The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775

Introduction
Cara Lea Burnidge and Lauren Frances Turek

Part 1: Major Conceptual Themes

1. Religion and the State
Shelby M. Balik

2. Pluralism and Secularism
Eric Chalfant

3. Capitalism, Religion, and Politics
Darren E. Grem

4. Religion and Foreign Relations
Cara Lea Burnidge and Lauren Frances Turek

5. Material Culture, Material Religion, and Politics
Emily Suzanne Clark

6. Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism
Matthew J. Smith

7. Gender, Religion, and Politics
Stephanie Y. Mitchem

Part 2: Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

8. Religion and Imperial Networks
Katherine Carté

9. Indigenous Politics and Religious Traditions Within the Early United States
M. W. Dougherty

10. Religion, Politics, and Geography in British America’s Northeastern Borderlands
Jacqueline Reynoso

11. Slavery and Religion
Richard J. Boles

12. The Barbary Wars
Matthew Goetz

13. Electoral Politics in the New Nation
Jacob T. Wood

14. Evangelical Proliferation and Power in the Early Republic
Ryan G. Tobler

15. Gender and Republican Motherhood
Miriam Liebman

16. Mormonism in Antebellum America
Benjamin E. Park

Part 3: Civil War and Reconstruction

17. Religion and Abolitionism
Ben Wright and Nathan Jérémie-Brink

18. Sectional Crisis and Denominational Schisms
Timothy Wesley

19. The Omnipotence of Abraham Lincoln
Shannon Bontrager

20. “We Want Rights”: Religion, Suffrage, Race and Gender During the Civil War and the Reconstruction
M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo

21. Indigenous Revivalism and the Indian Wars
Tammy Heise

Part 4: Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

22. Layered Histories: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Catholicism, and Nativism in the Long Nineteenth Century
Katherine D. Moran

23. Industrial Capitalism and the Gospel of Wealth
Daniel Vaca

24. Social Gospel, Christian Socialism, and Progressive Reform
Aaron Pride

25. Old Time Religious Revivalism, Technology, and Media
Kaitlyn Lindgren-Hansen

26. Overseas Missionaries, Humanitarianism, and U.S. Diplomacy
Emily Conroy-Krutz

27. Duty and Destiny: Religion, The Spanish-American War, and American Empire
Paul T. McCartney

28. The Second KKK and Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence
Rodger M. Payne

29. Humanitarianism Between the World Wars
Hillary Kaell

Part 5: Mid- and Late 20th Century

30. World War II
G. Kurt Piehlar

31. Anti-Communism at Home and Abroad
Mark Edwards

32. Religion and National Security in the Early Cold War
Michael Graziano

33. “Chosen as the Leader or Spokesperson”: Fannie Lou Hamer as Religious Leader and Intellectual in the Black Freedom Movement
Joseph Stuart

34. Cold War Feminism and Anti-Feminism: Gender Politics and Interreligious Coalitions
Angela M. Lahr

35. LGBTQ+ Rights
William Stell

36. Culture Wars and the Supreme Court During the Cold War
Seth Dowland

37. Immigration and Asian American Religions
Jane Hong

38. Religion, Politics, and Policymaking in the Reagan Years
Michael J. Cangemi

Part 6: Early 21st Century

39. Evangelicals and Environmentalism
Robert Fuller

40. Latinx Religions and American Politics: Cold War Through Trump Presidency
Gerardo Martí, Jonathan Calvillo, and Lloyd D. Barba

41. Secularism, Nones, and Interfaith Communities
Kathleen A. Tobin

42. Islam, Islamophobia, and American Muslims
Justine Howe

43. Clergy Sexual Abuse
Brian J. Clites

44. Conspiracy, Disinformation, and Media
Hugh B. Urban

Biography

Cara Lea Burnidge is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Northern Iowa where she researches and teaches courses on the history of religion and U.S. politics in the long Progressive Era. She is the author of A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order (2016). 

Lauren Frances Turek is an Associate Professor of History at Trinity University, where she teaches courses on modern U.S. foreign relations and political history. She is the author of To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations (2020).