Edwin Gaustad
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- Bachelors History Oberlin College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edwin Scott Gaustad was a professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. He achieved fame with his study of the genealogy of religion in the United States, Historical atlas of religion in America. The 1972 edition of this work has been used in secular histories of Mainline Protestantism and the Emergent church movement for decades, and his a Religious History of America was a standard text for college students. A graduate of Baylor University and Brown University, Gaustad dedicated his career to sharing his expansive research on religious history. Gaustad was president of the American Society of Church History. Gaustad died March 25, 2011, in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 87.
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- Religion in the Old South (1978) (165)
- Historical Atlas of Religion in America (1962) (139)
- The Religious History of America (1966) (112)
- When in the Course (1995) (87)
- The great awakening in New England (1958) (57)
- Liberty of conscience : Roger Williams in America (1992) (35)
- The Rise of Adventism : religion and society in mid-nineteenth-century America (1975) (30)
- Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson (1996) (28)
- George Berkeley and New World Community (1979) (27)
- Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response (1977) (25)
- A Documentary History of Religion in America (1982) (23)
- Religion in the South. (1987) (21)
- The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation . By Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. vii + 571 pp. $29.50 cloth; $14.95 paper. (1986) (21)
- Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation (1987) (20)
- Religion in America (1954) (18)
- A Documentary History of Religion in America to the Civil War (1983) (11)
- The Story of a New Religious Tradition (1986) (8)
- Dissent in American Religion (2006) (7)
- George Berkeley in America (1959) (7)
- Thomas Jefferson, Religious Freedom, and the Supreme Court (1998) (6)
- Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: A History of Church and State in America (2003) (6)
- Faith of the Founders: Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826 (1987) (6)
- Church and state in America (1998) (5)
- The Improper Bostonian (2006) (5)
- Religion in the South : essays (1985) (5)
- Neither King Nor Prelate: Religion and the New Nation 1776-1826 (1993) (4)
- A Disestablished Society: Origins of the First Amendment (1969) (4)
- Oral Roberts: An American Life. By David Edwin Harrell, Jr. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. xv + 622 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $29.95.) (1986) (4)
- The Divided Heart: Essays on Protestantism and the Enlightenment in America. (1992) (4)
- Religious issues in American history (1968) (4)
- American History, with and without Religion: "...the Whole Truth ... So Help Me God.". (1992) (4)
- The Infidel: Freethought and American Religion . By Martin E. Marty. New York: World Publishing Company (Meridian Books), 1961. 224 pp. $1.45. (1963) (4)
- A Stream of light: A Sesquicentennial History of American Unitarianism. Ed. by Conrad Wright. (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 1975. xiv + 178 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $6.00.) (1976) (4)
- American Piety: The Nature of Religious Commitment . By Rodney Stark and Charles Y. Glock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. xii + 230 pp. $6.75. (1970) (4)
- Early Puritanism in the Southern and Island Colonies. By Babette M. Levy. (Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1960). Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1960. 69, 348 pp. (1961) (3)
- Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 1740–1800. By C. C. Goen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. x, 370 pp. $7.50. (1962) (3)
- Society and the Great Awakening in New England (1954) (3)
- The Great Awakening: The Beginnings of Evangelical Pietism in America@@@The Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and Its Consequences@@@The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745@@@The Great Awakening: Event and Exegesis@@@Religion and the Coming of the Americ (1971) (3)
- Memoirs of the spirit : American religious autobiography from Jonathan Edwards to Maya Angelou (2001) (3)
- Religion in America: History and Historiography (1973) (3)
- Church, State, and Education in Historical Perspective (1984) (2)
- Journals Of Charles Beatty, 1762-1769 (1962) (2)
- Teaching about Religion in the Public Schools: New Ventures in Public Education (1969) (2)
- The American Religious Experience: A Concise History (review) (2007) (2)
- Religion in America. Fifty Years: 1935–1985. By George Gallup, Jr. Princeton, N.J.: Gallup Organization, 1985. 57 pp. n.p. (1987) (2)
- Reason, Ridicule and Religion: The Age of Enlightenment in England, 1660–1750. By John Redwood. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976. 287 pp. $12.00 (1979) (2)
- Consensus in America: The Churches' Changing Role (1968) (2)
- Contending for the Faith: Southern Baptists in New Mexico, 1938-1995 (review) (2003) (2)
- Quakers in Boston, 1656-1964 (1977) (2)
- The American Tract Society documents, 1824-1925 (1972) (2)
- The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial . By Robert N. Bellah. New York: The Seabury Press, 1975. xvi + 173 pp. $7.95. (1976) (2)
- Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American Religious Life. By Winthrop S. Hudson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 447 pp. $7.95 cloth, $3.95 paper (1966) (2)
- Thomas Jefferson, Danbury Baptists, and `Eternal Hostility.' (1999) (1)
- The Lord's Free People in a Free Land: Essays in Baptist History in Honor of Robert A. Baker. Edited by William R. Estep, Jr. Fort Worth: Evans Press, 1976. 198 pp. $6.50 (1978) (1)
- Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court . By John E. Semonche. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. x + 499 pp. $39.95 cloth. (1999) (1)
