Recent Scholarship
Religion
Allen, J. Timothy, “Religion and Politics: James O’Kelley’s Republicanism and Francis Asbury’s Federalism,” Methodist History, 44 (April 2006), 153–65.
Allen, William Loyd, “‘Exquisite Powers’: Ann Baker Graves and Corinthia Read Williams, Obedient Revolutionaries,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Summer–Fall 2005), 100–111.
Avella, Steven M., “Building the Latino/a Catholic Presence in Sacramento, California,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Fall 2005), 17–38.
Baepler, Richard, “John Strietelmeier: Called to the ‘Holy Laity,’” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2005), 219–44.
Baldwin, Eric, “‘The Devil Begins to Roar’: Opposition to Early Methodists in New England,” Church History, 75 (March 2006), 94–119.
Barrett, James R., “Vatican II Comes to the West Side: An Experiment in Catholic Autobiography and the Historiography of Race and Class,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Fall 2005), 95–119.
Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, “An Understated Tale of Epic Social Change: Women’s Ordination 50 Years Ago and Now,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Fall–Winter 2005), 105–17. Heavily illustrated.
Blosser, Jacob M., “Constructing Modernity: Historical Imagery and Religious Identity in Charleston’s Great Awakening,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (Oct. 2005), 212–34.
Blum, Edward, “‘Paul Has Been Forgotten’: Women, Gender, and Revivalism during the Gilded Age,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (July 2004), 247–70.
Bozeman, Theodore Dwight, “John Clarke and the Complications of Liberty,” Church History, 75 (March 2006), 69–93.
Bromberg, Francine W., and Steven J. Shephard, “The Quaker Burying Ground in Alexandria, Virginia: A Study of Burial Practices of the Religious Society of Friends,” Historical Archaeology, 40 (no. 1, 2006), 57–88.
Buczek, Daniel, “Equality of Right: Polish American Bishops in the American Hierarchy,” Polish American Studies, 62 (Spring 2005), 5–28.
Burns, Jeffrey M., “Prelude to Reform: The Church in San Francisco before the Council,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Fall 2005), 1–15.
Canipe, Lee, “The Unlikely Argument of a Baptist Fundamentalist: John Roach Straton’s Defense of Women in the Pulpit,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Spring 2005), 64–76.
Cannon, Brian Q., “Mormonism in Montana,” Montana, 56 (Spring 2006), 2–19.
Chinnici, Joseph P., “Changing Religious Practice and the End of Christendom in the United States, 1965–1980,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Fall 2005), 61–82.
Choi, Myung-Duk, “The Background of the Christian Right and Their Involvement in Politics,” Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 19 (May 2004), 159–74.
Doyle, Michael, “Zionsgemeinde, Palmenthal, Revisited,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Spring 2006), 26–47.
Fenton, Elizabeth, “Birth of a Protestant Nation: Catholic Canadians, Religious Pluralism, and National Unity in the Early Republic,” Early American Literature, 41 (March 2006), 29–57.
Griffin, Dale, “Steadfast Servants in Trying Times: The 1938–1944 Faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2005), 245–55.
Guenther, Karen, “‘A Restless Desire’: Geographic Mobility and Members of Exeter Monthly Meeting, Berks County, PA., 1710–1789,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Autumn 2003), 331–60.
Hill, Harvey, and Jennifer Watson, “In Christ There Is No Gay or Straight? Homosexuality in the Episcopal Church,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 75 (March 2006), 37–68.
Koehlinger, Amy, “‘Race relations needs the Nun’: Sources of Continuity and Change in the Racial Apostolate of the 1960s,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Fall 2005), 39–59.
Lazich, Michael C., “American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Nineteenth-Century China,” Journal of World History, 17 (June 2006), 197–223.
Lipscomb, Lan, “Andrew A. Lipscomb: A Preacher, Teacher, and Man of Letters in Alabama, 1842–1860,” Alabama Review, 59 (Jan. 2006), 2–43.
McKevitt, Gerald, “Northwest Indian Evangelization by European Jesuits, 1841–1909,” Catholic Historical Review, 91 (Oct. 2005), 688–713.
Meyer, Scott J., “A Lutheran Patriarch: Pastor Theodore Kohn,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2005), 194–218.
Mohon, Timothy, “The Effect and Implications of the Theology of Elder Reuben Ross on Baptist Life,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Spring 2005), 86–97.
Nixon, John Ashley, “Like a Wildfire: The Growth of Virginia Baptists between 1765 and 1774,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Spring 2005), 77–85.
O’Brien, David J., “The Renewal of American Catholicism: A Retrospective,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Fall 2005), 83–94.
O’Sullivan, Meg Devlin, “Missionary and Mother: Jerusha Swain’s Transformation in the Cherokee Nation, 1852–1861,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Winter 2005–2006), 452–65.
