An explicit religious naturalism meets Big History in the work of Ursula Goodenough. Within Big History itself, a variant of naturalism seems implicit. In previous posts in this series, I suggested ...

Civil religion — sometimes calleed “civic religion” — is a term that is defined many ways. Most broadly, civil religion refers to the symbols and rituals that express patriotism, such as singing ...

Matthew Avery Sutton’s lively new book, Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity, is less a narrative than a counternarrative to how American religious history has ...

Historians of American religion have been congratulating themselves of late on the booming state of scholarship in their field. In the past thirty years, according to the editors of a recent anthology ...

This valuable addition to the literature on American religious liberalism tells how Catholics and Protestants in Los Angeles drew upon the Social Gospel tradition, the Black power movement, and ...

The premier museum on Maryland’s history has hired a curator to focus on one of the state’s proudest claims to fame: its profile as a haven for faith traditions. The Maryland Center for History and ...

I. Meaning and power at social sites. Sexuality in American religious history / Ann Taves -- Ritual sites in the narrative of American religion / Tamar Frankiel -- Women's history is American ...

With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism and increasing income inequality, some scholars and activists are soul-searching about the Black church’s role in today’s United States.