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Transnationalizing US Religious History and Revisiting the European Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2017

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Getting Religion: A Forum on the Study of Religion and the US
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 249 - 254
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2017 

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References

1 Noll, Mark, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)Google Scholar; Grant Wacker, America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation (Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014); Prothero, Stephen, Jesus, American: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)Google Scholar.

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3 Two groundbreaking studies in recent transnational US religious history are Tyrrell, Ian, Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010)Google Scholar; and Jenkins, Philip, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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5 Stevens, Jason W., God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America's Cold War (Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010)Google Scholar. See also Herzog, Jonathan P., The Spiritual–Industrial Complex: America's Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)Google Scholar; Kruse, Kevin M., How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015)Google Scholar.

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7 While other post-1945 transatlantic movements such as civil rights or student protest activism have enjoyed academic attention in recent years, it is striking to see that exchanges in the religious realm are nearly completely overlooked. See e.g. Tuck, Steven, The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Klimke, Martin, The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010)Google Scholar.