What Would a Religious History of goop Look Like?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.35749Keywords:
Genealogy, Popular Culture, Christianity, American ReligionAbstract
This is a response to the responses on my article about Goop and asceticism. The response considers the meaning of "history" in the study of American religion today and considers possible alternatives to the types of genealogy that scholars in the field are using.
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Balmer, Randall Herbert. 1993. The Presbyterians. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Bivens, Jason C. 2012. “’Only One Repertory’: American Religious Studies.” Religion 42 (3), 395–407. https://doi.org/10.10/0048721X.2012.681873
Bender, Courtney. 2010. The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226043173.001.0001.
Curtis, Finbarr. 2012, “The Study of American Religions: Critical Reflections on a Specialization,” Religion 42 (3): 355–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2012.681875
Foucault, Michel. 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books.
———. 1984. “Nietzsche, Genealogy, and History.” In The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow, 76–101. New York: Pantheon Books.
Griffith, R. Marie. 2004. Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520217539.001.0001
Haselby, Sam. 2015. The Origins of American Religious Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199329571.001.0001.
Lofton, Kathryn. 2011. Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon. Berkeley: University of California Press.
———. 2012. “Religious History as Religious Studies.” Religion 42: 383–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2012.681878
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600–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfw091
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Moreton, Bethany. 2009. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Porterfield, Amanda. 2018. Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199372652.001.0001
Taylor, William Harrison. 2017. Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
Published
2019-04-08
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Logan, D. (2019). What Would a Religious History of goop Look Like?. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 47(3-4), 14-18. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.35749
