| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Religion in America since 1945: A History. By Patrick Allitt. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xviii, 313 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-231-12154-7.)
Despite the fact that the United States remains the most religious of the Western democracies, the history of religion after 1945 remains obscure or unknown to most historians and students. Now that we have (at this writing) a president whose domestic and foreign policies are at least partly (and, many would argue, disturbingly) rooted in his religious convictions, perhaps historians will pay as much attention to religion as they have to the New Left or the civil rights movement—both, by the way, shaped by religion.	1
The author of two previous books on Catholic conservatives and Catholic converts, Patrick Allitt has written a lucid and accessible survey of American religion since 1945. He provides an informative panorama of the shifting religious scene that includes not only Will Herberg's classic trinity of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and others.	. . .

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