Recent Scholarship
Religion
Anderson, R. Bentley, “Pride and Prejudice in New Orleans: Joseph Fichter’s Southern Parish,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Fall 2006), 23–46.
Anderson, Theo, “Back Home Again (and Again) in Indiana: E. Howard Cadle, Christian Populism, and the Resilience of American Fundamentalism,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (Dec. 2006), 301–38.
Beasley, Nicholas M., “Wars of Religion in the Circum-Caribbean: English Iconoclasm in Spanish America, 1570–1702,” in Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, ed. Margaret Cormack, 150–73. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-630-9.)
Beck, Peter, “Edwards and Indians: Inclusivism or Evangelism?,” Fídes et Hístoría, 38 (Summer–Fall 2006), 23–33.
Best, Wallace, “‘The Right Achieved and the Wrong Way Conquered’: J. H. Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Conflict over Civil Rights,” Religion and American Culture, 16 (Summer 2006), 195–226.
Biesecker-Mast, Gerald, “The Persistence of Anabaptism as Vision,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (Jan. 2007), 21–42.
Bowman, Matthew, “Sin, Spirituality, and Primitivism: The Theologies of the American Social Gospel, 1885–1917,” Religion and American Culture, 17 (Winter 2007), 95–126.
Braml, Josef, “Das politische Erfolgskonzept der Christlichen Rechten in den usa: Vom fundamentalistischen Sektierertum zum politischen Pragmatismus” (The political formula for success of the Christian right in the usa: From fundamentalist sectarianism to political pragmatism), in Macht Glaube Politik? Religion und Politik in Europa und Amerika (Is faith political? Religion and politics in Europe and America), ed. Tobias Mörschel, 165–89. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. 189 pp. Paper, €19.90, isbn 978-3-525-56962-7.) In German.
Braun, Mark, “The Black Geneva Piety of the Wisconsin Synod: An Analysis of the Changing View of the Relationship of Doctrine and Liturgy within the wels,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2006), 180–94.
Briggs, Benjamin, “Set Thy House in Order: George C. Mendenhall’s New Order of Carolina Quakerism,” Southern Friend, 28 (no. 2, 2006), 30–43.
Corrigan, John, “Saints and Pilgrims on Land and Water: French and Spanish Missionizing Strategies in Colonial North America,” in Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, ed. Margaret Cormack, 1–15. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-630-9.)
Crawford, Michael J., “‘The Small Black Boy at my right hand is Christ’: George Walton and Friends’ Manumission of Slaves in Revolutionary-Era North Carolina,” Southern Friend, 28 (no. 2, 2006), 3–17.
Cray, Robert E., Jr., “High Style and Low Morals: John Newland Maffitt and the Methodist Church, 1794–1850,” Methodist History, 45 (Oct. 2006), 31–42.
Feinman, Peter, “Itinerant Circuit-Riding Minister: Warrior of Light in a Wilderness of Chaos,” Methodist History, 45 (Oct. 2006), 43–53.
Gourley, Bruce, “Baptist Missions in Recent Decades: Patterns in Laity Involvement, Particularly among the Younger Generation,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Spring 2006), 19–29.
Greene, Daniel, “A Chosen People in a Pluralist Nation: Horace Kallen and the Jewish-American Experience,” Religion and American Culture, 16 (Summer 2006), 161–94.
Gude, George J., “Practical Implications of the Missouri Synod’s Position Regarding Church and Ministry,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2006), 160–79.
Gurock, Jeffrey S., “The Late Friday Night Orthodox Service: An Exercise in Religious Accommodation,” Jewish Social Studies, 12 (Spring–Summer 2006), 137–56.
Harlow, Luke E., “Religion, Race, and Robert J. Breckinridge: The Ideology of an Antislavery Slaveholder, 1830–1860,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Fall 2006), 1–24.
Hayes, Patrick J., “Massachusetts Miracles: Controlling Cures in Catholic Boston, 1929–1930,” in Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, ed. Margaret Cormack, 111–27. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-630-9.)
