Religion and American Culture publishes books that take innovative and informative approaches to the study of religion in American history and culture. While there are no chronological, geographic, or intellectual boundaries on the series, the editors are especially interested in manuscripts addressing the intersections of religion with race, science, education, civil rights, technology, place, and identity in the United States and its colonial roots. Read more. . .
Series Editors: John M. Giggie (jmgiggie [at] ua [dot] edu) Charles A. Israel (israe [at] auburn [dot] edu) Acquisitions Editor: Daniel Waterman (waterman [at] uapress [dot] ua [dot] edu)
The Faith and Politics of Former Confederate Chaplains during Reconstruction
by Steve Longenecker
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321499
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
Compares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period
Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s
by Anja-Maria Bassimir
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817321246
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
A comprehensive study of evangelical magazine discourse during the 1970s and 1980s and how it navigated and sustained religious convictions in a time of dramatic social change
Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era
by Douglas E. Thompson
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360542
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
Explores the ways in which white Christian leaders in Richmond, Virginia navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with their own understanding of a segregated society
Examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 1915 in ways that continue to manifest today
Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688–1832
Edited by Peter C. Messer and William Harrison Taylor
Contributions by Bryan A. Banks, David Bebbington, Rick Kennedy, Gideon Mailer, Rebecca K. McCoy, Peter C. Messer, S. Scott Rohrer, Anderson R. Rouse, William Harrison Taylor, S. Spencer Wells and Katrina Jennie-Lou Wheeler
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817320751
Pub Date: January 2021
Format: Hardcover
Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age
