Brief Bibliography of American Religious History

Compiled by Mark Stoll

For an excellent overview of important books in American religious history, see Catherine Albanese's American Religious History: A Historiographical Essay, available online as a pdf file.

Index

 

General

Albanese, Catherine L. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Appelbaum, Patricia Faith. St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Bowler, Kate. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Chidester, David. Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Cookson, Catharine. Regulating Religion: The Courts and the Free Exercise Clause. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Cox, Robert S. Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Davies, Owen. America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

DelFattore, Joan. The Fourth R: Conflicts Over Religion in America's Public Schools. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Ellis, Bill. Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Fea, John. The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Fox, Richard Wightman. Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Green, Steven K. The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash That Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Green, Steven K. Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Hackett, David G. That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.

Howell, Sally. Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Hutchison, William R. Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Jenkins, Philip. Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Kruse, Kevin Michael. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

Lambert, Lake. Spirituality, Inc.: Religion in the American Workplace. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

McCrossen, Alexis. Holy Day, Holiday: The America Sunday. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

McLoughlin, William Gerald. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: an essay on religion and social change in America, 1607-1977. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Meyer, Donald B. The Positive Thinkers: A Study of the American Quest for Health, Wealth and Personal Power from Mary Baker Eddy to Norman Vincent Peale. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday 1965.

Moore, R. Laurence. Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Moore, R. Laurence. Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Moore, R. Laurence. Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2003.

Morone, James A. Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Noll, Mark A. America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Poole, W. Scott. Satan in America: The Devil We Know. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

Preston, Andrew. Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. New York: Knopf, 2012.

Prothero, Stephen. American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Sehat, David. The Myth of American Religious Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Smith, Gary Scott. Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Stoll, Mark R. Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Thuesen, Peter Johannes. In Discordance With the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Thuesen, Peter Johannes. Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Tyrrell, Ian R. Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Wuthnow, Robert. Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Wuthnow, Robert. Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.

Baptists

Kidd, Thomas S., and Barry Hankins. Baptists in America: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Catholics

Dolan, Jay P. In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

McCartin, James P. Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

McGreevy, John T. Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

O'Toole, James M. The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Tentler, Leslie Woodcock. Catholics and Contraception: An American History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.

Congregationalists

Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts. The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Jews

Ashton, Dianne. Hanukkah in America: A History. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Ben-Ur, Aviva. Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

Diner, Hasia R. The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Diner, Hasia R. Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Horowitz, Roger. Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Sarna, Jonathon D. American Judaism: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Lutherans

Granquist, Mark Alan. Lutherans in America: A New History. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

Methodists

Hempton, David. Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Richey, Russell E. Early American Methodism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Mormons

Gordon, Sarah Barringer. The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Gutjahr, Paul C. The Book of Mormon: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Harline, Paula Kelly. The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Turner, John G. The Mormon Jesus: A Biography. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016.

Pentecostals and Holiness

Espinosa, Gastón. Latino Pentecostals in America Faith and Politics in Action. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Payne, Leah. Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Stephens, Randall J. The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Quakers

Hamm, Thomas D. The Quakers in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

 

Native Americans

Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Fisher, Linford D. The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Hackel, Steven W. Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Jenkins, Philip. Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Jortner, Adam Joseph. The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Kan, Sergei. Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Maroukis, Thomas Constantine. The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom and the Native American Church. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.

Sandos, James A. Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

 

Puritans

Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Bozeman, Theodore Dwight. To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Bremer, Francis J. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Bunker, Nick. Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Daniels, Bruce Colin. Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Hall, David D. A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. New York: Knopf, 1989.

Knight, Janice. Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Morgan, Edmund S. Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea. New York: New York University Press, 1963.

Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Pope, Robert G. The Half-Way Covenant: Church Membership in Puritan New England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Porterfield, Amanda. Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Winship, Michael P. Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

 

Colonial Religion

Brekus, Catherine A. Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Engel, Katherine Carté. Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Farrelly, Maura Jane. Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Fogleman, Aaron Spencer. Jesus Is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Fogleman, Aaron Spencer. Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Pestana, Carla Gardina. Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Rohrer, S. Scott. Wandering Souls: Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period. Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1989; 2nd ed., Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001.

Weddle, Meredith Baldwin. Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

The Great Awakening

Gaustad, Edwin Scott. The Great Awakening in New England. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.

Gura, Philip F. Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.

Hall, Timothy D. Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Lambert, Frank. Inventing the "Great Awakening." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Lambert, Frank. "Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Stout, Harry S. The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1991.

Tracy, Patricia J. Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth-Century Northampton. New York: Hill and Wang, 1980.

 

The Revolutionary Era and Early Republic

Bell, James B. A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Bloch, Ruth H. Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Byrd, James P. Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Dreisbach, Daniel L. Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

Fea, John. The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Gaustad, Edwin S. Neither King Nor Prelate: Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993.

Lambert, Frank. The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Miller, Nicholas Patrick. The Religious Roots of the First Amendment: Dissenting Protestants and the Separation of Church and State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Morrison, Jeffrey H. John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.

Porterfield, Amanda. Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Ragosta, John A. Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Wright, Conrad. The Beginnings of Unitarianism in America. Boston: Starr King Press, 1955.

 

The Second Great Awakening

Braude, Anne. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth Century America. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Cross, Whitney R. The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1950.

Demos, John. The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic. New York: Vintage, 2014.

