Recent Scholarship
Religion
Alexander, Ben, “Contested Memories, Divided Diaspora: Armenian Americans, the Thousand-Day Republic, and the Polarized Response to an Archbishop’s Murder,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 27 (Fall 2007), 32–59.
Butler, Anne M., “The Invisible Flock: Catholicism and the American West,” in Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices, ed. Roberto R. Treviño and Richard V. Francaviglia, 14–41. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xii, 172 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-621-6.)
Dinges, William D., “Paper City and Southern Parish: American Catholics in Postwar Social Science Research,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Fall 2007), 45–62.
Engh, Michael E., “From the City of the Angels to the Parishes of San Antonio: Catholic Organization, Women Activists, and Racial Intersections, 1900–50,” in Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices, ed. Roberto R. Treviño and Richard V. Francaviglia, 42–71. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xii, 172 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-621-6.)
Fleming, Stephen J., “‘Congenial to Almost Every Shade of Realism’: The Delaware Valley and the Success of Early Mormonism,” Religion and American Culture, 17 (Summer 2007), 129–64.
Fogarty, Robert S., “Religious Inventions in America: New Religious Movements,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Jan. 2008), 19–23.
Froehle, Bryan T., “Catholic Pastoral Sociology in the United States since Vatican II: Making a Path by Walking,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Fall 2007), 85–116.
Gillespie, C. Kevin, “Psychology and American Catholicism after Vatican II: Currents, Cross-Currents, and Confluences,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Fall 2007), 117–31.
Griffith, R. Marie, “Beyond Diversity and Multiculturalism: Pluralism and the Globalization of American Religion,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Jan. 2008), 24–27.
Halus, Gene, “Monsignor Geno Baroni and the Politics of Ethnicity, 1960–1984,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Fall 2007), 133–59.
Hamre, James S., “Ulrik Vilhelm Koren: ‘It is Written’; ‘By Grace Alone,’” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 80 (Fall 2007), 138–56.
Jackson, Regine O., “After the Exodus: The New Catholics in Boston’s Old Ethnic Neighborhoods,” Religion and American Culture, 17 (Summer 2007), 191–212.
Johnson, Curtis D., “‘Sectarian Nation’: Religious Diversity in Antebellum America,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Jan. 2008), 14–18.
Koehlinger, Amy, “Academia and Aggiornamento: The Social Sciences and Postconciliar Reform among American Sisters,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Fall 2007), 63–83.
Meyer, Scott J., “Loss of Missouri Synod Churches in Chicagoland,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 80 (Fall 2007), 157–202.
Mobley, Kendal P., “Helen Barrett Montgomery: A ‘Middle-of-the-Road Baptist’ Bible Translator,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Spring 2007), 55–68.
Newman, Mark, “‘The Catholic Church in Tennessee and Desegregation, 1954–1973,’” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 66 (Summer 2007), 144–65.
Pagliarini, Marie, “‘And the Word was Made Flesh’: Divining the Female Body in Nineteenth-Century American and Catholic Culture,” Religion and American Culture, 17 (Summer 2007), 213–45.
Pasulka, Diana Walsh, “A Communion of Little Saints: Nineteenth-Century American Child Hagiographies,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 23 (Fall 2007), 51–67.
Pehl, Matthew, “‘Wherever They Mention His Name’: Ethnic Catholicism on an Industrial Island,” in Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices, ed. Roberto R. Treviño and Richard V. Francaviglia, 72–93. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xii, 172 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-621-6.)
Pitti, Gina Marie, “Into One Parish Life: National Parishes and Catholic Racial Politics at Midcentury,” in Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices, ed. Roberto R. Treviño and Richard V. Francaviglia, 118–39. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xii, 172 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-621-6.)
Rademacher, Nicholas, “Paul Hanly Furfey and the Social Sciences: Liberal, Radical, and Revolutionary,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Fall 2007), 23–43.
Schlereth, Eric, “A Tale of Two Deists: John Fitch, Elihu Palmer, and the Boundary of Tolerable Religious Expression in Early National Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (Jan. 2008), 5–31.
Shapiro, Edward S., “A Shtetl in the Sun: Orthodoxy in Southern Florida,” Southern Jewish History, 10 (2007), 135–57.
