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According to Wikipedia, Randall J. Stephens is an editor and historian of American religion. Career Stephens is a Professor of American and British Studies at the University of Oslo. From 2004 to 2012 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, and from 2012 to 2018 he was a Reader and Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Northumbria University, in Newcastle, England. He served as editor of the Journal of Southern Religion from 2006 to 2010, and from 2005 to 2013 he was an editor of Historically Speaking published by Johns Hopkins University Press, based out of Boston University. From 2011 to 2016 he was also an associate editor of Fides et Historia. Stephens has been named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network . He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Century, the Independent, Salon, the Conversation, the Immanent Frame, Religion Dispatches, and the Atlantic. In 2011-2012 he was a Fulbright Roving Scholar in Norway. In 2013, he was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.

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Randall J. Stephens's Published Works

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The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (2008) (33)
The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age (2011) (22)
Theory and Practice of Weed Control (1982) (18)
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll (2018) (9)
The evangelical rejection of reason (2011) (7)
The Anointed (2011) (5)
“It Has to Come from the Hearts of the People”: Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Race, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act (2015) (3)
The Fire Spreads (2008) (3)
Acts of God: Continuities and change in Christian responses to extreme weather events from early modernity to the present (2019) (3)
Recent themes in American religious history: historians in conversation (2009) (2)
Another look at low pay (1972) (2)
The White House Conference on Health. (1965) (2)
“‘There is Magic in Print’: The Holiness-Pentecostal Press and the Origins of Southern Pentecostalism” (2002) (2)
Beyond the Niebuhrs: An Interview with Robert Orsi on Recent Trends in American Religious History (2006) (2)
Liberal Protestantism in 20th-Century America: An Interview with David A. Hollinger (2014) (2)
Introduction: Recent Developments in the Study of Religion in the US (2017) (1)
Pentecostalism and Popular Culture in Britain and America from the Early Twentieth Century to the 1970s (2017) (1)
"Fortress of righteousness" on the Kansas Prairie: Miltonvale Wesleyan College, 1909-1972. (2012) (1)
Industrial RB211: 15 Years of History and Development (1990) (1)
Conservative Christianity and its discontents (2012) (1)
The holiness/pentecostal/charismatic extension of the Wesleyan tradition (2010) (1)
Jamestown Redivivus: An Interview with James Horn (2007) (1)
The Importance of Studying Ordinary Lives: An Interview with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2009) (1)
“Where else did they copy their styles but from church groups?”: Rock ‘n’ Roll and Pentecostalism in the 1950s South (2016) (1)
Interpreting American Pentecostal origins: retrospect and prospect (2008) (1)
A Note on An Early Reference to Cost‐Volume‐Profit Relationships (1966) (1)
Religion in American History: An Interview with Stephen Prothero (2012) (1)
High Holy Rollers (book review) (2013) (0)
America in the Jacksonian Era: An Interview with David S. Reynolds (2009) (0)
Religion and the Founding of the United States: An Interview with Thomas Kidd (2011) (0)
Understanding the prosperity gospel (2015) (0)
Introduction: Sam Jones- the Georgia Wonder (2009) (0)
Religious History and the Historian's Craft: An Interview with Amanda Porterfield (2009) (0)
The past is no foreign country (book review) (2010) (0)
The Convergence of Populism, Religion, and the Holiness Pentecostal Movements: A Review of the Historical Literature (2000) (0)
4. Trust Me, the End Is Near (2011) (0)
Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind. By Mark A. Noll. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2011. xvi + 180 pp. $25.00 cloth; $15.00 eBook. (2013) (0)
Reconstruction and the American West: An Interview with Heather Cox Richardson (2007) (0)
“Unbucklin’ that Ole Bible Belt: Learning about the Solid Religious South from Freaks, Geeks, Outcasts, Losers, Wide-Eyed Prophets, Cranks, and Mountebanks” (2014) (0)
Why the Republicans' Know-Nothing Outsider Candidates Are Still on Top (2015) (0)
MID-WEST HOSPITAL ASSN. REPORT. (1965) (0)
Pentecost for the Southland (2012) (0)
Faith and the Modern Presidency: An Interview with Randall Balmer (2009) (0)
One part Nixon, two parts Wallace: Donald Trump represents the worst of a bygone America (2016) (0)
"Ohio Villains and "Pretenders to New Revelations": Wesleyan abolitionists in the South, perfectionism and antebellum religious divide. (2011) (0)
