Ranging from popular piety to magic, from Revolutionary War chaplains to the rationalism of James Madison, from divining rods and seer stones to Anglican and Unitarian elites, and from Virginia Anglican occultists to Presbyterians raised from the dead to Jonathan Edwards, Joseph Smith, and Abraham Lincoln, Butler's book aims to recast the landscape of American religious and cultural history. Jon Butler is the author of "The Huguenots in America" which was awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize and the Theodore Saloutos Prize, both in 1983. "Awash in a Sea of Faith" was winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association, 1990.