Sunday 12 August 2012

Book List for Religion and American Life

This Fall at UTC I am teaching "Religion in American Life." I decided to use the aptly titled, Religion in American Life by Butler, Wacker, and Balmer as the course textbook. One of the requirements for this course is to read and write a review of one of the books below. I obviously have a bias (and more knowledge) toward Protestantism and so if there are any books that I should add to this list (preferably university press texts)--in any of the categories listed below--please let me know.


Book List for Religion in American Life

Book List for Religion in American Life

General Reading on Religion in the United States
1.       Beneke, Chris. Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism. Oxford, 2008.
2.       Butler, Jon.  Awash in a Sea of Faith:  Christianizing the American People.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1990.
3.       Fea, John. Was America Founded As a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction. WJK, 2011.
4.       Holifield, E. Brooks.  God’s Ambassadors:  A History of the Christian Clergy in America.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2007.
5.       Kuklick, Bruce.  Churchmen and Philosophers:  From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1984.
6.       McDannell, Colleen.  Material Christianity:  Religion and Popular Culture in America.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1995.
7.       Moore, R. Laurence.  Selling God:  American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994.
8.       Robert, Dana.  American Women in Mission.  Macon, Ga.:  Mercer University Press, 1996.
9.       Turner, James.  Without God, Without Creed:  The Origins of Unbelief in America.  Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Religious Traditions and Movements in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America

1.       Axtel, James.  The Invasion Within:  The Conquest of Cultures in Colonial North America.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1985. 
2.       Balmer, Randall.  A Perfect Babel of Confusion; Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1989. 
3.       Bonomi, Patricia U.  Under the Cope of Heaven:  Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1986.
4.       Brekus, Catherine A.  Strangers and Pilgrims:  Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 
5.       Buckley, Thomas E.  Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787.  Charlottesville:  University Press of Virginia, 1977.
6.       Coalter, Milton J., Jr.  Gilbert Tennent, Son of Thunder:  A Case Study of Continental Pietism’s Impact on the First Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies.  New York:  Greenwood, 1986. 
7.       Crawford, Patricia.  Women and Religion in England, 1500-1750.  New York:  Routledge, 1996.
8.       Demos, John Putnam.  Entertaining Satan:  Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1982.
9.       Fiering, Norman.  Jonathan Edwards’s Moral Thought and Its British Context.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
10.   Frey, Sylvia R.  Water from the Rock:  Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age.  Princeton, N.J.;  Princeton University Press, 1991.
11.   Gaustad, Edwin S.  Faith of the Founders:  Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826.  Waco, Tex.:  Baylor University Press, 2004.
12.   Hall, David D.  The Faithful Shepherd:  A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
13.   Hall, David D.  Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment:  Popular Religious Belief in Early New England.  New York:  Knopf, 1989.
14.   Hall, Timothy D.  Contested Boundaries:  Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World.  Durham, N.C.:  Duke University Press, 1994.
15.   Holifield, E. Brooks.  Theology in America:  Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2003.
16.   Hutchison, William, R.  Religious Pluralism in America:  The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2003.
17.   Isaac, Rhys.  The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
18.   Juster, Susan.  Disorderly Women:  Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England.  Ithaca, N.Y.:  Cornell University Press, 1994.
19.   Kidd, Thomas S. God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Religion. Basic Books, 2010.
20.   Kidd, Thomas S. The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America. Yale, 2009.
21.   Lambert, Frank.  Inventing the “Great Awakening.”  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.
22.   Larson, Rebecca. Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775. UNC, 2000.
23.   Marietta, Jack D.  The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.
24.   Porterfield, Amanda. Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation. Chicago, 2012.
25.   Porterfield, Amanda. Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism. Oxford, 1991.
26.   Reff, Daniel T.  Plagues, Priests, and Demons:  Sacred Narrativs and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2005.
27.   Rhoden, Nancy L.  Revolutionary Anglicanism:  The Colonial Church of England Clergy During the American Revolution.  New York:  New York University Press, 1999.
28.   Schmidt, Leigh Eric.  Hearing Things:  Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 2000. 
29.   Schmidt, Leigh Eric.  Holy Fairs:  Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 1989.
30.   Stein, Stephen J.  The Shaker Experience in America:  A History of the United Society of Believers.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1992.
31.   Stout, Harry S.  The Divine Dramatist:  George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, 1991.
32.   Stout, Harry S.  The New England Soul:  Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1986.
33.   Thornton, John.  Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
34.   Tracy, Patricia J.  Jonathan Edwards, Pastor:  Religion and Society in Eighteenth Century Northampton. New York:  Hill and Wang, 1980.
35.   Upton, Del.  Holy Things and Profane:  Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia.  Cambridge, Mass.:  MIT Press, 1986
36.   Valeri, Mark. Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
37.   Westerkamp, Marilyn J.  Triumph of the Laity:  Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1625-1760.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1988.
38.   Wheeler, Rachel M.  To Live Upon Hope:  Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast.  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 2008.
39.   Winner, Lauren F.  A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith:  Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2010.