Tocqueville’s Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch (2011) (0)
Lies the debunkers told me: how bad history books win us over (2012) (0)
Jimmy Carter, the politics of family, and the rise of the religious right (book review) (2012) (0)
GOP must destroy Donald Trump before he destroys them (2015) (0)
An Interview with Michael J. Klarman on Race and American Legal History (2008) (0)
Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks. By J. Blake Perkins (2018) (0)
No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian pop music and the transformation of American evangelicalism (book review) (2012) (0)
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2021) (0)
Recent themes in American religious history (2009) (0)
Mormonism and American History: An Interview with Matthew Bowman (2013) (0)
Tocqueville in America: An Interview with Leo Damrosch (2011) (0)
Embracing the ‘silent majority’ – Donald Trump brings back the worst of 1960s America (2016) (0)
6. Made in America (2011) (0)
2. The Amateur Christian Historian (2011) (0)
J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist - By R. G. Robins. Religion in America Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 322 pp. $49.95 cloth. (2007) (0)
The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790–1860. by Robert Elder (review) (2017) (0)
'Religious Liberty' and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex (2016) (0)
Justifying Slavery in the Old South: An Interview with Lacy K. Ford (2010) (0)
Report of National Conference on Abortion. Abortion debaters urged to cease shouting match and to listen and learn. (1979) (0)
Catholicism in Colonial and Revolutionary America: An Interview with Maura Jane Farrelly (2012) (0)
Making Sense of American Culture in the 1970s: An Interview with Thomas Hine (2012) (0)
Tell About the South: The 2005 St. George Tucker Society Meeting (2012) (0)
W. E. Fuller (encyclopaedia entry) (2008) (0)
1. The Answer Man (2011) (0)
Teaching and Writing about the History of African-American Christianity: An Interview with Paul Harvey (2011) (0)
How the Republican party became a haven of resentment and rage (2015) (0)
J. Brooks Flippen. Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right. (2012) (0)
The Devil’s Music (2018) (0)
"Culture, Entertainment, and Religion in America" (2017) (0)
Erich Fromm and the Public Intellectual in Recent American History: An Interview with Larry Friedman (2010) (0)
Spirit in the Air (2018) (0)
Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South. By Steven P. Miller. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. vi, 304 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4151-8.) (2010) (0)
On Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Michael O'Brien, and Southern Distinctiveness (2016) (0)
Cultivating Private Gardens of Inward Spiritual Development: How the Wesleyan Methodists Became Fundamentalists (2016) (0)
Color and Class in Gilded Age America: An Interview with Martha A. Sandweiss (2010) (0)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown as Scholar and Mentor (2015) (0)
The Bible and Fundamentalism in America (2016) (0)
Trump and Palin exist in an alternative universe of knowledge denial (2016) (0)
The Bible and Fundamentalism (2018) (0)
China, the West, and Pearl Buck: An Interview with Hilary Spurling (2011) (0)
Searching for something in a Kansas record bin (2014) (0)
Ted Cruz, human dog whistle: Evangelicals - those “courageous conservatives” - know exactly what he is talking about (2016) (0)
From abolitionists to fundamentalists: the transformation of the Wesleyan Methodists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (2015) (0)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, 1932–2012 (2013) (0)
The Klan, White Christianity, and the Past and Present: A Response to Kelly J. Baker (2017) (0)
1. Pentecostalism and Rock ’n’ Roll in the 1950s (2018) (0)
What Does Azusa Have to Do with Washington (2008) (0)
On Teaching with God in America (2011) (0)
Sporting Male Weeklies in 19th-Century New York: An Interview with Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (2008) (0)
Spirit in the Air: Pentecostal media innovation in the 20th Century South (2015) (0)
An Interview with Philip L. Fradkin on Natural Disasters and the Great Quake of 1906 (2012) (0)
Why Republicans and academics need each other (2013) (0)
A History of the Jesus People: An Interview with Larry Eskridge (2013) (0)
Thucydides and the Lessons of Ancient History: An Interview with Donald Kagan (2010) (0)
David Brat, the anti-experts' expert (2014) (0)
Rome Unearthed: An Interview with Mary Beard on Pompeii and the Ancient World (2009) (0)
5. A Carnival of Christians (2011) (0)
Irving Lowery (encyclopaedia entry) (2008) (0)
The old new right (book review) (2010) (0)
The Uses of American History: An Interview with Jill Lepore (2011) (0)
3. The Family of God (2011) (0)
The Sunbelt Coalition: Evangelicals and Politics in a New Light (2011) (0)

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