Kathryn Lofton. Consuming Religion. Class 200: New Studies in Religion Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 352 pp. $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-48209-5; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-48193-7; $29.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-226-48212-5.
Reviewed by L. Benjamin Rolsky (Monmouth University) Published on H-AmRel (November, 2017) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
Sylvester A. Johnson. African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 438 pp. $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-15700-1.
Reviewed by Shari L. Rabin (College of Charleston) Published on H-AmRel (July, 2017) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
David Harrington Watt. Antifundamentalism in Modern America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. 240 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4827-0.
Reviewed by L. Benjamin Rolsky (Monmouth University) Published on H-AmRel (July, 2017) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
Religion, Antifundamentalism, and the Study of American Religious History
Angela Tarango. Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 234 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-1292-8.
Reviewed by Matthew Dougherty (University of North Carolina) Published on H-AmRel (June, 2017) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
E. J. Dionne Jr. Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 544 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4767-6379-8.
Reviewed by L. Benjamin Rolsky (Drew University) Published on H-AmRel (January, 2017) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
Religion, Conservatism, and the Fundamentalization of the GOP
John G. Turner. The Mormon Jesus: A Biography. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016. 368 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73743-3.
Reviewed by Kyle Beshears (University of Mobile) Published on H-AmRel (December, 2016) Commissioned by John D. Wilsey
Thinking Historically about the Mormon Jesus
Robert A. Orsi. History and Presence. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 384 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04789-1.
Reviewed by Kristy Nabhan-Warren (University of Iowa) and Adam Park (Florida State University) and Michael Pasquier (Louisiana State University) Published on H-AmRel (November, 2016) Commissioned by Michael Graziano
Review Forum on Robert Orsi's History and Presence
Shelby M. Balik. Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014. xv + 295 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01210-4.
Reviewed by Mary K. Cayton (The Ohio State University) Published on H-AmRel (November, 2016) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
John Demos. The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic. New York: Vintage, 2014. 368 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-679-78112-7.
Reviewed by John Frederick Bell (Harvard University) Published on H-AmRel (September, 2016) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
Jessica M. Parr. Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. 235 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62846-198-5; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4968-0963-6.
Reviewed by Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University) Published on H-AmRel (July, 2016) Commissioned by John D. Wilsey
The Ironic and Iconic George Whitefield
Hadley Kruczek-Aaron. Everyday Religion: An Archaeology of Protestant Belief and Practice in the Nineteenth Century. Gainseville: University Press of Florida, 2015. 250 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6108-5.
Reviewed by Matthew Dougherty (University of North Carolina) Published on H-AmRel (July, 2016) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
John W. Compton. The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 272 pp. $47.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-72679-6.
Reviewed by John Young (University of Alabama) Published on H-AmRel (June, 2016) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
Regina D. Sullivan, Monte Harrell Hampton, eds. Varieties of Southern Religious History: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Mathews. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. 296 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-489-2.
Reviewed by Shari L. Rabin (College of Charleston) Published on H-AmRel (April, 2016) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
Timothy E. W. Gloege. Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xv + 307 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2101-2.
Reviewed by Charles McCrary (FSU) Published on H-AmRel (April, 2016) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
Jennifer Thigpen. Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai'i's Pacific World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xii + 165 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1429-8.
Reviewed by Charles McCrary (FSU) Published on H-AmRel (March, 2016) Commissioned by Bobby L. Smiley
