Wolf Trace subdivision, via heidifore.com  Wolf Trace
subdivision, via heidifore.com  A new book looks at the way a
California megachurch reflects its landscape.  Sacred
Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American
Evangelicalism Justin Wilford (NYU Press, November 2012, 233
pp.)  By Fred Folmer  When someone says “suburb,” what comes to
mind? Identical split-level houses? Cul-de-sacs? Impeccably
groomed lawns? Big box stores? Malls? Automobiles as far as the
eye can see? Malaise and alienation? For many, it’s probably
some combination of all of the above. It’s also likely that many
observers of religion would place “megachurches” or other large
houses of worship among the images that indelibly describe
suburban life. In fact, the two seem to have gone together from
the beginning; in an important sense, large evangelical churches
have helped to define the very parameters and fabric of American
suburban life.  And although a number of historians of American
religion have chronicled this trend, que