- Toward a Baptist Identity in the Twenty-First Century (2008) (1)
- Baptist piety: The last will & testimony of Obadiah Holmes (1978) (1)
- Ol' Ark's A-Creakin'@@@American Religious Thought: A History.@@@Dissent in American Religion. (1974) (1)
- Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 1740-1800. By C. C. Goen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. x + 370 pp. $7.50 (1963) (1)
- John Wesley: His Puritan Heritage@@@Francis Asbury (1967) (0)
- The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism. By Thomas S. Kidd. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xi + 213 pp. $40.00 cloth. (2005) (0)
- North and South in American Religious History: Baptists and Beyond (1995) (0)
- Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement . By Morgan Douglas. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. xvi + 269 pp. $32.00 cloth. (2005) (0)
- The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism . By William R. Hutchison. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. xvi + 347 pp. $15.00. (1977) (0)
- Saints and Sectaries: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. By Emery Battis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (for The Institute of Early American History and Culture), 1962. 379 pp. $7.50 (1964) (0)
- American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity by Paul K. Conkin (review) (2016) (0)
- Protestantism and the whole person: an historical perspective. (1979) (0)
- Religion in the American Experience: The Pluralistic Style. Edited by Robert T. Handy. Columbia, S. C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. xxii + 246 pp. $9.95. (1973) (0)
- Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Revivalism. By Sandra S. Sizer. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978. xii + 222 pp. $15.00. (1979) (0)
- The Nation with the Soul of a Church. By Sidney E. Mead. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975, 158pp. np. (2008) (0)
- Jonathan Edwards the Preacher@@@Jonathan Edwards on Evangelism (1959) (0)
- William Penn: Politics and Conscience. By Mary Maples Dunn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. 206 pp. $6.00 (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham William G. McLoughlin, Jr. (1960) (0)
- Religion Before the Revolution (2008) (0)
- Editorial: Barbarians and Memory (1995) (0)
- A Century of Church History: The Legacy of Philip Schaff. Edited by Henry W. Bowden. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. xxii + 375 pp. $37.50. (1989) (0)
- Their Rights and Liberties: The Beginnings of Religious and Political Freedom in Maryland. By Thomas O'Brien Hanley, S. J. Westminster, Maryland: The Newman Press, 1959. 142 pp. $2.75 (1960) (0)
- A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities. By Robert T. Handy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. 282 pp. $7.95 (1972) (0)
- Book Review:Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America Martin E. Marty (1985) (0)
- The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life. By Stephen Gottschalk. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. xxix + 305 pp. Notes and index. $10.00.) (1974) (0)
- Restitution, Revolution, and the American Dream (1976) (0)
- The Democratization of Religion in America: A Commonwealth of Religious Freedom by Design. By Joseph Forcinelli. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. 294 pp. $69.95 (1991) (0)
- Religion and learning at Yale (1958) (0)
- A People among Peoples: Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America. By Sydney V. James. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963. xviii + 405 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $8.00.) (1963) (0)
- Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolution. By Alan Heimert. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. 688 pp. $12.50 (1968) (0)
- jan shipps. Mormonism,: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1985. Pp. xviii, 211. $14.50 (1986) (0)
- Church and State in Historical Perspective: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography. By James E. Wood, Jr. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. 660 pp. $129.95 (2006) (0)
- Defenders of the Faith: Religion and Politics from the Pilgrim Fathers to Ronald Reagan. by Wilbur Edel. New York: Praeger, 1987. 261 pp. $35.95 (1989) (0)
- Slavery and the Churches in Early America, 1619–1819. By Lester B. Scherer. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1975. 163 pp. Notes and index. $5.95.) (1976) (0)
- Book Review:The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy Roger Finke, Rodney Stark (1993) (0)
- Insiders and Outsiders in American Historical Narrative and American History: Comments (1982) (0)
- The Covenant Sealed: The Development of Puritan Sacramental Theology in Old and New England, 1570–1720. By E. Brooks Holifield. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. xi + 248 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $12.50.) (1975) (0)
- The New England Way Made Plaine@@@The Shattered Synthesis: New England Puritanism before the Great Awakening. (1974) (0)
- Wendell Phillips: Brahmin Radical . By Irving H. Bartlett. Boston: Beacon Press, 1962. x, 438 pp. $5.95. (1963) (0)
- Understanding the New Religions. Edited by Jacob Needleman and George Baker. New York, Seabury Press, 1978. 314 pp. $17.50 (1980) (0)
- Leo XIII and the Modern World. Edited by Edward T. Gargan. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1961. 246 pp. $4.50 (1961) (0)
- Inventing the “Great Awakening”. By Frank Lambert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv + 300 pp. $35.00 cloth. (1999) (0)
- The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (review) (2008) (0)
- Charles Chauncy and the Great Awakening: a Survey and Bibliography (1951) (0)
- A History of Philosophy in America. By Elizabeth Flower and Murray G. Murphey. 2 volumes. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Capricorn Books, 1977. xx + 972 pp. $30.00. (1980) (0)
- A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities . By Robert T. Handy. Second edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. xii + 269 pp. $19.95. (1985) (0)
