Religion, Genealogy, and the Study of American Religions
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https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.35681Keywords:
Genealogy, Charles H. Long, Theory and Method, Religion, Theory, HistoryAbstract
This article serves as one of four responses to Dana Logan's 2017 JAAR article entitled, "Lean Closet: Asceticism in Postindustrial Consumer Culture." It investigates the value of genealogical method for the field of American religious history and establishes both benefits and drawbacks to its application.
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Hall, David, ed. 1997. Lived Religion: Toward a History of Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Hardy, Clarence E. III. 2008. “‘No Mystery God’: Black Religions of the Flesh in Pre-War Urban America.” Church History 77: 128–50. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640708000012
Lofton, Kathryn. 2017. Consuming Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226482125.001.0001
———. 2011. Oprah: Gospel of an Icon. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Mathews, Donald. 1969. “The Second Great Awakening as an Organizing Process, 1780-1830: An Hypothesis.” American Quarterly 21: 22–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/2710771
McCrary, Charles, and Jeffrey Wheatley. 2017. “The Protestant Secular in the Study of American Religion: Reappraisal and Suggestions.” Religion 47: 256–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1244124.
Modern, John. 2015 “Did Someone Say ‘Evangelical Surge’?” Church History 84: 630–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640715000578
Orsi, Robert. 2016. History and Presence. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.?https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969056
Proceedings from the 4th Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture. https://raac.iupui.edu/publications/conference-proceedings/
Schmidt, Leigh. 2011. “Oprah the Omnipotent.” The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/05/16/oprah-the-omnipotent/
———. 2013. Review of Secularism in Antebellum America, by John Modern. Church History 82: 230.
Stout, Harry S., and D. G. Hart, eds. 1997. New Directions in American Religious History. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tweed, Thomas, ed. 1997. Retelling US Religious History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Walker, David. 2013. “The Humbug in American Religion: Ritual Theories of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism.” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 23 (1): 30-74.?https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2013.23.1.30.
Wenger, Tisa. 2017. Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
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2019-04-08
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Rolsky, L. B. (2019). Religion, Genealogy, and the Study of American Religions. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 47(3-4), 3-7. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.35681
