<DIV>This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and <I>Christian Century's </I>choice </I>as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.<BR></DIV><DIV>Praise for the earlier edition:<BR></DIV><DIV>?An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language.”?B.A. Weisberger, <I>Washington Post Book World </I><BR><BR>?The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition.”?Martin E. Marty, <I>New York Times Book Review </I><BR><BR>?An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor.”?<I>America</I><BR><BR>?The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority.”?<I>Christianity Today</I><BR><BR>?No one writing or thinking hereafter about America's past will be able to ignore Ahlstrom's magisterial account of the religious element.”?<I>American Historical Review </I></DIV>