An NEH Summer Institute, 1996
July 8-August 9, 1996
Readings for the Classroom, and Useful Web
Sites
Below is a list of printed references which emerged from our
seminar discussions, or from bibliographies suggested by
lecturers, on ways to present religious diversity in college
classroom settings. The name/date reference following some entries
is keyed to the presenter/dat, to provide the context in which the
reading was suggested, though the citations were not necessarily
provided by the presenter; the presenter's discussion sometimes
elicited suggestions from participants in the room. Just a name
following an entry indicates a lecturer's suggestions for general
reading. Many of these citations were suggested with caveats, so
you may want to refer to the contextual notes before you use the
reading in the classroom.
- Abzug, Robert. Christianity Crumbling.
(Bruce
7/29.
- Allen, Richard. The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of
the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen.. (Shannon)
- Albanese, Catharine. Nature Religion in America: from the
Algonquian to the new age.
(Chireau
7/8 )
(Martin,
7/25)
- Aptheker, Bettina. Tapestries of Life: Women's work,
women's experience and the meaning of daily experience.
(Karlsen, 7/8)
- Axtell, James. The Invasion Within.
(Karlsen, 7/11)
- Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. (Shannon)
- Barkun, Michael. The Christian Identity Movement.
(McGuire, 7/10)
- Barton, Lois. A Quaker Promise Kept.
(Karlsen, 7/11)
- Beeth, Howard. "Outsider Agitators in Southern History"
(McGuire, 7/10)
- Bendroth, Peggy. "Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875-Present"
(Yale Dissert.)
(Soderlund,
7/18)
- Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh. Promiseland: A Century of Life in a
Negro Community. (Shannon)
- Blackwell, James E. The Black Community: Diversity and
Unity. (Shannon)
- Boles, John. Masters and Slaves in the House of the
Lord.
(Bruce,
7/25)
- Boucher, Sandy. Turning the Wheel: American Women and the
New Buddhism.
(Gulick 8/7)
- Bowker, .The Meaning of Death.
(Shannon,
7/30)(Shannon,
7/30pm)
- Breen, Stephen and Innis. Myne Own Ground: Race and Freedom
on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
(Wulf,
7/22)
- Brown, Karen. Mama Lola.
(Karlsen,
7/8)
- Brown, Thomas Shipley.When Friends Attend to Business.
1963. (Soderlund,
7/18)
- Bruce, Dickson. And they All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk
Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845. (Schmidt)
- Butler, John. Awash in a Sea of
Faith.
(Chireau, 7/8)
- Cajete, Gregory. Look to the Mountain.
(Ransom, 7/11)
- Campbell, Songs of Zion.
(Shannon,
7/30)
- Carnes, Mark C. Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian
America. (Schmidt)
- Carroll, Michael P. Madonnas at Maim.
(Miller,
7/16)
- Chambers-Shiller, Lee. Liberty a Better Husband.
(Wulf, 7/22)
- Chidester, David. American Sacred Ground.
(Martin,
7/25)
(Schmidt,
7/15)
- Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: an Interpretation
of Jim Jones.
(Schmidt,
7/15)
- Choquette, Diane. New Religious Movements in the United
States and Canada: A Critical Assessment and Annotated
Bibliography.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Church of All Worlds Web Site:
http://www.caw.org/index.html
- Church of the Goddess Web Site:
http://www.cog.org/
- Churchill, Ward. Fantasies of the Master Race.
(Martin,
7/25)
- Churchill, Ward. Since the Predator Came.
(Martin, 7/25)
- Coltelli, Laura. Winged Words: American Indian Writers
Speak.
- Comaroff, John. Modernity and its malcontents : ritual and
power in postcolonial
- Conkin, Paul. Cane
Ridge.(Bruce,
7/29)
- Connerton, Paul. How Societies Remember.
(Golab,
7/23)
- Cornell, Stephen. The Return of the Native. (Karlsen,
7/11) and
(Martin,
7/25)
- Davis, Gerald. I Got the Word in Me and I Can Sing It, You
Know. (Shannon)
- Davis, Susan. Parades and Power.
