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Religion

Anello, Robert L., “Humphrey J. Desmond, the Catholic Citizen, and Americanism,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Summer 2007), 25–50.

Benner, Keith, “Education, Authority, and the Church in the Life and Thought of John Ellsworth Hartzler,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (Oct. 2007), 577–98.

Bennett, James, “Neither Inevitable nor Continuous with the Past: Writing about Jim Crow New Orleans and Religion,” Journal of Southern Religion, 9 (2006), http://jsr.fsu.edu/.

Bishop, Ronald, “That Is Good to Think of These Days: The Campaign by Hearst Newspapers to Promote Addition of ‘Under God’ to the Pledge of Allegiance,” American Journalism, 24 (Spring 2007), 61–85.

Burns, Jeffrey M., “John O’Connor and the ‘New Age’ of Catholic Journalism, 1960–1967,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Summer 2007), 109–26.

Curtis, Edward E., IV, “Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War,” American Quarterly, 59 (Sept. 2007), 683–709.

Gould, Mitchell Santine, “Walt Whitman’s Quaker Paradox,” Quaker History, 96 (Spring 2007), 1–23.

Hardy, Clarence E., III, “From Exodus to Exile: Black Pentecostals, Migrating Pilgrims, and Imagined Internationalism,” American Quarterly, 59 (Sept. 2007), 737–57.

Hellwege, John, “What Was Going On over There? The Missouri Synod’s Struggle to Understand Pre-war Nazi Germany as Seen in Two Popular Publications,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 80 (Summer 2007), 103–31.

Howlett, David J., “The Death and Resurrection of the rlds Zion: A Case Study in ‘Failed Prophecy,’ 1930–70,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 40 (Fall 2007), 112–31.

Kauffman, Jason, “Faith amidst Prosperity: Business, Wealth, and the Mennonite Church in Fulton County, Ohio, 1930–2005,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (Oct. 2007), 599–622.

Lee, Rhonda Mawhood, “‘God Alone is Lord of Conscience’: Fellowship of Reconciliation Activists Confront Church and State in Louisville, Kentucky, 1975–1995,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Fall 2007), 49–67.

León, Luis D., “Cesar Chavez in American Religious Politics: Mapping the New Spiritual Line,” American Quarterly, 59 (Sept. 2007), 857–81.

Marcus, Kenneth H., “Judaism Revisited: Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Fall 2007), 307–25.

Matzko, John, “The Encounter of the Young Joseph Smith with Presbyterianism,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 40 (Fall 2007), 68–84.

McNamara, Patrick, “‘Catholic Journalism with its Sleeves Rolled Up’: Patrick Scanlan and the Brooklyn Tablet,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Summer 2007), 87–107.

Ownby, Ted, et al., “Roundtable: Re-reading Southern Religious Literature: A Roundtable Discussion on Jerry Falwell’s Listen, America! (New York: Bantam Books, 1980),” Journal of Southern Religion, 9 (2006), http://jsr.fsu.edu/.

Raphael, Mark S., “Americanism as Seen through the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Summer 2007), 51–73.

Schultz, Kevin M., “‘Favoritism Cannot Be Tolerated’: Challenging Protestantism in America’s Public Schools and Promoting the Neutral State,” American Quarterly, 59 (Sept. 2007), 565–91.

Smith, Erin A., “‘Jesus, My Pal’: Reading and Religion in Middlebrow America,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 37 (no. 2, 2007), 147–81.

Takayam, Yuji, “Amerika no demokurasi no yoron to shukyo no kyokai” (The boundary between political opinion and religion in American democracy), Waseda Seiji-Keizaigaku Zasshi (Tokyo) (no. 365, 2006), 2–22. In Japanese.

Waldrep, B. Dwain, “Lewis Sperry Chafer and the Roots of Nondenominational Fundamentalism in the South,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Nov. 2007), 807–36.

Yamanaka, Aki, “Raiman Bicha no neitibizumu” (The logic behind nativism), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 40 (2006), 119–38. In Japanese.

Young, Neil J., “‘The era Is a Moral Issue’: The Mormon Church, lds Women, and the Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment,” American Quarterly, 59 (Sept. 2007), 623–44.

 

Balik, Shelby M., “The Religious Frontier: Church, State, and Settlement in Northern New England, 1780–1830” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3245696.

