tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post8305769586111564524..comments2024-03-01T11:17:49.152-07:00Comments on Religion in American History: Toward a Bibliography of Religion in the MidwestPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-23074293888301831012015-01-23T07:16:11.381-07:002015-01-23T07:16:11.381-07:00Sounds great. I'll keep tabs on the comment pa...Sounds great. I'll keep tabs on the comment page so I can keep the list updated. Good call on Seager's book. Excellent example of how focusing on the Midwest need not preclude the transnational or global.Paul Putzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368132863337360831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-79284734339677762952015-01-22T13:41:43.331-07:002015-01-22T13:41:43.331-07:00Hi Paul!
One of the joys of teaching at a small ...Hi Paul! <br /><br />One of the joys of teaching at a small liberal arts college is the freedom to develop and teach new courses. As I work up my bibliography, I'll come back and post whatever else I find to this page.<br /><br />Richard Seager's *The World's Parliament of Religions: the East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893* should definitely be on the list as well.zellerbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12904539796435389947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-6712655403210430372015-01-21T17:32:19.611-07:002015-01-21T17:32:19.611-07:00Fantastic stuff. Thanks Daniel and Nicholas. Ben, ...Fantastic stuff. Thanks Daniel and Nicholas. Ben, I wish I could enroll in your class!Paul Putzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368132863337360831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-64086743764392491252015-01-21T09:54:32.844-07:002015-01-21T09:54:32.844-07:00I recently wrote a paper on black churches on Chic...I recently wrote a paper on black churches on Chicago; perhaps some of sources could be useful for this list.<br /><br />Harris, Fredrick C. “Black Churches and Machine Politics in Chicago.” In Black Churches and Local Politics: Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment. Edited by R. Drew Smith and Fredrick C. Harris. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.<br /><br />Harris, Michael W. The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church. New York, Oxford UP 1992.<br /><br />Kostarelos, Frances. Feeling the Spirit: Faith and Hope in an Evangelical Storefront Church. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. [An ethnography of a black church on Chicago's West Side]<br /><br />Drake, St. Clair and Horace R. Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. [Which drew heavily from Drake's earlier work: Drake, St. Clair. “Churches and Voluntary Associations in the Chicago Negro Community” Chicago: 1940]<br /><br />Hope some of that was helpful.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13451250982367015424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-4882583547939730332015-01-21T08:55:46.097-07:002015-01-21T08:55:46.097-07:00This is really great. I'm developing a new cla...This is really great. I'm developing a new class next year on religion in gilded age Chicago, and there is a lot here that will be useful for me.<br /><br />Ben Zeller<br />Lake Forest College (Chicago suburbs)zellerbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12904539796435389947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-70297598193422851452015-01-21T05:51:11.870-07:002015-01-21T05:51:11.870-07:00Looking forward to reading through this bibliograp...Looking forward to reading through this bibliography closely, Paul, and hopefully contributing a few titles. Thanks for putting it together!Trevor Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09152840020978882789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-14195563173180608162015-01-21T00:56:37.067-07:002015-01-21T00:56:37.067-07:00The Dutch Calvinists and some of the German Reform...The Dutch Calvinists and some of the German Reformed churches have a strong regional identity:<br /><br />Dutch Calvinism in Modern America: A History of a Conservative Subculture, James Bratt (Eerdmans, 1984).<br /><br />Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City, Robert P. Swierenga (RCA, 2002).<br /><br />Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Church of the 19th Century, Robert P. Swierenga (RCA, 1999).<br /><br />Divided by a Common Heritage: The Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America at the Beginning of the New Millennium, Corwin Smidt, et al. (Eerdmans, 2006).<br /><br />A History of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, David Dunn, et al. (Pilgrim Press, 1990).<br /><br />The Shaping of the United Church of Christ: An Essay in the History of American Christianity, Louis H. Gunnemann (United Church Press, 1999).<br />danielsillimanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16856570617681199873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-37895441780403667752015-01-20T15:08:41.480-07:002015-01-20T15:08:41.480-07:00Thanks Jedidiah. That helps to fill in the "p...Thanks Jedidiah. That helps to fill in the "pre-1960" gap a bit! Brian, thanks for clarifying. I've added the Encyclopedia to the list. Paul Putzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368132863337360831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-32429040115736605052015-01-20T14:42:29.317-07:002015-01-20T14:42:29.317-07:00The correct citation for those three encyclopedia ...The correct citation for those three encyclopedia articles by Brian C. Wilson that Barton referred to is: Richard Sisson, Christian K. Zacher, and Andrew Cayton (eds.). <i>The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia.