1st Edition
The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775
Drawing together history and recent historiography, this volume offers a reference work for understanding how religion influenced politics and how politics shaped religion in the United States from the American Revolution through the present day.
The book brings together some of the most well-regarded scholars in history, religious studies, American studies, political science, and other disciplines working in this field, providing a groundbreaking transdisciplinary history of this topic. It draws together the major themes and historiographical trends that animate current scholarship, ensuring that readers come away with a thorough picture of the field, how it has evolved, and where future scholars might take us.
This unique approach is well suited to students and scholars of both U.S. History and Religious Studies and encourages interdisciplinary analysis for the fields of Religion and Politics.
Introduction
Cara Lea Burnidge and Lauren Frances Turek
Part 1: Major Conceptual Themes
1. Religion and the State
Shelby M. Balik
2. Pluralism and Secularism
Eric Chalfant
3. Capitalism, Religion, and Politics
Darren E. Grem
4. Religion and Foreign Relations
Cara Lea Burnidge and Lauren Frances Turek
5. Material Culture, Material Religion, and Politics
Emily Suzanne Clark
6. Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism
Matthew J. Smith
7. Gender, Religion, and Politics
Stephanie Y. Mitchem
Part 2: Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
8. Religion and Imperial Networks
Katherine Carté
9. Indigenous Politics and Religious Traditions Within the Early United States
M. W. Dougherty
10. Religion, Politics, and Geography in British America’s Northeastern Borderlands
Jacqueline Reynoso
11. Slavery and Religion
Richard J. Boles
12. The Barbary Wars
Matthew Goetz
13. Electoral Politics in the New Nation
Jacob T. Wood
14. Evangelical Proliferation and Power in the Early Republic
Ryan G. Tobler
15. Gender and Republican Motherhood
Miriam Liebman
16. Mormonism in Antebellum America
Benjamin E. Park
Part 3: Civil War and Reconstruction
17. Religion and Abolitionism
Ben Wright and Nathan Jérémie-Brink
18. Sectional Crisis and Denominational Schisms
Timothy Wesley
19. The Omnipotence of Abraham Lincoln
Shannon Bontrager
20. “We Want Rights”: Religion, Suffrage, Race and Gender During the Civil War and the Reconstruction
M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo
21. Indigenous Revivalism and the Indian Wars
Tammy Heise
Part 4: Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
22. Layered Histories: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Catholicism, and Nativism in the Long Nineteenth Century
Katherine D. Moran
23. Industrial Capitalism and the Gospel of Wealth
Daniel Vaca
24. Social Gospel, Christian Socialism, and Progressive Reform
Aaron Pride
25. Old Time Religious Revivalism, Technology, and Media
Kaitlyn Lindgren-Hansen
26. Overseas Missionaries, Humanitarianism, and U.S. Diplomacy
Emily Conroy-Krutz
27. Duty and Destiny: Religion, The Spanish-American War, and American Empire
Paul T. McCartney
28. The Second KKK and Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence
Rodger M. Payne
29. Humanitarianism Between the World Wars
Hillary Kaell
Part 5: Mid- and Late 20th Century
30. World War II
G. Kurt Piehlar
31. Anti-Communism at Home and Abroad
Mark Edwards
32. Religion and National Security in the Early Cold War
Michael Graziano
33. “Chosen as the Leader or Spokesperson”: Fannie Lou Hamer as Religious Leader and Intellectual in the Black Freedom Movement
Joseph Stuart
34. Cold War Feminism and Anti-Feminism: Gender Politics and Interreligious Coalitions
Angela M. Lahr
35. LGBTQ+ Rights
William Stell
36. Culture Wars and the Supreme Court During the Cold War
Seth Dowland
37. Immigration and Asian American Religions
Jane Hong
38. Religion, Politics, and Policymaking in the Reagan Years
Michael J. Cangemi
Part 6: Early 21st Century
39. Evangelicals and Environmentalism
Robert Fuller
40. Latinx Religions and American Politics: Cold War Through Trump Presidency
Gerardo Martí, Jonathan Calvillo, and Lloyd D. Barba
41. Secularism, Nones, and Interfaith Communities
Kathleen A. Tobin
42. Islam, Islamophobia, and American Muslims
Justine Howe
43. Clergy Sexual Abuse
Brian J. Clites
44. Conspiracy, Disinformation, and Media
Hugh B. Urban
Biography
Cara Lea Burnidge is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Northern Iowa where she researches and teaches courses on the history of religion and U.S. politics in the long Progressive Era. She is the author of A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order (2016).
Lauren Frances Turek is an Associate Professor of History at Trinity University, where she teaches courses on modern U.S. foreign relations and political history. She is the author of To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations (2020).
