Recent Scholarship
Religion
Ammerman, Nancy T., “Southern Baptists and the New Christian Right,” Review of Religious Research, 50 (Oct. 2008), 69–91.
Brenneman, Robert, “Embodied Forgiveness: Yoder and the (Body) Politics of Footwashing,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 83 (Jan. 2009), 7–28.
Crumb, Lawrence N., “The Extra-Canonical Ordination of Bishops and the Episcopal Church,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 77 (Dec. 2008), 402–13.
Day, Sara, “Harriet E. Freeman and the Larger Life of Edward Everett Hale,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 32 (2008), 21–90.
Edwards, Mark, “‘God Has Chosen Us’: Re-membering Christian Realism, Rescuing Christendom, and the Contest of Responsibilities during the Cold War,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 67–94.
Faught, Jerry L., “John Davis and Joseph Islands: Indigenous Missionaries among the Creeks in Indian Territory,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Spring 2008), 32–43.
Flowers, Elizabeth H., “‘A Man, a Christian . . . And a Gentleman?’: John Day, Southern Baptists, and the Nineteenth-Century Mission to Liberia,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Spring 2008), 70–85.
Grasso, Christopher, “Skepticism and Faith: The Early Republic,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Hart, D. G., “After the Breakup, Heartbreak: Conservative Presbyterians without a Common Foe,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 86 (Fall–Winter 2008), 61–70.
Hoge, Dean R., “Interpreting Change in American Catholicism: The River and the Floodgate,” Review of Religious Research, 50 (Oct. 2008), 55–65.
Holcomb, J. David, “A Millstone Hanged about His Neck? George W. Truett, Anti-Catholicism, and Baptist Conceptions of Religious Liberty,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Summer–Fall 2008), 68–81.
Hughes, Lynn Gordon, “Orestes A. Brownson’s This-Worldly Universalism,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 32 (2008), 1–20.
Jamal, Amaney, “The Racialization of Muslim Americans,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 200–15. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)
Meyer, Scott J., “Missouri Synod Chicagoland Churches and Home Missions: Part Two,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 81 (Fall 2008), 154–76.
Miller, Keith Graber, “Transforming Vocation: A Mennonite Perspective,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 83 (Jan. 2009), 29–48.
Morgan, Michelle, “‘We’ve Spoiled Your Prison for You’: Gender & Anti-Catholicism in Early 19th-Century Convent Captivity Narratives,” New England Journal of History, 65 (Fall 2008), 56–78.
Newman, Harvey K., and Glenda Krunk, “Religious Leaders in the Aftermath of Atlanta’s 1906 Race Riot,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Winter 2008), 460–85.
Nisbet, Erik C., Ronald Ostman, and James Shanahan, “Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 161–99. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)
Pitman, Bambra (Barb), “Culture, Caste, and Conflict in New Orleans Catholicism: Archbishop Francis Janssens and the Color Line,” Louisiana History, 49 (Fall 2008), 423–62.
Ricketts, Jeremy R., “Tennessee’s 1884 ‘Mormon Massacre’ and the Cane Creek Vigilante Movement,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Fall 2008), 208–35.
Scott, John Thomas, “‘Next to Nothing’: Benjamin Ingham’s Mission to Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Fall 2008), 287–320.
Sinno, Abdulkader H., “Muslim Underrepresentation in American Politics,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 69–95. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)
Underwood, William D., “The Metaphor of the Wall of Separation: Baptists and the First Amendment,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Summer–Fall 2008), 27–43.
Voelker, David J., “Cincinnati’s Infernal Regions Exhibit and the Waning of Calvinist Authority,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (Sept. 2008), 219–39.
Walker, C. Douglas, “Baptists and the First Amendment: An Historical Overview,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Summer–Fall 2008), 8–26.
Woods, Fred E., “A Most Influential Mormon Islander: Jonathan Hawaii Napela,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 135–57.
Brodrecht, Grant R., “‘Our Country’: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3309161.
Callon, David Jerome, “Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840–1896” (Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3316599.
Chen, Liang (Larry), “From a Christian Socialist to a Christian Realist: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Soviet Union, 1930–1945” (National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2008).
Clark, Adam L., “Honoring the Ancestors: Toward an Afrocentric Approach to Christian Theology” (Union Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3314595.
Cohen, Michael R., “Schechter’s Disciples: How Solomon Schechter’s Students Created Conservative Judaism, 1902–1946” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3304015.
Egan, James Truett, “The Impact of William Tennent Sr. on the First Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies” (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3305474.
Fanusie, Fatimah Abdul-Tawwab, “Fard Muhammad in Historical Context: An Islamic Thread in the American Religious and Cultural Quilt” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3307750.
Gasaway, Brantley W., “An Alternative Soul of Politics: The Rise of Contemporary Progressive Evangelism” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304416.
Gilbert, Kenyatta R., “A Time to Preach, a Time to Cry: An Investigation into the Nature of Prophetic Preaching in Black Churches during the Great Migration Period, 1916–1940” (Princeton Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3316572.
