Religion and Public Life in the Midwest

Philip Barlow is Professor of Theological Studies at Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana. His most recent book is the New Historical Atlas of Religion in America, co-authored with Edwin Scott Gaustad. Mark Silk is the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in the Public Life and adjunct associate professor of religion at Trinity College. Silk is the author of Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America and Spiritual Politics: Religion and American Society Since World War II.

• 1 Midwest Demography: America Writ Small? 2 Protestants: An Enduring Methodist Thing 3 The Lutheran Difference: What More Than Nice? 4 A Different Breed of Catholics 5 Religion and Recent Immigrants: New Ferment in American Civic Life 6 Chicago: Religion in the City on the Make 7 Religion and Place: Urban, Rural, and Suburban Forms of Religious Expression 8 Overview

Finally we have a start, a book on midwestern religion. If this relatively slim volume contrasts with the mountain of books on religion in the South, including an encyclopedia and a brand new book on essays, it ought to serve as a spur to more efforts.