{"title":"Making Religion, Making the West","authors":"T. Wenger","doi":"10.1525/phr.2023.92.3.327","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay surveys the parallel trajectories of U.S. western history and U.S. religious history to suggest what each of them can gain from deeper mutual engagements. It argues that U.S. western history and its adjacent fields can benefit from more sustained attention not only to particular religious practices and traditions, but also to the dynamics of religion-making or, in other words, to the social processes that configure “religion” and shape assumptions, both popular and scholarly, about where it can be found and how it operates. This essay is the introduction to a special issue of Pacific Historical Review, “Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West,” guest edited by Tisa Wenger. The special issue consists of this introduction; articles from Carleigh Beriont, Danae Jacobson, Jonathan Calvillo, Cori Tucker-Price, Tiffany Hale, Dylan Yeats, and Jeffrey Turner; and a conclusion from Quincy Newell.","PeriodicalId":45312,"journal":{"name":"PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.3.327","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This essay surveys the parallel trajectories of U.S. western history and U.S. religious history to suggest what each of them can gain from deeper mutual engagements. It argues that U.S. western history and its adjacent fields can benefit from more sustained attention not only to particular religious practices and traditions, but also to the dynamics of religion-making or, in other words, to the social processes that configure “religion” and shape assumptions, both popular and scholarly, about where it can be found and how it operates. This essay is the introduction to a special issue of Pacific Historical Review, “Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West,” guest edited by Tisa Wenger. The special issue consists of this introduction; articles from Carleigh Beriont, Danae Jacobson, Jonathan Calvillo, Cori Tucker-Price, Tiffany Hale, Dylan Yeats, and Jeffrey Turner; and a conclusion from Quincy Newell.
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For over 70 years, the Pacific Historical Review has accurately and adeptly covered the history of American expansion to the Pacific and beyond, as well as the post-frontier developments of the 20th-century American West. Recent articles have discussed: •Japanese American Internment •The Establishment of Zion and Bryce National Parks in Utah •Mexican Americans, Testing, and School Policy 1920-1940 •Irish Immigrant Settlements in Nineteenth-Century California and Australia •American Imperialism in Oceania •Native American Labor in the Early Twentieth Century •U.S.-Philippines Relations •Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1945