Conducting ethnographic fieldwork across the country, I witnessed evangelicals engage diverse racial, economic, religious, political, and moral-cultural others in a spirit of flexibility, openness, collaboration, and self-critical reflection and adjustment.
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American religion, humility, and democracy
A crisis of political arrogance
January 11, 2018
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public life, and in particular how they balance their responsibilities as members of…
January 11, 2018
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Comparison and classification in American religious history
January 9, 2018
The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and, even more spectacularly, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 reveal the power of the taxonomic and comparative impulses in nineteenth-century America. Imperialism, slavery and segregation, urbanization,…
January 9, 2018
Essays
Charisma and seduction
January 5, 2018
Producers, actors, politicians, businessmen, and professors: acclaimed men in these professions have recently been exposed as perpetrators of sexual violence. Powerful men abuse their power, and women are often the victims. Power…
January 5, 2018
off the cuff
What are you teaching?
December 14, 2017
In addition to inviting contributors to briefly introduce their upcoming courses and pedagogical approaches, we asked: What readings or resources (e.g., online databases, image collections, etc.) are you looking forward to having…
December 14, 2017
Death Be Not Proud
Death Be Not Proud—A reply
December 14, 2017
What I suggest in my book is that Donne’s sermon, like many other discussions of attention and distraction in early modern prayer, assumes that although perfect attentiveness is impossible, if one were…
December 14, 2017
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