Kersten, Nicholas, “Jennings Randolph: Servant, Statesman, Seventh Day Baptist,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Summer–Fall 2006), 79–88.
Killingsworth, Blake, “‘An Opportunity to Aid in This Good Work’: The Baptist Standard, Texas Baptist Leadership, and School Desegregation, 1954 to 1956,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Spring 2006), 78–92.
King, David P., “Harry Emerson Rosdick’s Role in the War and Pacifist Movements,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Summer–Fall 2006), 99–108.
Koontz, Gayle Gerber, “Peace Theology in Transition: North American Mennonite Peace Studies and Theology, 1906–2006,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (Jan. 2007), 77–96.
Kuehne, Raymond M., “How Missionaries Entered East Germany: The 1988 Monson-Honecker Meeting,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 39 (Winter 2006), 107–37.
Lehmann, Hartmut, “Sonderweg Europas oder Sonderweg Amerikas? Religiosität und Kirchlichkeit im transatlantischen Vergleich” (European or American special paths? Religiosity and church attendance in transatlantic comparison), in Macht Glaube Politik? Religion und Politik in Europa und Amerika (Is faith political? Religion and politics in Europe and America), ed. Tobias Mörschel, 134–46. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. 189 pp. Paper, €19.90, isbn 978-3-525-56962-7.) In German.
Little, Thomas J., “The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism: Revivalism in South Carolina, 1700–1740,” Church History, 75 (Dec. 2006), 768–808.
Lotz, Denton, “Billy Graham: An Appreciation,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Summer–Fall 2006), 49–65.
Moore, Andrew S., “The Beloved Community and the People of God: The Community of Christ Our Brother in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, 1967–1969,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Fall 2006), 105–23.
O’Connor, David L., “The Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation: American Catholic Anti-Communism and Its Limits,” American Communist History, 5 (June 2006), 37–66.
Oliver, Bonnie J., “The Life and Times of Barbara Jordan: A Twentieth-Century Baptist and Political Pioneer,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Summer–Fall 2006), 66–78.
Pasquier, Michael, “Medjugorje in the American South: Our Lady of Tickfaw and the Politics of Devotion,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Fall 2006), 125–48.
Pasquier, Michael, “Our Lady of Prompt Succor: The Search for an American Marian Cult in New Orleans,” in Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, ed. Margaret Cormack, 128–49. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-630-9.)
Payne, Rodger, “Image and Imagination in the Cult of St. Amico,” in Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, ed. Margaret Cormack, 52–67. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-630-9.)
Pearlstein, Peggy Kronsberg, “Israel Fine: Baltimore Businessman and Hebrew Poet,” Southern Jewish History, 9 (2006), 103–39.
Pescador, Juan Javier, “Seeking the Holy Child of Tierra Adentro: The Historical Origins of the Santo Niño de Atocha, 1704–1848,” in Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, ed. Margaret Cormack, 68–89. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-630-9.)
Pitts, Bill, “Christianity and the Social Crisis: Rauschenbusch’s Legacy after a Century,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Summer–Fall 2006), 35–48.
Poché, Justin D., “The Catholic Citizens’ Council: Religion and White Resistance in Post-War Louisiana,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Fall 2006), 47–68.
Prätorius, Rainer, “Religiöse Politik und politisierte Religion in den usa: Was ist neu daran?” (Religious politics and politicized religion in the usa: What is new?), in Macht Glaube Politik? Religion und Politik in Europa und Amerika (Is faith political? Religion and politics in Europe and America), ed. Tobias Mörschel, 147–64. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. 189 pp. Paper, €19.90, isbn 978-3-525-56962-7.) In German.
Romarate-Knipel, Carla A. Gay, “One Mission, Different Voices: Overseas Missions of the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Spring 2006), 41–54.
Rominger, Laura, “The Bible, Commonsense, and Interpretive Context: A Case Study in the Antebellum Debate over Slavery,” Fídes et Hístoría, 38 (Summer–Fall 2006), 35–54.
