Includes bibliographical references (136-137) and index.

Pt. I. Indigenous American religions, prehistory-present. Northern hunting religions ; Southern agricultural religions ; Ancient Hawaiian religion ; Postcontact revitalization and accomodation -- Pt. II. European Christianity colonizes America, 1500-1867. Spanish Catholic colonization ; French Catholicism in North America ; Russian Orthodoxy colonizes America -- Pt. III. Colonial formations, 1607-1800. The Church of England and colonial America ; Puritanism in New England ; Colonial Presbyterianism ; The rise and fall of Quaker regions ; The rise of the Baptists ; The development of American Methodism ; Lutheran and Reformed groups ; German Sectarians in British America ; Catholicism and Judaism in the colonies ; The Great Awakening -- Pt. IV. Protestant expansion in the nineteenth century. The Second Great Awakening ; The Baptists and Methodists surge ; Missionary outreach ; Restorationism and the Disciples of Christ ; Unitarians and Universalists ; American metaphysical movements ; Communitarian aspirations ; Mormonism ; African-American churches -- Pt. V. World religions and growing pluralism, 1850-present. The growth of American Catholicism ; The development of American Judaism ; Eastern Orthodoxy in America ; Islam in America ; Hinduism and Sikhism in America ; Buddhism in America -- Pt. VI. Religions of the modern age. Fundamentalist Protestantism ; Holiness and Pentecostalism ; Urban African-American religions ; Unificationism, Scientology, and Baha'i -- Epilogue : American religious regions -- Chronology.