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Studying the history of American religion at Notre Dame kindled my interest in Mormonism. For starters, several of my Notre Dame classmates – Patrick Mason, Matt Grow, and Mike DeGruccio – were LDS. They became good friends, and I was …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

These classic lines from the otherwise unfortunate sequel film Godfather III came to me when Religion Dispatches suggested I write a piece about the latest David Barton dust-up involving his publisher, Thomas Nelson, pulling its copies and …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

In The New Republic, Amy Sullivan covers the "retirement" of Richard Land from his post as head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (which, despite its title, has spoken out recently on issues such as …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Might New Orleans be more central to early American religious history than the historiography would suggest? Might the Mississippi River be just as important as, say, the Chesapeake Bay in delivering European and African peoples to a New …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

The author's grasp of the social and political consequences and contexts of these religious expressions, including material culture, is also exemplary. The central focus on the varied experiences and decisions of New England captives in …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

I therefore avidly read Thursday a wonderful set of reflections on pick-up outdoor basketball, which I will here translate into the terms of religious studies — full of rituals and ritual bonding, struggle, forgiveness, angst, tenderness, implied …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

I'll not try to continue the lame nautical war metaphor, but instead point you to a new issue of the journal Religion, which has a very extensive forum on "The Study of American Religions: Critical Reflections on a Specialization." Contributors …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Robert Wuthnow's new book Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland already is getting a lot of attention, and what could be a more American topic for July 4th? Below is a quick review of the book from Choice, and then …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

In "Wisconsin: A Political Scientist Surveys the Recall Election," Christopher Chapp, from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, provides an elegant historical survey of the interaction of religion and politics in Wisconsin, from the deep …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America The first is from our contributor Lin Fisher, who just posted about Rhode Island's "birthday" and will be putting his review of John Barry's biography of …
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY