Feldman, Noah. Divided by God. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Noah Feldman, a law professor at New York University, is not a religious studies scholar, anthropologist, or sociologist - but he is an excellent storyteller. In this 2005 work, he traces America's religious diversity through the lens of legal battles on Church-State issues. He pays particular attention to the ways that America's self-understanding of this diversity has changed in each era.

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Eck, Diana. A New Religious America. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002.

Diana Eck's ethnographic study of religious minorities - Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and others - who have found a home beyond the urban centers is a fascinating introduction. She is particularly interested in groups in the American suburbs and rural communities, and how they are practicing their faith in the context of an America that still sees itself as being "ambient Christian."

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McGraw, Barbara and Jo Renee Formicola, eds. Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously: Spiritual Politics on America’s Sacred Ground. Waco, TX: Baylor Univesity Press, 2005.

A diverse collection of essays reflecting on both theological and cultural aspects of religious diversity. In particular, an essay by Muslim scholar M. A. Muqtedar Khan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at University of Delaware, is a helpful perspective.

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Albanese, Catherine. American: Religion and Religions. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1981.

Bergman, Edward F. The Spiritual Traveler: New York City: The Guide to Sacred Spaces and Peaceful Places. Mahwah, NJ: HiddenSpring Books, 2001.

Carnes, Tony, and Anna Karpathakis, eds. New York: Glory: Religions in the City. New York: NYU Press, 2001.

Cook, Terri. Sacred Havens: A Guide to Manhattan’s Spiritual Places. New York: Crossroad, 2001.

CrossCurrents, Vol. 51: 1 ( Spring 2001)—entire issue, entitled “Godscape, Cityscape”.

Eck, Diana. A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2001.

Garber, Marjorie and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds. One Nation Under God? Religion and American Culture. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Hutchison, William R. Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Lehrer, Warren and Judith Sloan. Crossing the Blvd: Stranger, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. (About the diversity of Queens.)

Livezey, Lowell, W., ed. Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Marty, Martin E. The One and the Many: America’s Struggle for the Common Good. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Min, Pyong Gap and Jung Ha Kim, eds. Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. New York: Altamira Press, 2002.

Neumark, Heidi B. Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.

Neusner, Jacob. World Religions in America, revised. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1999.

Orsi, Robert. Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Pecknold, C. C. “The Readable City and the Rhetoric of Excess,” in CrossCurrents, (Winter 2003).

Tanner, Kathryn, ed. Spirit in the Cities: Searching for Soul in the Urban Landscape. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004.