Books
In progress: Bodies in Motion: A Religious History of Sports in America
Gods, Games, and Globalization: New Perspectives in Religion and Sports (Mercer University Press, 2019) co-edited with Rebecca Alpert
Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era, The New Southern Studies Series (University of Georgia Press, 2011)
Research Articles
Book Reviews
In progress: Bodies in Motion: A Religious History of Sports in America
Gods, Games, and Globalization: New Perspectives in Religion and Sports (Mercer University Press, 2019) co-edited with Rebecca Alpert
Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era, The New Southern Studies Series (University of Georgia Press, 2011)
- Winner of the 2012 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society
- Reviewed in: Choice; American Historical Review; Southern Jewish History; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Southern Religion; Journal of American History; Journal of Southern History; Register of the Kentucky Historical Society; Southern Historian; Journal of African American History
- "In the Beginning," Faith and Sports Blog, (April 20, 2020)
- “Sir Roger Bannister’s ‘Miracle’ On The Track,” Sightings: Religion in Public Life, (March 22, 2018).
- “From Durkheim to Game Day: Sports as a Bridge for Introducing Religious Studies,” Religious Studies News (October 27, 2016)
- “Ten Christian Athletes Who Were Tebowing Before Tebow,” Christianity Today, co-authored with Paul Putz (September 28, 2016)
- “Ethiopia’s Heroic Marathoners from Rome to Rio,” Sacred Matters (September 30, 2016)
- “Protests, Pigskin, and Patriotism: Colin Kaepernick and America’s Civil Religions,” Oxford University Press Blog (September 17, 2016)
- “Tree Huggers, Tree Cutters, and the Challenge of Pope Francis,” Sojourners (July 1, 2015)
- “The Honor of Struggling and Failing,” Christian Century (July 31, 2014)
- “Is Religion Losing Ground to Sports?” Washington Post, co-authored with Chris Beneke (February 2, 2014)
- “Confessions of an Academic Carpetbagger,” Journal of Southern Religion 16 (2014)
- “Warrior Culture and Muscle Men in the NFL,” Christian Century (Nov 27, 2013)
- “Steelers Nation and the Seriously Religious Side of Football,” Marginalia Review of Books, (August 28, 2013)
- Marginalia’s “Most Read Story of 2013”
- “Anti-Catholicism in Alabama and Florida in the Early Twentieth Century,” Alabama Heritage, no. 105 (2012): 48-50.
- French and Spanish Missions in North America, by John Corrigan and Tracy Leavelle with Arthur Remillard, California Digital Library (University of California, 2005)
Research Articles
- “Civil Religions in America,” Beyond Bellah: New Directions in Civil Religion, eds. Raymond Haberski and Philip Goff (forthcoming 2021)
- “‘The Pure of Body are Pure of Soul’: Religion and the Emerging Sports Culture of the New South” Southern Religions, Southern Cultures: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson (University Press of Mississippi, 2018)
- “From Prizefights to Praying Colonels: Civil Religion, Sports, and a New(ish) Direction for the Lost Cause,” Journal of Southern Religion 17 (2015)
- “Playing on Sacred Ground: Uncovering the Religious Dimensions of Athletic Venues around the World,” The Changing World Religion Map, ed. Stanley D. Brunn (Springer, 2014), 2881-2892
- “Movement, Maps, and Wonder: Civil Religious Competition at the Source of the Mississippi River, 1805-1832,” Gods of the Mississippi, ed. Michael Pasquier (Indiana University Press, 2013), 56-73
- “Between Faith and Fistic Battles: Moralists, Enthusiasts, and the Idea of Jack Johnson in the New South,” Perspectives on Religious Studies 39, no. 3 (2012): 219-33
- “From Muscular Christianity to Divine Madness: Sports and/as Religion in America,” Faith in America: Changes, Challenges, and a New Spirituality, ed. Charles H. Lippy (Praeger, 2006), 215-34
- “Holy War on the Football Field: Religion and the Florida State University Mascot Controversy,” Horsehide, Pigskin, Oval Tracks, and Apple Pie: Essays on Sports and American Culture, ed. James Vlasich (McFarland, 2005), 104-18
- Reprinted in, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity, eds., Raymond D’Angelo and Herbert Douglas (McGraw-Hill, 2012 [8th edition])
- “Religion and Sports in America,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia, ed. John Corrigan (March 2016)
- “Civil Religion: Christian Contact, Theological Exchanges, and Current Issues” and “Civil Religion: History, Beliefs, and Practices,” Handbook of Religion, ed. Terry C. Muck (Baker Academic, 2014), 643-47, 648-52
- “Bob Hayes” and “Michael Johnson,” American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas, ed. Murry Nelson (ABC-CLIO, 2013), 540-41, 633-35