Rousey, Dennis C., “Catholics in the Old South: Their Population, Institutional Development, and Relations with Protestants,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Fall 2006), 1–21.
Rowe, David L., “From Colporteurs to Cooperative Program: A Century of Southern Baptist Stewardship and the Rise of the Southern Baptist Convention,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Spring 2006), 93–103.
Russell, William D., “Grant McMurray and the Succession Crisis in the Community of Christ,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 39 (Winter 2006), 27–57.
Schlabach, Theron F., “The History of Mennonites and Amish in America: Reflections on Past and Future,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (Jan. 2007), 49–68.
Sledge, Robert W., “A Model Home Base for Missions: Mary Decherd, the University of Texas Epworth League, and the Brazil Mission,” Methodist History, 45 (Oct. 2006), 4–15.
Smith, Ryan K., “The Fountain of Youth: History of an Errant Shrine,” in Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, ed. Margaret Cormack, 249–67. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-630-9.)
Stanton, Mary, “At One with the Majority,” Southern Jewish History, 9 (2006), 141–99.
Stott, G. St. John, “King Benjamin and the Yeoman Farmer,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 39 (Winter 2006), 1–26.
Tew, C. Delane, “Baptist Missionary Funding: From Societies to Centralization,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Spring 2006), 55–67.
Thomas, T., “The Shifting Landscape in Baptist Missions during the Twentieth Century,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Spring 2006), 8–18.
Tillman, William M., Jr., and W. Andrew Tillman, “The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Christian Life Commission Entities and Voices,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Summer–Fall 2006), 21–34.
Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta, “In God We Trust: The Unique History and Current Role of Religion in America,” Akademie-Vorträge (Dillingen), 28 (May 2006), 1–27.
Walker, J. Brent, “bic = jmd2: The Contributions of Joseph M. Dawson and James M. Dunn to the Baptist Joint Committee,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Summer–Fall 2006), 8–20.
White, Christopher G., “Minds Intensely Unsettled: Phrenology, Experience, and the American Pursuit of Spiritual Assurance, 1830–1880,” Religion and American Culture, 16 (Summer 2006), 227–61.
Wilkes, George R., “Rabbi Dr. David Marx and the Unity Club: Organized Jewish-Christian Dialogue, Liberalism, and Religious Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Atlanta,” Southern Jewish History, 9 (2006), 35–68.
Williams, Peter W., “The Gospel of Wealth and the Gospel of Art: Episcopalians and Cultural Philanthropy from the Gilded Age to the Depression,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 75 (June 2006), 170–223.
Abusch-Magder, Ruth A., “Home-Made Judaism: Food and Domestic Jewish Life in Germany and the United States, 1850–1914” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214158.
Barber, Christopher Bart, “The Bogard Schism: An Arkansas Baptist Agrarian Revolt” (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006). Order No. DA3212512.
Butler, Kevin D., “The Creation of African American Christianity: Slavery and Religion in Antebellum Missouri” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2005). Order No. DA3204590.
Christensen, Aaron Flake, “‘Pope’ or Persuader? The Influence of Solomon Stoddard in Northampton and Western New England” (Oklahoma State University, 2005). Order No. DA3212704.
Collier, Brian S., “St. Catherine Indian School, Santa Fe, 1887–2006: Catholic Indian Education in New Mexico” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3210117.
Connerley, Jennifer, “Friendly Americans: Representing Quakers in the United States, 1850–1920” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3207363.
Fein, Gene, “For Christ and Country: The Christian Front in New York City, 1938–1951” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3214534.
Finstuen, Andrew S., “Hearts of Darkness: American Protestants and the Doctrine of Original Sin, 1945–1965” (Boston College, 2006). Order No. DA3209821.
Fitzgerald, Monica DiCataldo, “Wicked Hearts and Wayward Walking: Gender, Religion, and Identity in Early New England” (University of California, Davis, 2005). Order No. DA3203566.
