Continuing to reinforce the centrality of white Protestant capitalist culture to American identity sometimes requires Americans to turn their hostile…
India in the American imagination: Historicizing the politics of representation
American religion
Constructing Indian religion in Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Michael Altman’s contribution to our historical understandings of American ideas about foreign religions is to note the ways in which…
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu—An introduction
In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, rather than looking for people doing religion, I looked for people using religion. The variety of…
America’s music
On December 4, 1987 both chambers of the 100th United States Congress passed a “resolution expressing the sense of Congress…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Introduction
The one-day workshop which produced these essays focused on “Theologies of American Exceptionalism,” asking participants to expound on an exemplary…
Seinfeld, Roger Williams, and religious toleration
George: This is what she said to me, “Can we change the subject?” Jerry: See, now that I don't care…
Keeping sex sexy: American evangelicalism and the problem of sexuality
Do Christians have the best sex? What kind of sex is best? And what does sex have to do with…
Secularism and the invention of American evangelicalism
Few books in the field of American religious history has received more attention over the few years than John Modern’s Secularism…
The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable
In his new publication, The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable, Robert Wuthnow conducted more than two hundred interviews…
Elizabeth Drescher on religious “nones”
NDSP Grantee Elizabeth Drescher responds to a new report, “‘Nones’ On the Rise,” released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in…