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Edwin Scott Gaustad (November 14 1923 – March 25 2011) was a Professor of History at the University of California Riverside. He achieved fame with his study of the genealogy of religion in the United States Historical atlas of religion in America. The 1972 edition of this work has been used in secular histories of Mainline Protestantism and the Emergent church movement (denominationalism) for decades.