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Canada and the United States



Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss, editors. Religious Diversity and American Religious History: Studies in Traditions and Cultures. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1997. Pp. xviii, 305. Cloth $55.00, paper $25.00.

This collection of essays, edited by Walter H. Conser, Jr., and Sumner B. Twiss, is yet another of a proliferating number of collections of writings on the subject of religion in the United States, but it is a worthy one. This book originated as the proceedings of a 1994 conference at Brown University in honor of the memory of William G. McLoughlin, one of the giants of the field of American religious history of an earlier generation who, in his own career, made the transition from a focus on Euro-American Protestantism to Native American (in this case, Cherokee) religious studies. The proceedings of that conference metamorphosed into these essays, each of which deals with a major area of American religious history divided along lines of major religious traditions, race and ethnicity, regionalism, and gender. The authors are recognized and respected scholars, and all of their contributions are well worth perusing. . . .


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