Recent Scholarship
Religion
Alegranti, Joaquin, and Juan E. Bonin, “Cristianismo y nación: Relaciones entre pluralismo religioso y religión civil en los Estados Unidos” (Christianity and nation: The relationship between religious pluralism and civil religion in the United States), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007), 55–76. In Spanish.
Araki, Junko, “Tamashii no fuan/kokoro no itami” (Anxiety of the soul, pain in the body: Senses and religious experience in 17th century New England), Aoyama Gakuin Joshi Tankidaigaku Kiyo (Tokyo), 60 (2006), 1–14. In Japanese.
Baker, Thomas N., “Speculations on the Genealogy of Deism in New York, 1700–1850,” New York History, 89 (Winter 2008), 43–53.
Bonner, Jeremy, “The Pittsburgh Paradigm: The Rise of Confessional Anglicanism in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1950–2000,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 77 (Sept. 2008), 257–86.
Burns, Jeffrey M., “Priests in Revolt: The San Francisco Association of Priests, 1968–1971,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Summer 2008), 51–68.
Cartwright, Michael G., “The Founding of Indiana Central University: Another Chapter in the History of United Brethren Higher Education,” Methodist History, 46 (July 2008), 212–22.
Ciernick, Helen M., “A Matter of Conscience: The Selective Conscientious Objector, Catholic College Students, and the Vietnam War,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Summer 2008), 33–50.
Davis, Nancy M., “A Lutta Continua: Black Catholic Activism in Detroit, Michigan in the 1970s,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Summer 2008), 15–32.
DeLong, Amy, “Change from the Inside Out: The Contribution of Memphis Catholics in Civil Rights Activism, 1961–1968,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 125–46.
Deverell, William, “Thoughts from the Farther West: Mormons, California, and the Civil War,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Spring 2008), 1–19.
Fabi, M. Giulia, “White Lies: Amelia E. Johnson’s Sunday School Fiction and the Politics of Racelessness,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (March 2007), 7–35.
Fisher, Linford D., “‘I Believe They Are Papists!’: Natives, Moravians, and the Politics of Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 410–37.
Fluhman, J. Spencer, “An ‘American Mahomet’: Joseph Smith, Muhammad, and the Problem of Prophets in Antebellum America,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 23–45.
Haefeli, Evan, and Owen Stanwood, “Jesuits, Huguenots, and the Apocolypse: The Origins of America’s First French Book,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 1, 2006), 59–120.
Harper, Reid L., “Backcountry Missionaries in the Post-Bellum South: Thomas Ephraim Harper’s Experience,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 204–32.
Hayes, John, “Hard, Hard Religion: The Invisible Institution of the New South,” Journal of Southern Religion, 10 (2008), http://jsr.fsu.edu.
Hoffman, Ronald, “The Carroll Family of Maryland,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 2, 2007), 331–50.
Hoover, David N., and Robert L. Hoover, “Mission San Antonio de Padua: A Chronology of Building,” Boletín, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 35–66.
Hummon, David M., “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: Reconstructing the Ladder in African American Spirituals,” Journal of American Culture, 31 (June 2008), 164–74.
Lindberg, Richard L., “Clashing Covenanters: The East End Controversy in the Reformed Presbyterian Church,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 34–43.
Lofton, Kathryn, “Queering Fundamentalism: John Balcom Shaw and the Sexuality of a Protestant Orthodoxy,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 17 (Sept. 2008), 439–68.
Maika, Dennis, “Commemoration and Context: The Flushing Remonstrance Then and Now,” New York History, 89 (Winter 2008), 29–42.
Marquardt, H. Michael, “Emily Dow Partridge Smith Young on the Witness Stand: Recollections of a Plural Wife,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 110–41.
Marty, Martin E., “Righteous Empire Revisited,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 1, 2007), 37–60.
Morimoto, Anri, “Nyu ingurando ni okeru ‘ayamareru ryoshin’ no kanyoron” (Tolerating the erroneous conscience: Revisiting the New England controversy between Roger Williams and John Cotton), Shakaikagaku Jyanaru (Tokyo), 61 (2007), 103–22. In Japanese.
Newell, Quincy D., “The Varieties of Religious Experience: Baptized Indians at Mission San Francisco de Asís, 1776–1821,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Fall 2008), 412–42.
O’Malley, J. Steven, “German-American Contributions to the Ongoing Search for American Evangelicalism, with Reference to the Radical United Brethren Secession of 1889,” Methodist History, 46 (July 2008), 196–211.
Pfabe, Jerrald K., “Was It Foretold?: Theodore Graebner, Millennialists and the World Wars,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 81 (Summer 2008), 98–110.
Ross, Richard J., “Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of ‘Intensity,’” American Historical Review, 113 (Oct. 2008), 975–1002.
Russell, William D., “The Last Smith Presidents and the Transformation of the rlds Church,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 46–84.
Sandos, James A., “Toypurina’s Revolt: Religious Conflict at Mission San Gabriel in 1785,” Boletín, 24 (no. 2, 2007), 4–14.
Schäfer, Axel R., “The Cold War State and the Resurgence of Evangelicalism: A Study of the Public Funding of Religion since 1945,” Radical History Review (no. 99, Fall 2007), 19–50.
Smith, Konden Rich, “Appropriating the Secular: Mormonism and the World Columbia Exposition of 1893,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Fall 2008), 153–80.
