Inventing American Religion traces the history of polling, examining its powerful rise in supplying information about the nation's faith, chronicling its curren

Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information. Pollsters tell us not only which political candidates will win, but how we ar

Steven K. Green explores the historical record that supports the popular belief about the nation's religious origins, seeking to explain how the ideas of Americ

Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which a