Reviews
A Publishers Weekly Religious Bestseller!
"Brilliantly successful...Bloom exposes, as scarcely anyone has before, an eccentricity at our spiritual center."
—The Washington Post
"A novel analysis of the American soul...insightful and pungent."-
—The New York Times
"A remarkable diagram of the religious imagination...An exegesis of the religions themselves, concentrating on those sects whose origins are particularly rooted in American history and American patterns of thought...A great bolt of originality: Bloom manages to wade into a hopelessly over-explored territory and point out precisely those landmarks that everyone else has missed. Remarkable ideas remarkably set forth."
—Kirkus Reviews
"This is the most important book on American religion in a long time...[It] is an enormous help to anyone who would understand our contemporary spiritual condition."
—Robert N. Bellah, New Oxford Review
"I found this an amazing book: dazzling in its insights, provocative in its thesis, and often very, very funny in its observations. Not since D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature have I read a work on American civilization so penetrating and so exciting."
—Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal
"A rigorous, eccentric, yet absorbing effort to isolate what makes American religion American."
—Kenneth L. Woodward, Newsweek
