@article{bivins_mcdaniel_nooruddin_shortle_2023, title={The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics}, volume={21}, ISSN={["1541-0986"]}, DOI={10.1017/S1537592723001949}, abstractNote={The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics. By Eric L. McDaniel, Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson F. Shortle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 272p. $34.99 paper. - Volume 21 Issue 3}, number={3}, journal={PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS}, author={Bivins, Jason C. and McDaniel, Eric L. and Nooruddin, Irfan and Shortle, Allyson F.}, year={2023}, month={Sep}, pages={1064–1066} } @misc{zwissler_schaefer_modern_gandhi_johnson_bivins_2019, title={Responses to Jessica Johnson's Biblical Porn}, volume={45}, ISSN={["1748-0922"]}, DOI={10.1111/rsr.14097}, abstractNote={Religious Studies ReviewVolume 45, Issue 3 p. 283-306 Review Essay BIBLICAL PORN: AFFECT, LABOR, and PASTOR MARK DRISCOLL'S EVANGELICAL EMPIRE. By Johnson, Jessica. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 248. Paper, $25.95. Laurel Zwissler, Laurel Zwissler Central Michigan UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorDonovan Schaefer, Donovan Schaefer University of PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this authorJohn Modern, John Modern Franklin & MarshallSearch for more papers by this authorShreena Gandhi, Shreena Gandhi Michigan State UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorJessica Johnson, Jessica Johnson William & MarySearch for more papers by this authorJason C. Bivins, Jason C. Bivins North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Laurel Zwissler, Laurel Zwissler Central Michigan UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorDonovan Schaefer, Donovan Schaefer University of PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this authorJohn Modern, John Modern Franklin & MarshallSearch for more papers by this authorShreena Gandhi, Shreena Gandhi Michigan State UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorJessica Johnson, Jessica Johnson William & MarySearch for more papers by this authorJason C. Bivins, Jason C. Bivins North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 19 September 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.14097Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume45, Issue3Special Issue: Jessica Johnson's Biblical Porn September 2019Pages 283-306 RelatedInformation}, number={3}, journal={RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW}, author={Zwissler, Laurel and Schaefer, Donovan and Modern, John and Gandhi, Shreena and Johnson, Jessica and Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2019}, month={Sep}, pages={283–306} } @article{bivins_2017, title={Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction}, volume={103}, ISSN={["1534-0708"]}, DOI={10.1353/cat.2017.0045}, abstractNote={Edwards’s personal piety and pastoral ministry. Whitney explains in fascinating detail how the Bible was the hinge on which Edwards’s piety turned. All Edwards’s spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer, fasting, solitude, and journaling, were formed out of his understanding of scripture. Edwards expected that his congregation should practice all the same disciplines of piety that he completed on a regular basis, relenting only on the amount of time that he expected each person to be able to devote toward these activities. The difficulty that Edwards had in transferring his expectations of piety to his congregation in Northampton is one of the major reasons why he was ultimately fired by his church in 1750 and forced to move to the remote frontier village of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, until being installed as the college president at Princeton in 1758.}, number={1}, journal={CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW}, author={Bivins, Jason}, year={2017}, pages={156–157} } @article{bivins_2017, title={The weight of the world religion and heavy metal music in four cases}, journal={Religion and Popular Culture in America, 3rd edition}, author={Bivins, J. C.}, year={2017}, pages={100–118} } @article{bivins_2016, title={INVENTING AMERICAN RELIGION: POLLS, SURVEYS, AND THE TENUOUS QUEST FOR A NATION'S FAITH}, volume={42}, ISSN={["1748-0922"]}, DOI={10.1111/rsr.12537}, abstractNote={Religious Studies ReviewVolume 42, Issue 3 p. 191-192 Short Reviews of Recent Publications: Methodology and Theory Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith By Robert Wuthnow. