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American Religion offers a forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas. RT ≠ endorsement or agreement, necessarily.
Bloomington, IN
Joined July 2019
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: George Marsden on “Fundamentalism and American Culture” (1980). Read Marsden’s reflection about his methodological approach and his advice to scholars writing in today’s historical moment.
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George Marsden on Fundamentalism and American Culture (1980)
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Back Pages is back with Rebecca Alpert on Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition (Columbia University Press, 1997)!
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Rebecca Alpert on Like Bread on the Seder Plate (1998)
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Check out the first installment in Back Pages below: Jon Butler on Awash in a Sea of Faith. Read Butler’s reflection on writing the book thirty-five years ago and what has changed in the field of religious studies since.
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Jon Butler on Awash in a Sea of Faith (1990)
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REMINDER: Submissions for American Religion's dissertation prize are due in TEN DAYS on August 30, 2025! Please send submissions to amrel@iu.edu and include an abstract of the dissertation, the complete dissertation as a pdf file, and your current CV.
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12) Series One of “Back Pages” will begin on Tuesday, August 26, on the AR website, with new essays every Tuesday and Thursday, and future series already in the works. Keep an eye out here for announcements and links.
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11) Central to “Back Pages” is its invitation to reflect on what it means to understand scholarship as a human enterprise—the work of people who speak conscientiously to given moments amid dynamic circumstances that do not hold still.
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10) Taken as a whole, these essays approach the prompt in a variety of ways, reflecting a diversity of postures and assessments.
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9) Or perhaps the older work exemplifies qualities that the field would benefit from remembering or to which it should return. We don’t presume that different is better or worse.
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8) Is the research question still valid? Do the methods and archives hold? Do new perspectives afforded by life experiences, broader reading, new discoveries, or revised postures offer better insights to these back pages?.
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7) “Back Pages” extends these questions to the broader field, featuring a series of essays through which scholars of American religion address their own present relationship key publications from early in their career.
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6) In response to these questions, AR presents “Back Pages: The Present in Retrospect”—a major online forum coming this Fall.
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5) Things have changed, both in the academy and in the political realities to, about, and within which we write. To what remedies could we turn? What are the stakes now as opposed to then? What former stakes do we fail to appreciate in the present tense?.
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4) We remain ourselves, yet we are different people than we were a decade, or two (or three, four, five, or six) ago.
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3) What holds up? What would we like to change? What are the stakes now as opposed to then? These questions aroused a variety of responses, approaches, and rationales that lasted until—and beyond—last call.
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2) After hours at a recent research workshop, conversation with friends and colleagues turned to a passionate discussion of how we would approach the topics of our first books today.
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Stay tuned for a major announcement coming this Friday!
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REMINDER: Submissions for American Religion's dissertation prize are due August 30, 2025! For more information, see:
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REMINDER! Submissions for American Religion's dissertation prize are due August 30, 2025. More information here:
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