General Comprehensive Exam Bibliography

THEORY AND GENERAL RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Asad, Talal. 2003. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Casanova, Jose. 1994. Public Religions in the Modern World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chidester, David. 2014. Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Masuzawa, Tomoko. 2005. The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

McCloud, Sean. 2007. Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

McGuire, Meredith B. 2008. Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Orsi, Robert. 2016. History and Presence. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Scott, Joan Wallach. 2018. Sex and Secularism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Taves, Ann. 2009. Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Taylor, Charles. 2007. A Secular Age. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (approx. 3 chapters)

Tweed, Thomas A. 2006. Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Wenger, Tisa Joy. 2017. Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

NORTH AMERICAN RELIGION: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

Anderson, Emma. 2007. The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Best, Wallace D. 2005. Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago,1915-1952. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Braude, Ann. 1989. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Boston: Beacon Press.

Dickson, William Rory. 2015. Living Sufism in North America: Between Tradition and Transformation. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Dolan, Jay P. 1992. The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press.

GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz. 2010. A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Graber, Jennifer. 2018. The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hatch, Nathan O. 1989. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Klassen, Pamela. 2011. Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Marsden, George M. 2006. Fundamentalism and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Perin, Roberto. 2017. The Many Rooms of this House: Diversity in Toronto’s Places of Worship Since 1840. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Schmidt, Leigh Eric. 2012. Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality. Berkeley: University of California Press.

RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN NORTH AMERICA: CASE STUDIES AND APPROACHES

Afzal, Ahmed. 2014. Lone Star Muslims: Transnational Lives and the South Asian Experience in Texas. New York: New York University Press.

Beaman, Lori G. 2008. Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Bowen, Kurt. 2004. Christians in a Secular World: The Canadian Experience. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Fader, Ayala. 2009. Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Foster, Lawrence. 1981. Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Griffith, R. Marie. 2004. Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kurien, Prema A. 2007. A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Reimer, Sam. 2003. Evangelicals and the Continental Divide: The Conservative Protestant Subculture in Canada and the United States. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Seales, Chad E. 2013. The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers. 2005. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wilson Jeff. 2012. Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Zubrzycki, Geneviève. 2016. Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.