Recent Scholarship
Religion
Anderson, Christopher J., “The World’s Fair of 1919: Ethnographic and Technological Exhibits on Display at the Centenary of American Methodist Missions,” Methodist History, 43 (April 2005), 273–85.
Anderson, Nancy Keever, “Disappearing Churches: Rural Methodism in the Western North Carolina Highlands, 1918–1968,” Methodist History, 44 (Oct. 2005), 43–55.
Behnken, Brian D., “‘Count On Me’: Reverend M. L. Price of Texas, a Case Study in Civil Rights Leadership,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 24 (Fall 2005), 61–84.
Berry, Stephen R., “William Catto’s Pursuit of God’s Calling in Slaveholding America,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Spring–Summer 2005), 41–53. Heavily illustrated.
Booth, William D., “Booth, Founder of the Progressive National Baptist Convention,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 34–43.
Butts, Elvin, “The Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 65–75.
Chang, Chul Tim, “A History of the Korean Immigrant Baptist Church Movement in the United States,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 58–64.
Dwayne, Eutsey, “Was Huck a Unitarian? Christian Liberalism, Joseph Twichell, and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn,” Soundings, 88 (Spring–Summer 2005), 43–70.
Erekson, Keith A., “‘Out of the Mists of Memory’: Remembering Joseph Smith in Vermont,” Journal of Mormon History, 32 (Summer 2005), 30–69.
Erekson, Keith A., “The Joseph Smith Memorial Monument and Royalton’s ‘Mormon Affair’: Religion, Community, Memory, and Politics in Progressive Vermont,” Vermont History, 73 (Summer–Fall 2005), 117–51.
Essick, John D., “The International Baptist Seminary: A Baptist Attempt at Americanization, Education, and Missions in East Orange, New Jersey,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 96–103.
Fessenden, Tracy, “The Nineteenth-Century Bible Wars and the Separation of Church and State,” Church History, 74 (Dec. 2005), 784–811.
Gourley, Bruce, “John Leland: Evolving Views of Slavery, 1789–1839,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 104–16.
Hannan, Kevin, “Refashioning Ethnicity in Czech-Moravian Texas,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 24 (Fall 2005), 31–60.
Herbst, Matthew T., “The Monastery in the Methodist Eye: Rev. Merton S. Rice of Detroit and St. George of Choziba,” Methodist History, 44 (Oct. 2005), 3–17.
Ikeda, Yukako, “America ni okeru Zionism no ronri” (The logic of Zionism in the United States), Seiji Kenkyu (Kyushu), 51 (2004), 59–92. In Japanese.
Kurosaki, Makoto, “Sekkyo toshite no ‘aI habu a driimu’ enzetsu” (The “I Have a Dream” speech as a sermon), Ibunka Communication Kenkyu (Chiba), 16 (2004), 25–46. In Japanese.
Lahr, Angela, “The Censure of a Bishop: Church and State in the McCarthy Era,” Methodist History, 44 (Oct. 2005), 29–42.
Lotz, Denton, “Who and Where in the World Are the Baptists?,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 8–22.
Martin, Albert William, Jr., “So Much Over So Little? The Libel Suit of James J. Stewart,” Methodist History, 44 (Oct. 2005), 18–28.
Masui, Shitsuyo, “New England Puritanism to kaishin chushinteki fukuin syugi” (New England Puritanism and regeneration-centered evangelicalism), Kiyo/Bulletin of the Seigakuin University General Research Institute (Tokyo), 30 (2004), 208–28. In Japanese.
Montagna, Douglas, “Education and the Refinement of 19th Century Methodism in the Midwest,” Methodist History, 44 (Jan. 2006), 94–104.
Morimoto, Anri, “Jonasan Edowazu to protestant America no rinen” (Jonathan Edwards and the ideal of protestant America), Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 38 (2004), 41–60. In Japanese.
Poethig, Richard P., “Marshal Logan Scott and the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Spring–Summer 2005), 5–22. Heavily illustrated.
Reyes, Albert, “Unification to Integration: A Brief History of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 44–56.
Richter, Anthony H., “Father Eugene Buechel and the Lakota Sioux,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 38 (Spring–Summer 2005), 5–14.
