Fall for the Book

The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, which results in Americans switching religions more often than any other nation. The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America by Lincoln A. Mullen traces the history of the distinctively American idea that religion is a matter of individual choice. Christianity Today says Mullen “handles conversion narratives with respect, but without abandoning a critical, scholarly eye…[he] helps us see how a distinctly evangelical approach to salvation had ripple effects beyond evangelicals, and he should be commended for it.” Sponsored by the Department of History and Art History.