America's Religions
Subtitle: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 619
ISBN-13: 9780252066825
Subjects: History of religion; Religion; Religion - Church History; USA; History; Religion / General; General; United States
First sentence: According to conservative estimates by archaeologists, writing on tablets dates back to roughly the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. (3500-3300), while the earliest alphabets used in the ancient Near East appeared less than four thousand years ago.