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Born-Again Boogie: A Q&A with Eric Gonzaba
Oct 15 2025
The recipient of the Western History Association's 2025 Arrington-Prucha Prize recognizing the best article on American western religious history tells us about his research into evangelical Christian nightclubs.
Q&A with Tisa Wenger, Guest Editor of the Pacific Historical Review special issue, “Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West”
Nov 01 2023
Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history?It is true that the topic of religion rarely comes up in standard narratives of U.S. western history (Of course there a few important exce
In Early Christianity, “Physical” Virginity Meant Many Different Things
Nov 16 2022
By Julia Kelto Lillis, author of Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity“Bodily” or “physical virginity” is one of the most used yet unclear phrases about virginity in academic and popular speech. Most who use it simply assume others know what they mean. For instance
What is Going on with Religion in America?
May 20 2021
By Lisa D. Pearce and Claire Chipman Gilliland, authors of Religion in AmericaEverybody has an opinion about the state of religion in America. Not everybody has a comprehensively informed opinion about it.Many of our students take sociology of religion courses specifically to understand