Randall Balmer
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American writer and historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Randall Herbert Balmer is an American historian of American religion. He taught at Barnard College and Columbia University for twenty-seven years before moving to Dartmouth College in 2012, where he was named the Mandel Family Professor in the Arts & Sciences. He is also an Episcopal priest. He earned his PhD from Princeton University in 1985. He has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and at Rutgers, Princeton, Drew University, Emory University, Yale and Northwestern universities and at Union Theological Seminary, where he was also adjunct professor of church history. He has also taught in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was visiting professor at Yale Divinity School from 2004 until 2008.
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Published Works
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America (1989) (126)
- Abstinence-only policies and programs: An overview (2008) (72)
- Religion in American Life: A Short History (2000) (62)
- A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies. (1990) (38)
- Protestantism in America (2002) (36)
- Blessed Assurance: A History of Evangelicalism in America (1999) (35)
- The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years (2015) (32)
- The Disappearing God Gap? Religion in the 2008 Presidential Election (2010) (30)
- The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond (2010) (29)
- A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation By Diana L. Eck: San Francisco, Harper, 2001. 404 pp. $27.00 (2003) (26)
- The encyclopedia of evangelicalism (2002) (22)
- God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush (2008) (14)
- American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity (2008) (12)
- Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (2014) (9)
- Forum: Studying Religion in the Age of Trump (2017) (8)
- Grant Us Courage: Travels Along the Mainline of American Protestantism (1996) (8)
- Faith of the Founders: Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826 (1987) (6)
- Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (2021) (6)
- Religion in Twentieth Century America (2001) (5)
- Evangelicalism in America (2016) (5)
- The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution. By Gregg L. Frazer (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2012) 299 pp. $34.95 (2013) (4)
- Modern Christian Revivalism (1994) (4)
- Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Studies in Cultural History. (1991) (4)
- A perfect babel of confusion (1989) (4)
- The Social Roots of Dutch Pietism in the Middle Colonies (1984) (3)
- When Art Disrupts Religion: Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical Mind (2017) (3)
- A perfect babel of confusion : Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies (1991) (3)
- Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism (cf. Arch. supra. Sébastien Fath). Louisville-Londres, John Knox Press, 2002, 654 p. (bibliogr.) (cf. supra, pp. 17-40) (2004) (3)
- Fundamentalism, the First Amendment, and the Rise of the Religious Right (2010) (2)
- New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church . By R. Stephen Warner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xii + 355 pp. $37.00. (1991) (2)
- Speaking of Faith: The Centrality of Epistemology and the Perils of Circularity (2005) (2)
- Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880–1920. By Suzanne M. Sinke Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City By Robert P. Swierenga (2004) (2)
- Apocalypticism in America: The Argot of Premillennialism in Popular Culture (1988) (2)
- “Her Duty to Canada”: Henriette Feller and French Protestantism in Québec (2001) (2)
- 1. Joseph Smith’S Presidential Ambitions (2015) (1)
- Systematic approach to ethical decision making using matrices (2008) (1)
- John Henry Goetschius and The Unknown God: Eighteenth-Century Pietism in the Middle Colonies (1989) (1)
- The Social Gospel in American Religion: A History (2018) (1)
- Mormonism and American Politics: Columbia University Press (2015) (1)
- From Frontier Phenomenon to Victorian Institution: The Methodist Camp Meeting in Ocean Grove (1987) (1)
- Outsiders in a Promised Land: Religious Activists in Pacific Northwest History (2017) (0)
- The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution by Gregg L. Frazer (review) (2013) (0)
- 6. Testimony And Theology: The Mormon Struggle With America’S Civil Religion (2015) (0)
- 13. Mitt, Mormonism, And The Media: An Unfamiliar Faith Takes The Stage In The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews (2012) (0)
- Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music . By Jay R. Howard and John M. Streck. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. viii + 299 pp. $29.95 cloth. (2000) (0)
- God Wills It: Presidents and the Political Use of Religion by David O'Connell (review) (2017) (0)
- Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy. By K. Healan Gaston (2021) (0)
- The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First Amendment by Dennis J. Goldford. Waco, TX, Baylor University Press, 2012. 310 pp. $44.95. (2014) (0)
- 2. Unpopular Sovereignty: Brigham Young And The U.S. Government, 1847–1877 (2015) (0)
- Book Review: The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825. by Andrew R. L. Cayton (1987) (0)
- Religion and Sport in North America (2022) (0)