Elder, Robert. The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Eslinger, Ellen. Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

Hambrick-Stowe, Charles E. Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism.  Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1996.

Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Heyrman, Christine L. Southern Cross: The Beginning of the Bible Belt. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Richey, Russell E. Methodism in the American Forest. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Rowe, David L. God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2008.

Wigger, John H. Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Mormons

Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bushman, Richard L., and Jed Woodworth. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. New York: Knopf, 2005.

Fluhman, J. Spencer. A Peculiar People: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Homer, Michael W. Joseph's Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2014.

 

Transcendentalism

Grodzins, Dean. American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism: A History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.

 

Religion, Slavery, and the Civil War

Goen, C. C. Broken Churches, Broken Nation: Denominational Schisms and the Coming of the American Civil War. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985.

Guelzo, Alan. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1999.

Harper, Matthew. The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Haynes, Stephen R. Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Irons, Charles F. The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Moore, Joseph S. Founding Sins: How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Noll, Mark A. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Oshatz, Molly. Slavery and Sin: The Fight Against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Rable, George C. God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Stout, Harry S. Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. New York: Viking, 2006.

Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

 

Religion in the Nineteenth Century

Avery, Valeen Tippetts. From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Bressler, Ann Lee. The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Carroll, Bret E. Spiritualism in Antebellum America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Carter, Paul A. The Spiritual Crisis of the Gilded Age. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1971.

Evansen, Bruce J. God's Man for the Gilded Age: D. L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements,1860-1914. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Foster, Lawrence. Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984 (1981).

Gin Lum, Kathryn. Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Gjerde, Jon. Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Mason, Patrick Q. The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

May, Henry F. Protestant Churches and Industrial America. New York: Harper, 1949.

McGarry, Molly. Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Modern, John Lardas. Secularism in Antebellum America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.

Schultz, Nancy Lusignan. Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834. New York: Free Press, 2000.

Smith, Frank. Robert G. Ingersoll: A Life. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1990.

Turner, John G. Brigham Young, Pioneer Prophet. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Turner, James. Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Tyrrell, Ian R. Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Wright, Conrad Edick. American Unitarianism, 1805-1865. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.

 

Religion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Social Gospel

Burns, David. The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus. Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Butler, Anne M. Across God's Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Carter, Heath W. Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Compton, John W. The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Flake, Kathleen. The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Foster, Gaines M. Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Gloege, Timothy E. W. Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Hopkins, Charles Howard. The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940.

Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Putney, Clifford. Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Rieser, Andrew Chamberlin. The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Taiz, Lillian. Hallelujah Lads & Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

 

Twentieth-Century Religion before World War II

Abrams, Douglas Carl. Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Appelbaum, Patricia Faith. Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Cauthen, Kenneth. The Impact of American Religious Liberalism. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983.

Dorsett, Lyle W. Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1991.

Hangen, Tona J. Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Lindvall, Terry. Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Orsi, Robert. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Orsi, Robert A. Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Peters, Shawn Francis. Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Romanowski, William D. Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Ruotsila, Markku. The Origins of Christian Anti-Internationalism: Conservative Evangelicals and the League of Nations. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2008.

Sutton, Matthew Avery. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Sutton, Matthew Avery. American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Wacker, Grant. Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

 

Religion since World War II

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca. God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016.

Boyer, Paul S. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Brown, Steven Preston. Trumping Religion: The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.

Carenen, Caitlin. The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Revised Edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003 (1988).

Clark, Victoria. Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Dochuk, Darren. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. New York: Norton, 2011.

Eskridge, Larry. God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Flippen, J. Brooks. Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Hankins, Barry. God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Hankins, Barry. Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008.

Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Porterfield, Amanda. The Transformation of American Religion: The Story of a Late-Twentieth Century Awakening. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Ruotsila, Markku. Fighting Fundamentalist: Carl Mcintire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism. London: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Sánchez-Walsh, Arlene M. Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Sinitiere, Phillip Luke. Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

Stowe, David W. No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Turner, John G. Bill Bright & Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Wacker, Grant. America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

White, Heather Rachelle. Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Wigger, John H. PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Wuthnow, Robert. After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

 

Women

Braude, Anne. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth Century America. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Brekus, Catherine A. Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Butler, Anthea D. Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Coburn, Carol K., and Martha Smith. Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Cummings, Kathleen Sprows. New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Flowers, Elizabeth Hill. Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women & Power Since World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Goldman, Karla. Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Henold, Mary J. Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

 

African Americans

Bailey, Julius. Down in the Valley: An Introduction to African American Religious History. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.

Best, Wallace D. Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Chireau, Yvonne Patricia. Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Collier-Thomas, Bettye. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion. New York: Knopf, 2010.

Curtis, Edward E. Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Dorman, Jacob S. Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Fountain, Daniel L. Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation: African American Slaves and Christianity, 1830-1870. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.

Frey, Sylvia R., and Betty Wood. Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Harper, Matthew. The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Newman, Richard S. Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Raboteau, Albert J. Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Also issued in 1999 in hardcover as African American Religion.

Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Sernett, Milton C. Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

 

Science and Religion

Bozeman, Theodore Dwight. Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Ante-bellum American Religious Thought. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977.

Hovenkamp, Herbert. Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.

Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Moore, James R. The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Thomson, Keith. Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

 

Missions

Makdisi, Ussama Samir. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.

Tyrrell, Ian R. Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.


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