Religion, Genealogy, and the Study of American Religions
Issued Date: 8 Apr 2019
Abstract
This article serves as one of four responses to Dana Logan's 2017 JAAR article entitled, "Lean Closet: Asceticism in Postindustrial Consumer Culture." It investigates the value of genealogical method for the field of American religious history and establishes both benefits and drawbacks to its application.
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Callahan, Richard, Kathryn Lofton, and Chad Seales. 2010.
“Allegories of Progress: Industrial Religion in the United States.”
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78(1): 1–39. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfp076.">https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfp076.</a><br>
Cooper, Travis. 2017. “Emerging, Emergent, Emergence: Boundary
Maintenance, Definition Construction, and Legitimation Strategies in
the Establishment of a Post-Evangelical Subculture.” Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion 56: 398–417. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12329">https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12329</a>.<br>
Curtis, Finbarr. 2017. The Production of American Religious Freedom.
New York: New York University Press.<br>
———. 2012. “The Study of American Religions: Critical Reflections on
a Specialization.” Religion 42: 355–72. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2012.681875">https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2012.681875</a>.<br>
Curts, Kati. 2015. “Temples and Turnpikes in the World of Tomorrow:
Religious Assemblage and Automobility at the 1939 New York World’s
Fair.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 83: 722–49. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfv041.">https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfv041.</a><br>
Foucault, Michel. 1977. “Nietzsche, Genealogy, and History.” In
Language, Counter-Memory, and Practice: Selected Essays and
Interviews, edited by Donald F. Bouchard, 139–64. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press.<br>
Hall, David, ed. 1997. Lived Religion: Toward a History of Practice.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.<br>
Hardy, Clarence E. III. 2008. “‘No Mystery God’: Black Religions of
the Flesh in Pre-War Urban America.” Church History 77: 128–50. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640708000012">https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640708000012</a>.<br>
Lofton, Kathryn. 2017. Consuming Religion. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226482125.001.0001">https://doi.org/10.7208/<br>
chicago/9780226482125.001.0001</a>.<br>
———. 2011. Oprah: Gospel of an Icon. Berkeley: University of
California Press.<br>
Logan, Dana. 2017. “The Lean Closet: Asceticism in Post Industrial
Consumer Culture.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85:
600–28. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfw091.">https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfw091.</a><br>
Long, Charles H. 1993. Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in
the Interpretation of Religion. Aurora, CO: Davies Group.<br>
Mathews, Donald. 1969. “The Second Great Awakening as an Organizing
Process, 1780-1830: An Hypothesis.” American Quarterly 21: 22–43. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.2307/2710771">https://doi.org/10.2307/<br>
2710771</a>.<br>
McCrary, Charles, and Jeffrey Wheatley. 2017. “The Protestant
Secular in the Study of American Religion: Reappraisal and
Suggestions.” Religion 47: 256–76. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1244124.">https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1244124.</a><br>
Modern, John. 2015 “Did Someone Say ‘Evangelical Surge’?”
Church History 84: 630–36. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640715000578">https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640715000578</a>.<br>
Orsi, Robert. 2016. History and Presence. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969056">https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969056</a>.<br>
Proceedings from the 4th Biennial Conference on Religion and
American Culture.<a
href="https://raac.iupui.edu/publications/conference-proceedings/">https://raac.iupui.edu/<br>
publications/conference-proceedings/</a>.<br>
Schmidt, Leigh. 2011. “Oprah the Omnipotent.” The Immanent Frame:
Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere. <a
href="http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/05/16/oprah-the-omnipotent/">http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/05/16/oprah-the-omnipotent/</a>.<br>
———. 2013. Review of Secularism in Antebellum America, by John
Modern. Church History 82: 230.<br>
Stout, Harry S., and D. G. Hart, eds. 1997. New Directions in
American Religious History. New York: Oxford University Press.<br>
Tweed, Thomas, ed. 1997. Retelling US Religious History. Berkeley:
University of California Press.<br>
Walker, David. 2013. “The Humbug in American Religion: Ritual
Theories of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism.” Religion and American
Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 23 (1): 30-74. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2013.23.1.30.">https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2013.23.1.30.</a><br>
Wenger, Tisa. 2017. Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an
American Ideal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
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