Many American Christians believe they belong to the most persecuted religious community in the world. This book provides a historical account of this way of ima

Many American Christians have come to understand their relationship to other Christian denominations and traditions through the lens of religious persecution. T

Martyrs' Mirror examines the folklore of martyrdom among seventeenth-century New England Protestants, exploring how they imagined themselves within biblical and

"Bellah is a sociologist with a grand vision of history, deeply concerned with the twists and turns of religious values, weaving pre-modern religious thinking i