cover image The Democratization of American Christianity

The Democratization of American Christianity

Nathan O. Hatch. Yale University Press, $23 (326pp) ISBN 978-0-300-05060-8

Hatch examines the Christian movement, the Methodists, the Baptists, the black churches and the Mormons in early America to show how powerful influence was often exerted by common people, thanks to the democratization of religion. (May)