Recent Scholarship
Religion
Braun, Mark, “The Black Geneva Piety of the Wisconsin Synod: An Analysis of the Changing View of the Relationship of Doctrine and Liturgy within the wels: Part Two,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Winter 2006), 206–34.
Connerly, Jennifer, “Fighting Quakers: A Jet Black Whiteness,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Autumn 2006), 373–441.
Crow, Paul A., Jr., “From cocu to cuic: The Struggle for Reconciliation and Faithfulness,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Fall–Winter 2006), 123–38.
Dekar, Paul R., “The ‘Good War’ and Baptists Who Refused to Fight It,” Peace & Change, 32 (April 2007), 186–202.
Embry, Jessie L., “The Church Follows the Flag: U.S. Foreign Aid, Utah Universities, the lds Church, and Iran, 1950–64,” Journal of Mormon History, 32 (Fall 2006), 141–79.
Findlay, James F., Jr., “Glimpses of Recent History: The National Council of Churches, 1974–2004,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Fall–Winter 2006), 152–69.
Harder, Tom, “The Dichotomy between Faithfulness and Effectiveness in the Peace Theology of John Howard Yoder,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (April 2007), 227–42.
Hartweg, Rhonda D., “All in Raptures: The Spirituality of Sarah Anderson Jones,” Methodist History, 45 (April 2007), 166–79.
Jortner, Adam, “Cholera, Christ, and Jackson: The Epidemic of 1832 and the Origins of Christian Politics in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 233–64.
Kimbrough, S. T., Jr., “Charles Wesley in Boston,” Methodist History, 45 (Jan. 2007), 111–33.
Kimbrough, S. T., Jr., “Charles Wesley in Georgia,” Methodist History, 45 (Jan. 2007), 77–110.
Kurien, Prema A., “Multiculturalism and ‘American’ Religion: The Case of Hindu Indian Americans,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 723–41.
Lantzer, Jason S., “The Origin of Indiana’s Dry Leader: The Revered Edward S. Shumaker and Midwestern Dry Culture,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (Jan. 2007), 71–98.
McCartin, James P., and Joseph A. McCartin, “Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Spring 2007), 99–100.
McKanan, Dan, “Inventing the Catholic Worker Family,” Church History, 76 (March 2007), 84–113.
Meyer, Carl S., “‘Poverty Its Birthright’: The Beginnings of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Winter 2006), 235–57.
Paulos, Michael Harold, “. . .I am not and never have been a polygamist’: Reed Smoot’s Speech before the United States Senate, February 19, 1907,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 100–115.
Portier, William L., “Pascendi’s Reception in the United States: The Case of Joseph McSorley,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Winter 2007), 13–30.
Radzilowski, John, “Miracle: American Polonia, Karol Wojtyla, and the Election of Pope John Paul II,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Spring 2006), 79–87.
Robinson, David M., “‘The New Epoch of Belief’: The Radical and Religious Transformation in Nineteenth-Century New England,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 557–77.
Scheve, Kenneth, and David Stasavage, “The Political Economy of Religion and Social Insurance in the United States, 1910–1939,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (Oct. 2006), 132–59.
Schneider, Robert A., “The Federal Council of Churches and American Presbyterians, 1900–1950,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Fall–Winter 2006), 103–22.
Sharkey, Heather J., “American Mission, Egyptian Church: The Making of a Coptic Evangelical Presbyterian Community,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Fall–Winter 2006), 170–80.
Stoneman, Timothy H. B., “Preparing the Soil for Global Revival: Station hcjb’s Radio Circle, 1949–59,” Church History, 76 (March 2007), 114–55.
Straker, Ian B., “Social Status in Early American Methodism: The Case of Freeborn Garrettson,” Methodist History, 45 (April 2007), 155–65.
Taylor, Judith M., “Cantor Reuben Rinder of San Francisco, 1887–1966,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Spring 2007), 223–35.
Thomas, Norman E., “United Methodist History of Mission Series,” Methodist History, 45 (April 2007), 140–54.
Weiner, Hollace Ava, and Lauraine Miller, “Little Synagogues across Texas,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Spring 2007), 195–221.
Wilczynski, Marek, “Lumen Obscurum: Coleridge and the Conservative Romantic Theology in New England,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (Dec. 2006), 599–610.
Yick, Joseph K. S., “Methodist-Chinese Friendship: Mr. & Mrs. John A. Pilley in Pre-1949 China,” Methodist History, 45 (April 2007), 180–89.
Anderson, Christopher J., “The World Is Our Parish: Displaying Home and Foreign Missions at the 1919 Methodist World’s Fair” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222201.
Bates, David Keith, Jr., “Moving Fundamentalism toward the Mainstream: John R. Rice and the Reengagement of America’s Religious and Political Cultures” (Kansas State University, 2006). Order No. DA3223365.
Bauer, John Thomas, “Stability and Change in United States Religious Regions, 1980–2000” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222183.
