NEW BOOKS JULY-DECEMBER 2023
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Joseph Stuart is Assistant Professor of History at BYU and researches the intersections of race, religion, and masculinity in twentieth-century African American history.
Reviving a series of posts inaugurated by Paul Putz, the Religion in US History Substack is glad to share books that have been, or will be, published between July and December 2023. If we missed your book, or if you work for a press, your authors’ books, please send us a note!
If you’re interested in reviewing a book or conducting a Q&A on your book, send us a note!
Presses and books are listed in alphabetical order.
BLOOMSBURY
Dawn-Marie Gibson, The Ministry of Louis Farrakhan in the Nation of Islam
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Matthew D. Taylor, Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Marie W. Dallam, Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America
Joseph P. Slaughter, Faith in Markets; Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
J. Kameron Carter, The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song
Michael Kaler, Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
Maryam Kashani, Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival
Matthew Francis Rarey, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Katherine Dugan and Karen E. Park, American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism
FORTRESS PRESS
Vincent L. Wimbush, The Bible and African Americans
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
David J. Collins, The Jesuits in the United States: A Concise History
C. Walker Gollar, “Let Us Go Free”: Slavery and Jesuit Universities in America
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY PRESS
Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo, eds., Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian Nationalism and Racism
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Danielle N. Boaz, Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur
Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Owen Davies, Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
Janine Giordano Drake, The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement
Grant Hardy, The Annotated Book of Mormon
Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin, Christian Zionism in the 21st Century
Jennifer C. Snow, Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in a Global Context
Erin E. Stiles, The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah
Mark Valeri, The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Adam D. Mendelsohn and Jonathan D. Sarna, Yearning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America
Melvin L. Rogers, The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
Robert Wuthnow, Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice: What Has Worked, What Hasn’t, and Lessons We Can Learn
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
Thomas J. Rowland, Patriotism is a Catholic Virtue: Irish-American Catholics and the Church in the Era of the Great War, 19000-1918
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Braxton D. Shelley, An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G.E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy
Spearit, Muslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
E. Summerson Carr, Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing
Diane Winston, Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
George B. Handley, Lowell L. Bennion, A Mormon Educator
Gary Scott Smith, Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI PRESS
Jami L. Carlacio, ed., Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Jessica Lauren Nelson, ed., Religion and the American West: Belief, Violence, and Resistance from 1800 to Today
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Robin Judd, Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust
Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, I Cannot Write My Life: Islamic, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America
Marina Magloire, We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
Sherman L. Fleek, A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
Richard L. Saunders, Mormon and Western Histories in Transition
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS
Farina King, Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
James L. Conyers, Jr., Africana Faith: A Religious History of the African American Catholic Crusade in Islam
WILLIAM B. EERDMAN’S
Ralph Craig III, Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Matthew B. Bowman, The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America
Carlos M.N. Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible
Pauli Murray (edited by Anthony B. Pinn), To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation