Upon Further Review: Miller’s The Religious Roots of the First Amendment
This marks the first post in a new series, “Upon Further Review.” This series uses recent book reviews in Church History to think through broad questions in the study of the cultural history of...
View ArticleBlase Cupich and the Language of the Culture Wars
By Jeffrey Wheatley I have looked on with interest these last few days as a series of buzzes, beeps, and red dots have pushed me to read the latest updates on Pope Francis’s selection of Blase Cupich...
View ArticleOn Cephalopods, Religious Contestation, and Railroad Monopolies
by Jeffrey Wheatley The ocean is in fashion. Anchors, oars, whales, maritime flags, and octopuses adorn the button-up shirts of American hipsters. Not to be outdone, academia has also adopted the...
View ArticleCapitalism’s Turn?
by Jeffrey Wheatley Scholarly interest in capitalism has been on the rise. The most obvious sign of this interest has been Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which received a...
View ArticleDemonization and Racialization in British North America: Slave Revolts,...
by Jeffrey Wheatley (Although in my last post I proposed that I would use the next few posts to explore historical and historiographical trends related to the study of capitalism, I want to take a...
View ArticleAmerican Views of Cuba during the Spanish-American War
Image from America’s War for Humanity Related in Story and Picture, Embracing a Complete History of Cuba’s Struggle for Liberty, and the Glorious Heroism of America’s Soldiers and Sailors . (New York:...
View ArticleThe Buffered Self and Movie Buffs
Jeffrey Wheatley The Academy Awards took place this past Sunday, so I thought a post on movie-going would be appropriate. Plenty of religious studies and American religious history books have engaged...
View ArticleReview of Elizabeth Pritchard’s Religion in Public: Locke’s Political Theology
Jeffrey Wheatley I have spent the past year thinking primarily about the relationship between religion, race, and political order through both the particular history of the US nation-state and a global...
View ArticleThinking about Secularism Globally and Robert Yelle’s The Language of...
Jeffrey Wheatley I have spent the past few months reading books for an ad hoc summer reading group composed mostly of graduate students interested in thinking about secularism globally. Most of us...
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