Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 (Book Review)

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan. McKevitt, Gerald. Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978080475357

The Edwards of History and the Edwards of Faith (Book Review)

Book reviews of books related to evangelist Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards and the Bible by Robert E. Brown; Jonathan Edwards: America\u27s Evangelical by Philip F. Gura; Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons by David W. Kling; Douglas A. Sweeney; Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden; Jonathan Edwards\u27s Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment by Avihu Zakai; The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 22, Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742

Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Book Review)

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan. Blum, Edward J. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005

Monkeying with the Bible”: Edgar J. Goodspeed\u27s American Translation

Devotion to the Bible remains an underappreciated aspect of American religious life partly because it fails to generate controversy. This essay opens a window onto America\u27s relationship with the Bible by exploring a controversial moment in the history of the Bible in America: the public reception of University of Chicago professor Edgar J. Goodspeed\u27s American Translation (1923). Initially, at least, most Americans flatly rejected Goodspeed\u27s impeccably credentialed attempt to cast the language of the Bible in contemporary American English. Accusations of the professor\u27s irreligion, bad taste, vulgarity, and crass modernity emerged from nearly every quarter of the Protestant establishment (with the exception of some card-carrying theological modernists), testifying to a widespread but unexplored attachment to the notion of a traditional Bible in the early twentieth century. By examining this barrage of reaction, Monkeying with the Bible argues that Protestants, along with some others in 1920s America, believed that traditional biblical language was among the forces that helped stabilize the development of American civilization

Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era (Book Review)

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan. Nordstrom, Justin. Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ISBN 978026803605

Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America (Book Review)

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan. Rose, Anne C. Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN 978067400640

The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism (Book Review)

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan. Rieser, Andrew C. The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Lilberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 978023112642

The Beecher Sisters (Book Review)

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan. White, Barbara A. The Beecher Sisters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 978030009927

The Evangelical Moment: The Promise of An American Religion (Book Review)

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan. Collins, Kenneth J. The Evangelical Moment: The Promise of An American Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005. ISBN 9780801027444 (pbk.

David Martin, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan. Martin, David. Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002