Robinson, Emily Moberg, “Scottish Covenanters and the Creation of an American Identity,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Spring–Summer 2005), 54–70. Heavily illustrated.
Sanford, Don, “Seventh Day Baptists: A Microcosm of Baptist History,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 76–86.
Scott, John Thomas, “The Final Effort to Fulfill George Whitefield’s Bequest: The Bethesda Mission of 1790–1792,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 89 (Winter 2005), 433–61.
Smith, Andrea, “Mormon Forestdale,” Journal of the Southwest, 47 (Summer 2005), 165–208.
Talbot, Brian, “Fellowship in the Gospel: Scottish Baptists and Their Relationships with Other Baptist Churches, 1900 to 1945,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 87–95.
Tucker, John Mark, “Fides et Historia: Christian Sources for the Professional Contributions of Donald Davis Jr.,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 460–74.
Turrini, Joseph M., “Catholic Social Action at Work: A Brief History of the Labor Collection at the Catholic University of America,” American Archivist, 68 (Spring–Summer 2005), 130–51.
Welker, Patricia A., “The Church in Two Diverse Communities during the 1920s: Guthrie Center, Iowa, Sidney, Nebraska, and a Pragmatic Minister,” Journal of the West, 44 (Winter 2005), 62–71.
Williams, Lawrence H., “The Progressive National Baptist Convention,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 24–33.
Winiarksi, Douglas L., “Jonathan Edwards, Enthusiast? Radical Revivalism and the Great Awakening in the Connecticut Valley,” Church History, 74 (Dec. 2005), 683–739.
Wood, John Halsey, Jr., “John Livingston Nevius and the New Missions History,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Spring–Summer 2005), 23–40. Heavily illustrated.
Woodard, Patricia, “Musical Life at Ocean Grove, New Jersey: The First Fifty Years, 1869–1919 (Part I),” Methodist History, 44 (Jan. 2006), 67–79.
Aikau, Hokulani Kamakanikailialoha, “Polynesian Pioneers: Twentieth-Century Religious Racial Formations and Migration in Hawai‘i” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3172777.
Bearman, Alan, “‘The Atlas of Independency’: The Ideas of John Owen (1616–1683) in the North Atlantic Christian World” (Kansas State University, 2005). Order No. DA3170958.
Evans, Curtis Junius, “The Burden of Black Religion: Representing the Race and Enlisting the Black Churches in the Nation’s Racial Struggle” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3174096.
Gardiner, Richard, “The Presbyterian Rebellion: An Analysis of the Perception that the American Revolution Was a Presbyterian War” (Marquette University, 2005). Order No. DA3172505.
Hartley, Benjamin L., “Holiness Evangelical Urban Mission and Identity in Boston, 1860–1910” (Boston University School of Theology, 2005). Order No. DA3176974.
Holland, David F., “Continuing Revelation: An Idea and Its Contexts in Early America” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3171662.
Holloway, Ernest Robert, III, “The Princeton Ecclesiology: Thomas Smyth, Republican Ideology, and the Princeton Circle, 1830–1861” (Westminster Theological Seminary, 2005). Order No. DA3173305.
Jackson, Alicia K., “The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and Their Struggle for Autonomy and Reform in the New South” (University of Mississippi, 2004). Order No. DA3167443.
Junk, Cheryl Fradette, “‘Ladies, arise! The world has need of you’: Frances Bumpass, Religion, and the Power of the Press, 1851–1860” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170464.
Knopf, Christina M., “Providence, Presidents, and the Press: Inaugural Rhetoric of Religion in a Historical Perspective” (State University of New York, Albany, 2005). Order No. DA3177556.
Lahr, Angela Marie, “Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: Evangelical and Secular Identity in the Early Cold War” (Northern Illinois University, 2005). Order No. DA3173591.
Levesque, George Gilbert, “Between College and University: Noah Porter, Yale, and the Transformation of American Academic Culture, 1800–1890” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3174836.
Lofton, Kathryn E., “Making the Modern in Religious America, 1870–1935” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170488.
Nicholson, Glenn Edwin, “The Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Panama, 1905–1974: Analysis of the Strategy to Establish Indigenous Congregations” (Asbury Theological Seminary, 2005). Order No. DA3170732.
Park, Haein, “Rome in America: Protestant Literary Responses to Catholicism, 1865–1940” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3169315.
