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• Joint winner for Christianity Today Book Awards: History/Biography Category 2012.
• Winner of Winner of the 2012 Christianity Today Book Award in the History/Biography Category.

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This book is an ambitious and highly readable study. Acclaimed by senior scholars in the field, and deservedly so... Intelligent and wide-ranging in scope, yet closely reasoned and elegantly written, this volume will find a home on the shelves of scholars in several disciplines, among them reliion, history, and the social sciences. Howard mananges to stand in the ranks of cultural commentators like Jean Baudrillard. --The Historian

<br> This book is an ambitious and highly readable study. Acclaimed by senior scholars in the field, and deservedly so... Intelligent and wide-ranging in scope, yet closely reasoned and elegantly written, this volume will find a home on the shelves of scholars in several disciplines, among them reliion, history, and the social sciences. Howard mananges to stand in the ranks of cultural commentators like Jean Baudrillard. --The Historian<p><br>

beautifully written, clearly structured, and argued and it contains a mine of material Paul Gifford, Journal of Contemporary Religion Howard has written a remarkable essay in the history of ideas. ... an original contribution, with implications far beyond its original focus for the history and theory of secularization. Timothy Jenkins, Journal of European Studies [an] immensely thoughtful and useful book ... engagingly written in a lucid and accessible style, for which the author should be congratulated. It valuably moves beyond many generations of thought that have eclipsed America from conventional religious history. David Nash, American Historical Review The author expertly demonstrates that Europeans assessment of American religion is not simply negative ... This book is valuable for scholars interested in the intellectual history of the embattled but remarkably resilient secularization thesis. Benjamin L. Hartley, Journal of American History The causes of the religious divide between Europe and America are hotly disputed among social scientists and contemporary historians. By carefully examining European views of America since the late eighteenth century, Thomas Albert Howard is the first scholar to give historical depth to this debate. Everyone interested to find a way through the labyrinth of transatlantic comparisons and prejudice is well advised to read this book. Hartmut Lehmann, Former Director, Max Planck Institute for History and the German Historical Institute This is an excellent, thoughtful, and balanced book. As a historical study with contemporary relevance, it is tightly focused, but gracefully written, with a nice balance struck between theoretical analysis and expository narrative. Howard's ability to navigate the complex political-religious histories of both Europe and the United States gives this book a truly transatlantic perspective. Richard Crane, author of Passion of Israel: Jacques Maritain, Catholic Conscience, and the Holocaust God and the Atlantic is not only a well-researched and wide-ranging study, it is also a timely book that holds out the promise of helping Americans and Europeans understand each other better. It is illuminating to discover how certain contemporary reactions to apparently new developments are actually based on assumptions with deep historical roots. This book deserves to be read well beyond the scholarly world. Timothy Larsen, author of Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England For breadth of research, depth of historical insight, and timeliness of publication, God and the Atlantic is an unusually fine work. Its careful cataloguing of European responses to religion in the United States shows that perspectives from the conservative Right and radical Left share a common rigidity and even sometimes nearly identical judgments. By contrast, European savants who traveled extensively in the United States have sometimes seen things more clearly, and with more nuance, than even America's homegrown observers. The book is a pathbreaking exploration. Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame. Author of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

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Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of History at Gordon College.

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