EXTRA READINGS
FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Religion and U.S.
Nationalism, Fall,
2009
Two good collections of original sources:
Winthrop Hudson, Nationalism and Religion in America
Conrad Cherry, God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations
of America's Destiny
(I will get these books on reserve in Norlin Library as soon
as possible. They are arranged chronologically, so you can read sections relevant
to each week's readings as we go along, as soon as they are available.)
Aug. 31: CAMPBELL,
53 - 72; Clifford Geertz, “Religion
as a Cultural System,” J. Z. Smith, “Map
is Not Territory,” Paul Rabinow, “Introduction”
(from The Foucault Reader) 12 -
23
Sept. 16: Ernest TUVESON,
Redeemer Nation, vii - 102; Daniel
Walker Howe, “The
Impact of Puritanism on American Culture”; Sacvan Bercovitch,
“The Puritan
Origins of the American Self,”
Sept. 23: James West Davidson, “The
Logic of Millennial Thought,” Jefferson's
Second Inaugural Address; Mircea Eliade, "Paradise
and Utopia"; selection
on Gramsci from Augelli and Murphy, America's Quest for Supremacy and
the Third World
Sept. 30: Ernest TUVESON, Redeemer
Nation, 123 - 214
Oct. 6: Walt Whitman, "Democratic
Vistas"
Oct. 14: Warren Vinz, Pulpit Politics : Faces of American
Protestant Nationalism in the Twentieth Century, chapters 1 - 5
(You can read this book online; access it from the Chinook
library catalog, where you'll find two separate entries for this book; one
is for the online edition. If you are on campus you can click from Chinook
directly to the book. From off-campus you need to use the VPN connection.
Go to vpn.colorado.edu and it will explain all about it; click on "VPN
Client Software Download" to download it on your computer, if you don't
already have it. This is something you should do anyway, since it will give
you access to a huge amount of material from off-campus library sources.)
Oct. 21: Read all of David Zietsma's disseration: IMAGINING
HEAVEN AND HELL: RELIGION, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS,
1930-195: http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Zietsma%20David.pdf?akron1185381373.
You can link to it from the undergraduates' syllabus, where one chapter is
assigned for Oct. 19. You read the whole thing.
Oct. 28: Stephen Whitfield, "Praying:
God Bless America" (from The Culture of the Cold War ); Mark
Noll, "Crusaders
Against Communism"; Ira Chernus, "Nuclear
Images in the Popular Press" and "Nuclear
Images: From Apocalypse to Static Balance";
Edward T. Linenthal, "War
and Sacrifice in the Nuclear Age" (Chernus and Linenthal articles
are from Chernus and Linenthal, eds. A Shuddering Dawn: Religious Studies
and the Nuclear Age)
Books for review:
Sacvan Bercovitch, Rites of Assent
Timothy Dwight Bozeman, To Live Ancient Lives
George McKenna, The Puritan Origins of
American Patriotism
Nathan O. Hatch, The Sacred Cause of Liberty
Onuf, Peter S, Jefferson's Empire:
The Language of American Nationhood
Albert Weinberg,
Manifest Destiny
Nicholas Guyat, Providence
and the Invention of the United
States
Christopher Collins, Homeland
Mythology: Biblical Narratives in
American Culture
Harry Stout, Upon
The Altar Of The Nation : A Moral History Of The
American Civil War
Christopher Collins, Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture
Robert Wuthnow, American Mythos
John Bodnar, Bonds of Affection
John Bodnar, ed., Remaking America : Public Memory, Commemoration, And Patriotism
In The Twentieth Century
John Fousek, To Lead The Free World : American Nationalism And The Cultural
Roots Of The Cold War