</i> Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. (My bad, not Barton's.) The <i>Encyclopedia</i> has an excellent section on religion in the Midwest edited by Peter Williams. Thanks to Barton Price for the initial post, and thanks to Paul Putz for creating this bibliography!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12161223924768703216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-28345871703509421902015-01-20T14:15:08.674-07:002015-01-20T14:15:08.674-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12161223924768703216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-77169136386138685622015-01-20T14:14:11.603-07:002015-01-20T14:14:11.603-07:00The work of William Warren Sweet would be helpful ...The work of William Warren Sweet would be helpful for the migration of American religious groups into the Midwest, especially Indiana and Ohio. He edited a 4 volume documentary history of "Religion on the American Frontier" (a volume each for Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists).<br /><br />Also wrote:<br /><br />A History of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church from Its Organization, in 1844 to the Present (https://books.google.com/books?id=gXHUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22William+Warren+Sweet%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GMS-VNWgDMmKsQSf14LYDg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false)<br /><br />Circuit-rider Days in Indiana<br />(https://books.google.com/books?id=dnwsAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor%3A%22William%20Warren%20Sweet%22&pg=PP4#v=onepage&q&f=false)jedidiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11649086289553630690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-65379694539336792252015-01-20T13:35:10.949-07:002015-01-20T13:35:10.949-07:00More great recommendations, thanks all! I've a...More great recommendations, thanks all! I've added them to the list. Barton, I couldn't find the existence of a book titled _The American Midwest: Religion_ anywhere. I did a few google searches, checked the Ohio State UP website, and Amazon, but nothing turned up. Do you have a link you could point me towards?Paul Putzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368132863337360831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-63235910283231528322015-01-20T13:16:40.901-07:002015-01-20T13:16:40.901-07:00Wow! Great list, and I'm honored to be on it!
...Wow! Great list, and I'm honored to be on it!<br /><br />Brian Wilson at Western Michigan has the most exhaustive work I can think of. His works are as follows<br /><br />"The Battle for Battle Creek: Sectarian Competition in the Yankee West," Quaker Theology 12:2 (Summer/Fall 2013): 72-91. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-23-Brian-C-Wilson-Battle-of-Battle-Creek-Quaker-Theology-Number-23.html<br /><br />“The Spirit of the Motor City: Three <br />Hundred Years of Religious History in Detroit” Michigan Historical Review 21:7 (Spring 2001): 1-32.<br /><br />“Religion in Michigan,” The American Midwest:Religion. Peter W. Williams (ed.) Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2003.<br /><br />“Religion in the Midwest” in <br />The Midwest, Joseph Slade and Judith Lee (eds.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2004.<br /><br />“Religion in the Great Lakes States” in Encyclopedia<br />of Religion in America, Charles Lippy and Peter Williams (eds.) Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010. <br /><br />“The Michigan Origins of Seventh-day Adventism” Michigan History <br /> (Nov./Dec., 2012): 43-49<br /><br />Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and <br />the Religion of Biologic Living. Indiana University Press, 2014Barton Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02199926398463736606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-4894035458353373222015-01-20T12:31:01.091-07:002015-01-20T12:31:01.091-07:00Paul, thanks so much for making this a cooperative...Paul, thanks so much for making this a cooperative effort. This will be of benefit to many of us. Although there is contention about whether or not Missouri is properly considered Midwest, I'd like to suggest two more books: Aaron Ketchell's Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri (Johns Hopkins, 2007) and Bethany Moreton's To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard, 2010). Branson, MO is viewed as a site to experience "old-time religion" for the scores of Midwestern tourists who make a yearly pilgrimage there (including my parents!) The early days of the Wal-Mart story is also instructive about Evangelical populism and commerce in the Midwest. I know I'll have more to suggest later!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10497781885218330422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-86307790518951823392015-01-20T09:53:06.445-07:002015-01-20T09:53:06.445-07:00This is great, Paul. A couple of other suggested a...This is great, Paul. A couple of other suggested additions:<br /><br />John Wigger, "Ohio Gospel: Methodism in Early Ohio," in The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic, ed. by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005).