American Religion
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Published semiannually, American Religion offers an open-access forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas.
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Mark Hulsether on his book, Building a Protestant Left (1999). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Rethinking the Protestant Left — American Religion
Mark Hulsether on Building a Protestant Left (1999)
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November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Mark Hulsether on his book, Building a Protestant Left (1999). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Mark Valeri on Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy’s New England (1994). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/l...
Law and Providence Revisited — American Religion
Mark Valeri on Law and Providence (1994)
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November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Mark Valeri on Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy’s New England (1994). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/l...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: John Schmalzbauer discusses how 2016 was a turning point among scholars of evangelicalism and recent academic conversations about the intersection of race and religion. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Rethinking Campus Evangelicalism — American Religion
Schmalzbauer on the history of campus evangelicalism
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November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: John Schmalzbauer discusses how 2016 was a turning point among scholars of evangelicalism and recent academic conversations about the intersection of race and religion. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Congratulations to Dr. Talia Burnside, whose dissertation “So God Made a Farmer: Religion, Flesh, and the State on the Family Farm” has won American Religion Dissertation Prize's Honorable Mention.
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Talia Burnside, whose dissertation “So God Made a Farmer: Religion, Flesh, and the State on the Family Farm” has won American Religion Dissertation Prize's Honorable Mention.
The prize jury found it to be scholarship of remarkable creativity and sophistication, marshaling a range of methods and critical approaches to consider in new—and entertaining—ways not just the what but the how and why of scholarly endeavor.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The prize jury found it to be scholarship of remarkable creativity and sophistication, marshaling a range of methods and critical approaches to consider in new—and entertaining—ways not just the what but the how and why of scholarly endeavor.
Rather than treating science and religion as exclusive frameworks for being in the world, this study argues that SETI practitioners engage in forms of religious work—mediating presence and absence, cultivating openness to transcendent figures, and managing radical uncertainty.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Rather than treating science and religion as exclusive frameworks for being in the world, this study argues that SETI practitioners engage in forms of religious work—mediating presence and absence, cultivating openness to transcendent figures, and managing radical uncertainty.”
In Martini’s own words, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen” "examines the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as a site where scientific practice contributes to the enchantment of the universe through material and discursive processes that sustain openness to unknowable others.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In Martini’s own words, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen” "examines the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as a site where scientific practice contributes to the enchantment of the universe through material and discursive processes that sustain openness to unknowable others.
Connor Martini earned his PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Religion, and he’s currently a Postdoctoral Research associate at Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Connor Martini earned his PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Religion, and he’s currently a Postdoctoral Research associate at Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion.
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Connor Martini as the winner of American Religion’s fifth annual dissertation prize! Dr. Martini’s dissertation is titled, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Connor Martini as the winner of American Religion’s fifth annual dissertation prize! Dr. Martini’s dissertation is titled, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.”
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Candy Gunther Brown on The Word in the World (2004). Brown reflects on continuity in the practice of reading overtime and her recent, multidisciplinary research. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/f...
From The Word in the World to More Words in a More Connected and Contested World — American Religion
Candy Gunther Brown on Word in the World (2004)
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October 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Candy Gunther Brown on The Word in the World (2004). Brown reflects on continuity in the practice of reading overtime and her recent, multidisciplinary research. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/f...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Jason C. Bivins on the Fracture of Good Order (2003).Bivins reflects on the political moment that shaped the book’s research questions and the applicability of its method for today’s politics. www.american-religion.org/back-pages/t....
The Growth of Bad Order — American Religion
Jason C. Bivins on The Fracture of Good Order (2003)
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October 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Jason C. Bivins on the Fracture of Good Order (2003).Bivins reflects on the political moment that shaped the book’s research questions and the applicability of its method for today’s politics. www.american-religion.org/back-pages/t....
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009). Wenger reflects on the genesis of the book’s theoretical framing and new directions in Indigenous scholarship since publication. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/w....
We Have a Religion in Retrospect — American Religion
Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009)
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October 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009). Wenger reflects on the genesis of the book’s theoretical framing and new directions in Indigenous scholarship since publication. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/w....
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Amanda Porterfield on her book Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992). Porterfield reflects on puritan rhetoric and the trial of Anne Hutchinson. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/b...
