American Religion

John T. McGreevy looks at recent scholarship in the oft-neglected and misunderstood role of religion in American history, and discovers a vibrant and fast-developing new sub-field.

John T. McGreevy is the I. A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North (1996) and Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (2003).