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: 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: 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.
Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Fundamentalism, Theories of Religion, Visual Culture – Posted on September 21, 2012 Find A.T. Coates all over the internet… I’m A.T. Coates, a Duke PhD student in American Religion. You can find me all over the internet. When my … Continue reading >Find A.T. Coates all over the internet…