For what it's worth, below are my 64 picks for a "religious history" bracket. I make no apologies for my obvious skewed interests:
- Sydney Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People
- Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America
- Susan Wise Bauer, The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America
- Chris Beneke, Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism
- David Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s
- Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
- Vincent Carretta, Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
- Ava Chamberlain, The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards
- Bruce Kuklick, Churchmen and Philosophers: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey
- Randall Balmer, A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies
- Patricia Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
- Catherine Brekus, Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
- Callum Brown, The Death of Christian Britain
- Alister Chapman, Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement
- Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservativism
- Norman Fiering, Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought in Its British Context
- Linford Fisher, The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
- Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
- Bruce Gordon, Calvin
- Marie Griffith, Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity
- Christopher Grasso, A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
- John Grigg, The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon
- Allen Guelzo, Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate
- Paul Gutjahr, Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy
- David Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
- Barry Hankins, Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America
- Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity
- Paul Harvey, Freedom's Coming Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War Through the Civil Rights Era
- David Hempton, Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
- Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
- Bruce Hindmarsh, John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition
- Brooks Holifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War
- Philip Jenkins, The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
- Thomas Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America
- Thomas Kidd, God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution
- David Kling, A Field of Divine Wonders
- Frank Lambert, Inventing the "Great Awakening"
- Tim Larsen, Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England
- Michael Lindsay, Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite
- George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture
- George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life
- Henry May, The Enlightenment in America
- Edmund Morgan, The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles
- Steven Nadler, Spinoza: A Life
- Richard Newman, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
- Mark Noll, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
- Mark Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys
- Amanda Porterfield, Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
- Leigh Schmidt, Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period
- John Sensbach, Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
- Richard Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment
- Anne Stott, Hannah More: The First Victorian
- Harry Stout, The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism
- Harry Stout, The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England
- Charles Habrick-Stowe, The Practice of Piety
- David Swartz, The Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservativism
- Peter Theusen, Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine
- John Turner, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America
- John Tyson, Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley
- Mark Valeri, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
- Grant Wacker, Heaven Below: Early Pentecostalism and American Culture
- W. R. Ward, The Protestant Evangelical Awakening
- John Wigger, American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists
- John Wigger, Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in AmericaDaniel Williams, God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right
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