American Religious Traditions and Movements in the Nineteenth Century

1.       Arrington, Leonard J., and Davis Bitton.  The Mormon Experience.  2nd ed.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1992.
2.       Carwardine, Richard J.  Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1993.
3.       Croce, Paul Jerome.  Science and Religion in the Era of William James:  Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
4.       Dorrien, Gary.  The Making of American Liberal Theology:  Imaging Progressive Religion, 1805-1900.  Louisville, Ky.:  Westminster John Knox, 2002.
5.       Evensen, Bruce J. God’s Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism. Oxford, 2003.
6.       Fogarty, Robert S.  All Things New:  American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1990.
7.       Gottschalk, Stephen.  The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1973.
8.       Graber, Jennifer.  The Furnace of Affliction:  Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
9.       Grammer, Elizabeth Elkin. Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford, 2002.
10.   Hatch, Nathan O.  The Democratization of American Christianity.  New Haven, Yale University Press, 1989.
11.   Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F.  Religion and Society in Frontier California.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1994.
12.   Numbers, Ronald.  Darwinism Comes to America.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1998.
13.   Schneider, Gregory.  The Way of the Cross Leads Home:  The Domestication of American Methodism.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1993.
14.   Stout, Harry S.  Upon the Altar of the Nation:  A Moral History of the Civil War.  New York:  Viking, 2006.

American Religious Traditions and Movements in the Twentieth (and 21st) Century

1.       Alexander, Thomas G.  Mormonism in Transition:  A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1986.
2.       Balmer, Randall.  Thy Kingdom Come:  How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.  New York:  Basic Books, 2006.
3.       Bauer, Susan Wise The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America, Princeton, 2008.
4.       Bruns, Roger A.  Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 2002.
5.       Gilbert, James.  Redeeming Culture:  American Religion in an Age of Science.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1997.
6.       Griffith, R.  Marie.  Born Again Bodies:  Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2004.
7.       Larson, Edward J.  Summer for the Gods:  The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion.  New York:  Basic Books, 1997.
8.       Lienesch, Michael.  Redeeming America:  Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
9.       Lindsay, D. Michael. Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite. Oxford University Press, 2007.
10.   Newport, Kenneth G. C. The Branch Davidians of Waco: The History and Beliefs of an Apocalyptic Sect. Oxford, 2006.
11.   Prothero, Stephen R.  American Jesus:  How the Son of God Became a National Icon.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
12.   Reiser, Andrew Chamberlain.  The Chautauqua Moment:  Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 2003.
13.   Robinson, Thomas A. and Lanette D. Ruff, Out of the Mouths of Babes: Girl Evangelists in the Flapper Era.Oxford, 2011.
14.   Shapiro, Edward S.  A Time for Healing:  American Jewry Since World War II.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
15.   Turner, John G. Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America. UNC, 2008.
16.   Warren, Heather A. Theologians of a New World Order: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian Realists, 1920-1948. Oxford, 1997.
17.   Winston, Diane.  Red-Hot and Righteous:  The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1999.
18.   Wuthnow, Robert. After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion. Princeton, 2010.
19.   Wuthnow, Robert.  The Restructuring of American Religion:  Society and Faith since World War II.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 1988.


African American Religious Traditions

1.       Best, Wallace D.  Passionately Human, No Less Divine:  Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952.  Princeton, 2005. 
2.       Chappell, David L.  A Stone of Hope:  Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
3.       Evans, Curtis J. The Burden of Black Religion. Oxford, 2008.
4.       Dyson, Michael Eric. Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture. Oxford, 1996.
5.       Freedman, Samuel G.  Upon This Rock:  The Miracles of a Black Church.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1993.
6.       Higginbontham, Evelyn Brooks.  Righteous Discontent:  The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1993.
7.       Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F.  Setting Down the Sacred Past:  African American Race Histories.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 2010.
8.       Morgan, Philip.  Slave Counterpoint:  Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
9.       Sensbach, John F.  Rebecca’s Revival:  Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 2005.
10.   Sensbach, John F.  A Separate Canaan:  The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina 1763-1840.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
11.   Sernett, Milton C. Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration Duke, 1997.
12.   Weisenfeld, Judith.  African American Women and Christian Activism:  New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1997.

