Randall J. Stephens
American historian
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Randall J. Stephens's Degrees
- PhD US History University of Florida
- Masters Theological Studies Nazarene Theological Seminary
- Masters History Emporia State University
- Bachelors History MidAmerica Nazarene University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)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.
Randall J. Stephens's Published Works
Published Works
- 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)
- 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)
- “It Has to Come from the Hearts of the People”: Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Race, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act (2015) (3)
- “‘There is Magic in Print’: The Holiness-Pentecostal Press and the Origins of Southern Pentecostalism” (2002) (2)
- Liberal Protestantism in 20th-Century America: An Interview with David A. Hollinger (2014) (2)
- Recent themes in American religious history: historians in conversation (2009) (2)
- Beyond the Niebuhrs: An Interview with Robert Orsi on Recent Trends in American Religious History (2006) (2)
- "Fortress of righteousness" on the Kansas Prairie: Miltonvale Wesleyan College, 1909-1972. (2012) (1)
- Pentecostalism and Popular Culture in Britain and America from the Early Twentieth Century to the 1970s (2017) (1)
- Jamestown Redivivus: An Interview with James Horn (2007) (1)
- Industrial RB211: 15 Years of History and Development (1990) (1)
- Interpreting American Pentecostal origins: retrospect and prospect (2008) (1)
- Conservative Christianity and its discontents (2012) (1)
- Introduction: Recent Developments in the Study of Religion in the US (2017) (1)
- The Importance of Studying Ordinary Lives: An Interview with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2009) (1)
- Religion in American History: An Interview with Stephen Prothero (2012) (1)
- The holiness/pentecostal/charismatic extension of the Wesleyan tradition (2010) (1)
- “Where else did they copy their styles but from church groups?”: Rock ‘n’ Roll and Pentecostalism in the 1950s South (2016) (1)
- Making Sense of American Culture in the 1970s: An Interview with Thomas Hine (2012) (1)
- 1. The Answer Man (2011) (0)
- 3. The Family of God (2011) (0)
- Ted Cruz, human dog whistle: Evangelicals - those “courageous conservatives” - know exactly what he is talking about (2016) (0)
- High Holy Rollers (book review) (2013) (0)
- The Sunbelt Coalition: Evangelicals and Politics in a New Light (2011) (0)
- The old new right (book review) (2010) (0)
- Searching for something in a Kansas record bin (2014) (0)
- J. Brooks Flippen. Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right. (2012) (0)
- Tocqueville’s Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch (2011) (0)
- Religious History and the Historian's Craft: An Interview with Amanda Porterfield (2009) (0)
- GOP must destroy Donald Trump before he destroys them (2015) (0)
- The Bible and Fundamentalism (2018) (0)
- From abolitionists to fundamentalists: the transformation of the Wesleyan Methodists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (2015) (0)
- China, the West, and Pearl Buck: An Interview with Hilary Spurling (2011) (0)
- Catholicism in Colonial and Revolutionary America: An Interview with Maura Jane Farrelly (2012) (0)
- W. E. Fuller (encyclopaedia entry) (2008) (0)
- Religion and the Founding of the United States: An Interview with Thomas Kidd (2011) (0)
- Embracing the ‘silent majority’ – Donald Trump brings back the worst of 1960s America (2016) (0)
- Teaching and Writing about the History of African-American Christianity: An Interview with Paul Harvey (2011) (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)
- A History of the Jesus People: An Interview with Larry Eskridge (2013) (0)
- Sporting Male Weeklies in 19th-Century New York: An Interview with Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (2008) (0)
- Recent themes in American religious history (2009) (0)
- The Convergence of Populism, Religion, and the Holiness Pentecostal Movements: A Review of the Historical Literature (2000) (0)
- David Brat, the anti-experts' expert (2014) (0)
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown as Scholar and Mentor (2015) (0)
- Introduction: Sam Jones- the Georgia Wonder (2009) (0)
- One part Nixon, two parts Wallace: Donald Trump represents the worst of a bygone America (2016) (0)
- The Klan, White Christianity, and the Past and Present: A Response to Kelly J. Baker (2017) (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)
- No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian pop music and the transformation of American evangelicalism (book review) (2012) (0)
- An Interview with Michael J. Klarman on Race and American Legal History (2008) (0)
- Reconstruction and the American West: An Interview with Heather Cox Richardson (2007) (0)
- Irving Lowery (encyclopaedia entry) (2008) (0)
- On Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Michael O'Brien, and Southern Distinctiveness (2016) (0)
- Understanding the prosperity gospel (2015) (0)
- The Uses of American History: An Interview with Jill Lepore (2011) (0)
- Faith and the Modern Presidency: An Interview with Randall Balmer (2009) (0)
- Mormonism and American History: An Interview with Matthew Bowman (2013) (0)
- Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks by J. Blake Perkins (review) (2018) (0)
- Jimmy Carter, the politics of family, and the rise of the religious right (book review) (2012) (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)
- 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 Teaching with God in America (2011) (0)
- The Devil’s Music (2018) (0)
- "Ohio Villains and "Pretenders to New Revelations": Wesleyan abolitionists in the South, perfectionism and antebellum religious divide. (2011) (0)
- Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2021) (0)
- How the Republican party became a haven of resentment and rage (2015) (0)
- America in the Jacksonian Era: An Interview with David S. Reynolds (2009) (0)
- Tell About the South: The 2005 St. George Tucker Society Meeting (2012) (0)
- The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790–1860. by Robert Elder (review) (2017) (0)
- Cultivating Private Gardens of Inward Spiritual Development: How the Wesleyan Methodists Became Fundamentalists (2016) (0)
- The Bible and Fundamentalism in America (2016) (0)
- Tocqueville in America: An Interview with Leo Damrosch (2011) (0)
- Erich Fromm and the Public Intellectual in Recent American History: An Interview with Larry Friedman (2010) (0)
- Why Republicans and academics need each other (2013) (0)
- Pentecost for the Southland (2012) (0)
- The past is no foreign country (book review) (2010) (0)
- 2. The Amateur Christian Historian (2011) (0)
- Report of National Conference on Abortion. Abortion debaters urged to cease shouting match and to listen and learn. (1979) (0)
- An Interview with Philip L. Fradkin on Natural Disasters and the Great Quake of 1906 (2012) (0)
- Rome Unearthed: An Interview with Mary Beard on Pompeii and the Ancient World (2009) (0)
- 5. A Carnival of Christians (2011) (0)
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown, 1932–2012 (2013) (0)
- "Culture, Entertainment, and Religion in America" (2017) (0)
- 1. Pentecostalism and Rock ’n’ Roll in the 1950s (2018) (0)
- Trump and Palin exist in an alternative universe of knowledge denial (2016) (0)
- Spirit in the Air (2018) (0)
- Lies the debunkers told me: how bad history books win us over (2012) (0)
- Thucydides and the Lessons of Ancient History: An Interview with Donald Kagan (2010) (0)
- Why the Republicans' Know-Nothing Outsider Candidates Are Still on Top (2015) (0)
- What Does Azusa Have to Do with Washington (2008) (0)
- Spirit in the Air: Pentecostal media innovation in the 20th Century South (2015) (0)
- 4. Trust Me, the End Is Near (2011) (0)
- Color and Class in Gilded Age America: An Interview with Martha A. Sandweiss (2010) (0)
- Justifying Slavery in the Old South: An Interview with Lacy K. Ford (2010) (0)
- 6. Made in America (2011) (0)
- 'Religious Liberty' and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex (2016) (0)
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