Has anyone read one or more of these books and can write a 1,000 word essay in depth on an analysis of the authors work.
1. Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and
Intolerance in Early America
2. David Chidester Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and
Jonestown
3. Vine Deloria Jr. God is Red: A Native View of Religion
4. Carla Gardina Pestana Protestant Empire and the Making of the British Atlantic World
5. David D. Hall A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New
England
6. Leigh Eric Schmidt Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic,
Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Mad Woman
7. David Sehat The Myth of American Religious Freedom
8. Matthew Sutton American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
9. James Tabor and Eugene Gallagher Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in
America
10. Judith Weisenfeld New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great
Migration
11. Heather R. White Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
12. Daniel K. Williams God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right
13. Benjamin Zeller Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion
14. John T. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (New York: W.W. Norton,
2003)
15. R. Laurence Moore, Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1986)
16. Raboteau, Albert J. A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1995).
17. Sarna, Jonathan D.. American Judaism: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
18. Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (New
York: Knopf, 1998)
19. Porterfield, Amanda. Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
20. Richter, Daniel K.. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).
21. Sensbach, Jon F. Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005).
22. Fluhman, J. Spencer. “A Peculiar People”: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in
Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
23. Glaude, Eddie, Jr. Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black
America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
24. Griffin, Susan M. Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2004).
25. Lum, Kathryn Gin. Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
26. Pinheiro, John C. Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American
War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
27. Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South (1975;
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
28. Taves, Ann, Fits, Trances and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from
Wesley to James (Princeton, 1999)
29. Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 2011
30. Robert A. Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-
1950 (1985; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
31. Robert A. Orsi, Thank You, St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
32. Tisa Wenger, We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American
Religious Freedom (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
33. Kathryn Lofton, Consuming Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
34. Tisa Wenger, Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an America Ideal (Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
35. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States (New
York: New York University Press, 2016)
36. Judith Weisenfeld New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great
Migration (New York: New York University Press, 2017)