Good Books on Religion & America?

If you're willing to look at fiction and poetry, there is a lot of literature concerning religion, directly or indirectly. "Revelation," by Flannery O'Connor, is a good short story I read recently. "We Have Been Believers," a poem by Margaret Walker, is also good, though it's concerned with race, too. More obvious is the older stuff--sermons and the like, along with some of the 19th Century novels like _The Scarlet Letter_, or Emerson's essays. Do any of these fit what you're looking for?

Someone recommended Harold Bloom's book (I think it's just called "Religion In America"). I guess that's semi-academic, but I'm sure it's very readable.

"Under God," Garry Wills.

For the Catholic part of religion in America, I'd recommend the following:
American Catholic, by Charles Morris
American and Catholic: A Popular History..., by Clyde Crews
The Catholic Experience, by Andrew Greeley
and (perhaps a little more scholarly, but still well written)
The Papacy and the Church in the United States.

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