Sowinska, Alicja, “Ambiguous Women: Debates within American Evangelical Feminism,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 167–80.
Stapley, Jonathan A., and Kristine L. Wright, “‘They Shall Be Made Whole’: A History of Baptism for Health,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Fall 2008), 69–112.
Stokes, Claudia, “The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 438–61.
Stoll, Mark, “Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea,” Environmental History, 13 (April 2008), 237–74.
Turley, Kylie Nielson, “Yesharah: Society for lds Sister Missionaries,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 168–203.
Burkholder, Jared Scott, “Disenfranchised Awakeners: Anglo-Moravians, Religious Competition, and Evangelical Identity in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301686.
Cavazos, Mary K., “Queen’s Daughters: African American Women, Christian Mission and Racial Change, 1940–1960” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3294228.
Clatterbuck, Mark S., “Searching for Souls in a Twice-Foreign Land: An Analysis of Catholic Indian Missions through the Indian Sentinel (1902–1962)” (Catholic University of America, 2008). Order No. DA3294694.
Curtis, Finbarr, “Speaking of the Nation: William Jennings Bryan, Al Smith, and the Idioms of American Populism” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3296173.
Elliott, Kenneth Ray, “Anglican Church Policy, Eighteenth Century Conflict, and the American Episcopate” (Mississippi State University, 2007). Order No. DA3296205.
Emetuche, Damian Okwudiri, “An Analysis of Worldviews of West African Immigrants to Greater Cincinnati and Their Missiological Implications” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3300628.
Finn, Nathan A., “The Development of Baptist Fundamentalism in the South, 1940–1980” (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3293274.
Flinchum, Jessica Lee, “In Subjection: Church Discipline in the Early American South, 1760–1820” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298823.
Gloege, Timothy E. W., “Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Construction of Corporate Fundamentalism” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299145.
Grube, Melinda E., “Burned-Over Thealogy Context and Process in Matilda Joslyn Gage’s Gynocentric History” (Union Institute & University, 2007). Order No. DA3293422.
Jiang, Lian, “Visiting Parents from China: Their Conversion Experiences in America and Contributions to Christianity at Home” (Texas Christian University, 2006). Order No. DA3240044.
Kendall, Anthony Barrett, “Changing American Minds: Performances of Evangelism in the Early Republic” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3302839.
Kraemer, Christine Hoff, “The Erotic Fringe: Sexual Minorities and Religion in Contemporary American Literature and Film” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3296017.
Lambert, David E., “Beyond World’s End: The Protestant International and the Huguenot Migration to Virginia” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3294599.
Lee, Soo-Young, “God’s Chosen People: Protestant Narratives of Korean Americans and American National Identity” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3296993.
Olson, Gregory Thomas, “Civilizing Men: Protestant Religion in Gold Rush San Francisco, 1848–1856” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296161.
Owens, A. Nevell, “Rhetoric of Identification: Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298922.
Poché, Justin D., “Religion, Race, and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938–1970” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299166.
Ragosta, John Andrew, “Fighting for Freedom: How Virginia’s Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Religious Liberty” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3302217.
Riggs, Lynette A., “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ Indian Student Placement Service: A History” (Utah State University, 2008). Order No. DA3297497.
Rivera, Ruben, “Alberto Rembao (1895–1962): Mexican American Protestant for Internationalism and Christian Holism” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298673.
Schlereth, Eric R., “Age of Infidelity: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early National United States” (Brandeis University, 2007). Order No. DA3290967.
Williams, Howell, “Homosexuality and the American Catholic Church: Reconfiguring the Silence, 1971–1999” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301609.
Wren, Charles Michael, Jr., “R. B. C. Howell and the Theological Foundation for Baptist Participation in the Benevolent Empire” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3300657.
Brinkman, Marie, Emerging Frontiers: Renewal in the Life of Women Religious; Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, 1955–2005. (Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist, 2008. xiv, 608 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8091-4540-9.)
Bruno, Robert Anthony, Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $54.95, isbn 978-0-8142-1095-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8142-5134-8. cd-rom, $9.95, isbn 978-0-8142-9175-7.)
Harper, Keith, ed., American Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. x, 222 pp. Cloth, $52.50, isbn 978-0-8173-1632-7. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-5512-8.)
Hempton, David, Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 233 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-300-14067-5.)
Marsden, George M., A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xii, 152 pp. Paper, $15.00, isbn 978-0-8028-0220-0.)
Roberts, David, Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. 402 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3988-9.)
Seat, Karen K., “Providence Has Freed Our Hands”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xx, 193 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3181-1.)
Sepkowski, Andrzej, Poczatki misji: Narodziny amerykanskiej ‘Religii obywatelskiej’ (The beginning of a mission: The rise of American ‘civic religion’). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2008. 336 pp. zl. 31.30, isbn 978-83-61185-21-5.) In Polish.
Tobin, Gary A., and Dennis R. Ybarra, The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion. (Lanham: Lexington, 2008. viii, 209 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-7391-3093-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7391-3094-0.)
Hankins, Barry, ed., Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: A Documentary Reader. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. x, 241 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-3716-1. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-0-8147-3717-0.)
Lee, John D., Mormonism Unveiled: The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xiv, 405 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4567-7.) Originally published in 1891.
Thuesen, Peter J., ed., The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 26: Catalogues of Books. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 496 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-300-13394-3.)
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