Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Jewish-Christian Relations – Posted on November 3, 2012 Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People (2000) Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000. (2000) Yaakov Ariel’s Evangelizing the Chosen People … Continue reading >Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People (2000)
Categories: American Religion, Evangelicalism, Religious Right – Posted on October 30, 2012 Charles Colson, Born Again (1976, 2008) Charles Colson’s Born Again presents a paradigmatic “faith story” of 1970s evangelicalism—with a few twists. Here we get the inveterate … Continue reading >Charles Colson, Born Again (1976, 2008)
Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism – Posted on October 28, 2012 Paul Boyer, “When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture” (1992) Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992) It’s hard to imagine myself … Continue reading >Paul Boyer, “When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture” (1992)
Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Religious Right – Posted on October 26, 2012 Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age.” Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age,” Journal of American History … Continue reading >Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age.”
Categories: American Religion, Evangelicalism, Religion/media, Theories of Religion – Posted on October 23, 2012 John Lardas Modern, “Secularism in Antebellum America” Steam engines. Conversions. Inmates. Tracts. Networks. Vibrations. A white whale. Modern’s exciting book on antebellum secularism wends through Moby-Dick, evangelical … Continue reading >John Lardas Modern, “Secularism in Antebellum America”
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on October 15, 2012 Historical newspapers on google? No book review today, possibly not even this week. I’m deep into fellowship application season. But I stumbled onto a … Continue reading >Historical newspapers on google?
Categories: American Religion, Anthropology of Christianity, Anthropology of Religion, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell, Religious Right – Posted on October 8, 2012 Susan F. Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics Susan F. Harding. The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Princeton, 2000. Susan Harding’s masterful study locates language … Continue reading >Susan F. Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics
Categories: American Religion, Evangelicalism – Posted on October 3, 2012 Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt Christine Heyrman. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. UNC Press, 1997. Review by A.T. Coates. Heyrman’s Southern Cross … Continue reading >Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
Categories: Visual Culture – Posted on September 23, 2012 Scene from the Duke-UNC rivalry, 1939 Like any good cultural historian, I spent part of my Sunday evening poking around the Library of Congress digital archive. … Continue reading >Scene from the Duke-UNC rivalry, 1939
Categories: American Religion, Visual Culture – Posted on September 22, 2012 Christian Advertising’s lighter side… a Revolution in Corsets. People often talk about Christian advertising as if it is something new, a sign of secularism’s “takeover” of Christianity. But … Continue reading >Christian Advertising’s lighter side… a Revolution in Corsets.