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Readings on Religion and the West Coast –
Alexander, Kay, California Catholicism, Fithian Press, 1993 (available from the Capps Center)

Ernst, Eldon G., "Religion in California," Pacific Theological Review, Vol 29 (1986).

Ernst, Eldon G. and Douglas Firth Anderson, Pilgrim Progression: The Protestant Experience in California, Fithian Press, 1993 (available from the Capps Center)

Frankiel, Sandra Sizer, California's Spiritual Frontier: Religious Alternatives in Anglo Protestantism, 1850-1910. University of California Press, 1988.

Glock, Charles Y. and Robert N. Bellah, The New Religious Consciousness, University of California Press, 1976.

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F., "Eastward Ho! American Religion from the Perspective of the Pacific Rim," in Thomas A. Tweed, ed., Rethinking U.S. Religious History, pp. 127-48. University of California, 1997.

Miller, Donald E. , Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium, University of California Press, 1997.

Roof, Wade Clark and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region: Fluid Identities. Alta Mira Press, 2005.

Shattuck, Cybelle T., Dharma in the Golden State: South Asian Religious Traditions in California, Fithian Press, 1996 (available at the Capps Center).

Simmons, John K. and Brian Wilson, Competing Visions of Paradice: The California Experience of 19th Century American Sectarianism, Fithian Press, 1993 (available from the Capps Center)

Stark, Rodney and William Bainbridge, The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation. University of California Press, 1985, Ch. 4.

Szasz, Ferenc Morton, Religion in the Modern American West, University of Arizona Press, 2000.