Clayton Trutor
US Religious History Reading List:
General:
Ahlstrom, Sydney. Religious History of the American People (1972)
Albanese, Edward. America: Religions and Religion (1992)
Butler, John. “Jack in the Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,” JAH
90
Gaustad, Edwin. Religious History of America (1967)
Herberg, Will. Protestant, Catholic, Jew (1959)
Holifield, E. Brooks. Theology in America (2003)
Marty, Martin. Pilgrims in Their Own Land (1986)
Early American/Colonial Religion:
Bonomi, Patricia.Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
(2003)
Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1973)
Hall, David. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment (1989)
Heimert, Alan. Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolution
(1968)
May, Henry. The Enlightenment in America (1961)
Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness (1956)
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (1939)
Morgan, Edmund. The Puritan Dilemma (1959)
Morgan, Edmund. Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea (1963)
The Great Awakenings:
Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2007)
Butler, “Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The First Great Awakening as Interpretive Fiction,”
JAH 69
Gaustad, The Great Awakening in New England (1958)
Gutjahr, An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 (2002)
Hatch, Nathaniel. The Democratization of American Christianity (1991)
Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1995)
Johnson and Wilentz, Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th Century (1994)
America
Lambert, Inventing the Great Awakening (2001)
Lambert, Pedlar in Divinity: George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770
(2004)
Civil War and its Aftermath:
Gilpin-Faust, Drew. This Republic of Suffering (2008)
McDannell, Colleen. The Christian Home in Victorian America (1994)
Putney, Christopher. Muscular Christianity (1998)
Wilson, Charles. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause (1982).
Catholicism
Franchot, Jenny. Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism.
(1994).
Gamm, Gerald. Urban Exodus: Why The Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed. (2001)
Halsey, The Survival of American Innocence: Catholicism in an Era of Disillusionment, 19201940 (1980).
McGreevy, John. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth
Century Urban North (1998).
McGreevy, John. Catholicism and Freedom (2004).
Orsi, Robert. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem (2002)
Orsi, Robert. Thank You St Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes
(1994)
O’Toole, James. The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America (2008)
African-American
Callahan, Allen. Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible (2008)
Campbell, Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and
South Africa (1998)
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World The Slaves Made (1973)
Lincoln and Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience (1990)
Raboteau, Albert. Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution’ in the Antebellum South (2004)
Fundamentalism/Evangelicalism
Balmer, Randall. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (2006).
Carpenter, Joel. Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (1999)
Hangen, Tona. Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture (2004)
Hudnut-Beumler, James. Looking for God in the Suburbs (1994)
Marsden, George Fundamentalism and American Culture (1980)
Miller, Steven Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (2009)
Oppenheimer, Mark. Knocking on Heaven’s Door (2003).
Wacker, Grant. Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (2000).
Glass, William. Strangers in Zion: Fundamentalists in the South, 1900-50 (2001).
Social Gospel
Curtis,Susan. A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and American Culture (2001)
Dorrien, Gary. The Making of American Liberal Theology (2001)
Evans, The Kingdom is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch (2005)
Hutchinson, William. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism (1976)
Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2007)
Putney, Christopher. Muscular Christianity (1998)