(Schmidt,
7/15)
- Dileonardo, Micaela. Varieties of Ethnic Experience.
(Golab,
7/23)
- Diner, Hasia. Erin's Daughters in America.
(Karlsen, 7/8)
- Dolan, Jay P., The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and
German Catholics, 1815-1865. (Miller)
- Dorgan, Howard. Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship
Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations. (Schmidt)
- Dowd, Gregory. Spirited
Resistance.
(Wulf, 7/22)
- Dubois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. (Shannon)
- Dubois, W. E. B. Sociology and the Black Community.
(Shannon)
- Dubois, W. E. B. The Philadelphia Negro. (Shannon)
- Ebersole, Gary.
(Martin,
7/25)
- Ellwood, Robert S. "Minority Religions and Contemporary
Religious Movements: Twentieth Century Movements," Reader's
Advisor, vol. 4. (1994). (Gulick)
- Epega, Afolabi, The Sacred Ifa Oracle.
(Chireau, 7/9)
- Eriksen, Erik. Young Man
Luther.
(Miller, 7/18)
- Falassi, Alessandro. Time Out of Time: Essays on the
Festival. (Schmidt)
- Fauset, Arthur H. Black Gods of the Metropolis.
(Shannon)
- Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate
Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South.
(Bruce)
- Feuerstein, George.Holy madness : the shock tactics and
radical teachings of crazy-
- Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake..
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed.
(Golab,
7/23)
- Fliegelman, Jay. Prodigals and Pilgrims.
(Wulf),
7/22)
- Freedman, Samuel. Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black
Church. (Shannon)
- Friedman, Lenore. Meetings with Remarkable
Women. (Gulick,
8/7)
- Friedman, Susan. "Beyond White and 'Other'", Signs,
(Fall, 1995). (Karlsen, 7/11)
- Frost, J. William. The Quaker Family.
(Soderlund,
7/16)
- Fry, Silvia. Waters from the Rock.
(Shannon,
7/30)
- Garman, Mary. Hidden in Plain Sight: Quaker women's
writings, 1650-1700
(Soderlund, 7/18)
- George, Carol V. Segregated Sabbaths. (Shannon)
- Gibbs, James L. The Peoples of Africa.
(Shannon,
7/30)
- Gray, Nada. Holidays: Victorian Women Celebrate in
Pennsylvania. (Schmidt)
- Gutierrez, Ramon and Genevieve Fabre. Feasts and
Celebrations in North American Ethnic Communities.
- Gutierrez, Ramon. When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went
Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846.
- Hamm, Thomas. God's Government Begun.
(Hamm, 8/1)
- Hatch, Nathan. The Democratization of American
Christianity.
(Bruce,
7/29)
- Hexam,
Irving. New
Religion Home Page.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The
Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920.
- Higginbotham, Leon. In the Matter of
Color.
(Shannon, 7/30)
- Hill, Patricia. The World Their Household.
(Wulf, 7/22)
- Hilty, Hiram. By Land and Sea.
(Hamm,
8/1)
- Hobsbawn, Eric. The Invention of Tradition.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Hoffman, Lawrence. Beyond the Text: A Holistic Approach to
Liturgy.
- Hollinger, ??. Post-Ethnic Identity.
(Golab,
7/23)
- Hoyle, Lydia Huffman. "Teaching Men How to Preach" (Chapel
Hill dissert., 199?)
(Wulf,
7/22)
- Hsia, Ronnie. The Myth of Ritual Murder.
(Schmidt,
7/15)
- Hunt, Lynn.The New Cultural History.
(Schmidt,
7/15)
- Iho, James, The Politics of Righteousness. (McGuire,
7/10)
- Jacobs, Janet. Divine Disenchantment.
(Gulick, 8/5)
- Johnson, Charles. Kingdom of
Matthias.
(Bruce, 7/25 pm)
- Johnson, Charles. The Origins of Camp Meetings.
(Bruce,
7/29)
- Johnson, George. Gay New York.
(Schmidt,
7/15)
- Johnson, Linda.. Daughters of the Goddess.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Joselit, Jenna Weissman. The Wonders of America:
Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950. (Schmidt)
- Juster, Susan. Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and
Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New
England. (Wulf,
7/22)
- Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a
Woman.
