General:
Christiano, Kevin. Religious Diversity and Social Change: American Cities, 1890-1906. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 200 Years of U.S. Census Taking: Population and Housing Questions, 1790 - 1990. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1989.
Finke, Roger, and Rodney Stark. The Churching of America: 1776 - 1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Gaustad, Edwin, and Philip Barlow. New Historical Atlas of Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Matlins, Stuart M., Arthur J. Magida, eds. How to Be a Perfect Stranger: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People’s Religious Ceremonies. Woodstock, Vt.: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1996.
University of Pennsylvania Library. "Reference Tools for Religious Studies - Religion in America." <http://www.library.upenn.edu/vanpelt/guides/relstud/relinamerica.html>. November 1999.Faith Traditions:
African American Methodist
Payne, Wardell J., ed. Directory of African American Religious Bodies: A Compendium by the Howard University School of Divinity. 2nd edition. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1995.
Assemblies of God
“The Assemblies of God: The Local Church” and “The Assemblies of God: Our 16 Doctrines.” (pamphlets) Gospel Publishing House.
Baha’i
Esselmont, J.E. Baha’ullah and the New Era. 3rd revised ed. Wilmette, Ill.: Baha’i Publications Trust, 1970.
Faizi, Gloria . The Baha’i Faith—An Introduction. New Delhi, India: Baha’i Publications Trust, 1988.
The Proofs of Bahua’u’llah’s Mission: A Compilation from Baha’i Sacred Writings. Riviera Beach, Fla.: Palabra Publications, 1994.
Baptist
McBeth, Leon. A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1970.
Hays, Brooks, and John E. Steely. The Baptist Way of Life. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1993.
Buddhism
Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America. 3rd ed. Boston.: Shamhala Publications, 1992.
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Niklaus, Robert L., John S. Sawin, and Samuel J. Stoesz. All for Jesus. Camp Hill, Penn.: Christian Publication, Inc., 1986.
Niklaus, Robert L. To All Peoples. Camp Hill, Penn.: Christian Publication, Inc., 1980.
Bailey, Keith. The Best of A.B. Simpson. Camp Hill, Penn.: Christian Publication, Inc., 1987.
Tozer, A.W. The Pursuit of God. Camp Hill, Penn.: Christian Publication, Inc., 1948.
The Christian Congregation
Bedell, Kenneth B. The 1995 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches., Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist)
Eddy, Mary Baker. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Boston: Christian Science Board of Directors, 1994.
Christian Science: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Materials. Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society, 1990.
Church of the Brethren
Church of the Brethren: Another Way of Living and There Am I in the Midst of Them, pamphlets available through the Church of the Brethren General Offices.
Decter, Joan. Who Love These Brethren. Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Press, 1995.
For All Who Minister: A Worship Manual for the Church of the Brethren. Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Press, 1992.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ballard, M. Russell. Our Search for Happiness. Salt Lake City: Deseret Books, 1993.
The Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Doctrine of Covenants. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Pearl of Great Price. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Church of the Nazarene
The Manual of the Church of the Nazarene.
Disciples of Christ
Cummins, D. Duane. Handbook for Today’s Disciples. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1991.
Watkins, Keith, ed. Thankful Praise. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1987.
Episcopalian
Adams, James R. So You Think You’re Not Religious. Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley, 1989.
Booty, John. What Makes Us Episcopalians. New York: Moorehouse, 1982.
Evangelical Free Church of America
McDill, Thomas. A Living Legacy. Minneapolis: Free Church Press, 1964.
Olson, Arnold T. Believers Only. Minneapolis: Free Church Press, 1964.
Olson, Arnold T. This We Believe. Minneapolis: Free Church Press, 1961.
This is the Evangelical Free Church of America, pamphlet published by the Evangelical Free Church of America.
Greek Orthodox
Ware, Bishop Kalistos. The Greek Orthodox Church. New York: Penguin Books, 1980.
Hindu
Bhaskarananda, Swami. The Essentials of Hinduism. Seattle: Viveka Press, 1994.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
Burgess, Stanley M., Gary B. McGee, and Patrick H. Alexander. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988.
Van Cleave, Nathan. The Vine: The Branches. Los Angeles: International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, 1992.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church
The International Pentecostal Holiness Church Manual, 1993-1997. Franklin Springs, Ga.: Life Springs Resources, 1993.
Beacham, A.D. Jr. A Brief History of the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Franklin Springs, Ga.: Life Springs Resources, 1993.
Synan, Vinson. The Holiness Pentecostal Movement in the United States. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Col, IN. 1971.
Campbell, Joseph E. The Pentecostal Holiness Church. Franklin Springs, Ga.: The Publishing House of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1951.
Burgess, Stanley M., Gary B. McGee, and Patrick H. Alexander. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988.
