Sometimes a chart really helps! Check out the ARDA's "Family Trees for American Religions" for a list of family-tree style charts showing how each of today's modern denominations came to be.
Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States
by
American Christianities : a history of dominance and diversity
by
Encyclopedia of American Religions
by
Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion
by
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America
by
Encyclopedia of American Religious History
by
Dictionary of Christianity in America
by
American Church History : a reader
by
A Documentary History of Religion in America To 1877
by
New Historical Atlas of Religion in America
by
The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America
by
The Churching of America, 1776-2005 : Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy
by
American Christianities : a history of dominance and diversity
by
Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States
by
The Religious History of American Women
by
African American Religious History : A Documentary Witness
by
God of Liberty : A Religious History of the American Revolution
by
The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800 : : the shaping of an evangelical culture
by
Jesus Is Female : Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America
by
Colonial Presbyterianism : : Old Faith in a New Land: Commemorating the 300th Anniversary of the First Presbytery in America
by
Taking Heaven by Storm : Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America
by
Slavery and Sin : The Fight against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism
by
Slave Religion : The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South
by
Beyond the Pulpit Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press
by
Standing Against the Whirlwind : Evangelical Episcopalians in Nineteenth-Century America
by
The Universalist movement in America, 1770-1880
by
The Nativist Movement in America : Religious Conflict in the 19th Century
by
Slavery and the Meetinghouse : The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865
by
New Territories, New Perspectives : The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase
LDS in the USA : Mormonism and the making of American culture
by
Black Print Unbound : The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
by
After Redemption : Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915
by
Righteous Indignation : Religion and the Populist Revolution
by
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
by
American Heathens : religion, race, and reconstruction in California
by
Holy Jumpers : Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America
by
The Church Confronts Modernity : Catholic intellectuals and the progressive era
by
In the Beginning : Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
by
American Genesis : The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation Science
by
Intelligently Designed : How Creationists Built the Campaign Against Evolution
by
The Life of Prayer in a World of Science : Protestants, Prayer, and American Culture, 1870-1930
by
Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975
by
The Voice of Conscience : The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by
Breaking White Supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
by
From Reconciliation to Revolution : The Student Interracial Ministry, Liberal Christianity, and the Civil Rights Movement
by
Going South : Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement
by
Embattled Ecumenism : The National Council of Churches, the Vietnam War, and the Trials of the Protestant Left
by
Kingdom to Commune : Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era
by
Selma to Saigon : The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War
by
The Spirit of Vatican II : A History of Catholic Reform in America
by
Mass Exodus : Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II
by
The Structure of Theological Revolutions : How the Fight Over Birth Control Transformed American Catholicism
by
Protestant-Catholic Relations in America : World War I Through Vatican II.
by
Onward Christian Soldiers? : The Religious Right in American Politics
by
God Hates : Westboro Baptist Church, American nationalism, and the religious right
by
Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right
by
If you would like to suggest the purchase of a book related to this topic that BU Libraries does not yet own, please fill out our Book Suggestion form.
If there is a book in BU Libraries that you would like us to highlight on this guide, please reach out to sthlib@bu.edu to let us know!
