Seth Meehan
U.S. Religious History
Prof. O'Toole
American, General
Ahlstrom, Sydney, Religious History of the American People
Bercovitch, Sacvan, The American Jeremiad
Butler, Jon, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Butler, Jon, "Jack in the Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,"
Journal of American History, 90 (March 2004): 1357-1378
Gaustad, Edwin, Religious History of America
Holifield, E. Brooks, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to
the Civil War
Hutchison, William, Religious Pluralism in America
Marty, Martin, Pilgrims in Their Own Land
Moore, R. Laurence, Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans
New England Puritanism
Bremer, Francis, John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founder
Hall, David, The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the 17th Century
Hall, David, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New
England
Kidd, Thomas, The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism
McGiffert, Michael, "American Puritan Studies in the 1960s," William and Mary Quarterly 27
(1970): 36-67
Miller, Perry, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
Miller, Perry, Errand into the Wilderness
Morgan, Edmund, Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
Morgan, Edmund, The Puritan Dilemma
Seeman, Erik, Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England
Stout, Harry, New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Cultural in Colonial New England
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Great Awakening to Early 19th Century
Bonomi, Patricia, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial
America
Bushman, Richard Lyman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Butler, Jon, "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretive Fiction,"
Journal of American History 69 (September 1982): 305-325
Gaustad, Edwin, The Great Awakening in New England
Hatch, Nathan, The Democratization of American Christianity
Heimert, Alan, Religion and the American Mind, from the Great Awakening to the Revolution
Heyrman, Christine, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
Kidd, Thomas, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelicalism
Lambert, Frank, Inventing the "Great Awakening"
Lambert, Frank, "Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 17371770
Lyerly, Cynthia, Methodism and the Southern Mind
Marsden, George, Jonathan Edwards: A Life
African American
Callahan, James, The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
Campbell, James, Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States
and South Africa
O'Toole, James, Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920
Raboteau, Albert, Slave Religion: The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South
Civil War and After
Faust, Drew Gilpin, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Noll, Mark, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Stout, Harry, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War
Wilson, Charles, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
Woodworth, Steven, While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers
Turner, James, Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
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Catholicism
Appleby, Scott, Church and Age Unite: The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism
Dolan, Jay, The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865
Franchot, Jenny, Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism
Gamm, Gerald, Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
Gordon, Linda, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Halsey, William, The Survival of American Innocence: Catholicism in an Era of Disillusionment,
1920-1940
Kuzniewski, Anthony J., Faith and Fatherland: The Polish Church War in Wisconsin, 1896-1918
McGreevy, John, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History
McGreevy, John, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the 20th-Century
Urban North
O'Toole, James, The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America
O'Toole, James, Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church of
Boston
Tentler, Leslie Woodcock, Catholics and Contraception: An American History
Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism
Boyer, Paul, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture
Carpenter, Joel, Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism
Glass, William, Strangers in Zion: Fundamentalists in the South, 1900-1950
Hangen, Tona, Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America
Hutchison, William, The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism
Kazin, Michael, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
Larson, Edward, The Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate
over Science and Religion
Marsden, George, Fundamentalism and American Culture
Ownby, Ted, Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 18651920
Wacker, Grant, Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture
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Lived Religion
Hall, David, "Introduction" and Stephen Prothero, "Lived Religion and the Dead: The Cremation
Movement in Gilded Age America," in Lived Religion: Toward a History of Practice, ed.
David Hall
Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America, ed. James M.
O'Toole
Orsi, Robert, Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes
Orsi, Robert, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950
Church-State and Disestablishment
Burr, Nelson, A Critical Bibliography of Religion in America, Volume IV (Disetablishment in
the States)
Field, Peter, The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in
Massachusetts, 1780-1833
Greene, M. Louise, The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut
Kinney, Jr., Charles, Church & State: The Struggle for Separation in New Hampshire, 16301900
McLoughlin, William Gerald, New England Dissent, 1630-1833; The Baptists and the
Separation of Church and State
Meyer, Jacob, Church and State in Massachusetts: From 1740-1833; A Chapter in the History of
the Development of Individual Freedom
Murray, S.J., John Courtney, We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American
Proposition
Paradis, Wilfrid, Upon This Granite: Catholicism in New Hampshire, 1647-1997
O'Toole, James, "Prelates and Politicos," in Catholic Boston: Studies in Religion and
Community, 1870-1970, ed. Robert E. Sullivan and James M. O'Toole
Sassi, Jonathan, A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary
New England Clergy
Wright, John, National Patriotism in Papal Teaching