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Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. By Leigh Eric Schmidt. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xvi, 318 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-674-00303-9.)

We have come to expect great things from Leigh Eric Schmidt, professor of religion at Princeton University, and he does not disappoint in this study. His previous books, Holy Fairs (1989) and Consumer Rites (1995), demonstrated astonishing range and erudition in both religious history and popular culture. Hearing Things, in my judgment, establishes Schmidt as the most creative historian at work today in the field of American religion. . . .

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