- Over 150 essays written by more than 140 expert scholars
- Richly illustrated with images depicting a wide range of religious figures and activities, as well as significant religious sites, in the United States
- An entire volume of primary source documents that captures the reality of religious diversity in American culture, including a copy of Cecil B. DeMille's essay, "The Screen as Religious Teacher" (published in 1927) as well as more conventional materials on Christian Science, the New Age, and Buddhism, to name only a few of the religious traditions covered in this collection

Pentecostalism, Zen, Sufism, Hare Krishnas. Dia de los Muertos, Wicca, roadside shrines, cyberspace. Worship in America is no longer just Protestantism, Catholicism, or Judaism. Today 96 percent of Americans believe in a higher power, yet less than 40 percent attend a weekly service. What, then, are our religious beliefs? Religion and American Cultures offers an unusual and engrossing journey across our country's religious landscape, past and present. A new spirit of religious diversity and multiculturalism stands alongside traditional institutions in this exhaustive three-volume set. The first volume explores America's multicultural communities and their sacred practices -- not only Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism, but also Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. Spirituality in Latina/o, African American, Native American, and Asian American communities are also covered. The second volume focuses on cultural aspects of religions, with topics including film. Generation X, public sacred spaces, sexuality, "new" religious expressions, and much more. Organized alphabetically, longer general interest anchor essays in both volumes are followed by several shorter, more specialized supplementary essays. The third volume is devoted to complementary primary source documents. Written by more than 150 of America's most prestigious religious scholars, these insightful and intriguing entries address contemporary spiritual practice and culture with a historical perspective.