Robert Handy is one of the foremost historians of mainstream religion in America and author of A History of the Churches in the U.S. and Canada (1979).
The seventh Foxfire volume??presents traditions of mountain religious heritage,??covering ministers, revivals, baptisms,??gospel-singing, faith healing, camp meetings, snake handling,??and more.
Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety thro
"An English translation, originally published by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1917, of the diary of radical German Pietist Johannes Kelpius (1667-1708). Includes facsimile pages of his prayer bo