- The religious roots of the First Amendment. Dissenting Protestants and the separation of Church and State . By Nicholas P. Miller (foreword Mark Noll). Pp. xix+242. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £22.50. 978 0 19 985836 1 (2013) (0)
- The Historian’s Pickaxe: (2021) (0)
- Religion in American Politics: A Short History . By Frank Lambert. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. x + 295 pp. $24.95 cloth. (2009) (0)
- 3. Polygamy In The Nation’S Capitol: Protestant Women And The 1899 Campaign Against B. H. Roberts (2015) (0)
- 5. Ezra Taft Benson And The Conservative Turn Of “Those Amazing Mormons” (2015) (0)
- Steven K. Green, The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash That Shaped Modern Church–State Doctrine (2013) (0)
- Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism. By Donald Harman Akenson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 505 pp. $39.95 cloth. (2019) (0)
- Book Review:New York Glory: Religions in the City Tony Carnes, Anna Karpathakis (2002) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Evangelism and Apostasy: The Evolution and Impact of Evangelicals in Modern Mexico (1999) (0)
- Virgil v School Board of Columbia County, Florida. 862 f.2d 1517 at 1521, 1522–25 (1989) 50 West's Education Law Reporter 718 at 722, 723–26 (2014) (0)
- A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies (1990) (0)
- McKanan, Dan.Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011. 326 pp. $34.95 (cloth). (2014) (0)
- 12. On The “Underground”: What The Mormon “Yes On 8” Campaign Reveals About The Future Of Mormons In American Political Life (2015) (0)
- New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty; Transatlantic Pieties: Dutch Clergy in Colonial America (2014) (0)
- Darren E. Grem. The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity. (2017) (0)
- Anglicanism and Its Discontents: Protestant Diversity and Disestablishment in British America (2000) (0)
- Evangelical Christian Community in North and South America (2006) (0)
- Matthew Bowman. Christian: The Politics of a Word in America. (2019) (0)
- Book Review: The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783. by Jack D. Marietta. (1986) (0)
- Afterword: Twenty-five Years Later (2014) (0)
- Christian Fundamentalism in America: A Cultural History by David S. New (2013) (0)
- An Historical Study of United States Religious Responses to the Vietnam War: A Matter of National Morality (2011) (0)
- Sojourners in a Pluralistic Land: The Promise and Peril of Christian Higher Education (2007) (0)
- Pally, Marcia.The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011. xviii+268 pp. $20.00 (paper). (2013) (0)
- “An End to Unjust Inequality in the World”: The Radical Tradition of Progressive Evangelicalism (2014) (0)
- The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (review) (2002) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940 Douglas Carl Abrams (2003) (0)
- Response, forum on 1992 presidential address, "The ambiguities of academic freedom," Church History, June 1993: (Scott Appleby, Thomas G. Alexander, Randall Balmer, and Amanda Porterfield, commentators) (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity, by Randall Balmer (1989) (0)
- McDermott, Gerald R., ed.The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xviii+524 pp. $150.00 (cloth). (2013) (0)
- 10. “Twice-Told Tale”: Telling Two Histories Of Mormon-Black Relations During The 2012 Presidential Election (2015) (0)
- Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. Modern American Protestantism and Its World 10. Edited by Martin E. Marty. Munich, Germany: K. G. Saur, 1993. xiii + 342 pp. (1996) (0)
- HENRIETTE FELLER, THE SPIRIT AND MISSION TO CANADA (2011) (0)
- 4. Eternal Progression: Mormonism And American Progressivism (2015) (0)
- Who Is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis. By Thomas S. Kidd. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. 200 pp. $26.00 hardcover. (2020) (0)
- The Tragedy of Billy Sunday: the Allure of Populism and the Peril of Anachronism (1996) (0)
- Cowboy Christians by Marie W. Dallam (review) (2019) (0)
- Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety. By Andrew S. Finstuen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xii, 255 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-3336-0.) (2010) (0)
- Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel (2003) (0)
- Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion. By Joseph M. Siry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvi + 365 pp. n.p. (1999) (0)
- 9. A Politically Peculiar People: How Mormons Moved Into And Then Out Of The Political Mainstream (2015) (0)
- The One and the Many: Americas Struggle for the Common Good. By Martin E. Marty. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. x, 244 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-63827-1) (1998) (0)
- Book reviews — Short notices (1986) (0)
- WESTERN RELIGIOUS HISTORY (1982) (0)
- Response to George Marsden/ by Randall Balmer. (2005) (0)
- Cultural Crossroads: Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2022) (0)
- Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History. By Gillis J. Harp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. x + 323 pp. $42.95. (2022) (0)
- The enemy among Us (1995) (0)
- Active Faith: How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics by Ralph Reed New York, Free Press, 1996. 311 pp. $25.00 (1997) (0)
- 8. Like Father, Unlike Son: The Governors Romney, The Kennedy Paradigm, And The Mormon Question (2015) (0)
- Deconstructing Democracy: The Case Against School Vouchers (2000) (0)
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