Recent Scholarship
Religion
Berry, Lee Roy, Jr., “Mennonites, African-Americans, the U.S. Constitution, and the Problem of Assimilation,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 80 (July 2006), 337–70.
Beuttler, Fred W., “‘The Third Book’: Interpreting Revelation and History in the American Context,” Fídes et Hístoría, 37–38 (Summer–Fall, Winter–Spring 2005–2006), 97–117.
Border, Barrett Kent, and Dan Gentry Kent, “The Quiet Revolutionary: Amelia Morton Bishop,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Winter 2006), 91–101.
Boyd, Robert L., “Was the Ministry an Ethnic Niche for Urban Blacks in the Early Twentieth Century?,” Social Science Journal, 43 (no. 3, 2006), 335–42.
Carroll, Michael P., “How the Irish Became Protestant in America,” Religion and American Culture, 16 (Winter 2006), 25–54.
Chaves, Mark, “All Creatures Great and Small: Megachurches in Context,” Review of Religious Research, 47 (June 2006), 329–46.
Ciernick, Helen M., “Catholic College Students in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Civil Rights Movement,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Spring 2006), 131–41.
Dierksheide, Christa, “Missionaries, Evangelical Identity, and the Religious Ecology of Early Nineteenth-Century South Carolina and the British Caribbean,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 7 (March 2006), 63–88.
Endres, David J., “An International Dimension to American Anticommunism: Mission Awareness and Global Consciousness in the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade, 1935–1955,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Spring 2006), 89–108.
Enochs, Ross, “The Franciscan Mission to the Navajos: Mission Method and Indigenous Religion, 1898–1940,” Catholic Historical Review, 92 (Jan. 2006), 46–73.
From, Joel L., “The Uniform Operations of Grace: Nature, Mind, and Gospel in Early-Nineteenth Century Evangelicalism,” Fídes et Hístoría, 37–38 (Summer–Fall, Winter–Spring 2005–2006), 137–50.
Gellman, Erik S., and Jarod H. Roll, “Owen Whitfield and the Gospel of the Working Class in New Deal America, 1936–1946,” Journal of Southern History, 72 (May 2006), 303–48.
Gross, Stephen, “The Grasshopper Shrine at Cold Spring, Minnesota: Religion and Market Capitalism among German-American Catholics,” Catholic Historical Review, 92 (April 2006), 215–43.
Hutton, Leon, “The Future Pope Comes to America: Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli’s Visit to the United States,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Spring 2006), 109–30.
Komonchak, Joseph A., “The American Contribution to Dignitatis Humanae: The Role of John Courtney Murray, S.J.,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Winter 2006), 1–20.
Lofton, Kathryn, “The Methodology of the Modernists: Process in American Protestantism,” Church History, 75 (June 2006), 374–402.
Lohrenz, Otto, “The Life and Career of Christopher MacRae: A Nonjuring and Physically Abused Anglican Clergyman of Revolutionary Virginia,” Southern Studies, 13 (Fall–Winter 2006), 117–35.
Lucas, Sean Michael, “‘Our Church Will Be On Trial’: W. M. McPheeters and the Beginnings of Conservative Dissent in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Spring–Summer 2006), 52–66.
McNamara, Patrick J., “Russia, Rome, and Recognition: American Catholics and Anticommunism in the 1920s,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Spring 2006), 71–88.
Milich, Klaus J., “Fundamentalism Hot and Cold: George W. Bush and the ‘Return of the Sacred,’” Cultural Critique (no. 62, Winter 2006), 92–125.
Moorhead, James H., “Is Mainstream Protestantism in Decline?,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 84 (Spring–Summer 2006), 67–76.
Pearlstein, Peggy Kronsberg, “Macey Kronsberg: Institution Builder of Conservative Judaism in Charleston, S.C., and the Southeast,” Southern Jewish History, 8 (2005), 161–204.
Scales, T. Laine, “Jewell Legett and the Social Curriculum: The Education of a Southern Baptist Woman Missionary at the wmu Training School, 1908–1909,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Winter 2006), 77–90.
Schlabach, Theron F., “Guy F. Hershberger’s War, Peace, and Nonresistance (1944): Background, Genesis, Message,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 80 (July 2006), 293–335.
Segady, Thomas W., “Traditional Religion, Fundamentalism, and Institutional Transition in the 20th Century,” Social Science Journal, 43 (no. 2, 2006), 197–209.
Silong, Li, “Meiguode Zhongguo fujiao yanjiu” (Contemporary studies of Chinese Buddhism in America), Journal of Peking University (Beijing) (no. 2, 2004), 126–32. In Chinese.
Smith, Peter, “The Story of Asenath Brewster: Pioneer in Urban Missions and Mentor of Southern Baptist Leaders,” Baptist History & Heritage, 41 (Winter 2006), 102–13.
Swensen, Rolf, “‘A State of Unrest and Division’: Christian Science in Oregon, 1890–1910,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Winter 2005–2006), 11–18.
Taysom, Stephen C., “‘There is always a way of escape’: Continuity and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Boundary Maintenance Strategies,” Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Summer 2006), 183–206.
Urban, Hugh B., “Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 74 (June 2006), 356–89.
Villerbu, T., “Faire l’histoire Catholique de l’ouest Américain au 19e S. Une terre de missions à réévaluer” (Writing the history of Catholicism in the American west in the 19th century. A place of mission to be reevaluated), Revue d‘Histoire Ecclésiastique (Paris), 101 (no. 1, 2006), 117–42.
Williams, Learotha, “‘Leave the pulpit and go into the . . . school room’: Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs and the Board of Missions for Freedmen in North and South Carolina, 1865–1866,” Southern Studies, 13 (Spring–Summer 2006), 89–104.
Xiaoyu, Peng, “Jiaoyu yu guojiagunxi de ’xiaodaihua’—Meiguo tianzhujiao minzuzhuyi de xinghsuai” (The modernization of religion and nation—The rise and decline of Catholic nationalism in the United States), Modernization Research (Beijing) (no. 2, 2003), 115–49. In Chinese.
Andreassi, Anthony D., “‘Begun in faith and grit and God’: The Sisters of the Divine Compassion, 1869–1954” (Georgetown University, 2004). Order No. DA3193300.
Rubel, Nora L., “‘Muggers in black coats’: Gender and the Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3190305.
Schultz, Kevin Michael, “The Decline of the Melting Pot: Catholics, Jews, and Pluralism in Postwar America” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3190864.
Turner, John G., “Selling Jesus to Modern America: Campus Crusade for Christ, Evangelical Culture, and Conservative Politics” (University of Notre Dame, 2006). Order No. DA3191921.
Bezanson, Randall P., How Free Can Religion Be? (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii, 286 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-03112-0.)
Griffith, R. Marie, Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiv, 323 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-520-21753-5. Paper, $21.95, isbn 0-520-24240-8.)
Lebedev, L. A., “Kolumby Rosskie.” Apostol’stvo Russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi v Amerike (XVIII–XIX vv.) (“Russian Columbuses”: Apostels of the Russian Orthodox Church in America [18th–19th centuries]). (2003: Russian Chronograph, 2003. 189 pp. isbn 5-851-34043-6.) In Russian.
May, Dean L., and Reid L. Neilson, eds., The Mormon History Association’s Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 406 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03052-9. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07288-8.)
Thompson, Charles D., Jr., The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxxvi, 219 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03103-8. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07343-4.)
Homer, Michael W., ed., On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834–1930. (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 2006. 420 pp. $39.50, isbn 0-87062-341-9.)
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