Theory and Overviews
Religion and American Culture
- Albanese, Catherine L. A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
- Asad, Talal. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
- Bender, Courtney. The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Braude, Ann. Sisters and Saints. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Brekus, Catherine A. The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
- Durkheim, Émile. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Reprint Edition. New York: Free Press, 1965.
- Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion. Translated by Willard R. Trask. New York: Harcourt, 1987.
- Evans, Curtis J. The Burden of Black Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Fox, Richard Wightman. Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession. San Francisco: Harper, 2004.
- Hutchison, William R. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.
- Marty, Martin E. Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America. New York: Doubleday, 1970.
- McGreevy, John T. Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. Reprint edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
- Moore, R. Laurence. Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Noll, Mark A. America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Orsi, Robert A. Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
- Pals, Daniel L. Seven Theories of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Prothero, Stephen. American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. Reprint edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
- Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
- Schmidt, Leigh Eric, and Sally M. Promey. American Religious Liberalism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
- Stein, Stephen J. Communities of Dissent: A History of Alternative Religions in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Taves, Ann. Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009.
- Turner, Victor W. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine, 1969.
- Tweed, Thomas A. Retelling U.S. Religious History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
- Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Reprint Edition. New York: Scribner, 1958.
Religion and American Culture
- Baker, Kelly J. Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2011.
- Brekus, Catherine A. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
- Chidester, David. Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
- Duggan, Lisa. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
- Gedge, Karin E. Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Gilbert, James. Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Hankins, Barry. Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today’s Culture Wars. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Johnson, Paul E., and Sean Wilentz. The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Laderman, Gary. Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- McGarry, Molly. Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
- Noonan, John T., Jr. The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
- Orsi, Robert A. Thank You, St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
- Porterfield, Amanda. Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality. San Francisco: Harper, 2005.
- Taves, Ann. Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1999.