A rich collection of first-person renderings that both enhances and challenges traditional narratives of American religious life.

Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed f

Benjamin Valentin is professor of theology and culture at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. --Book Jacket.

Beginning in the 1840s and continuing until his death, Dr. Asa Fitch (1809-1878) of Salem, NY, interviewed elderly neighbors, questioning them about the time of