Cooney, Jonathan D., “Methodist Preaching in New England, c. 1790–1850: The Arminian Message on Calvinist Soil” (Boston University, 2007). Order No. DA3240614.

Endres, David J., “Under the Cross and the Flag: The Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade and the American Quest to Christianize the World, 1918–1971” (Catholic University of America, 2007). Order No. DA3246948.

Hochstetler, Laurie, “Sacred Rites: Religious Rituals and the Transformation of American Puritanism” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3248090.

Jirón-King, Shimberlee, “Between Two Worlds: The Chicana/o Encounter with Protestantism” (Stanford University, 2006). Order No. DA3242569.

Laats, Adam, “Roots of the Culture Wars: Fundamentalists and American Education in the 1920s” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3245666.

Miller, Stevens P., “The Politics of Decency: Billy Graham, Evangelicalism, and the End of the Solid South, 1950–1980” (Vanderbilt University, 2006). Order No. DA3242095.

Phillips, Benjamin, “Numbering the Jews: Evaluating and Improving Surveys of American Jews” (Brandeis University, 2006). Order No. DA3243762.

Rinehart, John M., “The Making of a Christian Statesman: Woodrow Wilson’s Religious Thought and Practice, 1856–1910” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3248871.

Taysom, Stephen C., “Divine Resistance and Accommodation: Nineteenth-Century Shaker and Mormon Boundary Maintenance Strategies” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3243780.

Voldoire, Aline Cécile, “The Transnational Politics of French and American Jews, 1860–1920” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3249138.

Williams, Steven V., “Religious Publishing and Print on Demand: A Comparison of Warner Press and Representative Religious Publishers between 1980–2005” (Asbury Theological Seminary, 2006). Order No. DA3247754.

Zimmerman, Matthew A., “Married to the Faith: Colonial American Quakers and the Trans-Atlantic Community” (Lehigh University, 2006). Order No. DA3248150.

 

Collins, Christopher, Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xxiv, 263 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-271-02993-1.)

Hewlett, Richard Greening, The Foundation Stone: Henry Yates Satterlee and the Creation of Washington National Cathedral. (Rockville, Md.: Montrose, 2007. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-9728874-4-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-9728874-5-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Hulsether, Mark, Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 249 pp. Cloth, $74.50, isbn 978-0-231-14402-5. Paper, $24.50, isbn 978-0-231-14403-2.)

MacDonald, David R., Padre E. C. Crosse and “The Devonshire Epitaph”: The Astonishing Story of One Man at the Battle of the Somme (with Antecedents to Today’s “Just-War” Dialogue). (South Bend: Cloverdale, 2007. xx, 100 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-929569-45-8.)

Masui, Shizuyo, Shokuminchi jidai Amerika no shukyoshiso (Religious thought in colonial America). (Tokyo: Jyochi daigaku shuppan, 2006. 352 pp. ¥2400, isbn 4324078475.) In Japanese.

Moore, R. Jonathan, Suing for America’s Soul: John Whitehead, the Rutherford Institute, and Conservative Christians in the Courts. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. x, 214 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-8028-4044-8.)

Onishi, Naoki, and Shin Chiba, eds., Rekishi no nakano seikyobunri (The separation of church and state). (Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2006. 326 pp. ¥2900, isbn 477911151X.) In Japanese.

Vetter, Herbert F., ed., Notable American Unitarians, 1936–1961. (Cambridge: Harvard Square Library, 2007. viii, 268 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-6151-4784-0.)

Yount, David, How the Quakers Invented America. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xxiv, 159 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-7425-5833-5.)

 

Eliason, Eric A., The J. Golden Kimball Stories. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xx, 186 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03196-0. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07438-7.)

Haldeman, Bonnie, Memories of the Branch Davidians: The Autobiography of David Koresh’s Mother. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007. xiv, 199 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-932792-98-0.)

Nuttall, L. John, In the President’s Office: The Diaries of L. John Nuttall, 1879–1892, ed. Jedediah S. Rogers. (Salt Lake City: Signature, 2007. xl, 511 pp. $125.00, isbn 978-1-56085-196-7.)

Quinn, Frederick, ed., “The Spalding-Jefferd Correspondence: Clerical Life in the Missionary District of Utah, 1912,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 76 (Sept. 2007), 387–403.

Stone, Jon R., and Carlos R. Piar, eds., Readings in American Religious Diversity. (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2007. viii, 580 pp. Paper, isbn 978-0-7575-4091-2.)

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