Is the United States a Christian nation?

When Europeans first explored and colonized North America, they brought generations of religious conflict and a variety of Christianities with them. The Christian faith has flowered in the United States but has become extremely complex.

American Christianity Today gives readers a panoramic view of America's Christians. It makes an excellent text for university courses. In this book, historian Dyron Daughrity clearly and carefully explores a rich array of topics, including:

• Christianity's interaction with politics;

• Evangelicalism (and its complexities);

• Small, rural churches, as well as inner-city ones;

• Popular American pilgrimage sites;

• Christian film and music;

• Women leaders;

• Megachurches;

• Pressing issues of today, including race, civil rights, immigration, abortion, and climate change;

• Roman Catholicism: America's largest denomination;

• Eastern Orthodoxy;

• Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-Day Adventists;

• Youth programs;

• Christian universities;

• The Black church tradition, and

• The rise of the "nones" (those claiming no religion).

As a special feature, this book includes extensive photography that illustrates and supports Daughrity's well-researched chapters, helping readers to reflect on the depth and breadth of American Christianity today.