Asian American Religious Traditions

1.       Cheah, Joseph. Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation Oxford, 2011.
2.       Fields, Rick.  How the Swans Came to the Lake:  A Narrative History of Buddhism in America.  3rd ed.  Boston:  Shambhala, 1992.
3.       Tweed, Thomas A.  The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912:  Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1992.
4.       Williams, Raymond Brady.  Religious of Immigrants from India and Pakistan:  New Threads in the American Tapestry.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1988.
5.       Versluis, Arthur. American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions. Oxford, 1993.

Catholicism in America

1.       Dolan, Jay P.  The Immigrant Church:  New York’s Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
2.       Dolan, Jay P.  The American Catholic Experience:  A History from Colonial Times to the Present.  Garden City, N.Y.:  Doubleday, 1985.
3.       Dolan, Jay P. In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension. Oxford, 2003.
4.       Fisher, James T.  The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
5.       Gleason, Philip.  Keeping the Faith:  American Catholicism Past and Present.  Notre Dame, Ind.:  University of Notre Dame Press, 1987.
6.       Kane, Paula.  Separatism and Subculture; Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
7.       Massa, Mark S. The American Catholic Revolution: How the Sixties Changed the Church Forever. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
8.       McGreevey, John T.  Catholicism and American Freedom:  A History.  New York:  W.W. Norton and Company, 2003.
9.       McGreevey, John T.  Parish Boundaries:  The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1996.
10.   O’Toole, James M.  The Faithful:  A History of Catholics in America.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 2008.
11.   Pasquier, Michael. Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870. Oxford, 2009.
12.   Tweed, Thomas A.  Our Lady of the Exile:  Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1997.
13.   Weber, David J.  The Spanish Frontier in North America.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1992.

Islam in America

1.       Abdo, Geneive.  Mecca and Main Street:  Muslim Life in America after 9/11.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2006.
2.       Curtis, Edward E. Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975. UNC, 2006.
3.       Gardell, Mattias.  In the Name of Elijah Muhammad:  Louis Farrakham and the Nation of Islam.  Durham, N.C.:  Duke University Press, 1996.
4.       Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck.  The Muslims of America.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991.
5.       Kidd, Thomas S. American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims From the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism. Princeton, 2008.
6.       Metcalf, Barbara Daly.  Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1996.
7.       Smith, Jane I.  Islam in America.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1999.
8.       Turner, Richard Brent.  Islam in the African-American Experience.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1997.

Judaism in America

1.       Diner, Hasia R.  Lower East Side Memories:  A Jewish Place in America.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 2000.
2.       Dinnerstein, Leonard.  Antisemitism in America.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994.
3.       Joselit, Jenna Weissman.  The Wonders of America:  Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950.  New York:  Hill& Wang, 1994.
4.       Sachar, Howard M.  A History of the Jews in America.  New York:  Knopf, 1992.
5.       Sarna, Jonathan D.  American Judaism:  A History.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2005.

Native American Religious Traditions
1.       Fisher, Linford D. The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America. Oxford, 2012.
2.       Hultkrantz, Ake and Monica Setterwall. The Religions of the American Indians. California, 1981.
3.       Jenkins, Philip. Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality. Oxford, 2005.
4.       McAlister, Elizabeth A.  Rara:  Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002.
5.       McLoughlin, William G.  The Cherokees and Christianity:  1794-1870.  Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1994.
6.       Merrell, James H.  The Indians’ New World:  Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
7.       Wenger, Tisa.  We Have a Religion:  The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
8.       Wheeler, Rachel.  To Live Upon Hope:  Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast.  Ithaca, N.Y.:  Cornell University Press, 2008.

