church history

Lauren Drain describes her experiences in the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, from joining the church at fourteen when her father moved their family to Kansas, to being banished seven years later when she began questioning the church's agenda.

Profiles five Catholic theologians who were born during the Kulturkampf, grew up during the Hitler era, and had a major influence on Catholicism in the English-speaking world.

Describes a year in the life of the monks living in the great monastery of Cluny in medieval France, as seen through the eyes of a young boy who has just joined the monastic order.

Describes the history of Catholicism's rise from an insignificant sect in the early nineteenth-century to America's largest and most influential church.

Presents a study of the religious revival that swept Rochester, New York in the 1830s, looking at the causes of the Protestant movement, and discussing its social, economic, political, and religious consequences.

Chronicles the history of religion in the United States and discusses how religion has influenced the politics, society, and economy of America. Winner of the National Book Award.

Examines the role nuns have played in the building of American society, discussing how they became the nation's first group of independent professional women.

Examines the crusading movement of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and discusses the political, social, economic, and military reasons why efforts to take back the Holy Land for Christendom ultimately failed.

Chronicles the life of seventeenth-century Massachusetts minister Increase Mather, who fought for the original Massachusetts Bay Colony charter, and served as president of Harvard College; also includes a glossary and colonial time line.