(Karlsen, 7/9)
- Kasson, John F. Amusing the Millions: Coney Island at the
turn of the Century.
(Schmidt, 7/15)
- Kelly, Aileen. Crafting the Art of Magic.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Kinser, Samuel. Carnival, American Style: Mardi Gras at New
Orleans and Mobile. (Schmidt)
- Klein, Anne C. Meeting the Great Bliss
Queen. (Gulick,
8/7)
- Kugelmass, Jack. Masked Culture. Columbia Univ. Press,
1995. (Schmidt,
7/15)
- Lapsansky, Emma J. "Since They Got Those Separate Churches:
Afroamericans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia," American
Quarterly, (1980. (Shannon)
- Lapsansky, Emma J. "Friends, Wives and Strivings: Networks and
Community Values Among Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Afroamerican Elites," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography, (1984). (Shannon)
- Lemann, Nicholas.The promised land : the great Black
migration and how it changed .
(Shannon, 7/30)
- Levy, Barry. Quakers and the American Family.
(Soderlund,
7/16) (Wulf,
7/22)
- Lewis, James. Marginal Religion and Modern Witchcraft. .
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Libby, Jean, ed. From Slavery to Salvation: The
Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry of the A.M.E. Church.
(Shannon)
- Light, Ivan. Ethnic Enterprise. .
(Golab,
7/23)
- Lincoln, C. Eric. The Black Church and the African-American
Experience.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Linethal, Edward. Sacred Ground:Americans and their
Battlefields..
(Miller, 7/16)
- Long, Kathryn. The Power of Interpretation: the Revival of
1857-59.
(Soderlund,
7/16)
- MacGaffey, Wyatt. Society and Culture in the Congo.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Mack, Phyllis. Visionary
Women. (Soderlund,
7/18)
- Martin, Calvin. Keepers of the Game. University of
California Press, 1978). (Ransom ,7/11)
- Matory, Lorand. "Sex and the Empire that is no more."
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Mbiti, John. African Religions and Philosophy.
(Chireau,
7/9) and
(Shannon, 7/30)
- Merrell, James. "The Catawba's New World" in Robert Blair St.
George, Material Life in America.
(Karlsen 7/8)
- Mintz, Sidney and Richard Price. The Birth of African
American Culture:An Anthropological
Perspective.
(Chireau, 7/9)
(Shannon,
7/30)
- Mitchell, Reid. All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the
History of New Orleans Carnival.
(Schmidt
7/15)
- Moore, R. Laurence. Religious Outsiders and the Making of
Americans .
(Bruce, 7/29)
- Morgan, David. Visual Piety. .
(Miller,
7/18)
- Morreale, Don. Buddhist America: Centers and
Practice. (Gulick,
8/7)
- Murphy, Joseph M. Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the
African Diaspora.
- Namias, June.
(Martin,
7/25)
- Nash, Gary. Forging
Freedom.
(Shannon, 7/30)
- Nash, Gary. Red, White and Black. (Karlsen 7/11)
- Nelson, Richard. Prayers to the Raven.
(Martin,
7/25)
- Newman, William. American Pluralism.
(Golab,
7/23)
- Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers and Fathers.
(Wulf,
7/22)
- Niemark, Richard. The Sacred Ife Oracle.
(Chireau,
7/8)
- Niemark, Richard. The Way of Arisha.
(Karlsen,
7/8)
- Ochs, Vanessa. Words on Fire.
(Schmidt
7/15)
- O'Reilly, Mary Rose. The Peaceable Classroom.
(summary)
- Owens, Lewis. Other Destinies.
(Martin,
7/25)
- Palmer, Susan. Palmer Susan J. Moon sisters, Krishna
mothers, Rajneesh lovers : women's Roles in New Religions.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Paris, Peter. The Social Teaching of the Black
Churches. (Shannon)
- Pasco, Peggy. Relations of Rescue.
(Wulf,
7/22)
- Perry, Lewis. Radical Abolition.
(Hamm,
8/1)
- Potok, The Promise.