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 247. Cloth, $29.95. Jason C. Bivins, Jason C. Bivins North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Jason C. Bivins, Jason C. Bivins North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 September 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.12537Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume42, Issue3September 2016Pages 191-192 RelatedInformation}, number={3}, journal={RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW}, author={Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2016}, month={Sep}, pages={191–192} } @article{bivins_2013, title={Rethinking Secularism}, volume={11}, ISSN={["1537-5927"]}, DOI={10.1017/s1537592712003246}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={1}, journal={PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS}, author={Bivins, Jason}, year={2013}, month={Mar}, pages={295–296} } @article{bivins_2013, title={The Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930.}, volume={16}, ISSN={["1092-6690"]}, DOI={10.1525/nr.2013.16.4.138}, abstractNote={Book Review| May 01 2013 Review: The Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915–1930, by Kelly J. Baker The Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915–1930. By Kelly J. Baker. University of Kansas Press, 2011. 326 pages. $34.95 cloth. Jason C. Bivins Jason C. Bivins 1North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2013) 16 (4): 138–140. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.16.4.138 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jason C. Bivins; Review: The Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915–1930, by Kelly J. Baker. Nova Religio 1 May 2013; 16 (4): 138–140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.16.4.138 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2013 by The Regents of the University of California2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.}, number={4}, journal={NOVA RELIGIO-JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGENT RELIGIONS}, author={Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2013}, month={May}, pages={138–140} } @article{bivins_2012, title={Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise}, volume={98}, ISSN={["0021-8723"]}, DOI={10.1093/jahist/jar557}, abstractNote={American culture has recently seen long-standing battles over religiosity in public life acquire renewed urgency. Kevin M. Schultz's important book seeks to document a history of the cultural and discursive formations he calls “Tri-Faith America,” which elude conventional pluralist histories. His study follows a succession of public events or debates through which Tri-Faith is produced as a civic good. By looking to debates shaping religious cooperation and sentiments, Schultz reveals not only an important texture to American self-understandings but he also demonstrates compellingly how Tri-Faith's changes over time form a new historical context for understanding freshly our contemporary agonisms. The story takes place in courts, federal publicity campaigns, suburbs, frat houses, and surveys, culminating in Tri-Faith's engagement with the civil rights movement. Tri-Faith's emergence “challenged the nation in unexpected ways” (displacing Christian nationalism) (p. 7). And its normativity allowed otherwise marginal developments to gain traction (e.g., minority rights and a second disestablishment). Beginning with the Presbyterian minister Everett Clinchy's opposition (in his 1934 book All in the Name of God ) to “cultural monism” as a kind of authoritarianism, Tri-Faith advocates were among the first to value “difference” as a civic good (p. 17). Interfaith associations exemplified how “goodwill became a cause in itself” (p. 28). And broad governmental and military support emerged for new values such as the “brotherhood of man” and a “God of righteousness and love” (p. 45). Schultz demonstrates that the very pliability of those terms fostered both collegiality and animosity. As Tri-Faith became normative it ushered in a politics of recognition that moved away from material issues, and its privileging of religious identity downplayed racism.}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY}, author={Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2012}, month={Mar}, pages={1194–1195} } @article{bivins_2012, title={Ubiquity Scorned: Belief's Strange Survivals}, volume={24}, ISSN={["1570-0682"]}, DOI={10.1163/157006812x632883}, abstractNote={AbstractThis paper attempts not to continue the methodological interrogation of “belief” as a category central to Religious Studies, but to problematize and analyze the ubiquity of such interrogations. Investigations of “belief,” I argue, are also occasions to explore the discipline’s less obvious investments in intellectual and institutional traditions still shackled to the very category under scrutiny. The stand-alone category “religion” that is so central to political culture and disciplinary formation depends on “belief” to facilitate recognition. Thus, while Religious Studies now habitually discredits “belief” as a ubiquitous analytical category, it also partly depends on “belief’s” presences for its disciplinary self-justification.