Protestantism in America

1.       Ammerman, Nancy.  Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention.  New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 1990.
2.       Blumhofer, Edith L.  Restoring the Faith:  The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1993.
3.       Boylan, Anne M.  Sunday School:  The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1988.
4.       Bressler, Ann Lee. The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880. Oxford, 2001.
5.       Carpenter, Joel A.  Revive Us Again:  The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1997.
6.       Curtis, Heather D.  Faith in the Great Physician:  Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1960-1900.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
7.       Dochuk, Darren.  From Bible Belt to Sun Belt:  Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservativism.  New York:  W.W. Norton, 2010.
8.       Givens, Terryl L. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion. Oxford, 2003.
9.       Givens, Terryl L. People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture. Oxford, 2007.
10.   Harvey, Paul.  Redeeming the South:  Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
11.   Hudnut-Beumler, James.  In Pursuit of the Almighty’s Dollar:  A History of Money and American Protestantism.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
12.   Longfield, Bradley J. The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates. Oxford, 1993.
13.   Marsden, George M.  Fundamentalism and American Culture:  The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism:  1870-1925.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1980.
14.   Martin, William.  With God on Our Side:  The Rise of the Religious Right in America.  New York:  Broadway, 1996.
15.   May, Henry F.  The Enlightenment in America.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1976.
16.   Miller, Steven P.  Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
17.   Putney, Clifford.  Muscular Christianity:  Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 2001.
18.   Sack, Daniel.  Whitebread Protestants:  Food and Religion in American Culture.  New York:  St.  Martin’s Press, 2000.
19.   Swartz, David R. The Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism. Pennsylvania, 2012.
20.   Thuesen, Peter J.  In Discordance with the Scriptures:  American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999.
21.   Wacker, Grant.  Heaven Below:  Early Pentecostals and American Culture.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 2001.
22.   Wigger, John. Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. Oxford, 1998.
Biography

1.       Angell, Stephen W.  Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South.  Knoxville:  University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
2.       Blumhofer, Edith L.  Aimee Semple McPherson:  Everybody’s Sister.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, 1993.
3.       Blumhofer, Edith L.  Her Heart Can See:  The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, 2005.
4.       Bordin, Ruth. Frances Willard: A Biography. UNC, 2001.
5.       Bushman, Richard L.  Joseph Smith:  Rough Stone Rolling.  New York:  Knopf, 2005.
6.       Cunningham, Lawrence.  Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, 1999.
7.       D’Elia, John A. A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America. Oxford, 2008.
8.       Dorset, Lyle W.  Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, 1991.
9.       Fitzmier, John R. New England’s Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817. Indiana, 1998.
10.   Gaustad, Edwin S.  Sworn on the Altar of God:  A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, 1996.
11.   Gill, Gillian.  Mary Baker Eddy.  Reading, Mass.:  Perseus, 1998.
12.   Grigg, John A. The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon. Oxford, 2009.
13.   Guelzo, Allen.  Abraham Lincoln, Redeemer President.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, 1999.
14.   Gutjahr, Paul C. Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy. Oxford, 2011.
15.   Hambrick-Stowe, Charles E.  Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism.  Grand Rapids, Mich.:  Eerdmans, 1996.
16.   Hankins, Barry. Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.
17.   Harrell, David Edwin, Jr.  Oral Roberts:  An American Life.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1985.
18.   Harrell, David Edwin, Jr.  Pat Robertson:  A Life and Legacy.  Grand Rapids:  Eerdmans, 2010.
19.   Lischer, Richard. The Preacher King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Word that Moved America. Oxford, 1997.
20.   Marable, Manning.  Malcolm X:  A Life of Reinvention.  New York:  Viking, 2011.
21.   Marsden, George.  Jonathan Edwards:  A Life.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2003.
22.   Miller, Robert M.  Harry Emerson Fosdick:  Preacher, Pastor, Prophet.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1985.
23.   Richard S. Newman, Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers (NYU, 2009)
24.   Raser, Harold E.  Pheobe Palmer, Her Life and Thought.  Lewiston, N.Y.:  E.  Mellen, 1987.
25.   Ruffin, J. Rixey. A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic. Oxford, 2007.
26.   Schmidt, Leigh  Eric.  Heaven’s Bride:  The Unprintable life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman.  New York:  Basic Books, 2011.
27.   Seaman, Ann Rowe.  Swaggart:  The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist.  New York:  Continuum, 1999.
28.   Sutton, Avery. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. Harvard, 2007.
29.   Wigger, John. American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists. Oxford, 2009.
30.   Wills, Richard W. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Image of God. Oxford, 2009.

2 comments:

William S said...

You might consider including Leslie Tentler's _Catholics and Contraception: An American History_ (Cornell, 2009) to your "Catholicism" section. The book is well-crafted and may be of interest to some your students.

Best of luck this semester!

Exploring the Study of Religious History said...

That sounds like an interesting and timely book. I will be sure and add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion.