Recent Scholarship
Religion
Abruzzo, Margaret, “Apologetics of Harmony: Mathew Carey and the Rhetoric of Religious Liberty,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 134 (Jan. 2010), 5–30.
Allen, Anne Beiser, “A Scandal in Niobrara: The Controversial Career of Rev. Samuel D. Hinman,” Nebraska History, 90 (Fall 2009), 114–29. Heavily illustrated.
Andersen, Rebecca, “Zionism in Zion: Salt Lake City’s Hadassah Chapter, 1943–1963,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2010), 39–57. Heavily illustrated.
Ashton, Dianne, “Quick to the Party: The Americanization of Hanukkah and Southern Jewry,” Southern Jewish History, 12 (2009), 1–38.
Baigent, Elizabeth, “‘Very Useful to Young Men in the Mills?’: Christian Youth Movements and Swedish Migrants in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, 1880–1930,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 29 (Winter 2010), 5–41.
Bergera, Gary James, “Ezra Taft Benson’s 1921–23 Mission to England,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Fall 2009), 85–111.
Codignola, Luca, “De ‘Cromwell de France’ à ‘brigand consommé’: Les catholiques de la région de l’Atlantique du Nord et Napoléon (1799–1815)” (From ‘Cromwell of France’ to ‘Brigand Consommé’: Catholics in the North Atlantic region and Napoléon), in Napoléon et les Amériques: Histoire atlantique et empire napoléonien (Napoleon and the Americas: Atlantic history and the Napoleonic empire), ed. Christophe Belaubre, Jordana Dym, and John Savage, 25–43. (Toulouse: Presses de l’Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 2009. 303 pp. isbn 978-2-912025-49-4.) In French.
Codignola, Luca, “The Role of Religious Missions in the Shaping of American Identity,” in Identità nazionale, memoria storica e le scienze umane: Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Firenze 11 Aprile 2008 (National identity, historical memory, and the humanities: Proceedings of the International Conference, Florence, April 11, 2008), ed. Roberto de Mattei and Bruce Cole, 18–23. (Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2009. isbn 978-88-8080-101-6.)
Embry, Jessie L., and John H. Brambaugh, “Preaching through Playing: Using Sports and Recreation in Missionary Work, 1911–64,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Fall 2009), 53–84.
Endicott, Lucas, “Settling the ‘Printing Business’: John Dickins and the Methodist Episcopal Book Concern from 1789 to 1798,” Methodist History, 48 (Jan. 2010), 81–91.
Friedman, Jonathan L., “Max Helfman in California: Creating Jewish Music,” Western States Jewish History, 42 (Fall 2009), 33–44.
Hajkowski, Stanislaw, “Father Justyn and the Rosary Hour,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Summer 2009), 59–82.
Hales, Brian C., “Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith’s Pre-Nauvoo Reputation,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Fall 2009), 112–90.
Halus, Eugene J., Jr., “The Difficult Ethnic and Religious Mind of Dennis Clark,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 45–57.
Hanners, John, “The Mighty Atom: Hymie Lichenstein,” Western States Jewish History, 42 (Fall 2009), 3–15.
Harper, Keith, “Downwind from the New England Rat: John Taylor, Organized Missions, and the Regionalization of Religious Identity on the American Frontier,” Ohio Valley History, 9 (Fall 2009), 25–42.
Harrington, Ann M., “Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: The Philadelphia Connection, 1833–1843,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 17–30.
Hatle, Elizabeth Dorsey, and Nancy M. Vaillancourt, “‘One Flag, One School, One Language’: The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s,” Minnesota History, 61 (Winter 2009–2010), 360–71. Heavily illustrated.
Hinshaw, Gregory P., “Southern Friends in the Settlement and Organization of Randolph County, Indiana, 1814–1830,” Quaker History, 98 (Fall 2009), 26–47.
Horton, Shaun, “Of Pastors and Petticoats: Humor and Authority in Puritan New England,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Dec. 2009), 608–36.
Kealy, Marie Hubert, “Immigrant Church to University: Growth of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Eastern Pennsylvania,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 31–43.
Kogan, Nathaniel Smith, “The Mormon Pavilion: Mainstreaming the Saints at the New York World’s Fair, 1964–65,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Fall 2009), 1–52.
