The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775

Cara Lea Burnidge is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Northern Iowa where she researches and teaches courses on the history of religion and U.S. politics in the long Progressive Era. She is the author of A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order (2016). Lauren Frances Turek is an Associate Professor of History at Trinity University, where she teaches courses on modern U.S. foreign relations and political history. She is the author of To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations (2020).

Introduction Part 1: Major Conceptual Themes 1. Religion and the State 2. Pluralism and Secularism 3. Capitalism, Religion, and Politics 4. Religion and Foreign Relations 5. Material Culture, Material Religion, and Politics 6. Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism 7. Gender, Religion, and Politics Part 2: Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries 8. Religion and Imperial Networks 9. Indigenous Politics and Religious Traditions Within the Early United States 10. Religion, Politics, and Geography in British America’s Northeastern Borderlands 11. Slavery and Religion 12. The Barbary Wars 13. Electoral Politics in the New Nation 14. Evangelical Proliferation and Power in the Early Republic 15. Gender and Republican Motherhood 16. Mormonism in Antebellum America Part 3: Civil War and Reconstruction 17. Religion and Abolitionism 18. Sectional Crisis and Denominational Schisms 19. The Omnipotence of Abraham Lincoln 20. “We Want Rights”: Religion, Suffrage, Race and Gender During the Civil War and the Reconstruction 21. Indigenous Revivalism and the Indian Wars Part 4: Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries 22. Layered Histories: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Catholicism, and Nativism in the Long Nineteenth Century 23. Industrial Capitalism and the Gospel of Wealth 24. Social Gospel, Christian Socialism, and Progressive Reform 25. Old Time Religious Revivalism, Technology, and Media 26. Overseas Missionaries, Humanitarianism, and U.S. Diplomacy 27. Duty and Destiny: Religion, The Spanish-American War, and American Empire 28. The Second KKK and Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence 29. Humanitarianism Between the World Wars Part 5: Mid- and Late 20th Century 30. World War II 31. Anti-Communism at Home and Abroad 32. Religion and National Security in the Early Cold War 33. “Chosen as the Leader or Spokesperson”: Fannie Lou Hamer as Religious Leader and Intellectual in the Black Freedom Movement 34. Cold War Feminism and Anti-Feminism: Gender Politics and Interreligious Coalitions 35. LGBTQ+ Rights 36. Culture Wars and the Supreme Court During the Cold War 37. Immigration and Asian American Religions 38. Religion, Politics, and Policymaking in the Reagan Years Part 6: Early 21st Century 39. Evangelicals and Environmentalism 40. Latinx Religions and American Politics: Cold War Through Trump Presidency 41. Secularism, Nones, and Interfaith Communities 42. Islam, Islamophobia, and American Muslims 43. Clergy Sexual Abuse 44. Conspiracy, Disinformation, and Media