| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature. By Tracy Fessenden. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii, 337 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-04963-2.)

Since the 1960s, several generations of religious historians have revised and enriched the historian Perry Miller's influential narrative of the "New England Mind" to show that much besides the severe Calvinism of the colonial Puritans is necessary to understand the religious life of early America. A far richer account of religious history has been the welcome result of those efforts. Thus, if there is a consensus view of American religious history at the start of the twenty-first century, that consensus surely includes nuanced accounts not just of participants in the white Protestant tradition but also of participants in a host of competing religious traditions: Muslims, Catholics, Quakers, Native Americans, African American Christians, Jews, pagans, and many others.

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