Category Archives: religion

November 14, 2012

“Denise Levertov” author on PBS

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Watch Dana Greene on Denise Levertov on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene

October 23, 2012

UIP author on Mormons & Politics in Vanity Fair

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D. Michael Quinn, author of the University of Illinois Press book Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, penned a Vanity Fair web exclusive feature titled When Mormons Go to Washington. Though Mitt Romney and his supporters invoke J.F.K.’s 1960 talk, … Continue reading →

October 9, 2012

Q&A with Quaker Brotherhood author Allan W. Austin

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The abolitionist work of Quakers during the antebellum era has been well documented, and their contemporary anti-war and anti-racism work is familiar to activists around the world. Allan W. Austin, a professor of history at Misericordia University, answered our questions about … Continue reading →

August 24, 2012

Prof. Pradeep Dhillon discusses philosophies and practices of Sikhism

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Professor Pradeep Dhillon, editor of our Journal of Aesthetic Education, sat down with the Illini News Bureau to discuss cultural aspects of Sikhism. In light of the August 5 tragedy at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, Dhillon, who is a … Continue reading →

August 15, 2012

Religion Dispatches investigates southern gospel music

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Douglas Harrison, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book, Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music, is the subject of a new Religion Dispatches Q&A. ***** Anything you had to leave out [of the book]? … Continue reading →

January 9, 2012

The Book of Mormon, Top 5

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In the January 7, 2012, edition of the Wall Street Journal, Samuel Morris Brown identifies Grant Hardy’s The Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition as one of the top 5 best books about Mormonism. “Hardy’s thoughtful ‘reader’s edition’ eliminates the current … Continue reading →

December 1, 2011

Plaudits for Carla Bley

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On November 21, 2011, we published Carla Bley, the latest edition in our American Composers series.  Author Amy Beal has received praise from a variety of review outlets for capturing Bley’s life and career in a compact volume. “Beal . . . … Continue reading →

August 8, 2011

Religion in American History on Gospel of the Working Class

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Last week the Religion in American History blog published a complimentary piece on Erik Gellman and Jarod Roll’s new book The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America. “Roll and Gellman’s book is in part a … Continue reading →

May 16, 2011

Spirit of Rebellion wins WCSA award

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Jarod Roll’s book Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South has been awarded the Working Class Studies Association’s 2011 C.L.R. James Award for best published book for academic or general audiences. Spirit of Rebellion reveals how ordinary rural … Continue reading →

May 3, 2011

A historian’s perspective on the 2011 Missouri spillway flood by Jarod Roll

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Right now a man-made flood is inundating part of Missouri after the US Army Corps of Engineers ‘activated’ the Bird’s Point-New Madrid Spillway by dynamiting the riverfront levee guarding parts of Mississippi and New Madrid counties in order to reduce … Continue reading →