Park, Eunjin, “From ‘Saving Souls’ to ‘Reforming Society’: Changing Educational Goals of the American Methodist Mission to China, 1847–1911,” Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 20 (Nov. 2004), 29–58.
Preucel, Robert W., and Steven R. Pendery, “Envisioning Utopia: Transcendentalist and Fourierist Landscapes at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts,” Historical Archaeology, 40 (no. 1, 2006), 6–19.
Smoot, Pamela A., “Keep Your Hand on the Plow—Hold On: Black Baptist Women in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Summer–Fall 2005), 28–39.
Smucker, Janneken, “Destination Amish Quilt Country: The Consumption of Quilts in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 80 (April 2006), 185–206.
Sweet, Julie Anne, “‘The Excellency and Advantage of Doing Good’: Thoughts on the Anniversary Sermons Preached before the Trustees of Georgia, 1731–1750,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2006), 1–34.
Thomas, Samuel J., “A ‘Final Disposition. One Way or Another’: The Real End of the First Curran Affair,” Catholic Historical Review, 91 (Oct. 2005), 714–42.
Troehler, Daniel, “The Kingdom of God on Earth and Early Chicago Pragmatism,” Educational Theory, 56 (Feb. 2006), 89–105.
Turner, John G., “The Power behind the Throne: Henrietta Mears and Post–World War II Evangelicalism,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Fall–Winter 2005), 141–57.
Van Wormer, Heather M., “The Ties That Bind: Ideology, Material Culture, and the Utopian Ideal,” Historical Archaeology, 40 (no. 1, 2006), 37–56.
Vieker, Jon D., “‘Who from Our Mothers’ Arms’: The Story of the Hymnals That Came Before Us,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Spring 2006), 2–25.
Woodard, Patricia, “Musical Life at Ocean Grove, New Jersey: The First Fifty Years, 1869–1919, Part II,” Methodist History, 44 (April 2006), 140–52.
Yang, Hong-Seuk, “19 Saegimal 20 Saegicho Miguk Seongyosadeul eui Jungguk ei daehan Ihae” (American missionaries’ understanding of China from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 20 (Nov. 2004), 59–88. In Korean.
Belvadi, Anikumar, “American Missions and Sunday Schools in Victorian India” (Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3181153.
Carter, Catherine Lee, “The Role of Theology in the Production of Space in Shaker Societies” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178497.
Dochuk, Darren, “From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Southernization of Southern California, 1939–1969” (University of Notre Dame, 2005). Order No. DA3181536.
Ford, Rebecca Reno, “A Fire in Her Bones: Autobiographical Accounts of Women’s Public Evangelism in Nineteenth-Century America” (Purdue University, 2005). Order No. DA3185756.
Harsch, George, IV, “‘Puff Graham’: American Media, American Culture, and the Creation of Billy Graham, 1949–1953” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3180141.
Lantzer, Jason S., “‘Prohibition is here to stay’: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Rise and Fall of Dry Culture in America” (Indiana University, 2005). Order No. DA3183921.
O’Brien, Karen Elizabeth, “Pragmatic Toleration: Lived Religion, Obligation, and Political Identity in the American Revolution” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177783.
Rosenior, Derrick Rodney, “Toward Racial Reconciliation: Collective Memory, Myth, and Nostalgia in American Pentecostalism” (Howard University, 2005). Order No. DA3184886.
Snyder, Robert Arthur, “William T. Brantly (1787–1845): A Southern Unionist and the Breakup of the Triennial Convention” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005). Order No. DA3181605.
Spear, Sonja, “Jesus the Jew: Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic Construction of Jesus in an Age of Anti-Semitism, 1890–1940” (Indiana University, 2005). Order No. DA3185401.
Stanwood, Owen Charles, “Creating the Common Enemy: Catholics, Indians, and the Politics of Fear in Imperial North America, 1678–1700” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177813.
Steel, Laura Szumanski, “In the Name of the Father: The American Catholic Church and United States Foreign Policy during the Vietnam War” (Temple University, 2005). Order No. DA3178832.
Sutton, Matthew Avery, “Aimee Semple McPherson and the Remaking of American Faith, Politics, and Culture” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Order No. DA3178751.
Conforti, Joseph A., Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 236 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8018-8253-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8018-8254-0.)
Emerson, Michael O., with Rodney M. Woo, People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiv, 261 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-691-12451-5.)
Fleek, Sherman L., History May Be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion. (Spokane: Clark, 2006. 414 pp. $37.50, isbn 0-87062-343-5.)
Hill, Samuel S., ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 1: Religion. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xx, 248 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8078-3003-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5674-6.)
Michael, George, The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. viii, 397 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-7006-1444-3.)
Smith, Ryan K., Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 224 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8078-3025-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5689-4.)
The Christian Woman’s Exchange, ed., Creole Cookery. (Gretna: Pelican, 2005. xxvi, 223 pp. $23.00, isbn 1-58980-342-6.) Originally published in 1885.
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