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Christina Connor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Gloria Korsman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Thomas A Tweed - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • retelling u s Religious History
    The American Historical Review, 1998
    Co-Authors: Thomas A Tweed
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    Thomas A. Tweed, Introduction: Narrating U.S. Religious History Ann Taves, Sexuality in American Religious History Tamar Frankiel, Ritual Sites in the Narrative of American Religion Ann Braude, Women's History Is American Religious History Roger Finke, The Illusion of Shifting Demand: Supply-Side Interpretations of American Religious History Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Eastward Ho!: American Religion from the Perspective of the Pacific Rim Joel W. Martin, Indians, Contact and Colonialism in the Deep South: Themes for a Postcolonial History of American Religion William Westfall, Voices from the Attic: Crossing the Canadian Border and the Writing of American Religious History Catherine L. Albanese, Exchanging Selves, Exchanging Souls: Contact, Combination, and American Religious History

Paul Harvey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • everywhere and nowhere recent trends in american Religious History and historiography
    Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2010
    Co-Authors: Kevin M Schultz, Paul Harvey
    Abstract:

    A spat of recent polls show that Americans are as Religious as ever, even if their affiliations to particular faith groups have somewhat faded. Furthermore, during the past two decades, historians of American religion have unearthed much new information, connecting American religion to broader currents of American life in numerous exciting ways. Despite these two events, we argue that religion has yet to become central to the way in which most historians of modern America (since 1865) tell their story—except in areas that are either racialized (the civil rights movement) or considered to be politically marginal (the New Right). Religion is everywhere in History, but nowhere in mainstream historiography. We explore some possible reasons for this fact, and then conclude by pointing out several directions in which Religious History is currently moving, and in which an examination by mainstream scholars might benefit the field as a whole tremendously.

  • Thoroughly Centered: The Reformed Tradition and American Religious History
    Reviews in American History, 1995
    Co-Authors: Paul Harvey
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    Historians once were blind, but now they see. Where the secularization thesis once ruled the day, the evangelical paradigm now oft holds sway. Historians both of intellectual elites and of the common folk have begun to explore the same question which participants of the H-AMREL online discussion group periodically toss about: Why are Americans so Religious? Jon Butler, one of the premier historians of American religion, has recently even warned against overusing the evangelical paradigm. Thirty years ago historians would not have needed that warning; today it stands as a useful brake against the tendency to see religion anywhere and everywhere. Colonial and antebellum America have been particularly well-served in American Religious History. Just to name a few, Butler, Patricia Bonomi, Harry S. Stout, Leigh Schmidt, Charles Cohen, Nathan Hatch, Richard Carwardine, and Mitchell Snay have provided provocative syntheses of colonial religion, colonial and early national revivalism, the advance of Christianization against folk traditions, the explosion of democratic Religious movements in the early national period, and the complicated interplay of religion and politics in the antebellum years.' The Religious History of post-Civil War America remains more of an open field. Perhaps the story of the "fall" lacks the same inherent drama as the story of the "rise." Much recent work has focused on topics in social and cultural History. The early national period has been a particularly fruitful field for explorations of Religious populism in America, which took advantage of Religious disestablishment to capture plain folk who hungered for communal celebrations of Religious experience. The antebellum era has also produced numerous studies of the smallest details of everyday Religious experience, including artifacts in the home, charts and images of millennial predictions, hymn and prayer books, family genealogies in Bibles, popular Religious fiction, and family altars.2 Sociologists of religion have asked big questions about "secular"

Catherine A. Brekus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past - The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past
    2007
    Co-Authors: Catherine A. Brekus
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    More than a generation after the rise of women's History alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles door to door; Sally Priesand, a Reform rabbi; Estela Ruiz, who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary - how do these women's stories change our understanding of American Religious History and American women's History? In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how considering the Religious History of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. Covering a variety of topics - including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, everyday Religious life, Puritanism, African American women's activism, and the Enlightenment - the volume enhances our understanding of both Religious History and women's History. Taken together, these essays sound the call for a new, more inclusive History.

  • the Religious History of american women reimagining the past
    2007
    Co-Authors: Catherine A. Brekus
    Abstract:

    More than a generation after the rise of women's History alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles door to door; Sally Priesand, a Reform rabbi; Estela Ruiz, who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary - how do these women's stories change our understanding of American Religious History and American women's History? In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how considering the Religious History of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. Covering a variety of topics - including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, everyday Religious life, Puritanism, African American women's activism, and the Enlightenment - the volume enhances our understanding of both Religious History and women's History. Taken together, these essays sound the call for a new, more inclusive History.