At Religion in American History, John Turner, Professor of History at the University of Southern Alabama, reviews two books that…
Ghosts in Antebellum America
Protestantism
The naked public sphere?
In light of Rick Santorum's recent comments on religion and the public sphere, we asked a small handful of scholars…
Religious roots of the secular
At the Harvard University Press Blog, historian Brad S. Gregory discusses his latest book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious…
Global Christianity
The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has recently published a new study on global Christianity.
Public sociology: rigor and relevance
Any authors would be pleased by an array of laudatory and thoughtful comments on their work, especially by a group…
Secularism in Antebellum America
Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a "pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America" by John Lardas…
Taking theology seriously
What we need is a bird’s eye view, and that requires taking theology seriously, and considering a longer view of…
American religion in the era of Fosdick’s revenge
Is bland beautiful? Almost never, most of us would say. But when it comes to religion in a diverse society,…
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
As I argued in my previous post, there are indications that Paul Kahn subscribes to Carl Schmitt’s belief in the…
David Sehat: the moral establishment of American Protestantism
David Sehat talks about his new book, The Myth of American Religious Freedom, in a two-part interview with Paul Harvey…