Research and Teaching Interests: U.S. Religious History, U.S. Intellectual History, and U.S. Cultural History.

Personal Statement: My primary area of research is religion in modern United States. My first book, A Transforming Faith, focused on the intellectual history of fundamentalism and evangelicalism in the middle decades of the twentieth century. My second book, Bible-Carrying Christians used ethnographic research to rethink the relationship between Bible-carrying Christians and social power in Reagan's America. I am currently working on a book that explores the history of anti-fundamentalist discourse in the years between 1922 and the present.

Grants: from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the Lilly Endowment.

Service: In past years, I have served as the department's director of graduate studies, as the director of Temple's General Education Program, and as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Univeristy of Dhaka.

Selected Publications:

"What's In a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist.'" Origins 1 (July 2008): 1-5.

“Jews, Fundamentalism and Supersessionism.” Fides et Historia 40 (Winter/Spring 2008): 1-23.

“Protestantism.” In The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: Second Edition. Edited by William J. Darity, Jr. (New York: Macmillan, 2007).

“The Meaning and End of Fundamentalism.” Religious Studies Review 33 (October 2004): 269-274.

Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

"Fundamentalism." In The Encyclopedia of American Studies. Edited by George Thomas Kurian and others. (Danbury, CT: Grolier: 2001).

A Transforming Faith: An Exploration of Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991).

“United States." In Between States and Markets: The Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Robert Wuthnow. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,1991), 243-287.

"Religion and the Nation: 1960 to the Present." In Church and State in America. Edited by John F. Wilson. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987), 263-299.

For a bibliography of secondary works on religion in the modern United States, click here [it is a pdf file]