{"product_id":"religion-and-us-empire-critical-new-histories-9781479810390","title":"Religion and Us Empire: Critical New Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShows how \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion. \u003ci\u003eReligion and US Empire \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the relationship between these dynamic forces throughout the country's history and into the present. The volume will serve as the most comprehensive and definitive text on the relationship between US empire and American religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhereas other works describe religion as a force that aided or motivated American imperialism, this comprehensive new history reveals how imperialism shaped American religion--and how religion historically structured, enabled, challenged, and resisted US imperialism. Chapters move chronologically from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, ranging geographically from the Caribbean, Michigan, and Liberia, to Oklahoma, Hawai'i, and the Philippines. Rather than situating these histories safely in the past, the final chapters ask readers to consider present day entanglements between capitalism, imperialism, and American religion. \u003ci\u003eReligion and US Empire \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent work of history, offering the context behind a relationship that is, for better or worse, very much alive today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTisa Wenger (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTisa Wenger\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWe Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) and \u003ci\u003eReligious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and co-editor of our \u003ci\u003eReligion and US Empire: Critical New Histories \u003c\/i\u003e(forthcoming, August 2022). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSylvester A. Johnson (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSylvester A. Johnson \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech, and Assistant Vice Provost the Center for Humanities. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eReligion and US Empire: Critical New Histories \u003c\/i\u003e(NYU Press, 2022), \u003ci\u003eFBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 2017), and author of \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2015). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50496619970834,"sku":"9781479810390","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a9e62ef7-d62e-44c9-984c-37c0ef969930.jpg?v=1730697823","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/religion-and-us-empire-critical-new-histories-9781479810390","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}