Recent Scholarship
Religion
Aoyagi, Kaori, “Tomasu Sekkâ to Amerika shukyô hakenkeikaku” (Thomas Secker and American bishops: The church of England in mid-eighteenth-century British America), Seiyoshigaku (Kyoto), 227 (2007), 44–63. In Japanese.
Bankhurst, Benjamin, “A Looking-Glass for Presbyterians: Recasting a Prejudice in Late Colonial Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (Oct. 2009), 317–48.
Bearman, Alan F., and Jennifer L. Mills, “Charles M. Sheldon and Charles F. Parham,” Kansas History, 32 (Summer 2009), 106–23.
Catron, John, “Early Black–Atlantic Christianity in the Middle Colonies: Social Mobility and Race in Moravian Bethlehem,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Spring 2009), 301–45.
Chappel, David, “Uma pedra de esperança: A fé profética, o liberalismo e a morte das leis Jim Crow” (A stone of hope: Prohetic faith, liberalism, and the death of Jim Crow), Tempo (Rio de Janeiro), 13 (no. 25, 2008), 75–108. In Portugese.
DeRogatis, Amy, “‘Born Again Is A Sexual Term’: Demons, stds, and God’s Healing Sperm,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 77 (June 2009), 275–302.
Derr, Jill Mulvay, and Carol Cornwall Madsen, “Preserving the Record and Memory of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842–92,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2009), 88–117.
Edwards, Mark, “‘More Catholic Than Protestant’: Walter Marshall Horton and the Faith of Evangelical Catholicism,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 78 (Sept. 2009), 279–303. ‘.
Elliott, Clare, “‘A Backward Glance O’er’ the (Dis)United States: William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the ‘Authentic American Religion,’” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 1, 2009), 75–93.
Grow, Matthew J., “The Suffering Saints: Thomas L. Kane, Democratic Reform, and the Mormon Question in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 681–710.
Grubiak, Margaret M., “Reassessing Yale’s Cathedral Orgy: The Ecclesiastical Metaphor and the Sterling Memorial Library,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Summer/Autumn 2009), 159–84.
Harms, Matthew, “Short-Term Work for Long-Term Change: An Early History of swap, door, and Group Venture,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 83 (Oct. 2009), 571–602.
Hartley, Benjamin L., “Philadelphia’s ‘Five Points’: Evangelism and Social Welfare at the Bedford Street Mission,” Methodist History, 48 (Oct. 2009), 10–22.
Hartley, William G., “Letters and Mail between Kirtland and Independence: A Mormon Postal History, 1831–33,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2009), 163–79.
Johnson, Brandon, “To Lay Bare All of Spiritualism’s Shams: Harry Waite and Oscar Eliason’s Anti-medium Crusade,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Fall 2009), 316–32.
Kashay, Jennifer Fish, “Missionaries and Foodways in Early Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i,” Food & Foodways, 17 (July 2009), 159–80.
Kugelmann, Robert, “Out of the Ghetto: Integrating Catholics into Mainstream Psychology in the United States after World War II,” History of Psychology, 12 (Aug. 2009), 201–26.
Malloy, Jonathan, “Bush/Harper? Canadian and American Evangelical Politics Compared,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 39 (Winter 2009), 352–63.
Mielke, Andreas, “Kocherthal’s Books: The Library of New York’s ‘First Lutheran Pastor for the Germans,’” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 82 (Summer 2009), 85–128.
Paddison, Joshua, “Anti-Catholicism and Race in Post–Civil War San Francisco,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Nov. 2009), 505–44.
Parekh, Trushna, “Of Armed Guards and Kente Cloth: Afro-Creole Catholics and the Battle for St. Augustine Parish in Post–Katrina New Orleans,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 557–82.
Repousis, Angelo, “‘The Devil’s Apostle’: Jonas King’s Trial against the Greek Hierarchy in 1852 and the Pressure to Extend U.S. Protection for American Missionaries Overseas,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Nov. 2009), 807–37.
Russell, Charles D., “Islam as a Danger to Republican Virtue: Broadening Religious Liberty in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Summer 2009), 250–75.
Saxton, Alex, “The God Debates and the Materialist Interpretation of History,” Science & Society, 73 (Oct. 2009), 474–97.
Schuldheisz, Samuel P., “Shephard of Missouri: The Life and Theology of Friedrich Johann Pfotenhauer, Part One,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 82 (Summer 2009), 66–84.
Schwadel, Philip, John D. McCarthy, and Hart M. Nelsen, “The Continuing Relevance of Family Income for Religious Participation: U.S. White Catholic Church Attendance in the Late 20th Century,” Social Forces, 87 (June 2009), 1997–2030.
Sleeper, Jim, “American Brethren: Hebrews and Puritans,” World Affairs, 172 (Fall 2009), 46–60.
Smith, Konden R., “The Reed Smoot Hearings and the Theology of Politics: Perceiving an ‘American’ Identity,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2009), 118–62.
Stapley, Jonathan A., and Kristine Wright, “The Forms and the Power: The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2009), 42–87.
Thompson, David, “Oliver Otis Howard: Reassessing the Legacy of the ‘Christian General,’” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (Sept. 2009), 273–98.
