Religious Studies

The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists

(1980)

The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791–1850

(1987)

The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, 1639–1723

(1988)

Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts

(1991)

The Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-Physicians of Colonial New England

(1991)

The Protestant Evangelical Awakening

(1992)

The Profane, the Civil, and the Godly:The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679–1749

(1994)

A Preface to Theology

(1996)

Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845

(1998)

A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy

(2001)

Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century

(2002)

Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880

(2004)

Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

(2005)

The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism

(2006)

A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion

(2007)

A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic

(2008)

The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America

(2008)

The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication, 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography

(2009)

Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America

(2010)

American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World

(2011)

Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846

(2013)

Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England

(2013)

A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life

(2014)

Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography

(2014)

Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution

(2015)

Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture

(2016)

Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England

(2017)

Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War

(2018)

Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America

(2019)

Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada

(2019)

Speaking with the Dead in Early America

(2019)

The Puritans: A Transatlantic History

(2019)

Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism

(2020)

The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America

(2021)
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