Recent Scholarship
Religion
Austin, Allan W., “‘Let’s Do Away with Walls!’: The American Friends Service Committee’s Interracial Section and the 1920s United States,” Quaker History, 98 (Spring 2009), 1–34.
Bagley, Will, “‘One Long Funeral March’: A Revisionist’s View of the Mormon Handcart Disasters,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Winter 2009), 50–115.
Baugher, Sherene, “The John Street Methodist Church: An Archaeological Excavation with Native American Cooperation,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 46–64.
Bearman, Alan F., and Jennifer L. Mills, “Charles M. Sheldon and Charles F. Parham: Adapting Christianity to the Challenges of the American West,” Kansas History, 32 (Summer 2009), 106–23.
Bentley, Joseph I., “In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo: Prelude to Joseph Smith’s Financial Disasters,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Winter 2009), 23–49.
Blakesley, Katie Clark, “‘A Style of Our Own’: Modesty and Mormon Women, 1951–2008,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 42 (Summer 2009), 20–54.
Blue, Ellen, “True Methodist Women: Reflections on the Community at St. Mark’s,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 215–36. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Blythe, Richard, “The Missouri Synod and the Changing Definitions of Fundamentalism,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 82 (Spring 2009), 31–51.
Bonner, Jeremy, “The Limits of Acceptable Behavior: The ‘Arundel Affair’ and the Social Gospel in Progressive Pittsburgh,” Western Pennsylvania History, 92 (Summer 2009), 50–61. Heavily illustrated.
Bowman, Matthew, and Samuel Brown, “Reverend Buck’s Theological Dictionary and the Struggle to Define American Evangelicalism, 1802–1851,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 441–73.
Brimhall, Sandra Dawn, “Friends at All Times: The Correspondence of Isaiah Moses Coombs and Dryden Rogers,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Spring 2009), 151–65.
Cannon, Kenneth L., II, “The Tragic Matter of Louie Wells and John Q. Cannon,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Spring 2009), 126–90.
Carmack, John K., “California Provided the Answer,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Spring 2009), 27–42.
Castro, J. Justin, “Amazing Grace: The Influence of Christianity in Nineteenth-Century Oklahoma Ozark Music and Society,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Winter 2008–2009), 446–68.
Chatters, Linda M., et al., “Race and Ethnic Differences in Religious Involvement: African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 32 (Sept. 2009), 1143–63.
Clarke, Martin V., “John Wesley’s ‘Directions for Singing’: Methodist Hymnody as an Expression of Methodist Beliefs in Thought and Practice,” Methodist History, 47 (July 2009), 196–209.
Compton, Todd M., “Becoming a ‘Messenger of Peace’: Jacob Hamblin in Tooele,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 42 (Spring 2009), 1–29.
Covis, Leonardo, “The Radical Next Door: The Los Angeles Catholic Worker during the Cold War,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2009), 69–111.
Cruz-Manjarrez, Adriana, “Dancing to the Heights: Performing Zapotec Identity, Aesthetics, and Religiosity,” in Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, ed. Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, 116–31. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 445 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03409-1. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07609-1.)
Ellis, Blake A., “An Alternative Politics: Texas Baptists and the Rise of the Christian Right, 1975–1985,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (April 2009), 361–86.
Enochs, Ross, “Native Americans on the Path to the Catholic Church: Cultural Crisis and Missionary Adaptation,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Winter 2009), 71–88.
Evans, Stefani, “‘Middling Sorts’ and Baptisms: Alathea ‘Alletta’ Sadler (ca. 1732–1806) of New York and Poughkeepsie,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (June 2009), 97–110.
Feinmen, Peter, “The Methodist Upper Iowa Conference: From Wilderness to Melting Pot,” Methodist History, 47 (July 2009), 226–41.
Ford, Bridget, “Beyond Cane Ridge: The ‘Great Western Revivals’ in Louisville and Cincinnati, 1828–1845,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Winter 2008), 17–37.
Fox, Jonathan, Patrick James, and Yitan Li, “State Religion and Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities,” Nationalism & Ethnic Politics (Abingdon), 15 (April 2009), 189–210.
Griggs, Karen Ann, “Handcarts Going East: The 1857 Missionaries,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Spring 2009), 191–237.
Hansen, Bradley A., and Mary Eschelbach Hansen, “Religion, Social Capital, and Business Bankruptcy in the United States, 1921–1932,” Business History (Liverpool), 50 (Nov. 2008), 714–27.