Haselby, Sam, “The Origins of American Religious Nationalism, 1787–1832” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3209365.
Holley, Paul, “The Dynamics of Religious Contention: An Examination of Armed Conflict in the Post–Cold War Era” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3210150.
Kamil, Tarik W., “The Politics of Time and Eternity: Quaker Pacifists and Their Activism during the Vietnam War Era” (Ohio University, 2006). Order No. DA3209654.
Klopfer, Sheila Deann, “Baptists in America (1742–1833): An Historical and Theological Assessment of Baptism with a Corresponding Proposal for Baptist Theology of Baptism in the Twenty-First Century” (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006). Order No. DA3212514.
McCook, Matt, “Aliens in the World: Sectarians, Secularism, and the Second Great Awakening” (Florida State University, 2005). Order No. DA3216627.
Pak, Jung H., “‘Not by power nor by might’: American Missionaries and the Spiritual Wars in Korea, 1885–1953” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3213575.
Rademacher, Nicholas Karl, “Apostle of Social Justice: Paul Hanly Furfey and the Construction of a Catholic Culture” (Catholic University of America, 2006). Order No. DA3214696.
Rogers, Christopher Allen, “A Dissident’s Revolution: Religious Antinomians in American Culture, 1740–1830” (Northwestern University, 2006). Order No. DA3212835.
Strange, Sammie Pedlow, Jr., “Baptists and Religious Liberty: 1700–1900” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006). Order No. DA3214879.
Talbot, Christine, “Mormons, Polygamy, and the American Body Politic: Contesting Citizenship, 1852–1890” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3208317.
Welborn, Chris, “Modern Mormon Use of Patristic Sources to Validate the Utah-Mormon Church” (Marquette University, 2006). Order No. DA3210979.
Willis, Lee L., III, “The Road to Prohibition: Religion and Political Culture in Middle Florida, 1821–1920” (Florida State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216560.
Balmer, Randall, and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the Middle Atlantic Region: Fount of Diversity. (Lanham: AltaMira, 2006. 184 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-7591-0636-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7591-0637-6.)
Barlow, Philip, and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America’s Common Denominator? (Lanham: AltaMira, 2004. 208 pp. Cloth, $69.00, isbn 978-0-7591-0630-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7591-0631-4.)
Killen, Patricia O’Connell, and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. (Lanham: AltaMira, 2004. 192 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-7591-0624-6. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7591-0625-3.)
Lindsey, William, and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads: Showdown States. (Lanham: AltaMira, 2004. 160 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-7591-0632-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7591-0633-8.)
Lundin, Roger, ed., There Before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. xxii, 250 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-8028-2963-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
McClymond, Michael, ed., Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1, A–Z: xxxii, 515 pp. Vol. 2, Primary Documents: xx, 663 pp. $225.00/set, isbn 0-313-32828-5/set.)
Roof, Wade Clark, and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region: Fluid Identities. (Lanham: AltaMira, 2005. 192 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-7591-0638-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7591-0639-0.)
Shipps, Jan, and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition. (Lanham: AltaMira, 2004. 160 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-7591-0626-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7591-0627-7.)
Walsh, Andrew, and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits Changing Slowly. (Lanham: AltaMira, 2004. 160 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-7591-0628-4. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7591-0629-1.)
Wilson, Charles Reagan, and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the South: In the Evangelical Mode. (Lanham: AltaMira, 2005. 232 pp. Cloth, $69.00, isbn 978-0-7591-0634-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7591-0635-2.)
Huebner, Gerhard P., Margarete nee Boriack, and Robert Huebner, “A Mission Account—Argentina 1921–1941,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2006), 138–59.
Sweeney, Douglas A., and Allen C. Guelzo, eds., The New England Theology: From Jonathan Edwards to Edwards Amasa Park. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006. 320 pp. Paper, $29.99, isbn 978-0-8010-2709-3.)
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