Learning to Read the Victorian Church – By David Frazer Lewis
David Frazer Lewis on Michael Hall’s George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America What do Victorian churches mean?
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Modern Christianity
Confessions of a Hollywood Liberal: American Sitcoms and the Culture Wars, from Norman Lear to “Parks and Recreation” – By L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky on Andrew Hartman’s A War for the Soul of America A little over a month ago, the critically acclaimed situation comedy “Parks and
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Divided by Faith – By Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey on Nancy D. Wadsworth’s Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing Nancy Wadsworth’s stimulating new work on the politics of
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Divided by Reason – By David R. Swartz
David R. Swartz on Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. In 1994, historian Mark Noll published his
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Are Evangelicals the New Liberals?
Samuel Loncar on David Hollinger’s After Cloven Tongues of Fire and Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason It’s an old story. As the world becomes
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The Theology of Jim Crow – By Colin Chapell
Colin Chapell on Carolyn Renée Dupont’s Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 Faithful responses to the Christian gospel inspired
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Pig Pickin’ in North Carolina: Southern Secularism and Religion
Michael J. Altman on Chad E. Seales’s The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town The pig is a sacrifice in the American South.
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Native Americans and the Colonists in the Great Awakening – By Michael Guéno
Michael Guéno on Linford D. Fisher’s The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America For some time now historians
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Reading Like a Religious Liberal – By Christopher White
Christopher White on Matthew S. Hedstrom’s The Rise of Liberal Religion One of my professors in graduate school, William Hutchison, a man sometimes called
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Religion, Violence, and Peace in Northern Ireland – By Gladys Ganiel
Gladys Ganiel on Richard Jordan’s The Second Coming of Paisley; John Brewer, David Mitchell, and Gerard Leavey’s Ex-Combatants, Religion and Peace in Northern Ireland; and John
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