You have joined H-AmRel, a non-sectarian, non-partisan electronic forum for the discussion of all aspects of American Religious History. H-AmRel is part of the H-Net family of electronic discussion groups for humanists. Anyone may subscribe but preference is given to teachers, professors, scholars, librarians, and graduate students. Undergraduate students may join the list but must be sponsored by their instructor. H-AmRel is a forum for the discussion of the influence of religion, in all its wondrous manifestations and complexity, upon American society from pre-colonial times to present. H-AmRel is not a forum for proselytizing, witnessing or arguing over the merits of ones own religion. The primary goal of H-AmRel is to foster discussion on issues of methodology, historiography and teaching ideas/methods relating to all aspects of American religious history. Discussions on the list will be nonpartisan and nondenominational but we hope not noncontroversial.

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H-AmRel Moderators

Dave Burrell
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