Welcome to Religion in America. We hope that this blog will interest all students of America’s religious history. Whether you are an amateur or professional historian, you should find something of interest. We intend to post book reviews, photo tours of historical sites, and historiographical essays in order to inform you about current topics in American religious history.

For our first series of posts, Lincoln proposed that we each summarize our historical philosophy. As Lincoln and I discussed starting a blog we realized that we had both been engaging fundamental philosophical ideas over the past two years but had yet to compile those late-night wonderings and isolated thoughts into an overarching philosophy of history. Even though our philosophies are not set in stone, airing our philosophies is a useful exercise. It brings into conflict or cohesion ideas that have previously been considered only apart.

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