(Schmidt,
7/15)
- Powers, William. "When Black Elk Speaks, Everyone
Listens."
(Martin, 7/25)
- Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes.
(Bruce,
7/25)
- Raboteau, Al. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution"
in the Antebellum South.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Ray, Ben. African
Religion.
(Chireau, 7/9)
- Robbins, Thomas. Cults, Converts and Charisma.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Rodriguez, Richard. Days of
Obligation.
(Martin, 7/25)
- Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of
Memory.
(Martin, 7/25)
- Ryan, Mary. Cradle of the Middle Class.
(Wulf,
7/22)
- Saliba, John A. Social Science and the Cults.: An
Annotated Bibliography.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Sernett, Milton C. Black Religion and American
Evangelilcalism: White Protestants, Plantation Missions, and the
Flowering of Negro Christianity, 1787-1865. (Shannon)
- Sernett, Milton C. Afro American Religious History: A
Documentary Witness. (Shannon)
- Shannon, Janet Harrison. "Community Formation: Blacks in
Northern Liberties, 1790-1850," Ph.d. Disssertation, Temple
University, 1991. (Shannon)
- Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through
Violence.
(Martin, 7/25)
- Smith, Timothy. Revivalism and Social Reform.
(Schmidt
7/15)
- Smith, Thomas. Ancestor Worship in America.
(Shannon,
7/30)
- Snelling, John. Buddhist Handbook.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Snyder, Gregory. The Way of the Cross Leads Home.
(Bruce,
7/25)
- Sobel, Mechal. The World they Made Together.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Sobel, Mechal. Trabelin' On.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Soderlund, Jean. Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit.
(Soderlund,
7/18)
- Southern, Eileen. African American Traditions.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans.
(Shannon)
- Sowell, Thomas. Race and Culture.
(Golab,
7/23)
- Spencer, Michael. Blues and Evil.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Spengler, Jule, "Salvation is not Liberty," American
Baptist Quarterly , 1994.
(Bruce, 7/25)
- Taves, Ann. Religion and Domestic Violence in Early
America. (Indiana Press,
1989) (Wulf,
7/22)
- Taylor, Alan. William Cooper's
Town. (Bruce,
7/29)
- Thomas, Lamont D. A Rise to Be a People.
(Shannon,
7/30)
- Thompson, Roger. Sex in Middlesex:popular mores in a
Massachusetts county, 1649-1699
(Schmidt
7/15)
- Thornton, John. " " American Historical Review.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Tolles, Frederick. Meeting House and Counting House.
(Soderlund,
7/18)
- Treat, James. Native and Christian.
(Martin,
7/25)
- Tricycle: the Buddhist Review (journal)
(Gulick, 8/5)
- Tsomo, . Buddhism Through American Eyes.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Turner, Victor, ed. Celebration: Studies in Festivity and
Ritual.
- Tweed, Thomas. American Encounters With Buddhism,
1840-1912. .
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Tworkov, Helen. Zen in America: Five Teachers .
(Gulick, 8/7)
- University
of Stirling New Religions Page.
(Gulick, 8/7)
- Vlach, John Michael. Back of the big house : the
architecture of plantation slavery. 1993.
(Shannon,
7/30)
- Wade, Richard C. Slavery in the Cities. (Shannon)
- Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.
(Shannon)
- Walls, William J. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church. (Shannon)
- Washington, James Melvin. Frustrated Fellowship.
(Shannon)
- Washington, Margaret (Creel). A Peculiar People.
(Chireau,
7/9)
- Watts, Jill. God, Harlem, USA: The Father Divine Story.
(Shannon)
- Wiggins, William. Oh Freedom...
(Schmidt
7/15)
- Winch, Julie. Philadelphia's Black Elite. (Shannon,
7/30)
- Winship, Michael. Behold the Bridegroom
Cometh.
(Wulf, 7/22)
- Women Active in Buddhism:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk./staff/milfonj/women.html.
(Gulick 8/7)
- Woodworth-Utter, Mary. Expressions of the Holy
Spirit.
(Bruce, 7/29)
- Wright, J. K. Notes on Early American Geopiety. (Ransom
7/11)
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