Shaw, Susan M., “Of Words and Women: Southern Baptist Publications and the Progress of Women in the 1970s,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Spring 2007), 69–84.
Shoemaker, Stephen P., “The Theological Roots of Charles W. Eliot’s Educational Reforms,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 31 (2006–2007), 30–45.
Stassen-McLaughlin, Marilyn, “The Challenge Issued to Bishop Henry Bond Restarick (1854–1933),” Hawaiian Journal of History, 41 (2007), 79–96.
Stern, Andrew, “Southern Harmony: Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Antebellum South,” Religion and American Culture, 17 (Summer 2007), 165–90.
Sweeney, Kevin, “Early American Religious Traditions: Native Visions and Christian Providence,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Jan. 2008), 8–12.
Andrews, Michael, “American-Papal Relations from 1848 to 1867” (St. John’s University, New York, 2007). Order No. DA3252976.
Carter, Michael Steven, “Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Catholicism in the Early Republic” (University of Southern California, 2006). Order No. DA3257684.
Edwards, Mark Thomas, “Bringing Our World Together: The Empire of Christian Realism, 1870–1952” (Purdue University, 2006). Order No. DA3251610.
Kimmel, Sheryl Adelman, “The Changing of the Guard: A Case Study of Maynard I. Wishner as an American Jewish Communal Leader” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3261047.
Nelson, Robert Kent, “Society of Souls: Spirit, Friendship, and the Antebellum Reform Imagination” (College of William and Mary, 2006). Order No. DA3250418.
Nira, Oswald John, “Mexican-American Lay Leadership in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin, 1947–1990” (Catholic University of America, 2007). Order No. DA3257642.
Pasquier, Michael, “Les Confrères et les Pères: French Missionaries and Transnational Catholicism in the United States, 1789–1865” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3263903.
Peters, Shawn Francis, “Religious Convictions: Spiritual Healing, Children, and the Law in the United States” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3261406.
Remillard, Arthur, “The Unfinished South: Competing Civil Religions in the Post–Reconstruction Era, 1877–1920” (Florida State University, 2006). Order No. DA3252161.
Smith, Daymon Mickel, “The Last Shall Be First and the First Shall Be Last: Discourse and Mormon History” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3260993.
Erickson, John H., Orthodox Christians in America: A Short History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 136 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-19-533308-4.)
Hutson, James H., Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 207 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-521-86493-0. Paper, $21.99, isbn 978-0-521-68343-2.)
Joselit, Jenna Weissman, Parade of Faiths: Immigration and American Religion. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 121 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-19-533307-7.)
Mann, Gurinder Singh, Paul David Numrich, and Raymond B. Williams, Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America: A Short History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 151 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-19-533311-4.)
Miller, Glenn T., Piety and Profession: American Protestant Theological Education, 1870–1970. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. xxiv, 821 pp. Paper, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8028-2946-7.)
Nyenhuis, Jacob E., ed., A Goodly Heritage: Essays in Honor of the Reverend Dr. Elton J. Bruins at Eighty. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. lii, 412 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8028-6002-6.)
Smith, Laura S., The Illustrated Timeline of Religion: A Crash Course in Words and Pictures. (New York: Sterling, 2007. viii, 119 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-1-4027-3606-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Tentler, Leslie Woodcock, ed., The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholicism since 1950 in the United States, Ireland, and Quebec. (Washington: Catholic University of America, 2007. x, 302 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8132-1494-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Davis, James Calvin, ed., On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2008. xiv, 288 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-02622-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-674-02685-8.)
Hardy, B. Carmon, ed., Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy; Its Origin, Practice, and Demise. (Norman: Arthur H. Clark, 2007. 446 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-87062-344-8.)
Larson, Stan, and Samuel J. Passey, eds., The William E. McLellin Papers, 1854–1880. (Salt Lake City: Signature, 2007. xxx, 607 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-56085-144-8.)
Wergland, Glendyne R., ed., Visiting the Shakers: Watervliet, Hancock, Tyringham, New Lebanon, 1778–1849. (Clinton, N.Y.: Richard W. Couper Press, 2007. xiv, 382 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-9796448-0-1.)
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