<br /><br />Chapters 5 ("Reform and the Missionary Drive: Methodists in the Ohio Country") and 7 ("God's Chosen Sojourners: The Inspirationists of Amana, Iowa") in Scott Rohrer's Wandering Souls: Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2010).Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13838699621239633661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-31048505958967491492015-01-20T09:49:56.315-07:002015-01-20T09:49:56.315-07:00David and Sarah, thanks so much for the great addi...David and Sarah, thanks so much for the great additions. I've added them to the list. Ya'll are definitely helping to fill in my historiographical blind spots. Also, it's great to hear about the projects at Nebraska, Kansas, and Wisconsin!Paul Putzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368132863337360831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-18852614719535050742015-01-20T09:30:05.065-07:002015-01-20T09:30:05.065-07:00This is great - thanks, Paul! I’m looking forward ...This is great - thanks, Paul! I’m looking forward to checking out sources that you’ve mentioned and seeing what else others add. I have a few ideas to share.<br /><br />First, I wanted to highlight a recent article that isn't focused as much on religion but offers a thoughtful discussion on the ways that “The Midwest” has been defined—historically, geographically, materially—at times overlooking Native American polities: Doug Kiel, “Untaming the Mild Frontier: In Search of New Midwestern Histories,” Middle West Review 1.1, 9-38 (Fall 2014). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2502737<br /><br />Dawn Marsh at Purdue University has been working on Native American history and Indian removal in the Old Northwest. See Marsh, A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman (Nebraska, 2014) [http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Lenape-among-the-Quakers,675832.aspx] and “Old Friends in New Territories: Delawares and Quakers in the Old Northwest Territory,” in Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850 (Michigan State, 2012). http://msupress.org/books/book/?id=50-1D0-25FE<br /><br />Discussions of Native American revitalization movements are important; in addition to the sources you’ve listed on the Spirit Dances and the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa, there’s Greg Dowd’s A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 (Johns Hopkins, 1993). https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/spirited-resistance<br /><br />Focusing more on Indigenous spiritual traditions themselves, Lawrence Gross has recently published a book on Anishinaabe religion, Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being (Ashgate, 2014). I highly recommend it! (It’s a bit pricy so request it for your libraries!) http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472417343<br /><br />On the western edge of the Midwest you’re getting into the Plains/Western region, but it’s worth mentioning a couple of relevant projects. Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies has publications that discuss religion: http://www.unl.edu/plains/publications/publications.shtml. The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas has a great "Religion in Kansas" Project that features archival materials: http://ksreligion.omeka.net.<br />Sarah E. Deeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00319881100014597214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-9261581362772228862015-01-20T09:19:14.651-07:002015-01-20T09:19:14.651-07:00Randall Balmer frames the following article about ...Randall Balmer frames the following article about Billy Sunday by trying to describe the changing "place" of the Midwest in American culture. “The Tragedy of Billy Sunday: The Allure of Populism and the Peril of Anachronism.” The Annals of Iowa, LLV (Fall 1996), 369‐373. <br /><br />Also, my book does not think about religion and region, but takes place in the American Midwest and deals with the history of Midwestern Mormons (RLDS). David J.Howlett, Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014). Another book that is helpful is Craig S. Campbell, Visions of the New Jerusalem: Mormon Faction Interpretations of Independence, Missouri (University of Tennessee Press, 2004).David Howletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833609849780255440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-85362039666499739262015-01-20T08:13:35.542-07:002015-01-20T08:13:35.542-07:00UW-Madison's Religious Studies Program is laun...UW-Madison's Religious Studies Program is launching a new research project, "Lived Religion in Wisconsin," covering the historical and contemporary as well as local and global Wisconsin. Beginning with undergraduate field projects modeled somewhat on the Pluralism Project, we aim to expand to collaborate with graduate research and scholars elsewhere. We'd love to hear from others with similar projects, bibliographical or research suggestions, etc. Contact Dr. Corrie Norman, cenorman@wisc.eduCENhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465646038423049702noreply@blogger.com