Tonight (August 19th), I will be on the Dr. Howard Gluss radio show discussing the modern Ku Klux Klan, extremism, and the forthcoming Gospel According to the Klan. And the illustrious Paul Harvey, blogmeister of the Religion in American History blog, will follow suit in the second segment of the show discussing religion, politics, and […]
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Here’s an excerpt of my most recent post at RiAH: At the end of June, the Huffington Post’s Tim Suttle queried “Why are evangelicals losing influence?” This claim of decline emerged from a Pew Research Center survey of evangelical leaders globally, in which 82% claimed that evangelicals were losing influence over culture. The blame, of
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Gospel According to the Klan now has its very own Facebook page. Please “like” the book for updates, discussion, and media events. The book arrives on shelves in September.
Well, my summer class (300 level Religions in America) is in session, so I am knee-deep in class preparation and grading as well as editorializing on Michele Bachmann and white Christian motherhood (I’ll post the link as soon as I have one). This means that zombies and monstrosity are on my mind, but not on
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Just a quick note to say my forthcoming book now titled, Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930, now has a cover! The book will be available in August, and I’ll link to it as soon as it is up. Please check out the lovely design from the equally lovely
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This is my humble attempt to document those scholars who use gender as a category of analysis in American religious history. The first four on my list were the scholars whose work has most deeply influenced my own. The rest of my list includes scholarship I love as well as scholarship that I need to
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