}, number={1}, journal={METHOD & THEORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION}, author={Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2012}, pages={55–63} } @article{bivins_2012, title={‘Only one repertory’: American religious studies}, volume={42}, ISSN={0048-721X 1096-1151}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2012.681873}, DOI={10.1080/0048721X.2012.681873}, abstractNote={This paper assesses American Religious Studies by attending to its institutional lineages, its tone and genre, and its sometimes unconscious methodological presumptions. Exploring the implications of Zora Neale Hurston's ‘lying up a narrative,’ this piece suggests that a series of narrative, curricular, and theoretical commitments produce a particular kind of ‘religion’ as normative in the study of American religions. As the narrative of post-denominational pluralism has become normative, a discursive ambivalence has been produced wherein a liberal, identitarian conception of religion coexists awkwardly with a radical suspicion of the analytical limits of ‘religion’ as an object of study. Identifying the different nodes of this ambivalence, this essay suggests that scholars might move beyond analytical repetition or paralysis by pluralizing method, genre, and style.}, number={3}, journal={Religion}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2012}, month={Jul}, pages={395–407} } @article{bivins_2010, title={God and Race in American Politics: A Short History}, volume={90}, ISSN={["0022-4189"]}, DOI={10.1086/652116}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewMark Noll, . God and Race in American Politics: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xii+209 pp. $22.95 (cloth).Jason C. BivinsJason C. BivinsNorth Carolina State University. Search for more articles by this author North Carolina State University.PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Religion Volume 90, Number 2April 2010 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/652116 Views: 16Total views on this site © 2010 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF RELIGION}, author={Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2010}, month={Apr}, pages={242–243} } @article{bivins_2010, title={Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture}, volume={78}, ISSN={["0002-7189"]}, DOI={10.1093/jaarel/lfp088}, abstractNote={Luhr, an Assistant Professor of history at California State Long Beach, has written an important contribution to studies of evangelical culture and politics entitled Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture. Her ambitious book examines the resonances among political evangelicalisms, suburban conservatism, post-1960's youth (sub-)cultures, and identities crafted through resistance. Part of a growing literature that takes into account an “expanded understanding of political action” (171), Luhr's text contends that “an interrogation of political inventions over public space tells only part of the story of how believers sought to protect their surroundings” (161). In substantiating these claims, Luhr takes in a great deal of material. Although some of her claims would have benefited from greater comparative and theoretical depth, the book is nonetheless an innovative and compelling contribution to the field. Luhr begins her account by noting the elision of two types that are central to the American imaginary (the maverick and the square, Elvis and Pat Boone). The emergence of rock itself, she claims, both solidified and challenged a certain normative model of (suburban) community, one in which conservative evangelicalism was transformed following the 1950s. Yet aside from oft-studied subjects such as Cold War domesticity and religious “influences” in popular culture, what compels Luhr are the appropriations of pop strategies of style and subculture in a broader “conversion mission to American society” (5). Although Luhr rightly notes (citing R. Laurence Moore and Colleen McDannell) that similar strategies have a long history in the United States, she carefully defines the way in which successive generations of evangelical activists—working in between demonological and quietist positions—have met and wrestled with popular culture on its own ground.}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION}, author={Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2010}, month={Mar}, pages={293–296} } @misc{bivins_2009, title={The family: The secret fundamentalism at the heart of american power}, volume={96}, number={1}, journal={Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.)}, author={Bivins, J. C.