Back to the Puritans — American Religion
Amanda Porterfield on Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992)
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October 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Amanda Porterfield on her book Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992). Porterfield reflects on puritan rhetoric and the trial of Anne Hutchinson. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/b...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Thomas Tweed on American religious historiography. Tweed reflects on the place-centered focus of his scholarship and the importance of narrative complexity in US history. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/d...
Documenting the Emergence of a White Male Protestant Establishment — American Religion
Thomas Tweed on American religious historiography
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October 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Thomas Tweed on American religious historiography. Tweed reflects on the place-centered focus of his scholarship and the importance of narrative complexity in US history. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/d...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Paul Harvey on his book, “Redeeming the South” (1997). Harvey discusses the “cult of the archive,” salient questions in religious historiography, and recent work on biography.Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Redeeming My Own Work — American Religion
Paul Harvey on Redeeming the South (1997)
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October 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Paul Harvey on his book, “Redeeming the South” (1997). Harvey discusses the “cult of the archive,” salient questions in religious historiography, and recent work on biography.Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Courtney Bender on her book Heaven’s Kitchen (2003). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/g....
Going For It — American Religion
Courtney Bender on Heaven's Kitchen (2003)
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October 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Courtney Bender on her book Heaven’s Kitchen (2003). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/g....
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: W. Clark Gilpin on his book, “A Preface to Theology” (1996). Gilpin reflects on his use of Lippmann and the book’s call for public theological dialogue. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/a....
A Preface to Theology — American Religion
W. Clark Gilpin on A Preface to Theology (1996)
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October 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: W. Clark Gilpin on his book, “A Preface to Theology” (1996). Gilpin reflects on his use of Lippmann and the book’s call for public theological dialogue. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/a....
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Russell T. McCutcheon on his book, “Manufacturing Religion” (1997). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/a...
Against the Wind — American Religion
McCutcheon on Manufacturing Religion (2003)
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September 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Russell T. McCutcheon on his book, “Manufacturing Religion” (1997). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/a...
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Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: E Brooks Holifield on his book, “The Gentlemen Theologians” (1978). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/t...
The Gentlemen Theologians — American Religion
E. Brooks Holifield on the Gentlemen Theologians (1978)
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September 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: E Brooks Holifield on his book, “The Gentlemen Theologians” (1978). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/t...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: John Corrigan on his book “The Hidden Balance: Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew” (1987). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/c...
Religion, Emotion, and What Else? — American Religion
John Corrigan on The Hidden Balance: Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew (1987)
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September 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: John Corrigan on his book “The Hidden Balance: Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew” (1987). Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/c...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Edward E. Curtis IV on his first two books, “Islam in Black America” (2021) and “Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam” (2006). www.american-religion.org/back-pages/a...
A Tale of Two First Books — American Religion
Edward E. Curtis, IV, on his first two books
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September 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Edward E. Curtis IV on his first two books, “Islam in Black America” (2021) and “Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam” (2006). www.american-religion.org/back-pages/a...
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Mark A. Noll on his first book, “Christians in the American Revolution” (1977). Noll addresses the book’s early reception and reassesses Protestantism in American religious history. Read here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/n...
Religion and the American Revolution, Then and Now — American Religion
Mark A. Noll on Christians in the American Revolution (1977)
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September 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Mark A. Noll on his first book, “Christians in the American Revolution” (1977). Noll addresses the book’s early reception and reassesses Protestantism in American religious history. Read here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/n...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Special Issue on Religion and Health (Pippa Koch, Guest Editor)
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to amrel@iu.edu by December 1, 2025.
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Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to amrel@iu.edu by December 1, 2025.
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Announcements — American Religion
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September 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Special Issue on Religion and Health (Pippa Koch, Guest Editor)
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to amrel@iu.edu by December 1, 2025.
www.american-religion.org/announcements
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to amrel@iu.edu by December 1, 2025.
www.american-religion.org/announcements
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Laura Levitt on her book chapter about the dynamics of citation, “(The Problem with) Embraces” (1997). www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Revisiting My Essay, “(The Problem with) Embraces” (1997) — American Religion
Laura Levitt on “(The Problem with) Embraces” (1997)
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September 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Laura Levitt on her book chapter about the dynamics of citation, “(The Problem with) Embraces” (1997). www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...