...This book examines the sociocultural movement of Hoodoo in terms of its continuities with African religion. Hoodoo is the indigenous, herbal, healing, and supernatural-controlling spiritual folk tradition of the African American in the United States. Essentially, Hoodoo, for African Americans...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the role of religion and faith in the life of working people. In many studies, religion served as an impediment to workers' understanding their class interests. Religion either divided workers of different faiths, served as a tool for the upwardly...

...This chapter examines the public secrecy and popularity of spirit cults in Yan'an in the context of the urbanization of the rural area. It first provides an overview of folk popular religion and spirit possession in and out of China before discussing how deity worship figures as a form of unspoken...

... production Modi Narendra racialization religion South Asian American British Empire caste discourses Gandhi Mahatma Islam Orientalism Partition Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS separation diaspora coexistence Pakistan Punjab bhajans Indianapolis Islamic Center Muncie melting pot hegemony...

...This chapter is an overview of emotions history in the context of religious studies. It remarks on several kinds of inquiry—including those having to do with popular and official religion; embodiment and objectification; words, knowledge, and feelings; religious meaning; and prospects...

...This book locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on archival research focusing on Detroit, the book shows how conflict over business values and opposition to labor, anticommunism, racial animosity, and religion led...

...This book concludes by summarizing developments that made death a contested terrain of political authority and ideology containing elements of class, gender, ethnicity, race, and religion during the period 1865–1920. It begins by focusing on the exhortation by American Federation of Labor's Samuel...

... memory colonialism conversion Hervieu Leger Daniele identity North American Mormonism Utah Whiteness Africans Berger Peter Rutherford Taunalyn Black people ethnicity Europe Irish national identity Marriage minority religions Nigeria Francis Pope new religious movements NRMs prayer...

... century. DIM's experience reminds historians of the power and importance of class as a historical construct. Too often, historians of religion have been eager to marginalize class in favor of other sociohistorical identities like race, ethnicity, or denomination. DIM illustrates the dangers...

...This chapter explores how the Urban Training Center for Christian Mission's (UTC) innovative forms of urban mission speak to interrelated but distinct threads of historical scholarship that have focused upon connections between religion and social movements. Scholars have only begun to investigate...

.... This chapter argues that religion served as an important platform for Latina/o civil rights movements in the Midwest. Religious activism in particular was an important part of the larger project of community formation for Latina/o migrants who were making the Midwest their new home. The quest for civil rights...

...This chapter introduces the narrative of de-sensualization promoted by early German Protestants, and briefly outlines its persistence in modern academic and popular discourse. It then addresses recent attempts to deal with the senses in religion among historians of early modern Europe...

...This chapter examines the controversy surrounding Obama's former, prophetic pastor Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. as it relates to Black identity. The controversy surrounding the comments of Rev. Wright can be traced to black religion's unsolicited interjection into the American public discourse...

...This chapter examines the controversy surrounding Obama's former, prophetic pastor Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. One of the fascinating developments in the 2008 presidential election has been the insertion of black religion and black theology into the discourse. For instance, on February 10, 2007...

...This concluding chapter contains reflections on scholarly investigations into religion and American culture, arguing that southern gospel as a field of religious thought, action, and feeling asks us to reimagine the concept of “organized religion” as a phenomenon—in this case, a popular music...

... Jadassohn Salomon Scriabin Alexander Swedenborg Emanuel Liszt Franz Milton John Plato Ralph Waldo Emerson John Ruskin Thomas Carlyle Claude Debussy Transcendentalism Horace Bushnell religion Joseph Hopkins Twichell Although Charles Ives was no philosopher or psychologist, no scholar of any kind...

...-distancing from organized religion; and his contemptuous attitude toward money. Alcott Amos Bronson Emerson Ralph Waldo Ives George Ives’s father Lowell James Russell Thoreau Henry David Thoreau Society Walden Pond Yale University Channing William Ellery Transcendentalism Cornhill Magazine Henry...

...Jagar rituals have long been stigmatized as a type of folk religion because they involve animal sacrifice, corporeal possession, and the participation of low-status divinities and social groups. In recent decades, however, jagar has become a quintessential marker of regional belonging and religious...