Hackett, Paul Gerard, “Barbarian Lands: Theos Bernard, Tibet, and the American Religious Life” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305226.
Herzog, Jonathan, “The Hammer and the Cross: America’s Holy War against Communism” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313585.
Iwig-O’Byrne, Liam, “How Methodists Were Made: ‘The Arminian Magazine’ and Spiritual Transformation in the Transatlantic World, 1778–1803” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307252.
Johnson, Michelle, “‘Pure and Undefiled Religion’: David Walker’s Use of the Bible against the Christian Slaveocracy in America” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3308405.
Karppi, Daniel G., “Render unto Caeser, Render unto God: Texas Denominational Colleges and Universities and the Politics of the Civil War Era” (Baylor University, 2008). Order No. DA3310773.
Kenny, Gale L., “Contentious Liberties: Gendered Power and Religious Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century American Mission to Jamaica” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309898.
Lamb, Lisa Washington, “To Remember Well Together: Preaching and the Formation of Ethnically Diverse Congregations” (Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Theology, 2008). Order No. DA3308926.
Lang, John C., “William Sloane Coffin Jr.: Preacher to America’s Conscience” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3308665.
Legath, Jennifer Anne Wiley, “The Phoebe Phenomenon: The Protestant Deaconess Movement in the United States, 1880–1930” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3305301.
McIlhenny, Ryan, “To Preach Deliverance to the Captives: Antislavery and Anti-Catholicism in the Religious Writings of George Bourne (1780–1845)” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3308604.
Miles, Mary C., “Democracy Within: Religious Outsiders and the Americanization of Psychoanalysis during and after World War II” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3317448.
Monk, Karen Annita, “‘My Lord, My Love, Is Crucified!’ A Theological and Depth Psychological Exploration of Vicissitudes of Aggression, Mourning, and Grace in Good Friday Worship in the United Methodist Church” (Union Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3314596.
Park, Jung Eun Sophia, “A Hermeneutics of Dislocation as Experience: A Resource for Asian American Christian Spirituality” (Graduate Theological Union, 2008). Order No. DA3313236.
Pingel, Jim, “Providential Leader: The Influence and Impact of Religion on George Washington” (Cardinal Stritch University, 2008). Order No. DA3313830.
Powell, Damon A., “Black Is Beautiful: An Exploration in Black Theology, Aesthetics & Art” (Graduate Theological Union, 2008). Order No. DA3313238.
Santiago Vendrell, Angel Daniel, “Contextual Theology and Revolutionary Transformation: The Missiology of M. Richard Shaull, 1942–2002” (Boston University School of Theology, 2008). Order No. DA3305404.
Shearer, Tobin Miller, “‘A Pure Fellowship’: The Danger and Necessity of Purity in White and African-American Mennonite Racial Exchange, 1935–1971” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3303602.
Smith, David P., “B. B. Warfield’s Scientifically Constructive Theological Scholarship” (Trinity International University, 2008). Order No. DA3308211.
Stern, Andrew, “Southern Cross, Southern Crucifix: Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310292.
Stewart, Caitlin Carenen, “Religious Diplomacy: American Protestants and a Jewish State, 1933–1979” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310293.
Stewart, Kenneth Todd, “An Inquiry into the Determinative Evangelistic Growth Factors at the First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, under the Leadership of W. A. Criswell, 1944–1991” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3313307.
Tanglen, Randi Lynn, “Reconfiguring Religion, Race, and the Female Body Politic in American Fiction by Women, 1859–1911” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3307979.
Wilcox, Jeffrey A., “A More Thorough Trinitarian: Reconsidering Moses Stuart’s Role in the Trinitarian Debate in New England, 1819–1850” (Marquette University, 2008). Order No. DA3306524.
Young, Neil J., “We Gather Together: Catholics, Mormons, Southern Baptists, and the Question of Interfaith Politics, 1972–1984” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3305279.
Alba, Richard, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind, eds., Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. vi, 407 pp. Cloth, $78.00, isbn 978-0-8147-0504-9. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-8147-0505-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Grabbe, Hans-Jürgen, ed., Halle Pietism, Colonial North America, and the Young United States. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. 321 pp. €59.00, isbn 978-3-515-08767-4.)
Hankins, Barry, Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xvi, 272 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-8028-6389-8.)
Jackson, Gregory S., The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 409 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-226-39003-1. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-226-39004-8.)
Lindman, Janet Moore, Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 270 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4114-3.)
Santana, Richard W., and Gregory Erickson, Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. vi, 225 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3553-1.)
Sinno, Abdulkader H., ed., Muslims in Western Politics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Smart, William B., Mormonism’s Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2008. x, 347 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-87421-722-3.) Includes cd.
Smith, John Howard, The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion: A History of Sandemanianism in the Eighteenth Century. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. x, 236 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2507-8.)
Walton, Jonathan L., Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9417-3. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9452-4.)
White, Christopher G., Unsettled Minds: Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830–1940. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xii, 266 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-520-25679-8.)
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