Nathan O. Hatch. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xiv + 312 pp. Illus. Jon Butler. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. xii + 360 pp. Richard T. Hughes and C. Leonard Allen. Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630-1875. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988. xviii + 296 pp. Ted Ownby. Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xii + 286 pp. Illus. Nancy Taton Ammerman. Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention. New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers University Press, 1990. xv + 388 pp. J. William Frost. A Perfect Freedom: Religious Liberty in Pennsylvania. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x + 221 pp. In recent years, the contours of American historiography, especially for the post-Revolutionary period, have been profoundly reshaped by a number of influential studies dealing with important aspects of the evolving religious experience in the new Republic. In particular, there has been an extraordinary outburst of critical yet empathetic books and articles which attempt to come to grips with the forces of change and continuity that are to be found at the heart of the American Evangelical experience. Writing about Christianity, even about the Evangelical tradition, is no longer considered to be an act of academic suicide. With the neo-Marxist working-class historians very much on the defensive, and with many intellectual historians battered by self-doubt and deconstructionalism, scholars interested in American religious history have rushed into the publishing and intellectual void. They have certainly been encouraged by publishers who realize that Christianity is still a very vibrant force in the United States.