The author expertly demonstrates that Europeans assessment of American religion is not simply negative ... This book is valuable for scholars interested in the intellectual history of the embattled but remarkably resilient secularization thesis.

Benjamin L. Hartley, Journal of American History

The causes of the religious divide between Europe and America are hotly disputed among social scientists and contemporary historians. By carefully examining European views of America since the late eighteenth century, Thomas Albert Howard is the first scholar to give historical depth to this debate. Everyone interested to find a way through the labyrinth of transatlantic comparisons and prejudice is well advised to read this book.

Hartmut Lehmann, Former Director, Max Planck Institute for History and the German Historical Institute

This is an excellent, thoughtful, and balanced book. As a historical study with contemporary relevance, it is tightly focused, but gracefully written, with a nice balance struck between theoretical analysis and expository narrative. Howard's ability to navigate the complex political-religious histories of both Europe and the United States gives this book a truly transatlantic perspective.

Richard Crane, author of Passion of Israel: Jacques Maritain, Catholic Conscience, and the Holocaust

God and the Atlantic is not only a well-researched and wide-ranging study, it is also a timely book that holds out the promise of helping Americans and Europeans understand each other better. It is illuminating to discover how certain contemporary reactions to apparently new developments are actually based on assumptions with deep historical roots. This book deserves to be read well beyond the scholarly world.

Timothy Larsen, author of Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England

For breadth of research, depth of historical insight, and timeliness of publication, God and the Atlantic is an unusually fine work. Its careful cataloguing of European responses to religion in the United States shows that perspectives from the conservative Right and radical Left share a common rigidity and even sometimes nearly identical judgments. By contrast, European savants who traveled extensively in the United States have sometimes seen things more clearly, and with more nuance, than even America's homegrown observers. The book is a pathbreaking exploration.

Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame. Author of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

God and the Atlantic provides an overview with impressive sweep, and it gives a vivid account of a virulent, persistent and consistent strain of European anti-Americanism. It is worth reading.

Geoffrey Plank, European History Quarterly