Reading List for Field Three: American Religion
With Jim O’Toole
o General
Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2004.
Gaustad, Edwin and Leigh E. Schmidt. The Religious History of America. San Francisco: Harper,
2002.
Marty, Martin E. Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. New York:
Penguin Books, 1984.
Turner, James. Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
o Puritans
Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New
England. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1956.
Miller, Perry, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Boston: Beacon Press, 1953.
Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. New York: Longman,
1958.
Morgan, Edmund S. Visible Saints: The History of Puritan Idea. New York: New York
University Press, 1963.
o The Awakenings
Bushman, Richard Lyman. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
2005.
Gausted, Edwin S. The Great Awakening in New England. New York: Harper, 1957.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1989.
Lambert, Frank. Inventing the “Great Awakening”. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Marsden, George. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New York: Yale University Press, 2003.
o Nineteenth Century Protestants & Catholics
Brown, Dorothy M. The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997.
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Fitzgerald, Maureen. Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York’s
Welfare System, 1830-1920. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 1999.
McDannell, Colleen. The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1986.
Putney, Clifford. Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
o Catholic Lived Religion
Orsi, Robert A. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 18801950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Orsi, Robert A. Thank You St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
O’Toole, James. Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
o Fundamentalism
Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy in Modern Culture. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: The Belknap Press, 1992.
Carpenter, Joel A. Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate
Over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
o Post-World War II
Ellwood, Robert S. The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of
Conflict. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Gibbs, Nancy and Michael Duffy. The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White
House. New York: Center Street, 2007.
Hudnut-Beumler, James. Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream
and Its Critics, 1945-1965. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Mojtabai, A.G. Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas. Syracuse:
Syracuse University Press, 1986.
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Wuthnow, Robert. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War
II. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
o Canadian Religion
General
Fay, Terence J. A History of Canadian Catholics. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press,
2001.
Noll, Mark A. “What Happened to Christian Canada?” in Church History: Studies in Christianity
and Culture. V. 75, n. 2 (June 2006): 245-273.
Missionaries
Choquette, Leslie. “‘Ces Amazones du Grand Dieu’: Women and Mission in SeventeenthCentury Canada” in French Historical Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Spring, 1992), pp. 627-655.
Grant, John Webster. Moon of Wintertime. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
Greer, Allan. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005.
Cross-Border Analyses
Christopher Adamson, “God’s Continent Divided: Politics and Religion in Upper Canada and the
Northern and Western United States, 1775 to 1841” in Comparative Studies in Society and
History, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jul., 1994), pp. 417-446
John S. Moir, “American Influence on Canadian Protestant Churches before Confederation” in
Church History, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Dec., 1967), pp. 440-455
Post-Confederation Canadian Identity
McGowan, Mark G. The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto,
1887-1992. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999.
Lynne Marks, Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth
Century Small-Town Ontario (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996)
Evangelicalism
George Rawlyk, ed., Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience (Montreal: McGillQueen’s University Press, 1997)
™ Mark Noll, “Canadian Evangelicalism: A View from the United States”
™ Bruce L. Guenther, “Living with the Virus: The Enigma of Evangelicalism Among
Mennonites in Canada”
™ Robert K. Burkinshaw, “Evangelical Bible Colleges in Twentieth-Century Canada”
™ Edith L. Blumhofer, “‘Canada’s Gift to the Sawdust Trail’: The Canadian Face of Aimee
Semple McPherson”
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George Rawlyk, Wrapped Up in God: A Study of Several Canadian Revivals and Revivalists
(Burlington, Ontario: Welch Publishing Company Inc., 1988)
John G. Stackhouse, Jr., “The Emergence of a Fellowship: Canadian Evangelicalism in the
Twentieth Century” in Church History, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 247-262
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