American Examples
New Conversations about Religion, Volume Four
American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Four, continues the annual anthology series produced by the American Examples workshop at the University of Alabama’s Department of Religious Studies. The goal of American Examples is to examine examples of “something someone called religious, somewhere someone called America” by asking theoretical questions that exceed the boundaries of American religion or American religious history. This volume features seven essays exploring examples ranging from American Muslim headwear to online pickup artists to the connections between Dutch immigrants and Japanese students. This collection offers valuable insights for scholars and students within and beyond the field of American religious history.
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Contributors
Michael J. Altman / Rachel E. C. Beckley / Yasmine Flodin-Ali / jem Jebbia / Steven Kaplin / Andrew Klumpp / Jacob Lassin / Candance Lukasik / Joshua Urich / Suzanne van Geuns
This is not just a collection considering the many possible forms of the categories ‘American’ and ‘religion’; in a much larger sense, this volume is a guidebook for how scholars across the disciplines can begin to consider the wide-ranging significance of the politics of classification.’ —Leslie Dorrough Smith, coauthor of, Religions of the World: Questions, Challenges, and New Directions
Josuha Urich is assistant professor of religious studies at Colby College.
Michael J. Altman is director of the American Examples working group and professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama. He is author of Hinduism in America: An Introduction.
Preface
Michael J. Altman
Introduction: Where is America Not? American Religion and US Empire
Candace Lukasik and Joshua Urich
Attraction to the Sequence: The Algorithmic Approach to Success in Online Seduction Advice
Suzanne van Geuns
Podcasting Judaism: Judaism Unbound and the Method of Jewish Tradition
Steven Kaplin
#TacoTrucksatEveryMosque: Building an Interreligious, Interracial Social Movement
jem Jebbia
The Cap, the Fez, the Turban: Fashioning Muslim American Identities from the Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century
Yasmine Flodin-Ali
Japanese Students, Dutch Immigrants, and Nineteenth-Century Global Missions: Local Efforts to Navigate Religious Identity, Race, and Difference
Andrew Klumpp
Rod Dreher’s War: Existential Crisis and the Transposition of Eastern European Religion for an American Audience
Jacob Lassin
“Though Dead, He Yet Speaketh”: Building Community in the Affiliated Periodical Gospel Herald and Sunday School Times
Rachel E. C. Beckley
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
American Examples
New Conversations about Religion, Volume Two
Edited by Samah Choudhury, Michael J. Altman, and Prea Persaud
American Examples
New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three
Edited by Michael J. Altman, Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Cody Musselman; Preface by Michael J. Altman; Introduction by Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Cody Musselman
