Description
Early Americans have long been considered "A People of the Book" Because the nickname was coined primarily to invoke close associations between Americans and the Bible, it is easy to overlook the central fact that it was a book-not a geographic location, a monarch, or even a shared language-that has served as a cornerstone in countless investigations into the formation and fragmentation of early American culture. Few books can lay claim to such powers of civilization-altering influence. Among those which can are sacred books, and for Americans principal among such books stands the Bible.This Handbook is designed to address a noticeable void in resources focused on analyzing the Bible in America in various historical moments and in relationship to specific institutions and cultural expressions. It takes seriously the fact that the Bible is both a physical object that has exercised considerable totemic power, as well as a text with a powerful intellectual design that has inspired everything from national religious and educational practices to a wide spectrum of artistic endeavors to our nation's politics and foreign policy.This Handbook brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview--rich with bibliographic resources--to those interested in the Bible's role in American cultural formation.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsContributor BiographiesIntroductionPaul C. GutjahrPart I: Bible Production 1. Protestant English-Language Bible Publishing and TranslationPaul C. Gutjahr2. American Children's BiblesRussell W. Dalton3. Native American Bible TranslationsLinford D. Fisher4. Bible Bindings and FormatsSeth PerryPart II: Biblical Interpretation and Usage5. Seventeenth-Century Biblical InterpretationRobert E. Brown6. Eighteenth-Century Biblical InterpretationJan Stievermann7. Nineteenth-Century Biblical InterpretationMark Noll8. Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Biblical InterpretationDaniel J. Treier and Craig Hefner9. The Bible in the Electronic AgeJohn B. Weaver10. The Bible and Feminist InterpretationClaudia Setzer11. The Bible and American LGBT InterpretationTeresa J. Hornsby12. The Bible and African American CultureAbraham Smith13. The Bible and CreationismSusan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr.14. The King James Only MovementJason A. Hentschel15. The Bible and the Sermonic TraditionDawn ColemanPart III: The Bible in American History and Culture16. The Bible and American EducationSuzanne Rosenblith and Patrick Womac17. The Bible in American LawDaniel L. Dreisbach18. The Bible in American PoliticsDaniel A. Morris19. The Bible and SlaveryEmerson Powery20. The Bible and SportsJeffrey Scholes21. The Bible and the MilitaryEd Waggoner22. The Bible and the Founding of the NationEran Shalev23. The Bible in the Civil WarPaul Harvey24. The Bible and the Religious RightRebecca Barrett-Fox25. The Bible and EnvironmentalismCalvin B. DeWittPart IV: The Bible and the Arts26. The Bible and ArtKristin Schwain27. English Cinema and tThe Bible and CinemaWilliam D. Romanowski28. The Bible and LiteratureShira Wolosky29. The Bible and Graphic Novels and Comic BooksAndrew T. Coates30. The Bible and MusicJason C. Bivins31. Performing the BibleJames S. BieloPart V: The Bible and Religious Traditions32. The Bible and JudaismJonathan D. Sarna33. The Bible and CatholicismDonald Senior34. The Bible and Orthodox ChristiansA. G. Roeber35. The Bible and the Mainline DenominationsElesha Coffman36. The Bible and EvangelicalismJohn G. Stackhouse, Jr.37. The Bible and FundamentalismRandall J. Stephens38. The Bible and PentecostalismMichael J. McClymond39. The Bible and MormonismDavid Holland40. The Bible and Seventh-Day AdventistsNicholas Miller41. The Bible and Jehovah's WitnessesMichael J. Gilmour42. The Bible and Christian ScientistsMichael W. Hamilton
