History 7680:
Religions in the American West
Course Readings
- John P. Bartkowski and W. Scott Swearingen, "God Meets Gaia in Austin, Texas: A Case Study of Environmentalism as Implicit
Religion," Review of Religious Research 38 (June 1997), 308-415.
- Ray Billington, "Anti-Catholic Propaganda and the Home Missionary Movement, 1800-1860," 22 (1935) Mississippi Valley
Historial Review, 361-384.
- Darryl V. Caterine, "Border Saints: Santitos," in Colleen McDannell, Catholics in the Movies (2008).
- James D'Arc, "Darryl F. Zanuck's Brigham Young: A Film in Context" in BYU Studies 29 (Winter 1989): 5-28.
- Ronald L. Davis, "Paradise Among the Monuments: John Ford's Vision of the American West," Montana: The Magazine of
Western History 45 (Summer 1995), 48-63.
- Mathew Glass, "Allexanders' All Symbols of Conquest and Resistance at Mount Rushmore" from David Chidester and Edward
Linenthat, American Sacred Space.
- Jane Naomi Iwamura, "Critical Faith: Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion," in Richard Alba, et al
Immigration and Religion in America (2009).
- Jeffrey Marlett, "Life on the Frontier: Lilies of the Field" in Colleen McDannell, Catholics in the Movies (2008).
- Michael Masatsugu, "'Beyond this World of Transciency and Impermanence' Japanese Americans, Dharma Bums, and the
Making of American Buddhism during the early Cold War Years" 77 (2008) Pacific Historical Review, 423-451.
- Ferenc Szasz, "Clegy and the Myth of the American West," Church History 59 (1990), 497-506.
- Randi Jones Walker, "The Course of Mission Work, 1850-1920," Chapter 3 from Protestantism in the Sangre de Cristos, 1850-1920,
49-105.
- Duncan Ryuken Williams, "From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: Lessons from the Internment of Japanese American Buddhists,"
in Stephen Prothero, ed. A Nation of Religions (2006).
- Susan Yohn, "An Education in the Validity of Pluralism: The Meeting between Presbyterian Mission Teachers and Hispanic
Catholics in New Mexico, 1870-1912," History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 343-364.
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