- “Sports,” The Encyclopedia of Religion in America, eds. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams (C.Q. Press, 2010), 2153-60
- “Father Divine” and “Mother Ann Lee,” American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History, ed. Gina Misiroglu (M.E. Sharpe, 2008)
- “The Moonies,” Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, ed. James Ciment (M.E. Sharpe, 2006)
- “Jeremy Bentham” and “William Ellery Channing,” The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand (Routledge, 2004), 215, 373
- “Spanish Colonization in North America” and “The Spanish Empire,” The Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom, ed. Catharine Cookson (Routledge, 2003), 461-65, 465-70
Book Reviews
- Roman Catholicism in America (2nd Ed), by Chester Gillis. In Choice Reviews (forthcoming 2020)
- The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West, by Jennifer Graber. In Ethnohistory (forthcoming 2020)
- Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table; Contemporary Christianties in the American South, by James Hudnut-Beumler. In Tennessee Historical Quarterly (forthcoming 2020)
- Cowboy Christians, by Marie W. Dallam. In Western Historical Quarterly (2018)
- American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present, by Philip Gorski. In Choice Reviews (October 2017)
- No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta, by Alison Collis Greene. In Agricultural History (October 2017)
- Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story, by Ryan K. Anderson. In the Journal of American History (March 2017)
- The Abbey: A Story of Discovery, by James Martin. For BookMark, WPSU (January 2016)
- Catholicism Today: An Introduction to the Contemporary Catholic Church, by Evyatar Marienberg. In Choice Reviews (March 2015)
- The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town, by Chad E. Seales. In Choice Reviews (July 2014)
- The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation, by Stephen R. Haynes. In Church History (May 2014)
- Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America, by Paula M. Kane. In Choice Reviews (April 2014)
- A Cry for Justice: Daniel Rudd and His Life in Black Catholicism, Journalism, and Activism, 1854-1933, by Gary B. Agee. In Church History (September 2013)
- God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945, by Raymond J. Haberski. For the Society for U.S. Intellectual History blog (October 2012)
- Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War, by Bruce T. Gourley. In Civil War Book Review (Summer 2012)
- A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900, by James M. Woods. In The American Historical Review (December 2012)
- Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, by Rebecca T. Alpert. In Religious Studies Review (June 2012)
- Game Day and God: Football, Faith, and Politics in the American South, by Eric Bain-Selbo. In Religious Studies Review (December 2011)
- Tennis and Philosophy: What the Racket is All About, edited by David Baggett. In The Journal of Sports History (Summer 2011)
- Kentucky’s Most Hated Man: Charles Chilton Moore and the Blue Grass Blade, by John Sparks. In The Journal of Southern History (May 2011)
- The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle, by John Eisenberg. For BookMark, WPSU (June 2010)
- Rounding the Bases: Baseball and Religion in America, by Joseph L. Price. In H-American Studies (October 2008)
- Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, by Joe L. Coker. In Church History (December 2008)
- Religion on Our Campuses: A Professor’s Guide to Communities, Conflicts, and Promising Conversations, by Mark U. Edwards, Jr. In Religious Studies Reviews (June 2008)
- We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition, by John Courtney Murray. In Religious Studies Reviews (June 2008)
- The South’s Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970, by Andrew S. Moore. In H-Catholic (January 2008)
- Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico, by Robert C. Galgano. In Religious Studies Reviews (October 2007)
- Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture, by David Chidester. In The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (Spring 2007)
- The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume I: Religion, edited by Samuel S. Hill. In H-American Studies (December 2006)
- Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War, by Edward E. Baptist. In H-USA (March 2004)
- The Martyrs of Columbine: Faith and the Politics of Tragedy, by Justin Watson. In H-USA (December 2003)
- From Season to Season: Sport as America Religion, edited by Joseph L. Price. In The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (Fall 2002)
Comments
Post a Comment