All items listed in NORAM2584, plus additional compendium
Books, Primary Reading
Robert R. Mathisen, ed., Critical Issues in American Religious History: A Reader
Brett E. Carroll, The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America
Books, Secondary Reading
John Corrigan and Winthrop S. Hudson, Religion in America, 7th ed.
Compendium:
Colleen McDannell, “Beyond Dr. Dobson: Women, Girls, and Focus on the Family,” in Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton, eds., Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002) pp. 113-131.
Randall Balmer, “American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity,” in John Stratton Hawley, ed. Fundamentalism and Gender (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) pp 47-62 (60-62 are fn).
Diana L. Eck, “American Muslims: Cousins and Strangers,” Chapter 5 in A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Now Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation (HarperSanFrancisco, 2001) 222-293.
Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992) Prologue (pp 1-18) and Chapter 7 “The United States in Prophesy” (pp 225-253).
Useful Websites: These American churches and organizations have significant impact on Norwegian Churches today.
Willow Creek Community Church, IL: http://www.willowcreek.org/
Saddleback Church, CA: http://www.saddleback.org/flash/default.htm
Youth With a Mission: http://www.ywam.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1
Contemporary Christian Music: http://www.ccmmagazine.com/
Sojourners (part of the Evangelical left in the USA). V?rt Land often presents their material: http://www.sojo.net/
Beliefnet (an interfaith website that gives an overview of popular American religion today): http://www.beliefnet.com/
Additional compendium for NORAM4584
John P. Bartowski, “Changing of the Gods: The Gender and Family Discourse of American Evangelicalism in Historical Perspective,” History of the Family: An International Quarterly 3:1 (1998) 95-115.
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, “Women and Religious Revivals: Anti-Ritualism, Liminality, and the Emergence of the American Bourgeoisie,” Chapter 7 in Leonard I. Sweet, ed. The Evangelical Tradition in America (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984) pp 199-231.
Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837. American Century Series (NY: Hill and Wang, 1978) pp 95-121.
Barbara Welter, “Feminization of American Religion,” Chapter 6 in Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976) pp 83-102
Optional (examples of excellent UiO MA theses on religion in America, available at library):
Hilde L?vdal, Faith and Feminism: Evangelicalism, Feminism, and the Culture Wars in the USA, 1970s to the Present, MA Thesis, UiO (ILOS), Spring 2006
Dianna Gundersen, With Scriptures in Their Backpack: American LDS Women Missionaries in Norway, hovedoppgave (MA thesis), UiO (IBA), Fall 2001.
Optional (For those interested in further study)
Edwin S. Gaustad and Mark A. Noll, eds., A Documentary History of Religion in America (vols 1 and 2).
Essential Reference Books/pamphlets:
- A good dictionary: (Webster’s is preferable, but others will suffice if you are unable to get Webster’s – though they are often better for British English, than American.)
- James D. Lester and James D. Lester, Jr., Writing Research Papers (available in Akademika in the English section). See especially the chapter on plagiarism.
- Dorothy Burton Sk?rdal, Rules for Writing English: A Practical Handbook for Students and Teachers of English in Norway (Available through Kompendia Utsalg at Akademika)
- Either Turabian or MLA handbook (for bibliography and footnote styles)