Blosser, Jacob M., “Pursuing Happiness: Cultural Discourse and Popular Religion in Anglican Virginia, 1700–1770” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224413.
Branstetter, Christopher J., “Purity, Power, and Pentecostal Light: The Revivalist Doctrine and Means of Aaron Merritt Hills” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222202.
Carpenter, Mark Allen, “An Interpretive Analysis of the Layman’s Prayer Revival of 1857–1858” (Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006). Order No. DA3216386.
Den Hartog, Jonathan J., “‘Patriotism and piety’: Orthodox Religion and Federalist Political Culture” (University of Notre Dame, 2006). Order No. DA3221319.
Eden, Jason Edward, “Negotiating a New Religious World: English Missionaries and American Indians in Colonial Southeastern Massachusetts” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3219990.
Fenton, Elizabeth, “Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in U.S. Literature and Culture, 1774–1889” (Rice University, 2006). Order No. DA3216704.
Fernheimer, Janice Wendi, “The Rhetoric of Black Jewish Identity Construction in America and Israel: 1964–1972” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3225418.
Fluhman, J. Spencer, “Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Antebellum America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222819.
Haberman, Aaron Louis, “Civil Rights on the Right: The Modern Christian Right and the Crusade for School Prayer, 1962–1996” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224435.
Hessel-Robinson, Timothy, “‘Be thou my onely well belov’d’: Exegesis and the Spirituality of Desire in Edward Taylor’s ‘Preparatory Meditations’ on the Song of Songs” (Graduate Theological Union, 2006). Order No. DA3220861.
Johnson, Robert A., Jr., “Full Moon over Washington: Charles Ferguson and the Religion of Democracy” (Union Theological Seminary, 2006). Order No. DA3222199.
Messer, Glen Alton, II, “Restless for Zion: New England Methodism, Holiness, and the Abolitionist Struggle, Circa 1789–1845” (Boston University School of Theology, 2006). Order No. DA3217955.
Nicastro, R. Vito, Jr., “From Division to Christian Unity: Factors Contributing to Full Communion between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church” (Boston College, 2006). Order No. DA3221273.
Rogers, Jaye Lee, “‘Ye are all one’: Missionaries in the Congo and the Dynamics of Race and Gender, 1890–1925” (Union Institute & University, 2006). Order No. DA3224996.
Slade, Peter Gordon, “Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3225066.
Yoon, Young-Hoon, “What Would Jesus Do? Charles Sheldon’s Legacy and American Evangelicalism” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222213.
Bartoloni, Stefania, ed., Per le strade del mondo. Laiche e religiose fra Otto e Novecento (On the roads of the world. Lay and religious life in the eighteenth and nineteenth century). (Bologna: Mulino, 2007. 456 pp. €33.00, isbn 978-88-15-11431-0.) In Italian.
Dierenfield, Bruce J., The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 263 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1525-4. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1526-1.)
Foley, Michael W., and Dean R. Hoge, Religion and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form Our Newest Citizens. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x, 265 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-19-518870-7.)
Koehlinger, Amy L., The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 304 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02473-1.)
Murray, David, Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 213 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-8122-3996-6.)
Robinson, Edward J., To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii, 212 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1555-9.)
Salvatore, Nick, ed., Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x, 196 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03143-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07382-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Slawson, Douglas J., Ambition and Arrogance: Cardinal William O’Connell of Boston and the American Catholic Church. (San Diego: Cobalt, 2007. xiv, 232 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-9787855-0-5.)
Wilson, Charles Reagan, Southern Missions: The Religion of the American South in Global Perspective. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2006. vi, 53 pp. Paper, $13.95, isbn 978-1-932792-67-6.)
Clark, Emily, ed., Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727–1760. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xii, 138 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3237-1.)
Cooper, James F., and Kenneth P. Minkema, eds., The Colonial Church Records of the First Church of Reading (Wakefield) and the First Church of Rumney Marsh (Revere). (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2006. 371 pp. $49.50, isbn 978-0-9620737-7-9.)
Frear, Sara S., ed., “‘You My Brother Will Be Glad With Me’: The Letters of Augusta Jane Evans to Walter Clopton Harriss, January 29, 1856, to October 29, 185[8?],” Alabama Review, 60 (April 2007), 111–41.
Huber, Patrick, “Father Oscar Huber, the Kennedy Assassination, and the News Leak Controversy: A Research Note,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Jan. 2007), 381–93.
Judson, Dan, “The Mercies of a Benign Judge: A Letter from Gershom Seixas to Hannah Adams, 1810,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 179–89.
Maryniak, Benedict R., and John Wesley Brinsfield Jr., eds., The Spirit Divided: Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains; The Union. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2007. xxxvi, 269 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-86554-996-8.)
Oehler, Gottlieb F., and David Z. Smith, “A Visit to the Pawnee,” ed. Richard E. Jensen, Nebraska History, 87 (Winter 2006), 142–72. Heavily illustrated.
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