A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America

A kaleidoscopic American history of extraordinary religious transformations, told through the ordinary people who made them happen.

Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Protestant “city on a hill,” religion has been central to American life. Even as some found religious freedom-Rhode Island welcomed the Quakers, Jews, and Baptists that Massachusetts expelled as dissenters-indigenous people and Africans f...