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Religion in Philadelphia: REL 0876 / HIST 0876: Suggested Readings

Suggested Readings from Religion in Philadelphia

The readings below come from the "Suggested Readings" at the end of each section in Religion in Philadelphia, edited by Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez (Temple University Press: 2016).

Section 1: Religion and the City

Robert Orsi, "Crossing the City Line"
in Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999): 1-18.
Isaac Weiner, "Church Bells in the Industrial City"
in Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism (New York: NYU Press, 2013): 40-76.
Robert Bellah, "Civil Religion in America"
in Daedalus 117, no. 3, (Summer, 1988): 97-118.

Section 2: Lenni Lenape

M. R. Harrington, Religion and Ceremonies of the Lenape 1882-1971
(New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1921): 17-43; 127-143.
Terry J. Prewitt, "The Big House Described," in Voices From the Delaware Big House Ceremony
ed. Robert S. Grumet (Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2002): 3-22.

Section 3: William Penn and the Quakers

Dawn Marsh, "Penn's Peaceable Kingdom: Shangri-la Revisited"
in Ethnohistory 56, no. 4 (2009): 651-667.
J. William Frost, "William Penn's Experiment in the Wilderness: Promise and Legend"
in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 107, no. 4 (October 1983): 577-590.

Section 4: Religious Life in Colonial Philadelphia

Jon Butler, "Magic, Astrology and the Early American Religious Heritage"
in The American Historical Review 84, no. 2(Apr., 1979): 317-346.
Elizabeth W. Fisher, ""Prophesies and Revelations': German Cabbalists in Early Pennsylvania"
in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 109, no. 3 (July 1985: 299-333.
James Campbell, "Chapter 1: Vindicating the Race" in Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States and South Africa
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995): 3-31.
Gary Nash, "To Arise Out of the Dust"
in Forging Freedom (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998): 101-133.

Section 5: Jewish Philadelphia

No Additional Readings

Section 6: Catholic Philadelphia

Bruce Dorsey, "Freedom of Religion: Bibles, Public Schools, and Philadelphia's Bloody Riots of 1844"
in Pennsylvania Legacies 8, no. 1 (May 2008): 12-17.

Section 7: Mid-Century Reform

Muriel Schmid, "The Eye of God: Religious Beliefs and Punishment in Early Nineteenth-Century Prison Reform"
in Theology Today 59, no. 4 (Jan 2003): 546-558.
E. G. Aderfer, "The Search for Solitude: From Germantown to the Conestoga Frontier" in The Ephrata Commune: An Early American Counterculture
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985): 27-37.

Section 8: Philadelphia Sports and Religion

Julie Byrne, "Praying for the Team" in O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2003): 113-141.
David Chidester, "Church of Baseball, the Fetish of Coca-Cola, and the Potlach of Rock 'n' Roll"
in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 64, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 743-765.
Forward to The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team
(Forward by Lynn Sherr)
Douglas Stark, 2011, Temple University Press

Section 9: Religion and Civil Rights

Courtney Lyons, "Burning Columbia Avenue: Black Christianity, Black Nationalism, and 'Riot Liturgy' in the 1964 Philadelphia Race Riot"
in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 77, no. 3 (2010): 324-348.
Jordan Stranger-Ross, "Neither Fight nor Flight: Urban Synagogues in Postwar Philadelphia"
in Journal of Urban History 32, no. 6 (September 2006): 791-812.

Section 10: Islam in Philadelphia

Katie Day, "Muslims on the Block: Navigating the Urban Ecology"
in Faith on the Avenue: Religion on a City Street(New York: Oxford University Press, 2014): 159-186.
Aminah Beverly McCloud, "This is a Muslim Home" in Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe
ed. by Barbara Daly Metcalf (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996): 65-73.

Section 11: Religious Communities in Philadelphia Today

No Additional Readings

Section 12: Religious Freedom

(Not listed in the Religion in Philadelphia.)

50 Years After Abington v. Schempp, a Dissenter Looks Back on School Prayer
Linda K. Wertheimer
The Atlantic (web site), June 17, 2013

Section 13: Temple University

No Additional Readings

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