Recent Scholarship
Religion
Beard, Gary Lee, “Georg Landgraf: A Pioneer Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Lutheran Pastor; Part One,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 80 (Winter 2007), 255–68.
Blair, Anthony L., “Schism on the Susquehanna: Community and Congregational Conflict on the Pennsylvania Frontier during the Era of the Great Awakening,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Winter 2008), 1–25.
Case, Riley B., “‘An Aggressive Warfare’: Eli Farmer and Methodist Revivalism in Early Indiana,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (March 2008), 65–93.
Crothers, A. Glenn, “‘I Felt Much Interest in their Welfare’: Quaker Philanthropy and African Americans in Antebellum Northern Virginia,” Southern Friend, 29 (nos. 1–2, 2007), 3–36.
Kim, Jae Ran, “Waiting for God: Religion and Korean American Adoption,” in Religion and Spirituality in Korean America, ed. David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung, 83–99. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03233-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07474-5.)
Lauck, Jon, “‘You can’t mix wheat and potatoes in the same bin’: Anti-Catholicism in Early Dakota,” South Dakota History, 38 (Spring 2008), 1–46.
Min, Anselm Kyongsuk, “Korean American Catholic Communities: A Pastoral Reflection,” in Religion and Spirituality in Korean America, ed. David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung, 21–39. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03233-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07474-5.)
Pitts, Bill, “Recruiting for Missions: The Baylor Volunteer Foreign Mission Band, 1900–1906,” Baptist History & Heritage, 43 (Winter 2008), 94–110.
Sato, Seiko, “The Theme of Coexistence of Religions in the World’s Parliament of Religions and the Catholic Congress in Chicago, 1893,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 29 (2007), 79–89.
Seales, Chad E., “Cultivating the Desolate Meadows: Industry, Religion, and Social Differentiation in Siler City, North Carolina, 1884–1932,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (Jan. 2008), 57–87.
Shearer, Tobin Miller, “Moving beyond Charisma in Civil Rights Scholarship: Vincent Harding’s Sojourn with the Mennonites, 1958–1966,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 82 (April 2008), 213–48.
Shoji, Ippei, “Secularism in America: A Brief History of Non-Religion Movement,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 29 (2007), 97–106.
Spillers, Hortense Jeanette, “Martin Luther King Jr. and America’s Civil Religion,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 29 (2007), 39–49.
Suh, Sharon A., “Asserting Buddhist Selves in a Christian Land: The Maintenance of Religious Identity among Korean Buddhists in America,” in Religion and Spirituality in Korean America, ed. David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung, 40–59. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03233-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07474-5.)
Yoo, David K., “A Usable Past? Reflections on Generational Change in Korean American Protestantism,” in Religion and Spirituality in Korean America, ed. David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung, 193–215. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03233-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07474-5.)
Ayabe, John A., “Evangelicals and the Antimission Crisis: A Study of Religious Identity in the Central Mississippi Valley, 1820–1840” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3280176.
Bielo, James S., “Textual Ideology, Textual Practice: A Discourse-Centered Approach to Protestant Bible Study” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3264139.
Bush, Carletta A., “Faith, Power, and Conflict: Miner Preachers and the United Mine Workers of America in the Harlan County Mine Wars, 1931–1939” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3276493.
Calo, Zachary Ryan, “‘The ethical aspect of economic doctrine’: The Social Thought of John A. Ryan and the Making of American Catholic Liberalism, 1900–1940” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3271726.
Cole, Scott W., “Traumatized Performance: Antebellum Methodist Camp Meetings and the Re-Making of the American Frontier” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3265319.
Crabtree, Sarah Lelia, “A Holy Nation: The Quaker Itinerant Ministry in an Age of Revolution, 1750–1820” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3273121.
Crenshaw, Reginald Martin, “Religious and Educational Communitarianism: Three 19th Century African American Examples” (Columbia University Teachers College, 2007). Order No. DA3269055.
Daggett, Shawn Z., “The Lord Will Provide: James A. Harding, J. M. McCaleb, William J. Bishop, and the Emergence of Faith Missions in the Churches of Christ, 1892–1913” (Boston University School of Theology, 2007). Order No. DA3267737.
Fletcher, David W., “Apocalyptic Rhetoric in the Old Southwest” (Middle Tennessee State University, 2007). Order No. DA3275941.
Flowers, Elizabeth Hill, “Varieties of Evangelical Womanhood: Southern Baptists, Gender, and American Culture” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3267905.
Flynn, Tyler B., Jr., “Calvinism and Public Life: A Case Study of Western Pennsylvania, 1900–1955” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3266111.
Frear, Sara S., “‘A Fine View of the Delectable Mountains’: The Religious Vision of Mary Virginia Terhune (Marion Harland) and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3273356.
Godfrey, Amy Margaret, “Divine Benevolence to the Poor: Charity, Religion, and Nationalism in Early National New York City, 1784–1820” (Northern Illinois University, 2007). Order No. DA3279179.
