Thomas Kidd on The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a period of great evangelical fervor in the British American colonies that is typically dated from 1740-43, yet had its roots back in the 17th century and which also lingered...
View ArticlePatrick Mason on Anti-Mormonism and Mitt Romney
With Mitt Romney making waves as a presidential candidate frontrunner for the Republican Party, we visit with Prof. Patrick Mason – the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Momon Studies at the Claremont Graduate...
View ArticleScott Poole on Monsters
What do monsters tell us about ourselves — our fears, anxieties and history in general? W. Scott Poole, professor of history at the College of Charleston, dives into this somewhat disturbing question...
View ArticleAndrew Hoffecker on Charles Hodge and Princeton Theological Seminary
Happy Birthday Princeton Theological Seminary! To help celebrate the PTS bicentennial, Research on Religion offers up the gift of a discussion on one of its most prolific theologians, Charles Hodge....
View ArticleGary Scott Smith on Presidential Faith
A week before Presidents’ Day, we visit with the chair of the Department of History at Grove City College, Prof. Gary Scott Smith to survey the faith of various presidents in US history. Our...
View ArticleRodney Stark on the Triumph of Christianity, Part II
What path did Christianity take following Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan in 313? We address this question with Prof. Rodney Stark, co-founder and co-director of Baylor University’s Institute for...
View ArticleJohn Wilsey on American Exceptionalism & Civil Religion.
Ever since John Winthrop’s famous declaration that America was a “city on a hill,” the notion of “American exceptionalism” has been woven throughout U.S. history. Dr. John Wilsey, assistant professor...
View ArticlePaul Harvey on Religion in the American South
“The South” is commonly referred to as the Bible Belt in the United States today, and despite New England having a more explicit Christian identity during colonial times, the region from Virginia down...
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