Confluences: Religion, Health, and Diversity in Missouri

At the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, the South and Midwest, the Ozarks and the Ouachita mountains, the plains and the prairies, America’s religions flow together and are remade. Bringing together experts in religious history, sociology, and medicine, Confluences: Religion, Health, and Diversity in Missouri shows that centuries before the first European colonists arrived at the confluence of the great rivers in what is now Missouri, the region’s indigenous inhabitants li...