}, year={2009}, pages={179–179} } @article{bivins_2007, title={"Beautiful women dig graves": Richard Baker-Roshi, imported Buddhism, and the transmission of ethics at the San Francisco Zen Center}, volume={17}, ISSN={["1052-1151"]}, DOI={10.1525/rac.2007.17.1.57}, abstractNote={AbstractThere is little reckoning with the development of religions in the United States without confronting the related processes of importation and appropriation. This article explores these processes specifically as reflected in the story of the San Francisco Zen Center. Partaking of an interpretative ethos established by the nineteenth-century Transcendentalists and refined during the 1950s “Zen boom,” the architects of the SFZC's communalism shaped this complicated tradition specifically for disaffected young practitioners seeking an experiential path beyond their middleclass, Judeo-Christian backgrounds. It was during the 1983 scandals surrounding SFZC leader, Richard Baker-roshi, that many of the interpretive lacunae—specifically, a relative inattention to ethical languages—became readily apparent. This article accounts for these scandals historically (by situating them in the history of American appropriations of Buddhism and of the religious disaffection of the post-World War II period) and theoretically (by reading the SFZC's patterns of transmission and interpretation through the category “interpretative double movement). This double movement among practitioners captures the ways in which those in search of an alternative to their religious culture impose their own idiosyncratic values onto another religious tradition, all the while remaining paradoxically within the interpretive confines of the culture they hope to escape. Reading this complicated history—including both its “scandals” and their aftermaths—through such categories sheds light on the ways in which American religious exchanges are enacted and identities constructed.}, number={1}, journal={RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION}, author={Bivins, Jason C.}, year={2007}, pages={57–93} } @misc{bivins_2006, title={DAVID S. GUTTERMAN. Prophetic Politics: Christian Social Movements and American Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 222. $34.95}, volume={111}, ISSN={0002-8762 1937-5239}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.111.4.1221}, DOI={10.1086/ahr.111.4.1221}, abstractNote={Journal Article David S. Gutterman. Prophetic Politics: Christian Social Movements and American Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 222. $34.95 Get access David S. Gutterman. Prophetic Politics: Christian Social Movements and American Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 222. $34.95. Jason C. Bivins Jason C. Bivins North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 111, Issue 4, October 2006, Pages 1221–1222, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.111.4.1221 Published: 01 October 2006}, number={4}, journal={The American Historical Review}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={Bivins, J. C.}, year={2006}, month={Oct}, pages={1221–1222} } @misc{bivins_2006, title={Prophetic politics: Christian social movements and American democracy.}, volume={111}, number={4}, journal={American Historical Review}, author={Bivins, J. C.}, year={2006}, pages={1221–1222} } @book{ensemble_2005, title={Embers}, publisher={Bloomington, Ind: Family Vineyard}, author={Ensemble, Unstable}, year={2005} } @article{bivins_2005, title={Religious and Legal Others: Identity, Law, and Representation in American Christian Right and Neopagan Cultural Conflicts}, volume={6}, ISSN={1475-5610 1475-5629}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01438300500071224}, DOI={10.1080/01438300500071224}, abstractNote={Conservative Evangelicals and Neopagans in the United States have long engaged each other in public struggles over religious authority and power. This paper argues that these struggles are defined by their competing, and often fluid, interpretations of legal and constitutional norms concerning religious freedom. The result of these processes is a ‘polymorphous discourse’ whereby each religious community seeks to establish command over this range of ideas and issues in order to curtail or delegitimise the activities of the other. This ‘strategy of alterity’ shapes the way these communities understand each other, how they narrate American religious history, and how they experience political order. By balancing theoretical inquiry with case studies of local instances of Neopagan/Evangelical conflict, this paper seeks to contribute to enlarged understandings of contemporary religio-political conflict in the United States.}, number={1}, journal={Culture and Religion}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Bivins, Jason}, year={2005}, month={Mar}, pages={31–56} } @misc{bivins_2002, title={Pluralism comes of age: American religious culture in the twentieth-century}, volume={21}, number={3}, journal={Journal of American Ethnic History}, author={Bivins, J. C.}, year={2002}, pages={63–66} } @misc{bivins_2002, title={Public religion and urban transformation: Faith in the city}, volume={21}, number={3}, journal={Journal of American Ethnic History}, author={Bivins, J. C.}, year={2002}, pages={63–66} }