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Interview: Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey
In the following interview, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, authors of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, discuss how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and...
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Anne M. Butler: Nuns and the Road to Academic Recognition
Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God’s Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West,...
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Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey: The Christ-less Revolution
Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, authors of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, discuss the limited presence of Jesus during the American Revolution. ### In much recent...
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Sarah E. Ruble: All Americans Are Missionaries
In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate. Public conversations about missionaries followed a powerful yet paradoxical line of reasoning,...
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Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey: White Jesus and the Publius Lentulus Letter
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ:...
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Edward J. Blum & Paul Harvey: The KKK and Jesus Christ
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ:...
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Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey: Jesus Jokes and Racial Pain
In today’s guest post, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, authors of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, discuss Jesus jokes in the twenty-first century. ### The battle of...
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David W. Stowe: A Conversation about the Jesus Movement with Malcolm Magee
Today’s guest post comes from David W. Stowe, author of No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism, which is now available in a new paperback...
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Jacqueline E. Whitt: Cooperation without Compromise: Military Chaplains’...
Toady we welcome a guest post from Jaqueline E. Whitt, author of Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War. During the second half of the twentieth century, the American...
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Excerpt: Choosing the Jesus Way, by Angela Tarango
Angela Tarango’s Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to...
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Excerpt: Common Threads, by Sally Dwyer-McNulty
A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty’s Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism reveals the transnational...
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Erin A. Smith: What Would Jesus Do?
We welcome to the blog today a guest post by Erin A. Smith, author of What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America. Since the late nineteenth century,...
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Erin A. Smith: Popular Religious Reading, Cultural Identities, and Religious...
We welcome to the blog today a guest post by Erin A. Smith, author of What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America. Since the late nineteenth century,...
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Excerpt: Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making...
New from UNC Press Blog American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the...
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Sam Miglarese: Looking Ahead to the Visit of Pope Francis
New from UNC Press Blog We welcome a guest post today by Sam Miglarese, coeditor, with Lucas Van Rompay and David Morgan, of The Long Shadow of Vatican II: Living Faith and Negotiating Authority since...
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Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez: Catholics and Protestants in Philadelphia: From...
New from UNC Press Blog We welcome a guest blog post today from Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez, author of The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, which will be available in...
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Patricia Appelbaum: Protestant Blessings and Cultural Change
New from UNC Press Blog We welcome to the blog a guest post by Patricia Appelbaum, author of St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint. How did a...
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Patricia Appelbaum: Pope Francis and the 1967 Theologians
New from UNC Press Blog We welcome to the blog a guest post by Patricia Appelbaum, author of St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint. How did a...
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Margaret Bendroth: Disorganized Religion
New from UNC Press Blog We welcome to the blog a guest post by Margaret Bendroth, author of The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past. Congregationalists, the oldest group of...
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Video: Patricia Appelbaum on St. Francis, America’s Most Popular Saint
New from UNC Press Blog Patricia Appelbaum, author of St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint, talks to Peggy Bendroth as part of the History Matters...
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