Review: At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion, edited by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion, edited by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion. Edited by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. Columbia University Press, 2021. 368 pages. $140.00 hardcover; $35.00 softcover; ebook available. Matthew L. Harris Matthew L. Harris Colorado State University–Pueblo Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2023) 27 (2): 131–133. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.131 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Matthew L. Harris; Review: At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion, edited by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. Nova Religio 1 November 2023; 27 (2): 131–133. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.131 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search At Home and Abroad is a stimulating collection of essays that explores domestic, transnational, and imperial connections between religious practices in the United States and religious communities throughout the world. The authors seek to show that the diversity of religion in the United States contributed to religious and national identities abroad, forging a new understanding of how religion has shaped, and been shaped by, foreign and domestic politics in the United States. Part history, part literary theory, and part biography, the essays are broad and wide-ranging, covering Hawaii, the Philippines, South Africa, Palestine, and the United States, among other countries. The editors assert in their Introduction that, rather than viewing the United States as a space that practices “the free market of religion” (4), American leaders have always “exported” religion with a purpose, whether through evangelizing by Mormons or Protestant Christians or providing support for countries that enslaved Muslims and... You do not currently have access to this content.