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Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival
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America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States
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3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings
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One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History
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3.98 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America
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3.66 avg rating — 240 ratings
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From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
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3.86 avg rating — 3,230 ratings
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
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4.32 avg rating — 772 ratings
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
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4.36 avg rating — 10,046 ratings
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Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground
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A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
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4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights
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Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case (Fire Ant Books)
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church
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4.29 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
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4.24 avg rating — 519 ratings
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I Have a Dream / Letter from Birmingham Jail
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American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country
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4.23 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
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4.18 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't
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3.64 avg rating — 2,257 ratings
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Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States
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3.05 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
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4.19 avg rating — 125 ratings
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America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed a Nation
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3.92 avg rating — 102 ratings
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God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
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3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings
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City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens
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New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
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From Mounds to Megachurches: Georgia's Religious Heritage
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3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
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3.99 avg rating — 13,101 ratings
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All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
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3.76 avg rating — 98 ratings
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White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
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4.42 avg rating — 2,640 ratings
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Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus: The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871-1878
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890
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Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary
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3.79 avg rating — 231 ratings
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The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion
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4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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4.34 avg rating — 2,259 ratings
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A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
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3.90 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Them That Believe: The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition
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3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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3.96 avg rating — 2,601 ratings
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The End of White Christian America
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3.95 avg rating — 1,403 ratings
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When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)
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3.79 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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4.05 avg rating — 887 ratings
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Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman
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3.52 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
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3.97 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century
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Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
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3.99 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
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3.56 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
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Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form
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3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way
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3.81 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
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3.69 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto
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Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
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3.81 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America
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3.46 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
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4.42 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690 - 1990
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Wrestlin' Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country
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The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches
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Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church
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White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands: The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singings, and "Buckwheat Notes"
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Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community
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3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
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3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Spirituals and the Blues
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4.27 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Native Meso-American Spirituality
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4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
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The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash
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4.03 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Spiritual American Trash: Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith
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4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
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3.60 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
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3.93 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The Seeker King: A Spiritual Biography of Elvis Presley
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3.85 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Shaker Spiritual
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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I Would Still Be Drowned in Tears: Spiritualism in Abraham Lincoln's White House
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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books)
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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
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4.49 avg rating — 12,650 ratings
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The Churches of Charleston and the Lowcountry
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Religion of Fear: The True Story of the Church of God of the Union Assembly
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4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
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4.24 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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Burning Faith: Church Arson in the American South
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America
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4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
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3.86 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
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The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870
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3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel: The Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle to Defend the Separation of Church and State
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3.82 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
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4.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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4.04 avg rating — 45,014 ratings
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Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
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4.10 avg rating — 50 ratings
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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
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3.98 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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Mormonism For Beginners
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3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
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3.96 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time
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3.87 avg rating — 150 ratings
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American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation
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3.62 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
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3.95 avg rating — 167 ratings
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America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story
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3.81 avg rating — 636 ratings
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Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong
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3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
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America's Sacred Sites: 50 Faithful Reflections on Our National Monuments and Historic Landmarks
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America
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3.61 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
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3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era
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