This anthology offers a fascinating entry in the study of American religious experience during the past three centuries. Compiled and edited by a foremost historian of American religion, these twenty-six spiritual autobiographies uniquely capture the nation's soul in the words of the people who helped shape it.Spiritual autobiographies by: Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen, Peter Cartwright, Orestes Brownson, Frederick Douglass, Isaac Mayer Wise, Black Elk, Harry Emerson Fosdick, John LaFarge, Mary Antin, Reinhold Niebuhr, Pararnahansa Yogananda, Benjamin E. Mays, Dorothy Day, Mary McCarthy, Virginia Sorenson, Thomas Merton, Alan Watts, Billy Graham, Jimmy Carter, William E. Buckley Jr., Maya Angelou, Barbara G. Harrison, and Richard Rodriguez.
