Summer Reading from our Facebook Fans

Kelly Baker

As most of you know, I am attempting to corral our readers via facebook with discussion and links to our blog. The discussion has been good, and our facebook fans have let us know what they are reading this summer. It seems that many of them are like me with a revolving list of books that I need to somehow get to while finishing various projects and/or hanging out with a toddler, who could care less about American religious history unless it involves Shrek or Elmo.

So here's what our fans are reading (in no particular order):

Moreton,
To Serve God and Capitalism
Phillips-Fein,
Invisible Hands
Sutton,
Aimee Semple McPherson
Roll,
Spirit of Rebellion
Stephens, Fire Spreads
Jacoby, Freethinkers

Stark, For the Glory of God

Finch,
Dissenting bodies : Corporealities in Early New England
Schmidt,
Restless Souls : The Making of American Spirituality
Griffith,
Born Again Bodies : Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity
Bushman,
Rough Stone Rolling
Hunt, ed.
Christian Millenarianism

Rowe,
God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World
Meacham,
American Gospel
Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity
Culler, Columbine
Prothero,
God is not One
Fea,
Way of Improvement Leads Home

Wigger,
American Saint
Maffly-Kipp,
Setting Down the Sacred Past
Harrell,
All Things Are Possible
White,Unsettled Minds
Houck and Dixon, Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

Bernd Peyer,
The Tutor'd Mind: Indian Missionary Writers in Antebellum America

Greer,
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Gomez,
Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
Brooke,
Refiner's Fire
O'Toole,
Passing for White
Harvey, Redeeming the South
Blum, Reforging the White Republic

Fogleman, Jesus is Female
Williams, Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism
Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Rubinstein,
"Members of the Tribe"
Berman, Speaking of Jews


Please feel free to add more books to the ever-expanding list in the comments as well as comment on the books listed. Happy reading!

Comments

Randall said…
Some of your titles are on my to-read list also.

Here are some of those I've been going through this summer:

Hilary Spurling, Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth

Allan Nevins, American Social History as Recorded by British Travelers

Richard Overy, The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

George Lakoff, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think

Michael Lienesch, Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right

Carol V. R. George, God’s Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking

J. Richard Fugate, What the Bible Says about Child Training

James Davidson Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America

Susan E. Myers-Shirk, Helping the Good Shepherd: Pastoral Counseling in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925-1975

Robert Booth Fowler, A New Engagement: Evangelical Political Thought, 1966-1976

Martin Amis, The Information

June Skinner Sawyers and Astrid Kirchherr, Read the Beatles: classic and new writings on the Beatles, their ...

Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
John Fea said…
James Davison Hunter, To Change the World

T.H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots

Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries

John Smolenski, Friends and Strangers

Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh, Beyond Homelessness.
Matt Sutton said…
Bridwell, Clifford's First Snow Day

Ray, Curious George Visits the Ice Cream Shop

Lies, Bats at the Beach
John G. Turner said…
Matt,

Do you think "lift-the-flap" books will remain popular with toddlers moving forward? Or do you think "Scrath-n-Sniff" books are poised for a comeback?
Kelly J. Baker said…
Randall and John, thanks for the additions. I just picked up Lienesch's Redeeming America and I might have to get my hands on the Lakoff sooner rather than later

Matt, it also seems that Sandra Boynton, the guru of toddler books, is conspicuously absent from your list. Is there not historiographical value in Perfect Piggies or Hippos Go Beserk?
Matt Sutton said…
John--lift-the-flap are still big in my house. I haven't seen a scratch-n-sniff in years. Are they still around?

Kelly--I don't know Sandra Boynton. I will check her out. Thanks!
Kelly,

We all know that Boynton changed the historical meta-narrative in _But Not the Hippopotamus_ by reminding us of the subjugation of the armadillo.
Kelly J. Baker said…
Mike, I agree with your apt assessment. My kiddo loves that book, but it always makes me sad. Now with your analysis, I know why. Maybe when she's two, I'll introduce post-colonial theory.

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