Islam
Esposito, John L. Islam: The Straight Path. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
The Quran, Yusuf Ali, trans.
Jehovah’s Witness
“Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Twentieth Century.” Brooklyn: The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., 1989.
“Jehovah’s Witnesses Unitedly Doing god’s Will Worldwide.” Brooklyn: The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., 1986.
Jewish
Gillman, Neil. Conservative Judaism: The New Century. West Orange, N.J.: Behrman House, Inc., 1993.
Kertzer, Morris N. What Is a Jew? New York: Collier Books, 1993.
Kushner, Harold. To Life!: A Celebration of Jewish Being & Thinking. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
Staub, Jacob, and Rebecca Alpert. Exploring Judaism. Philadelphia: Reconstructionist Press, 1994.
Syme, Daniel B. The Jewish Home. New York: UAHC Press, 1988.
Wouk, Herman. This Is My God: The Jewish Way of Life. New York: Pocket Books, 1974.
Lutheran
Precht, Fred L., ed. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1993.
Luther, Martin. The Small Catechism. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1912.
Nelson, E. Clifford, ed. The Lutherans in North America. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.
Mennonite
Dyck, Cornelius J. An Introduction to Mennonite History. Scottsdale, Penn.: Hearlad Press, 1993.
Fahrer, Walfred J. Building on the Rock. Scottsdale, Penn.: Herald Press, 1995.
Smith, C. Henry. Smith’s Story of the Mennonites. Newton, Kan.: Faith and Life, 1981.
Wiebe, Katie. Who Are the Mennonite Brethren? Hillsboro, Kan.: Kindred Press, 1984.
Methodist
Hickman, Hoyt. United Methodist Worship. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.
Native American
Deloria, Vine Jr. God is Red: A Native View of Religion. Golden, Col.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1994.
Hultkrantz, Ake. Native Religions of North America. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
Sullivan, Lawrence E., ed. Native American Religions: North America. New York: Macmillan, 1989.
Vecsey, Christopher. Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co., 1991.
Orthodox Churches
Hopko, Thomas. The Orthodox Church, 4 vols. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir Seminary Press, 1976.
Pederson, Duane, ed. Orthodox Christian Catechism. 2 vols. Hollywood: Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry, 1996.
The Liturgikon. Englewood, N.J.: Antiochian Archdiocese, 1994.
Ware, Bishop Kalistos. The Greek Orthodox Church. New York: Penguin Books, 1980.
Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. London: Penguin Books, 1993.
Pentecostal Church of God
Burgess, Stanley M., Gary B. McGee, and Patrick H. Alexander. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988.
Wilson, Aaron M. Basic Bible Truth. Joplin, Mo.: Messenger Publishing House, 1987.
Presbyterian
Loetscher, Lefferts A. A Brief History of the Presbyterians. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1983.
Quaker
Brinton, Howard. Guide to Quaker Practice. Wallingford, Penn.: Pendle Hill, 1993.
Brinton, Howard. Friends for 300 Years: The History and Beliefs of the Society of Friends Since George Fox Started the Quaker Movement. Wallingford, Penn.: Pendle Hill, 1964.
Kimball, Beatrice, and Joyce Holden. The Dictionary of Friends Terms. Richmond, In.: Friends United Press, 1986.
Steere, Douglas V., ed. Quaker Spirituality: Selected Writings. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1984.
Reformed Church in America
Hageman, Howard G. Reformed Church. New York: Reformed Church Press, 1993.
Roman Catholic
The Catechism of the Catholic Church. New York: Liguori Publications, 1994.
Seventh-day Adventist
Seventh-day Adventists Believe. Washington, D.C.: Ministerial Association, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, 1988.
Sikh
Bhai Shaiba Dr. Inderjit Kaur. Victory and Virtue Ceremonies and Code of Conduct of Sikh Dharma. Espanola, N.M.: Golden Temple Enterprises, 1995.
Duggal, K.S. Philosophy and Faith of Sikhism. Honesdale, Penn.: Himalayan Publishers, 1973.
Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa. Kundalini Yoga. The Flow of Eternal Power. Ancient Healing Ways. Espanola, N.M.: 1996.
Macauliffe, Arthur. The Sikh Religion. 6 vols. Espanola, N.M.: Golden Temple Enterprises, 1990.
Unitarian Universalist
Buehren, John A., and F. Forrester Church. Our Chosen Faith. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
Schulz, William F., ed. Pocket Guide to Unitarian Universalism. Boston: Skinner House Books, 1993.
United Church of Christ
Shinn, Roger L., and Daniel Day Williams. We Believe. Philadelphia: United Church Press, 1966.
Dunn, David, and Lowell H. Zuck. A History of the Evangelical and Reform Church. New York and Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1990.
Wesleyan
Carter, Charles. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit: A Wesleyan Perspective. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1974.
