The Problem of the History of Religion in America

Half a year before this paper was read before a plenary session of the American Academy of Religion (26 October 1969), the program committee had requested an essay dealing in some comprehensive way with the field of American religious history. Because I would in any case have to be thinking about th...

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Main Author: Ahlstrom, Sydney E. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1988
In: Church history
Year: 1988, Volume: 57, Issue: S1, Pages: 127-138
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