David Mislin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1067837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mislin |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mislin |
| SIGNATURE | MISLIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“As Times Have Changed … Christendom Hasn’t”
Since its founding in 1977, Virginia’s Christendom College has emerged as a significant yet often overlooked center of conservative Catholic thought and activism in the modern United States. Central to the college’s efforts to build this reputation have been its discussions of scientific theory and science education, especially regarding evolutionary theory. An analysis of the institution’s journal Faith & Reason, along with other faculty publica…
Adin Ballou's Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England
Adin Ballou's spiritual journey embodied the vast religious possibilities that became available in the United States of the early nineteenth century. That is the central claim of Bryce Hal Taylor's exhaustively researched study of Ballou's life and writing. Taylor argues that the religious culture of New England allowed a farmer's son to claim authority as a preacher, espouse a series of reinterpretations of major theological tenets, become a lea…
T imothy V erhoeven . Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
Throughout the nineteenth century, the vision of the United States as a secular nation was advanced by an evolving grassroots coalition that often included devoutly religious Americans. That is the central claim of Timothy Verhoeven’s expansive and methodically researched work, Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America, that considers key moments of debate about church-state relations. While the specific constituents of t…
God in Gotham
At the close of the nineteenth century, many New Yorkers concluded that the modern city was inimical to religion. But, as Jon Butler demonstrates in this masterly history, they were wrong. Far from killing spiritual commitments, modernity provided critical tools for religious institutions to thrive. Thus, Butler argues, Gotham “can help us unravel the remarkable power of religion in modern America through two-thirds of the twentieth century” (pp.…
Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland
Review of: Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism, by Michael C. Steiner
Vaneesa Cook, Spiritual Socialists
Reviewed by: Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left by Vaneesa Cook David Mislin Vaneesa Cook, Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) In this bold, incisive book, Vaneesa Cook makes an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the American “Religious Left.” She argues that the most effective movements of the political left in the twentieth-centur…
The Eclipse of Liberal Protestantism in the Netherlands. Religious, Social, and International Perspectives on the Dutch Modernist Movement (1870–1940), by Tom-Eric Krijger
The Fathers Refounded
The dawn of the twentieth century brought the confluence of two phenomena, which together reshaped the study of Christian history in American institutions. As historical study became a professionalized academic discipline, many divinity schools sought to cultivate the rigorous study of early Christianity. There was simultaneously a new openness to the critical examination of tradition, as Catholic modernism briefly flourished and theological libe…
For God and Globe
Recent years have brought a wealth of scholarship tracing the manifold ways in which Christians allied themselves with the twentieth-century American state in areas ranging from foreign affairs to social policy. In this compelling study, Michael G. Thompson reclaims the history of a cohort of internationally focused Christians who did just the opposite: rather than saying “‘yes’ to the state,” they crafted a “movement animated by a ‘no’” (p. 4). …
Beyond Christian Nationalism
During the 1920s and 1930s, the American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities offered a potent challenge to the view of the United States as a Christian nation. The Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish members of the committee drew on a wealth of interfaith commitments to develop a critique of religious persecution around the world, especially the increasing anti-Semitism across Europe. In an era marked by isolationism, nationalism, and Chris…
Saving Faith
This book chronicles the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its peoples. Between 1875 and 1925, liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their considerable cultural influence to push others to do the same. This reorientation came about as an ever-growing group of Americans found their religious faith under attack on social, in…
One Nation, Three Faiths
During World War I, American political, military, and religious leaders sought to foster the view that protestants, Catholics, and Jews were equal stakeholders in society. Crucial in shaping the embrace of this "tri-faith" ideal were leading members of all three traditions, who used their connections to the federal government to ensure that many facets of national life reflected this new conception of the nation's religious character. The militar…
According to His Own Judgment
Between 1875 and 1896, the response of American Catholic thinkers to theories of organic evolution was characterized by little rancor and discord. Among the small number of clergy and lay intellectuals who addressed the subject, there existed a wide variety of positions on the scientific plausibility of such theories. These prominent Catholics were not deeply wedded to their views, however, and few saw any significant conflict between their relig…
According to His Own Judgment