Graber, Jennifer, “Christianity Imprisoned: Religion and the Making of the Penitentiary, 1797–1860” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3264021.
Haga, Kai Yin Allison, “An Overlooked Dimension of the Korean War: The Role of Christianity and American Missionaries in the Rise of Korean Nationalism, Anti-Colonialism, and Eventual Civil War, 1884–1953” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3268802.
Hedstrom, Matthew Sigurd, “Seeking a Spiritual Center: Mass-Market Books and Liberal Religion in America, 1921–1948” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3266824.
Janson, Michael A., “A Christian Century: Liberal Protestantism, the New Deal, and the Origins of Post-War American Politics” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3260927.
Jo, Michael, “Spiritual Capitalism: Christianity, Commerce, and Conservatism in Industrial America, 1900–1950” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267277.
Johnson, Kathleen Carlton, “Radical Social Activism, Lay Catholic Women, and American Feminism, 1920–1960” (University of South Africa, 2007). Order No. DADA0818843.
Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth, “Almost Certainly Called: Images of Protestant Missionaries in American Culture, 1945–2000” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3267802.
Kim, Chang Young, “A Historiographic Study of the Missiological Contribution of the American Presbyterian Missions and Its Correlation to the Missions of the Korean Presbyterian Church” (Reformed Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3265887.
Kim, Hong Man, “Puritanism in the Korea Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the usa and Its Contributions to the Korean Great Revival” (Reformed Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3265888.
Maass, John R., “‘A Complicated Scene of Difficulties’: North Carolina and the Revolutionary Settlement, 1776–1789” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3268957.
McPherson, Jeffrey A., “Jonathan Edwards and Alfred North Whitehead: The Possibility of a Constructive Dialogue in Metaphysics” (McMaster University, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR28235.
Mishra, Smeeta, “Islam and Democracy: An Analysis of Representations in the U.S. Prestige Press from 1985–2005” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3263370.
Morriss, Timothy R., “To Provide for All Classes: The Methodist Church and Class in Chicago, 1871–1939” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267325.
Ouattara, Gnimbin Alber, “Africans, Cherokees, and the abcfm Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century: An Unusual Story of Redemption” (Georgia State University, 2007). Order No. DA3278593.
Ramírez, Daniel, “Migrating Faiths: A Social and Cultural History of Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” (Duke University, 2005). Order No. DA3265226.
Rhorer, Marc Alan, “Believers in Dixie: A Cultural Geography of the Kentucky Shakers” (Florida Atlantic University, 2007). Order No. DA3269307.
Roberts, Kyle B., “Urban Evangelicals: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783–1845” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3271805.
Rojas, René, “A Nation Unchurched: The Apocalyptic Community in Massachusetts Bay, 1620–1713” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3262036.
Ryan, William Randolph, “The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3267787.
Turner, E. Carter, “Causes Lost and Found: Southern Election in the Life of Robert Lewis Dabney” (Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver, 2007). Order No. DA3279302.
Vidal, Troy Manuel, “American Civil Religion Reexamined: A Preliminary Study into Organic and Contrived Civil Theology” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3265526.
Bushman, Richard Lyman, Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 130 pp. Paper, $11.95, isbn 978-0-19-531030-6.)
Gafic, Zijah, Muslims of New York. (Sarajevo: Gramofon, 2008. 104 pp. km 39,00, isbn 9789958907500.) In Bosnian and English.
Gallagher, Charles R., Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-300-12134-6.)
Lesser, M. X., Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography in Three Parts, 1729–2005. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xii, 691 pp. $145.00, isbn 978-0-8028-6243-3.)
Livingstone, David N., Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 301 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8813-7.)
Murray, Bruce T., Religious Liberty in America: The First Amendment in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xviii, 213 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-637-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55849-638-5.)
Newcomb, Steven T., Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. (Golden: Fulcrum, 2008. xxviii, 186 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55591-642-8.)
Palmer, Michael A., The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. x, 273 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-59797-062-4.)
Reed, David, “In Jesus’ Name”: The History and Beliefs of Oneness Pentecostals. (Dorset: Deo, 2008. xii, 394 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-905679-01-0.) Supplement edition of Journal of Pentecostal Theology.
Tipton, Steven M., Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi, 556 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-80474-3.)
Yoo, David K., and Ruth H. Chung, eds., Religion and Spirituality in Korean America. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03233-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07474-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Curtis, Edward E., IV, ed., The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xx, 452 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-231-13956-4.)
Launius, Roger D., ed., “Search for Asylum: The Mormons Petition the Kentucky Governor, 1845,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 105 (Spring 2007), 229–46. Heavily illustrated.
MacKinnon, William P., ed., At Sword’s Point, Part 1: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858. (Norman: Arthur H. Clark, 2008. 546 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-87062-353-0.)
Shaw, Susan M., God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and Society. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xiv, 300 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2476-6.)
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