Walters, Kevin L., “Balancing Freedom and Unity: John Carlisle Kilgo and the Unification of Methodism in America,” Methodist History, 48 (Oct. 2009), 43–57.
Wheeler, Anne P., “The Music of the Early Nineteenth-Century Camp Meeting Song in Service to Evangelistic Revival,” Methodist History, 48 (Oct. 2009), 23–42.
Amenda, Phyllis Jean, “‘God Bless the Revolution’: Episcopalians and Social Justice, 1885–1919” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3339391.
Ashurst-McGee, Mark Roscoe, “Zion Rising: Joseph Smith’s Early Social nad Political Thought” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3338414.
Christian, Timothy Keith, “The Twofold Influence of Modernism and a Key Concept on the Theology of Augustus Hopkins Strong as Reflected in the Eighth Edition of His ‘Systematic Theology’” (University of South Africa, 2008).
Cochran, David, “Revolutionary Antislavery: Birth of an American Propetic Tradition” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331247.
Coffman, Elesha J., “Constituting the Protestant Mainline: ‘The Christian Century,’ 1908–1947” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3331208.
Green, William H., “‘Tumultuous Meetings’ and the Fury of Freedom: Rethinking African American Religion” (Syracuse University, 2004). Order No. DA3343467.
Guthman, Joshua Aaron, “‘What I Am ’Tis Hard to Know’: Primitive Baptists, the Protestant Self, and the American Religious Imagination” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3331030.
Halvorson, Britt E., “Lutheran in Two Worlds: Remaking Mission from Madagascar to the Midwest United States” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343081.
Hogan, Robin Michelle, “Emergent Female Leadership in African American Churches: Experiences, Barriers, and Issues” (Fielding Graduate Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3343848.
Jacumin, Charles Martin, “A Theological and Historical Analysis of the Southern Baptist Convention Peace Committee, 1985–1987” (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3343436.
Kinchen, Thomas Alexander, Jr, “‘Africa Is Doubtless to Be Evangelized’: Assessing Southern Baptist Mission Focus, Education, and Spiritual Awakening among Liberians, 1846–1880, through an Examination of the Ministries of John Day, John H. Cheeseman, and Boston J. Drayton” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3343438.
Laird, Rebecca J., “Sacred Space, Sacred Stories: An Appreciative Congregational History of Central Presbyterian Church of Summit, New Jersey” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3340962.
Majied-Muhammad Martinez, Wynona, “Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion: Social Reconstruction and African-American Converts to an Islamic Ethic” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3331187.
Mann, Randolph Terrance, “Redaction Criticism of the Synoptic Gospels: Its Role in the Interrancy Debate within North American Evangelicalism” (University of South Africa, 2007).
Maurer, Susan A., “The Spirit of Enthusiasm: A History of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (1967–2000)” (St. John’s University, New York, 2009). Order No. DA3341152.
Medina, Néstor, “‘Race,’ Culture, and Faith: (Re)mapping the Development of Mestizaje in Theology” (University of St. Michael’s College, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR43217.
Miller, Paul Clinton, “The Influence of Liberal Reform on the Evolution of 20th Century Catholic Social Thought: A Study of John C. Cort and the Vocational Group Plan” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3339379.
Olsen, Daniel H., “Contesting Identity, Space, and Sacred Site Management at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah” (University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR43329.
Paddison, Joshua Allen, “American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3343324.
Popowski, Mark, “Roman Catholic Crusading in Ten Years of ‘Triumph,’ 1966–1976: A History of a Lay-Directed, Radical Catholic Journal” (Oklahoma State University, 2008). Order No. DA3341758.
Regensburg, Margaret, “The Religious Sisters of the Good Shepherd and the Professionalization of Social Work” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3337604.
Smith, Wayne Peter, “An Assessment of the Life, Theology, and Influence of the First American of American Methodism: Mr. William Watters” (University of South Africa, 2008).
Wheaton, Deidre Lyniece, “Seeking Salvation: Black Messianism, Racial Formation, and Christian Thought in Late Twentieth Century Black Cultural Texts” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343252.
Yoon, C. Insun, “Civilizing Mission for Women: American Methodist Missionary Women and Social Change in Korea, 1885–1940” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3340965.
Elias, John L., and Lucinda A. Nolan, eds., Educators in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. (Fairfield: Sacred Heart, 2009. x, 336 pp. $28.95, isbn 978-1-888112-18-4.)
Gariepy, Henry, Christianity in Action: The International History of the Salvation Army. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009. xvi, 286 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8028-4841-3.)
Hughes, Richard T., Christian America and the Kingdom of God. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xviii, 211 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-03285-1.)
Kennedy, Thomas C., A History of Southland College: The Society of Friends and Black Education in Arkansas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. xii, 349 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-55728-916-2.)
London, Samuel G., Jr., Seventh-Day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. x, 194 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-272-6.)
Poole, W. Scott, Satan in America: The Devil We Know. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xxvi, 243 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7425-6171-7.)
Stephens, Randall J., ed., Recent Themes in American Religious History: Historians in Conversation. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. x, 164 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-57003-869-3.)
Ward, Patricia A., Experimental Theology in America: Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2009. xvi, 279 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-1-60258-197-5.)
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