Mace, Emily R., “Feminist Forerunners and a Usable Past: A Historiography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 25 (Fall 2009), 5–23.
Praszalowicz, Dorota, “Polish American Sisterhood: The Americanization Process,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Summer 2009), 45–57.
Preston, Andrew, “The Politics of Realism and Religion: Christian Responses to Bush’s New World Order,” Diplomatic History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 95–118.
Pula, James S., “Polish American Catholics: A Case Study in Cultural Determinism,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Summer 2009), 1–19.
Rademacher, Nicholas, “‘To Relate the Eucharist to Real Living’: Mother Teresa and Dorothy Day at the Forty-First International Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 59–72.
Radzilowski, John, “A Social History of Polish American Catholicism,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Summer 2009), 21–43.
Radzilowski, Thaddeus C., “Father Jozef Dabrowski, the Orchard Lake Schools and Shaping of Polish American Catholicism,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Summer 2009), 83–107.
Rogers, Mark C., “A Missional Eschatology: Jonathan Edwards, Future Prophecy, and the Spread of the Gospel,” Fídes et Hístoría, 41 (Winter–Spring 2009), 23–46.
Rzeznik, Thomas, “The Church in the Changing City: Parochial Restructuring in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Historical Perspective,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 73–90.
Sledge, Robert W., “‘Till Charity Wept’: 1844 Revisted,” Methodist History, 48 (Jan. 2010), 92–112.
Taber, Rob, “The Church Enters the Media Age: Joseph F. Merrill and Gordon B. Hinckley,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Fall 2009), 218–32.
Treviño, Jennifer Newman, “Elizabeth Rhodes: An Alabama Woman’s Religious Beliefs during the Civil War,” Alabama Review, 62 (Oct. 2009), 243–61.
Warren, Martin L., “The Quakers as Parrhesiasts: Frank Speech and Plain Speaking as the Fruits of Silence,” Quaker History, 98 (Fall 2009), 1–25.
Watson, William, “The Sisters of Charity, the 1832 Cholera Epidemic in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 1–16.
Willey, Susan K., “The Founding of the Dallas Morning News’ Religion Section,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 194–204.
Woods, Fred E., “The 1854 Mormon Emigration at the Missouri-Kansas Border,” Kansas History, 32 (Winter 2009–2010), 226–45. Heavily illustrated.
Agee, Gary Bruce, “‘A Cry for Justice’: Daniel A. Rudd’s Ecclesiologically-Centered Vision of Justice in the American Catholic Tribune” (University of Dayton, 2008). Order No. DA3346846.
Alexander-Payne, Dawn Leslie, “Alexander Campbell and the Dilemma of Republican Millennialism” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3352827.
Brassaw, Mandolin R., “Divine Heresy: Women’s Revisions of Sacred Texts” (University of Oregon, 2008). Order No. DA3346641.
Breidenstein, Rychie Lynn, “‘That Thy House May Be Filled’: A Study of Earliest American Methodist Lay Worship Leaders between 1766 and 1773 Philip Embury, Robert Strawbridge, Joseph Pilmore and Francis Asbury” (Drew University, 2009). Order No. DA3351881.
Brown, Carolynne Hitter, “Singing through Struggle: Music as a Mode of Cultural Exchange in African American Border City Churches after Emancipation, 1862–1890” (Boston University School of Theology, 2009). Order No. DA3357444.
Chapman, Phillip Douglas, “The Whole Gospel for the Whole World: A History of the Bible School Movement within American Pentecostalism, 1880–1920” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3347851.
Crawford, Theodore Wesley, “From Segregation to Independence: African Americans in Churches of Christ” (Vanderbilt University, 2008). Order No. DA3346808.
Croft, Wayne E., “‘You Jes’ Wait a Little’: A Comparison of the Motif of Hope in African American Preaching during the Slave and Post–Civil War Periods” (Drew University, 2009). Order No. DA3351882.
Dow, Donald W., “Internal Differences: Secularism, Religion, and Poetic Form in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349876.
Duncan, Christopher M., “Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Southern Presbyterian Divine” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3348264.
Ebel, Donald J, “The Sacred Enterprise: Religion and Attitudes toward Work and Retirement in the United States” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3347415.
