LIGION IN AMERICA
"The religious history of the Ameri- can people [is] one of the grandest epics in the history of mankind. The stage is continental in size, and the cast is produced by the largest trans- oceanic migration and the most rapid continental dispersion of people the world has ever seen."
As Sydney E. Ahlstrom proceeds to show in his two-volume A Religious History of the American People (Yale, 1972, cloth; Doubleday, 1975, paper), a traveler making his way from Bos- ton to...