14 must-read history books like Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular by David A. Hollinger

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Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

By: David A. Hollinger

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious …

If you liked the history plot in Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular by David A. Hollinger , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics

By: Elaine Pagels

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the Nat… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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2. Just After Sunset

By: Stephen King

4.00

Format: 256 pages,

Internationally bestselling author Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories… read more

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3. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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4. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

By: Frances FitzGerald

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A page turner...We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sen… read more

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5. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

By: Edward E. Baptist

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more

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6. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

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"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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8. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

By: Tom Hanks

3.70

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-st… read more

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"Are you a clairvoyant?"

-Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

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9. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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11. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

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  • politics
  • religion
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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12. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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14. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

By: Rainn Wilson

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

**New York Times  Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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15. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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16. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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17. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

By: Russell D. Moore

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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18. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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20. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

By: Christopher Watkin

4.55

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a wa… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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21. Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

By: Galit Atlas

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experie… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End

By: Bart D. Ehrman

4.25

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical schol… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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23. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

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24. Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, pr… read more

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  • politics
  • religion
  • history
  • nonfiction
"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."

-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

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25. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

By: Kwame Alexander

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poet… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in"

-Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

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27. When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation Beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation

By: Andrew Root

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What if the solution for the decline of today's church isn't more money, people, programs, innovati… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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28. The Female Persuasion

By: Meg Wolitzer

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of bei… read more

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"She read with “abandon,"

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"If you want more to do,"

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"Women in powerful positions are never safe from criticism."

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"The human face had too possibilities, and they just kept coming in a fast-moving slide show, one after another."

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

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29. The Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist, and Gay Christians―and the Movement That Pushed Them Out

By: Isaac B. Sharp

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “evangelical”? For many, the answer is “whi… read more

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  • history
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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30. The Bright Sword

By: Lev Grossman

4.06

Format: 673 pages, Hardcover

A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more

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"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

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31. Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

By: David A. Hollinger

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction

16 Top politics books like Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular by David A. Hollinger

Transform Your Habits

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Rough Sleepers

Tracy Kidder

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

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15 Best audiobook books like Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America by Russell D. Moore

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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

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Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

Scot McKnight

4.37

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Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

Jon Ward

4.08

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