Patterson, Sara M., “Divine Revelations/Delusions Revealed: Historical Understandings of Revelation in Debates over Mormonism” (Claremont Graduate University, 2005). Order No. DA3175061.
Prouty, Marco Glen, “Cesar Chavez and the Catholic Civil War, 1965–1977” (Catholic University of America, 2005). Order No. DA3169869.
Purnine, Marjorie Le, “Therapeutic Pieties: Sentimental Prescriptions for Surviving Loss in Mid-Nineteeenth-Century America” (Boston University, 2005). Order No. DA3171186.
Reeves, Russ Patrick, “Countering Revivalism and Revitalizing Protestantism: High Church, Confessional, and Romantic Critiques of Second Great Awakening Revivalism, 1835 to 1852” (University of Iowa, 2005). Order No. DA3172430.
Rivett, Sarah, “Evidence of Grace: The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3168383.
Satta, Ronald Francis, “The Sacred Text: Biblical Authority in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Rochester, 2005). Order No. DA3169597.
Shoemaker, Stephen Paul, “Dyspeptics, Mystics, and Skeptics: The Evolution of a Scholarly Approach to Religion at Nineteenth Century Harvard” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3174103.
Simpson, Thomas Wendell, “Mormons Study ‘Abroad’: Latter-Day Saints in American Higher Education, 1870–1940” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3177499.
Thompson, Douglas Eugene, “Richmond’s Priests and Prophets in the 1950s: White Ministers and Congregations Struggle with Racial Change” (University of Virginia, 2003). Order No. DA3175636.
Wallace, William Jason, “The Medieval Specter: Catholics, Evangelicals, and the Limits of Political Protestantism, 1835–1860” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3169314.
Williams, Daniel Kenneth, “From the Pews to the Polls: The Formation of a Southern Christian Right” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174693.
Balmer, Randall, and Lauren F. Winner, Protestantism in America. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xvi, 295 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-231-11130-4. Paper, $24.00, isbn 0-231-11131-2.)
Bohlman, Philip V., Edith L. Blumhofer, and Maria M. Chow, eds., Music in American Religious Experience. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii, 350 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-19-517304-X.)
Bushman, Richard Lyman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. (New York: Knopf, 2005. xxiv, 740 pp. $35.00, isbn 1-4000-4270-4.)
Dempsey, Corinne G., The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 261 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-19-518730-X.)
Early, Joseph E., Jr., A Texas Baptist Power Struggle: The Hayden Controversy. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2005. xiv, 172 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-57441-195-0.)
Jones, Charles Edwin, The Wesleyan Holiness Movement: A Comprehensive Guide. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2005. Vol. 1: lxiv, 815; Vol. 2: 1016 pp. $225.00, isbn 0-8108-5433-3.)
Ogura, Izumi, John Cotton and Puritanism. (Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2004. 340 pp. ¥4,500, isbn 4882028808.) In English.
Woolverton, John F., Robert H. Gardiner and the Reunification of Worldwide Christianity in the Progressive Era. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. xviii, 270 pp. $42.50, isbn 0-8262-1603-X.)
Yihua, Xu, Zongjiao yu Meiguo shehui (Religion and American society, vol. 1). (Beijing: Current Affairs, 2004. 446 pp. Y 28.00, isbn 7-80009-794-3.) In Chinese.
Bratt, James D., ed., Antirevivalism in Antebellum America: A Collection of Religious Voices. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xxxii, 278 pp. Cloth, $62.00, isbn 0-8135-3692-7. Paper, $25.95, isbn 0-8135-3693-6.)
Dalib, Eleanor Katherine, trans., “Autobiography of Peter Heinrich Dicke: Pastor and Pioneer Missionary,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 78 (Fall 2005), 135–61.
Henold, Mary, ed., “How Did Catholic Women Participate in the Rebirth of American Feminism?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 9 (Dec. 2005) http://womhist.binghamton.edu.
Runge, Richard, trans., “A Pioneer Pastor’s Spouse: Autobiography of Anna Katherina Bezler Dicke,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 78 (Fall 2005), 162–77.
Smith, Huston, A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom, ed. Phil Cousineau. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii, 232 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-520-24439-7.)
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