Gilmore, Peter E., “Rebels and Revivals: Ulster Immigrants, Western Pennsylvania, Presbyterianism, and the Formation of Scotch-Irish Identity, 1780–1830” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2009). Order No. DA3353014.
Gourley, Bruce Thomas, “Baptists in Middle Georgia during the Civil War” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3348267.
Harper, Matthew James Zacharias, “Living in God’s Time: African-American Faith and Politics in Post-emancipation North Carolina” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3352675.
Hiebert, Bruce, “A Crisis of Masculinity: North American Mennonites and World War I” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2008).
Hiebert, Bruce, “A Crisis of Masculinity: North American Mennonites and World War I” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR46799.
Hogan, Margaret A., “Sister Servants: Catholic Women Religious in Antebellum Kentucky” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3348859.
Hostutler, Jason, “Smokestacks and Steeples: A Case Study of the Reciprocal Relationship between the Catholic Church and Industrial Milwaukee, 1870–1929” (Marquette University, 2009). Order No. DA3357954.
King, Amy Laine, “Evangelical Confessions: An Ideological Struggle over Evangelical Political Identity” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3352979.
Kinney, Jill, “‘Letters, Pen, and Tilling the Field’: Quaker Schools among the Seneca Indians on the Allegany River, 1798–1852” (University of Rochester, 2009). Order No. DA3357056.
Lipoma, Lorraine, “Laughing with Lucifer: Satan Comedy in American Literature and Popular Culture” (Union Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3347413.
Menikoff, Aaron, “Piety and Politics: Baptist Social Reform in America, 1770–1860” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3356770.
Miller, John R., “The Pentecostal Feminism of Elizabeth V. Baker” (Regent University, 2009). Order No. DA3351254.
Nytroe, Sarah K., “Religion and Memory in American Public Culture, 1890–1920” (Boston College, 2009). Order No. DA3351239.
Oakes, John Stephen, “‘Conservative Revolutionaries’–A Study of the Religious and Political Thought of John Wise, Jonathan Mayhew, Andrew Eliot, and Charles Chauncey” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR46819.
Oppedisano, Callie, “‘Worthy of Imitation’: Contemporary Mormon Drama on the Latter Day Stage” (Tufts University, 2009). Order No. DA3354703.
Richards, Roger Charles, “Actions and Attitudes of Southern Baptists toward Blacks 1845–1895” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3348532.
Rivers, Loretta Gail, “Southern Baptist Settlement Work in New Orleans, 1946–1969” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3353005.
Sano, Joelle M., “Making the Grade: Moral Framing and the Catholic Teachers Union of New Jersey” (Boston College, 2009). Order No. DA3349580.
Steinwert, Tiffany L., “Homosexuality and the United Methodist Church: An Ecclesiological Dilemma” (Boston University School of Theology, 2009). Order No. DA3357446.
Vietoris, John M., “‘A Golden Opportunity for Reaping a Harvest of Souls’: A History of Ministry to African American Catholics in Milwaukee, 1908–1963” (Marquette University, 2009). Order No. DA3357976.
Welsh, Thomas G., “Cross Purposes: Catholic Disunity and the Decline of Youngstown’s Parochial Elementary Schools, 1964–2006” (Kent State University, 2009). Order No. DA3353335.
Yu, Keyone Kale, “The Education of an Activist: Bishop Hae-Jong Kim and His Leadership in the Korean Faith Community” (Columbia University, 2009). Order No. DA3348407.
Elmore, A. E., Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: Echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xiv, 265 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2951-9.)
Issel, William, For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. viii, 206 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-4399-0028-4.)
Kelly, Timothy, The Transformation of American Catholicism: The Pittsburgh Laity and the Second Vatican Council, 1950–1972. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. xvi, 353 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-268-03319-4.)
Zakai, Avihu, Historia ve apocalypsa: Dat ve toda’a historit be reshit ha’et ha’hadasha be Europa ve America (History and apocalypse: Religion and historical consciousness in early modern history of Europe and America). (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2008. 376 pp. isbn 978-965-342-981-9.) In Hebrew.
Sypher, Francis J., Jr., ed., Liber A: 1628–1700 of the Collegiate Churches of New York. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009. lxviii, 372 pp. $49.00, isbn 978-0-8028-6509-0.)
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