Howlett, David J., “Eating Vegetables to Build Zion: rlds Children in the 1920s,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Winter 2009), 1–22.
Klejment, Anne, “The Spirituality of Dorothy Day’s Pacifism,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Spring 2009), 1–24.
Kurosaki, Makoto, “Amerika kominken undo niokeru kyokai no yakuwari saiko” (A reassessment of the roles of churches in the American civil rights movement), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 31 (2008), 73–90. In Japanese.
Kwilecki, Susan, “Twenty-First-Century American Ghosts: The After-Death Communication—Therapy and Revelation from beyond the Grave,” Religion and American Culture, 19 (Winter 2009), 101–33.
Lank, Tom, “Poetic Sideshadowings of Fundamentalism in Southern Methodism, 1865–1866,” Methodist History, 47 (July 2009), 210–25.
MacKay, Kathryn L., “Sisters of Ogden’s Mount Benedict Monastery,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Summer 2009), 242–59.
McGinnis, Andrew M., “Between Enthusiasm and Stoicism: David Rice and Moderate Revivalism in Virginia and Kentucky,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Spring 2008), 165–91.
McIlhenny, Ryan, “‘Remember, Church-Officers, Your Awful Responsibility’: Presbyterians, Immediate Abolition, and George Bourne’s The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 122–48.
Metcalf, Brandon J., “James G. Bleak: From London to Dixie,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Winter 2009), 117–56.
Moreton, Bethany, “Why Is There So Much Sex in Christian Conservatism and Why Do So Few Historians Care Anything about It?,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 717–38.
Nepstad, Sharon Erickson, “Disruptive Action and the Prophetic Tradition: War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Spring 2009), 97–113.
Oman, Nathan B., “‘The Living Oracles’: Legal Interpretation and Mormon Thought,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 42 (Summer 2009), 1–19.
Pehl, Matthew, “The Remaking of the Catholic Working Class: Detroit, 1919–1945,” Religion and American Culture, 19 (Winter 2009), 37–67.
Pope-Levison, Priscilla, “A ‘Thirty Year War’ and More: Exposing Complexities in the Methodist Deaconess Movement,” Methodist History, 47 (Jan. 2009), 101–16.
Portier, William L., “‘Good Friday in December’: World War II in the Editorials of Preservation of the Faith Magazine, 1939–1945,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Spring 2009), 25–44.
Powers, Gerard F., “The U.S. Bishops and War since the Peace Pastoral,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Spring 2009), 73–98.
Richard, Mark Paul, “This Is Not a Catholic Nation: The Ku Klux Klan Confronts Franco-Americans in Maine,” New England Quarterly, 82 (June 2009), 285–303.
Romig, Ronald E., “The rlds Church on the Pacific Slope,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Spring 2009), 43–125.
Rzeznik, Thomas F., “‘Representatives of All That Is Noble’: The Rise of the Episcopal Establishment in Early-Twentieth-Century Philadelphia,” Religion and American Culture, 19 (Winter 2009), 69–100.
Scharfenberger, Gerard P., “Upon This Rock: Salvage Archaeology at the Early-Eighteenth-Century Holmdel Baptist Church,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 12–29.
Stone, Geoffrey R., “The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?,” ucla Law Review, 56 (Oct. 2008), 1–26.
Thiel, Mark G., “Catholic Ladders and Native American Evangelization,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Winter 2009), 49–70.
Turley, David, “Religion and Approaches to Reform: Boston Unitarians versus Evangelicals in the Context of the 1820s and 1830s,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (June 2009), 187–210.
Valeri, Mark, “Providence in the Life of John Hull: Puritanism and Commerce in Massachusetts Bay, 1650–1680,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 118 (part 1, 2008), 55–116.
Vecsey, Christopher, “The Good News in Print and Image: Catholic Evangeliteracy in Native America,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Winter 2009), 1–19.
Vitale, Gary, “Abraham Lincoln and the Mormons: Another Legacy of Limited Freedom,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 260–71.
Voelker, David J., “Church Building and Social Class on the Urban Frontier: The Refinement of Lexington, 1784–1830,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Spring 2008), 191–230.
Ward, Jeanne A., and John P. McCarthy, “Tea in God’s Light: An Analysis of Artifacts from the Friends Meetinghouse Site, Burlington, New Jersey,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 1, 2009), 30–45.
Wells, Ronald A., “Cesar Chavez’s Protestant Allies: The California Migrant Ministry and the Farm Workers,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 87 (Spring–Summer 2009), 5–16.
