Companion to American Religious History

BENJAMIN E. PARK is Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA. His articles and essays have been published in Church History, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of American Studies, Washington Post, and Newsweek, amongst others. He is the author of American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833 and Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier.

• List of Contributors ix1 The Centrality, Diversity, and Malleability of American Religion 1Benjamin E. ParkPart I Colonialisms 72 Nemasket/Middleborough and Religious Diversity in Colonial New England 9Richard J. Boles3 A View from the Philadelphia Barracks: Religion in the Mid‐Atlantic 25Rachel Wheeler4 Africana Religions in Early America 44Jason R. YoungPart II Establishment 575 The Loyalist Church of England Clergy and the Politics of Martyrdom in the American Revolution 59Peter W. Walker6 Freeborn Garrettson’s Revolution: Religion and the American War for Independence 71Christopher Cannon Jones7 The First Wall of Separation between Church and State: Slavery and Disestablishment in Late‐Eighteenth‐Century Virginia 87Sarah Barringer Gordon8 Abraham Remembered: An African Captivity Tale in Early America 102Jon F. Sensbach9 The White River Witch‐Hunt and Indigenous Peoples’ Negotiations with Missionaries in the Era of the Early Republic 114Lori J. Daggar10 The Shakers and the Perfecting Spirit in Early America 128Jennifer H. DorseyPart III Expansion 13711 David Walker and Black Prophetic Religion 139Christopher Cameron12 “Down with the Convent!”: Anti‐Catholicism and Opposition to Nuns in Antebellum America 150Cassandra L. Yacovazzi13 Ecclesiology and the Varieties of Romanticism in American Christianity, 1825–1850 165Brent S. Sirota14 Being Haudenosaunee: Seeing Indigenous Ontology Under American Settler Colonialism 179Christian Gonzales15 Mormons and Territorial Politics in the American Civil War Era 191Brent M. Rogers16 Black Christianity after Emancipation 206Nicole Myers TurnerPart IV Imperialism 22317 In Search of a “Working Class Religion”: Religion, Economic Reform, and Social Justice 225Janine Giordano Drake18 The Businessman’s Gospel: Making Business Christian 239Nicole C. Kirk19 The Prohibition Crusade and American Moral Politics 252Joseph L. Locke20 Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Among Early Pentecostals 265Arlene M. Sanchez‐Walsh21 Religion and US Federal Indian Policy 276Sarah Dees22 “For the Good of Mankind”: Atomic Exceptionalism, Religion, and United States Empire in the Postwar Pacific 287Carleigh BeriontPart V Modernity 29923 The Hate That Hate Produced: Representing Black Religion in the Twentieth Century 301Vaughn A. Booker24 The Pentagon Exorcism: 1960s Counter‐Culture and the Occult Revival 317Joseph P. Laycock25 Native American Christians and the Varieties of Modern Pentecostalism 329Angela Tarango26 Sex, Politics, and the Rise of the New Christian Right 341Emily Suzanne Johnson27 Immigration and Religion Among Chinese Americans, 1965 to the Present 355Melissa May Borja28 Modern Judaism and the Golden Age of Television 371Jennifer CaplanIndex 383

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