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Athud at the front door introduced me to Brook Wilensky-Lanford’s A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America (Grove, 2026). It is a 672-page brick of a book whose tightly bound pages resist lying flat for reading. It may be the second-longest one-volume history of American religion after Sydney Ahlstrom’s classic 1972 tome A Religious History of the American People, which ran 1,158 pages and received the National Book Award.