SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND ASSIGNED READINGS:

Philip Vandermeer and Robert Swierenga, Preface and "Introduction: Progress and Prospects in the 'New Religious History'"

Jon Butler and Harry Stout, "Introduction"

Mark Noll, "Introduction"

Robert Handy, Christian America

Ernest Tuveson, Redeemer Nation

Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion

R. Laurence Moor, "Insiders and Outsiders in American Historical Narrative and American History"

Mary Bednarowski, "Women in Occult America"

Raymond DeMallie, "The Lakota Ghost Dance: An Ethnohistorical Account"

Harry Stout and Catherine Brekus, "Declension, Gender, and the 'New Religious History'"

Gerald Moran, "'Sinners Are Turned into Saints in Numbers': Puritanism and Revivalism in Colonial Connecticut"

Perry Miller, "Errand Into the Wilderness"

Edmund S. Morgan, "William Penn and the English Origins of American Religious Pluralism"

John Murrin, "Religion and Politics in America from the first Settlements to the Civil War"

Marilyn Westerkamp, "Enthusiastic Piety--From Scots-Irish Revivals to the Great Awakening"

Harry Stout, "Communications and the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution"

Jon Butler, "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction"

Ruth Bloch, "Religion and Ideological Change in the American Revolution"

Terry Bilhartz, "Sex and the Second Great Awakening: The Feminization of American Religion Reconsidered"

Margaret Thompson, "Women, Feminism, and the New Religious History: Catholic Sisters as a Case Study"

Barbara Welter, "The Feminization of American Religion: 1800-1860"

Robert Orsi, "'He Keeps Me Going': Women's Devotion to Saint Jude Thaddeus and the Dialectics of Gender in American Catholicism, 1929-1965"

Linda Pritchard, "The Spirit in the Flesh: Religion and Regional Economic Development"

Gordon Wood, "Evangelical America and Early Mormonism"

Harry Stout, "Rhetoric and Reality in the Early Republic: The Case of the Federalist Clergy"

John Wilson, "Religion, Government, and Power in the New American Nation"

Nathan Hatch, "The Democratization of Christianity and the Character of American Politics"

Daniel Howe, "Religion and Politics in the Antebellum North"

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "Religion and the 'Civilizing Process' in the Early American South, 1600-1860"

Robert Swierenga, "Religion and Immigration Behavior: The Dutch Experience"

Jonathan Sarna, "Seating and the American Synagogue"

Jay Dolan, "The Immigrants and Their Gods: A New Perspective in American Religious History"

Leonard Dinnerstein, "Antisemitism in the Depression Era (1933-1939)"

Robert Swierenga, "Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in Mid-Nineteenth Century" Voting, Values, Cultures"

James Hennesey, "Roman Catholics and American Politics, 1900-1960: Altered Circumstances, Continuing Patterns"

Philip Vandermeer, "Religious Divisions and Political Roles: Midwestern Episcopalians, 1860-1920"

Robert Handy, "The American Religious Depression, 1925-1935"

Richard Carwardine, "Religion and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case Against American Exceptionalism"

George Rawlyk, "Politics, Religion, and the Canadian Experience: A Preliminary Probe"

Robert Handy, "Protestant Theological Tensions and Political Styles in the Progressive Period"

William Montgomery, "The Preachers"

Hortense Spillers, "Martin Luther King and the Style of the Black Sermon"

David Wills, "Beyond Commonality and Plurality: Persistent Racial Polarity in American Religion and Politics"

George Marsden, "Fundamentalism as an American Phenomenon, A Comparison with English Evangelicanism"

Joel Carpenter, "Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1925-1942"

Bryan Wilson. "Secularization: The Inherited Model"

Leigh Schmidt, "The Easter Parade: Piety, Fashion, Display"

Martin Marty, "The Twentieth Century: Protestants and Others"

Robert Wuthnow, "Quid Obscurum: The Changing Terrain of Church-State Relations"

Lyman Kellstedt and Mark Noll, "Religion, Voting for President, and Party Identification, 1948-1984"

George Marsden, "Afterword: Religion, Politics, and the Search for an American Consensus"