Between 1875 and 1896, the response of American Catholic thinkers to theories of organic evolution was characterized by little rancor and discord. Among the small number of clergy and lay intellectuals who addressed the subject, there existed a wide variety of positions on the scientific plausibility of such theories. These prominent Catholics were not deeply wedded to their views, however, and few saw any significant conflict between their relig…
According to His Own Judgment
Between 1875 and 1896, the response of American Catholic thinkers to theories of organic evolution was characterized by little rancor and discord. Among the small number of clergy and lay intellectuals who addressed the subject, there existed a wide variety of positions on the scientific plausibility of such theories. These prominent Catholics were not deeply wedded to their views, however, and few saw any significant conflict between their relig…
Saving Faith
This book chronicles the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its peoples. Between 1875 and 1925, liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their considerable cultural influence to push others to do the same. This reorientation came about as an ever-growing group of Americans found their religious faith under attack on social, in…
One Nation, Three Faiths
During World War I, American political, military, and religious leaders sought to foster the view that protestants, Catholics, and Jews were equal stakeholders in society. Crucial in shaping the embrace of this "tri-faith" ideal were leading members of all three traditions, who used their connections to the federal government to ensure that many facets of national life reflected this new conception of the nation's religious character. The militar…
For God and Globe
Recent years have brought a wealth of scholarship tracing the manifold ways in which Christians allied themselves with the twentieth-century American state in areas ranging from foreign affairs to social policy. In this compelling study, Michael G. Thompson reclaims the history of a cohort of internationally focused Christians who did just the opposite: rather than saying “‘yes’ to the state,” they crafted a “movement animated by a ‘no’” (p. 4). …
Beyond Christian Nationalism
During the 1920s and 1930s, the American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities offered a potent challenge to the view of the United States as a Christian nation. The Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish members of the committee drew on a wealth of interfaith commitments to develop a critique of religious persecution around the world, especially the increasing anti-Semitism across Europe. In an era marked by isolationism, nationalism, and Chris…
The Eclipse of Liberal Protestantism in the Netherlands. Religious, Social, and International Perspectives on the Dutch Modernist Movement (1870–1940), by Tom-Eric Krijger
The Fathers Refounded
The dawn of the twentieth century brought the confluence of two phenomena, which together reshaped the study of Christian history in American institutions. As historical study became a professionalized academic discipline, many divinity schools sought to cultivate the rigorous study of early Christianity. There was simultaneously a new openness to the critical examination of tradition, as Catholic modernism briefly flourished and theological libe…
Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland
Review of: Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism, by Michael C. Steiner
Vaneesa Cook, Spiritual Socialists
Reviewed by: Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left by Vaneesa Cook David Mislin Vaneesa Cook, Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) In this bold, incisive book, Vaneesa Cook makes an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the American “Religious Left.” She argues that the most effective movements of the political left in the twentieth-centur…
T imothy V erhoeven . Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
Throughout the nineteenth century, the vision of the United States as a secular nation was advanced by an evolving grassroots coalition that often included devoutly religious Americans. That is the central claim of Timothy Verhoeven’s expansive and methodically researched work, Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America, that considers key moments of debate about church-state relations. While the specific constituents of t…
God in Gotham
At the close of the nineteenth century, many New Yorkers concluded that the modern city was inimical to religion. But, as Jon Butler demonstrates in this masterly history, they were wrong. Far from killing spiritual commitments, modernity provided critical tools for religious institutions to thrive. Thus, Butler argues, Gotham “can help us unravel the remarkable power of religion in modern America through two-thirds of the twentieth century” (pp.…
Adin Ballou's Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England
Adin Ballou's spiritual journey embodied the vast religious possibilities that became available in the United States of the early nineteenth century. That is the central claim of Bryce Hal Taylor's exhaustively researched study of Ballou's life and writing. Taylor argues that the religious culture of New England allowed a farmer's son to claim authority as a preacher, espouse a series of reinterpretations of major theological tenets, become a lea…
“As Times Have Changed … Christendom Hasn’t”
Since its founding in 1977, Virginia’s Christendom College has emerged as a significant yet often overlooked center of conservative Catholic thought and activism in the modern United States. Central to the college’s efforts to build this reputation have been its discussions of scientific theory and science education, especially regarding evolutionary theory. An analysis of the institution’s journal Faith & Reason, along with other faculty publica…
Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Theology (5 works)