Young, Pearl J., “‘Genius Uncultivated Is Like a Meteor of the Night’: Motives and Experiences of Methodist Female College Life in the Confederate States of America,” Methodist History, 47 (April 2009), 179–91.
Zug, James, “The Color of Our Skin: Quakerism and Integration at Sidwell Friends School,” Quaker History, 98 (Spring 2009), 35–47.
Boger, Gretchen Elisabeth, “American Protestantism in the Asian Crucible, 1919–1939” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3332418.
Bond, Adam L., “What the Law Cannot Do: Samuel DeWitt Proctor’s Theological Response to an American Crisis, 1945–1997” (Marquette University, 2008). Order No. DA3326754.
Bucknor, Wayne Frederick Antonio, “The Changing Role of Music in the Liturgy of the African American Seventh-Day Adventist Church: Guidelines for Improving Its Qualitative Use” (University of Alabama, 2008). Order No. DA3334605.
Fisher, Linford D., “‘Traditionary Religion’: The Great Awakening and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Southern New England, 1736–1776” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3329575.
Heinz, Helen A., “‘We Are All as One Fish in the Sea . . .’: Catholicism in Protestant Pennsylvania: 1730–1790” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326338.
Hill, Matthew S., “God and Slavery in America: Francis Wayland and the Evangelical Conscience” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3326934.
Kjaer, Lise, “Awakening the Spiritual: James Turrell and Quaker Practice” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3330386.
Kradel, Adam, “Using the Lord’s Name: The Use and Impact of Presidential Religious Rhetoric” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3327887.
Luse, Christopher, “‘The Offspring of Infidelity’: Polygenesis and the Defense of Slavery” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3332327.
Pederson, Joshua, “American Gnosis: The Literary Afterlife of a Heresy” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3323144.
Robinson, Charles Jeffrey, Sr., “The Pastoral Intent of the Writings of Henry Holcombe Tucker” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3332491.
Ronan, Marisa, “Evangelical Cultural Appropriation: Christian Fiction and the Pursuit of a New Evangelical Christianity” (University Collge Dublin, Ireland, 2009).
Umit, Devrim, “The American Protestant Missionary Network in Ottoman Turkey, 1876–1914: Political and Cultural Reflections of the Encounter” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333451.
Weimer, Adrian Chastain, “Protestant Sainthood: Martydom and the Meaning of Sanctity in Early New England” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3325847.
Witmer, Andrew Daryl, “God’s Interpreters: Protestant Missionaries, African Converts, and Conceptions of Race in the United States, 1830–1910” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3327015.
Witzig, Fred, “The Great Anti-awakening: Anti-revivalism in Philadelphia and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1739–1745” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3319836.
Bennett, Richard E., We’ll Find the Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846–1848. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xx, 442 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3838-1.)
Buck, Christopher, Religious Myths and Visions of America: How Minority Faiths Redefined America’s World Role. (Westport: Praeger, 2009. xii, 324 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-35959-0.)
Gonzalez, Joaquin Jay, III, Filipino American Faith in Action: Immigration, Religion, and Civic Engagement. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. viii, 221 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8147-3196-3. Paper, $21.00, isbn 978-0-8147-3197-0.)
Häberlein, Mark, The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xii, 276 pp. $79.00, isbn 978-0-271-03521-5.)
Kosaka, Noboru, Kami no kuni Amerika no ronri: Shukyo uha niyoru Isuraeru shien, chuzetsu, dosei-kon no hinin (The logic of God’s country America: The religious right’s support of Israel and disapproval of abortion and same-sex marriage). (Tokyo: Akashi, 2008. 414 pp. ¥2,940, isbn 978-4-75032-873-7.) In Japanese.
Muñoz, Vincent Phillip, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x, 242 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-51515-3. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-73579-7.)
Noll, Mark A., The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith. (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2009. 212 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8308-2847-0.)
Sutton, Robert P., Heartland Utopias. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. 224 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-87580-401-9.)
Vianello, Mino, Lo specchio americano: Dio, Cesare e la frontiera (The American mirror: God, Caesar, and the frontier). (Milan: Mondadori, 2009. 160 pp. €12.00, isbn 978-88-6184-030-0.) In Italian.
Wills, Gregory A., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859–2009. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 566 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-19-537714-9.)
Dreisbach, Daniel L., and Mark David Hall, eds., The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2009. xxxiv, 672 pp. Cloth, $30.00, isbn 978-0-86597-714-3. Paper, $14.50, isbn 978-0-86597-715-0.)
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