tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post500214572991945230..comments2024-03-01T11:17:49.152-07:00Comments on Religion in American History: Religion and ReconstructionPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-26634408516100141582007-10-08T15:29:00.000-06:002007-10-08T15:29:00.000-06:00The West is one region of the country where schola...The West is one region of the country where scholars have struggled to incorporate religion into the narrative. Susan Johnson once noted that for gender to be significant to the West scholars needed to connect it with race. A similar observation is made in connection with religion by the editors of Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West (2006). It seems that to make religion relevant to the wider narrative, whether in the West, South, etc., religious historians must connect it with wider issues.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00092961838641536310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-17373638824330659552007-10-08T13:07:00.000-06:002007-10-08T13:07:00.000-06:00I haven't read it yet, but James Moorhead (whose a...I haven't read it yet, but James Moorhead (whose amazing _American Apocalypse_ should still be read on these topics) reviewed Reforging the White Republic, Upon the Altar of the Nation, and The Civil War as a Theological Crisis for the Journal of Presbyterian History.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com