American Christianity Today

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.