Drury, Keith. Holiness for Ordinary People. Indianapolis: Wesley Press, 1994.
“This We Believe: The Articles of Religion, Membership Commitments, Elementary Principles and Special Directorions of the Wesleyan Church.” Indianapolis: Wesley Press, 1993.
Topics:
Sacred Space
Chidester, David and Edward T. Linenthal, eds. American Sacred Space. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Lane, Belden C. Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.
Lawlor, Anthony. The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture. New York: Putnam, 1994.
Mann, A.T. Sacred Architecture. Rockport, Mass.: Element, 1993.
McLuhan, T.C. Cathedrals of the Spirit: The Message of Sacred Places. New York: Harper Perennial, 1996.
Milne, Courtney. The Sacred Earth. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993.
Park, Chris C. Sacred Worlds: An Introduction to Geography and Religion. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Holm, Jean and John Bowker, eds. Sacred Place. New York: Printer Publishers, 1994.
Scott, Jamie, and Paul Simpson-Housley, eds. Sacred Places and Profane Spaces: Essays in the Geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Sacred Time
Bloch, Abraham P. The Biblical and Historical Background of the Jewish Holy Days. New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1978.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath: Its Meaning For Modern Man. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.
McCormack, Arthur. Christian Initiation. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1969.
Sacred Texts
Buddhist Sutras. Davids, T. W. Rhys, trans. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1973.
Conze, Edward, ed. Buddhist Texts Through the Ages. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.
Craughwell, Thomas J., ed. Every Eye Beholds You: A World Treasury of Prayer. Book-of-the-Month Club, 1998.
Hindu Scriptures. Goodall, Dominic, trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Hindu Scriptures. Zaehner, R.C., trans. New York: Dutton, 1966.
The Laws of Manu. Buhler, G., trans. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1964.
Novak, Philip. The World’s Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World’s Religions. San Francisco, California: Harper San Francisco, 1994.
The Qur’an. Yusuf Ali, trans.
Smart, Ninian and Richard D. Hecht, eds. Sacred Texts of the World: A Universal Anthology. New York: Crossroad, 1982.
The Upanisads. Muller, F. Max, trans. New York: Dover Publications, 1962.
Vedic Hymns. Muller, F. Max, trans. Delhi: Motilal banarsidass, 1973.
Sacred Journey
Bhardwaj, Surinder Mohan. Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
Coleman, Simon. Pilgrimage: Past and Present in the World Religions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Nolan, Mary Lee Christian. Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Peters, F.E. Jerusalem and Mecca: The Typology of the Holy City in the Near East. New York: New York University Press, 1986.
Rinschede, G. and S. M. Bhardwaj, eds. Pilgrimage in the United States. Berline: D. Reimer, 1990.
Morinis, Alan, ed. Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Children’s Titles:
Sacred Space:
Sasso, Sandy. A Prayer for the Earth. Woodstock, Vt.: Jewish Light Pub., 1996.
Wood, Douglas. Old Turtle. Duluth, Mn.: Pfeifer-Hamilton, 1992.
Sacred Time
Chocolate, Deborah M. On the Day I was Born. New York: Newton, Scholastic, 1995.
Frasier, Debra. On the Day You Were Born. San Diego: Brace Harcourt Jovanovich, 1991.
Schwartz, Amy. Mrs. Moscowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks. Philadelphia: Jewish Publishing Society of America, 1983.
Sacred Memory
Gregory, Valistia. Through the Mickle Woods. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.
Newman, Leslea. Remember That. New York: Clarion Books, 1996.
Palacco, Patricia. The Keeping Quilt. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Sacred Journey
Brushac, Joseph. A Boy Called Slo: The True Story of Sitting Bull. New York: Philomel Books, 1994.
Gregory, Valistia. Through the Mickle Woods. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.
Data:
American Religion Data Archive. "Data File Directory." <http://www.thearda.com/datafiles_ix.html>. May 1999.Bradley, M.B., Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center, 1992.
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Census of Religious Bodies, 1906, Part I: Summary and General Tables. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910.
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Census of Religious Bodies, 1906, Part I: Summary and General Tables. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910.
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Census of Religious Bodies, 1916, Part I: Summary and General Tables. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920.
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Census of Religious Bodies, 1926, Part I: Summary and Detailed Tables. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1930.
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Census of Religious Bodies, 1936, Part I: Summary and Detailed Tables. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1940.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970. [Computer file]. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], [197?].
Johnson, D.W., P. Picard, and Bernard Quinn. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1971. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center, 1974.
National Council of Churches. Churches and Church Membership in the Unites States: An Enumeration and Analysis by Counties, States, and Regions, 1952. New York: National Council of Churches, 1956.
Quinn, B., Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting, and Peggy Shriver. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center, 1982.
