RELIGION AND AMERICAN POLITICS
CO-SPONSORED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15379.html
Thursday, March 22, 2012:
9:00 -9:30 COFFEE AND PASTRIES
9:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Bruce Schulman (Boston University), Tony Badger (Cambridge University), Julian Zelizer (Princeton University)
9:45-11:45 SESSION I–RELIGION AND LIBERAL POLITICS
Moderator: Jon Roberts, Boston University
–Matt Hedstrom (UVa), The Rise of Spiritual Cosmopolitanism: Liberalism and Cultural Politics in the Twentieth Century
–Alison Colis Greene (Mississippi State), “A ‘Divine Revelation’?: Southern Churches
Respond to the New Deal”
–Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna), “Religion and Liberal Political Activism in the Suburbs.”
12:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-4:00 SESSION II–GOD AND MAMMON
(BUSINESS, EDUCATION, RELIGION, AND POLITICS)
Moderator: Tony Badger, Cambridge University
–Kevin Kruse (Princeton), “‘Freedom Under God’: Corporations and Christian Libertarianism in Postwar America”
–Sarah Gordon (Penn), Teaching Religion: Faith and Practice in Public Schools in the 20th Century
–Darren Dochuk (Purdue), “Fighting for the Fundamentals: Energy, Evangelicalism, and the Protestant Politics of Oil in the Early Twentieth Century.”
4:30-6:00 RECEPTION
7:00 INFORMAL DINNER (OPTIONAL) FOR PARTICIPANTS
Friday, March 23, 2012:
9:00-9:30 COFFEE AND PASTRIES
9:30-11:30 SESSION III–FOUNDATIONS: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
Moderator: Sarah Phillips, Boston University
–John McGreevy (Notre Dame), “American Politics, Global Catholicism”
–David Mislin (BU), “Preserving the Family, Saving the Nation: Catholic-Protestant Ecumenism and the Politics of Divorce in Late Nineteenth-Century America”
—-Stephen Tuck (Oxford) , “The Doubts of Their Fathers: the Secular Origins of the Civil Rights Movement.
11:45-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-3:30 SESSION IV: RELIGION AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICS
Moderator: Julian Zelizer, Princeton University
–Bethany Moreton (UGa), Sanctifying Service: Spiritual Responses to Post-Industrial Work
–Andrew Preston (Cambridge), “Anti-Ecumenism in Evangelical and Fundamentalist Politics”
–Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola), “The Sacred and the Secular: A Reconsideration of Late Twentieth-Century Suburban Uprisings”
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-5:00 CONCLUDING SESSION
–Comments By Julian Zelizer, Tony Badger, and Bruce Schulman
–Discussion of Future Steps With Audience
7:00 CONCLUDING BANQUET (ARTU RESTAURANT)