- Historiography of Religion in America@@@Religion in America@@@A Religious History of America (1966) (0)
- AMERICAN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS (1975) (0)
- Necessary Virtue: The Pragmatic Origins of Religious Liberty in New England . By Charles P. Hanson. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1998. x + 278 pp. $35.00 cloth. (2000) (0)
- Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America.@@@Soul Liberty: The Baptists' Struggle in New England, 1630-1833. (1992) (0)
- The Great Awakening in New England@@@George Whitefield: Wayfaring Witness (1958) (0)
- Faith and Understanding in America. By Gustave Weigel, S. J. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. 170 pp. $3.75 (1961) (0)
- The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic . By William Lee Miller. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. viii + 373 pp. $24.95. (1987) (0)
- Church and State Re-Examined: A Baptist View (1962) (0)
- Their Rights and Liberties: The Beginnings of Religious and Political Freedom in Maryland . By Thomas O'Brien Hanley S. J. Westminster, Maryland: The Newman Press, 1959. xv, 142 pp. $2.75. (1961) (0)
- The Geography of American Religion (1962) (0)
- Religion and Public Education. Edited by Theodore R. Sizer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967. 361 pp. $4.50 (1969) (0)
- Broken Churches, Broken Nation . By C. C. Goen. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1985. x + 198 pp. $17.95 cloth; $13.50 paper. (1986) (0)
- Roger Williams and Puritan Radicalism in the English Separatist Tradition . By Hugh Spurgin. Studies in American Religion 34. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. xxi + 177 pp. $39.95. (1992) (0)
- Jared Eliot: Minister, Doctor, Scientist and His Connecticut (1967) (0)
- Bishops by Ballot: An Eighteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Revolution. By Frederick V. Mills, Sr. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. 367 pp. $14.95 (1980) (0)
- New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American Experience . Edited by Gunn Giles. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. xxiii + 464 pp. $19.95. (1983) (0)
- Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 by Martin E. Marty (review) (1997) (0)
- Memoir of John Mason Peck . Edited by Rufus Babcock. (Introduction by Paul M. Harrison.) Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. xciv + 360 pp. $10.00. (1966) (0)
- The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism (2004) (0)
- Reviews of Books:The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History Grant Wacker, Daniel H. Bays (2004) (0)
- The Believer and the Powers That Are: Cases, History, and Other Data Bearing on the Relation of Religion and Government. By John T. Noonan, Jr. (New York: Macmillan, 1987. xvii + 510pp. $35.00.) (1988) (0)
- John Witherspoon: Parson, Politician, Patriot. By Martha Lou Lemmon Stohlman. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976. 176 pages. $2.95 (1978) (0)
- Religion and the American Revolution . Edited by Jerald C. Brauer. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. xi + 73 pp. $2.95. (1978) (0)
- Catholics and the American Revolution . By Charles H. Metzger, S. J. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1962. 306 pp. $5.00. (1963) (0)
- God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America. By E. Brooks Holifield. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. x, 356 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-0381-8.) (2008) (0)
- The Public Role of Baptists in Colonial America (2000) (0)
- Atlas of the Christian Church . Edited by Henry Chadwick and G. R. Evans. Facts on File Atlas Series. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1987. 240 pp. $40.00. (1989) (0)
- CHH volume 67 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1998) (0)
- Religion and Schooling: A Comparative Study. By A. Stafford Clayton. Waltham, Mass.: Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1969. 254 pp. $2.95 paper (1969) (0)
- Henry Alline: 1748–1784. By J. M. Bumsted. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. viii + 116 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $4.50.) (1972) (0)
- New Nation and Aged Patriarch (2006) (0)
- Religion and the Public Order, Number Five: An Annual Review of Church and State, and of Religion, Law, and Society. Edited by Donald A. Giannella. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1969. 260 pp. $5.50 (1970) (0)
- Book Review:Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century Lawrence Foster (1983) (0)
- Review: America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (2005) (0)
- Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America by Richard T. Hughes (review) (1997) (0)
- U. S. Baptists and Modernity: Great Dissenters, Lousy Conformists: Baptists Had Been in North America for Only Five or Six Years before It Was Deemed Necessary to Pass a Law against Them (2001) (0)
- Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faiths, Ideas, Personalities, and Politics 1689–1775. By Carl Bridenbaugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. 354 pp. $7.50 (1964) (0)
- Gary Scott Smith.Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush.:Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush (2008) (0)
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power D. Michael Quinn (1998) (0)
- Nothing is Profane@@@Historical Atlas of Religion in America@@@Religion and the Law: Of Church and State and the Supreme Court@@@Rum, Religion, and Votes: 1928 Re-Examined@@@Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts (1963) (0)
- The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism (review) (2004) (0)
- Public Prayer and the Constitution: A Case Study in Constitutional Interpretation. By Rodney K. Smith. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1987. xv + 305 pp. $35.00.) (1988) (0)
- Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom . By Paul Simon. St. Louis: Concordia, 1964. 150 pp. $3.00. (1965) (0)
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