Jamie L Brummitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie L Brummitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie L |
| FAMILY NAME | Brummitt |
| SIGNATURE | BRUMMITT J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7082-051X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bones
How Dare Men Mix up the Bible so with Their Own Bad Passions: When the Good Book Became the Bad Book in the American Civil War
This essay examines how the American Civil War (1861–1865) transformed the material nature of the Bible such that some copies did not operate in the ways Anglo-Americans expected them to work as the inspired words of God. According to U.S. law, Bibles shipped to the Confederate States were contraband: illegal objects that should be confiscated before reaching enemy hands. Classifying Bibles as contraband led to the widespread notion that Bibles a…
The material study of American Protestantism
This article traces the history of the material study of American Protestantism from the 1980s to today. In the 1980s, a few scholars of American religions started to incorporate material culture studies into their work. They examined religious images, objects, places, and practices according to new interdisciplinary methods. By the mid-1990s, the material study of American Protestantism exploded and emerged as a distinct subfield in the study of…
The material study of American Protestantism
This article traces the history of the material study of American Protestantism from the 1980s to today. In the 1980s, a few scholars of American religions started to incorporate material culture studies into their work. They examined religious images, objects, places, and practices according to new interdisciplinary methods. By the mid-1990s, the material study of American Protestantism exploded and emerged as a distinct subfield in the study of…
How Dare Men Mix up the Bible so with Their Own Bad Passions: When the Good Book Became the Bad Book in the American Civil War
This essay examines how the American Civil War (1861–1865) transformed the material nature of the Bible such that some copies did not operate in the ways Anglo-Americans expected them to work as the inspired words of God. According to U.S. law, Bibles shipped to the Confederate States were contraband: illegal objects that should be confiscated before reaching enemy hands. Classifying Bibles as contraband led to the widespread notion that Bibles a…
How Dare Men Mix up the Bible so with Their Own Bad Passions: When the Good Book Became the Bad Book in the American Civil War
This essay examines how the American Civil War (1861–1865) transformed the material nature of the Bible such that some copies did not operate in the ways Anglo-Americans expected them to work as the inspired words of God. According to U.S. law, Bibles shipped to the Confederate States were contraband: illegal objects that should be confiscated before reaching enemy hands. Classifying Bibles as contraband led to the widespread notion that Bibles a…
The material study of American Protestantism
This article traces the history of the material study of American Protestantism from the 1980s to today. In the 1980s, a few scholars of American religions started to incorporate material culture studies into their work. They examined religious images, objects, places, and practices according to new interdisciplinary methods. By the mid-1990s, the material study of American Protestantism exploded and emerged as a distinct subfield in the study of…
Bones
Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adversary (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works)