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Why is this person notable and influential?From 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 2006–2010, and from 2005–2013 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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WikipediaPublished Works
- The Anointed
- “It Has to Come from the Hearts of the People”: Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Race, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act
- Beyond the Niebuhrs: An Interview with Robert Orsi on Recent Trends in American Religious History
- The Devil’s Music
- The Fire Spreads
- Religion in American History: An Interview with Stephen Prothero
- Acts of God: Continuities and change in Christian responses to extreme weather events from early modernity to the present
- The holiness/pentecostal/charismatic extension of the Wesleyan tradition
- J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist - By R. G. Robins. Religion in America Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 322 pp. $49.95 cloth.
- 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.
- “Where else did they copy their styles but from church groups?”: Rock ‘n’ Roll and Pentecostalism in the 1950s South
- Introduction: Recent Developments in the Study of Religion in the US
- From abolitionists to fundamentalists: the transformation of the Wesleyan Methodists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Fuller, William Edward, Sr.
- Lowery, Irving E.
- Culture, Entertainment, and Religion in America
- Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks. By J. Blake Perkins
- The Bible and Fundamentalism
- The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790–1860. by Robert Elder
- An Interview with Philip L. Fradkin on Natural Disasters and the Great Quake of 1906
- Tell About the South: The 2005 St. George Tucker Society Meeting
- Reconstruction and the American West: An Interview with Heather Cox Richardson
- Jamestown Redivivus: An Interview with James Horn
- Making Sense of American Culture in the 1970s: An Interview with Thomas Hine
- Sporting Male Weeklies in 19th-Century New York: An Interview with Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
- An Interview with Michael J. Klarman on Race and American Legal History
- Pentecost for the Southland
- Tocqueville in America: An Interview with Leo Damrosch
- Teaching and Writing about the History of African-American Christianity: An Interview with Paul Harvey
- Catholicism in Colonial and Revolutionary America: An Interview with Maura Jane Farrelly
- Liberal Protestantism in 20th-Century America: An Interview with David A. Hollinger
- Book Review: Miranda Wilcox and John D. Young, eds., Standing Apart
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What schools is this person affiliated with?Christian seminary affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Public research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States
Norwegian public research university
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