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BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY 335Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American ReligiousLife, 6th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1999); and Edwin S. Gaustad andLeigh E. Schmidt, The Religious History of America, rev. ed. (San Francisco: Harper-SanFrancisco, 2002). In addition to his contributions to the aforementioned book, EdwinGaustad has produced two other works that provide a general introduction to Americanreligious history. His two-volume A Documentary History of Religion in America, 2nd ed.(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993), offers a large collection of edited primary sources,in which the development of American Anglicanism in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies is particularly highlighted. Compiled with the assistance of Philip L. Barlow,Gaustad’s New Historical Atlas of Religion in America (New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2000) contains numerous maps and charts that present American religious historyin a compelling and vivid manner.Readers interested in considering future developments in the study of American religionshould consult New Directions in American Religious History, ed. Harry S. Stout and D.G.Hart (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). This book contains essays by experts invarious aspects of American religious history who summarize both where this academicfield is now and where it is likely to move in the next few decades. Another relativelybrief but useful reference book that is the work of several scholars, each specializing inone or more subfields of American religion, is Edward L. Queen II, Stephen R. Prothero,and Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr., Encyclopedia of American Religious History, rev. ed. (NewYork: Facts on File, 2001).Just as the history of the Episcopal Church cannot be understood apart from the largercontext of American culture and society, so it is equally important to see the relationshipof this denomination to the churches of the Anglican Communion, especially the Churchof England. The Study of Anglicanism, ed. Stephen Sykes and John Booty (Minneapolis:Fortress, 1988), is an indispensable collection of essays by 31 scholars who are experts invarious aspects of Anglican history, theology, ethics, liturgy, and pastoral practice. Anotheressential book is The Anglican Tradition: A Handbook of Sources, ed. G. R. Evans and J.Robert Wright (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991), which is a compilation of over six hundreddocuments, arranged chronologically, that together elucidate the unique ethos of Anglicanism.In addition to these two decidedly academic works, readers might also wish toconsult the somewhat more accessible volumes published in The New Church’s TeachingSeries (Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley, 1997–2001) of the Episcopal Church. Three books inthis series address Anglican and Episcopal history: James E. Griffiss, The Anglican Vision(1997); Fredrica Harris Thompsett, Living with History (1999); and Harold T. Lewis,Christian Social Witness (2001).Two fine histories of the Episcopal Church have been produced in the past 10 years.The latest and most comprehensive is Robert W. Prichard, A History of the EpiscopalChurch, rev. ed. (Harrisburg, Pa.: Morehouse, 1999), while David L. Holmes, A BriefHistory of the Episcopal Church (Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1993),offers a sprightly narrative that is particularly attentive to major issues within the life ofthe denomination. An older but still useful discussion of the church from colonial timesthrough the early twentieth century is provided by Raymond W. Albright, A History of theProtestant Episcopal Church (New York: Macmillan, 1964). Although E. Clowes Chorley,Men and Movements in the American Episcopal Church (New York: Scribner’s, 1950), ishistoriographically dated, it remains an excellent source of information about party controversiesin the nineteenth century. And Robert W. Prichard, The Bat and the Bishop