School