William Vance Trollinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 267493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Vance Trollinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Vance |
| FAMILY NAME | Trollinger |
| SIGNATURE | TROLLINGER W V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dayton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Creationism to QAnon: Answers in Genesis and the Culture Wars
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life. By Kathleen C. OberlinStorytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and the Museum of the Bible. By Paul Thomas
In the past fourteen years, three major Bible-based museums/tourist sites have opened in the United States: the Creation Museum (2007, in Petersburg, Kentucky) and Ark Encounter (2016, in Williamstown, Kentucky)—both of which are Answers in Genesis (AiG) venues—as well as the Museum of the Bible (MotB; 2017, in Washington DC). These three sites have attracted millions of visitors, and they have also attracted a good deal of scholarly attention, i…
The Antievolution Pamphlets of William Bell Riley: A Ten-Volume Anthology of Documents, 1903–1961
Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid, by Heather D. Curtis
God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right
America is Doomed. God Hates Obama. Fags Doom Nations. Thank God for Dead Soldiers. All of these slogans are from signs held up at military funerals by members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. In God Hates, the sociologist Rebecca Barrett-Fox gives us the first full-scale examination of Westboro, and it makes for fascinating and horrifying reading. She begins her study with an ethnography of the church, including a biogr…
Erin A. Smith. What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America
In this interesting book Erin A. Smith analyzes popular religious books since the late nineteenth century with an eye toward understanding why—despite the scorn heaped on them by intellectuals—they have been so beloved by their readers. Rather than being a comprehensive survey, What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America consists of five case studies: the Social Gospel novels (1880s–1910s), Bruce …
One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Journal Article One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s Get access Thomas R. Pegram. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011. xvi, 281 pp. $27.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 628–629, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau404 Published: 01 September 2014
MATTHEW S. HEDSTROM. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Matthew S. Hedstrom. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. Get access Matthew S. Hedstrom. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. 278. $55.00. William Vance Trollinger, Jr. William Vance Trollinger, Jr. University of Dayton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935
Review of: Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935. Martin, Robert F.
Is There a Center to American Religious History
Over the past few years I have been dealing with a narrow version of this question, as it has applied to the history of Protestantism in the twentieth century. In our book,Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present, Douglas Jacobsen and I argued that the two-party model of Protestantism in the United States-conservative vs. liberal, fundamentalist vs. modernist, and so on-does not take into account the remarkable complexit…
Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000
Journal Article Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880–2000. By Yaakov Ariel. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii, 367 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8078-2566-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-4880-8.) Get access William Vance Trollinger, Jr. William Vance Trollinger, Jr. University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present
Journal Article Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present, by Douglas Jacobsen and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998, 492 pp. $28.00 Get access Ezra Kopelowitz Ezra Kopelowitz Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 235–236, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712291 Published: 01…
Just the Facts, Please
This volume consists of ten essays, of which Kaestle is the sole author of three and coauthor of the remainder. In the first two chapters (part 1), Kaestle surveys the historiography of literacy and reading, a field that resembles a gigantic railroad station. Arriving on trains from various origination pointsancient, medieval, early-modern, and modern history-some historians have stayed in the station only long enough for a quick tour, during whi…
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880
In Search of the Meaning of Literacy
Cane Ridge: America's Pentecost
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880
God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism
Journal Article God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism. By William Vance Trollingcr, Jr. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. x + 233 pp. Cloth, $37.50. Paper, $14.95.) Get access God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism. By Trollingcr William VanceJr.. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. x + 233 pp. Cloth, $37.50. Paper, $14.95.) David Edwin Harreil, Jr. David Edwin Harreil, Jr. …
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880
Journal Article Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880. By Carl F. Kaestle, Helen Damon-Moore, Lawrence C. Stedman, Katherine Tinsley, and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xxiv + 338 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-04946-3.) Get access William J. Gilmore-Lehne William J. Gilmore-Lehne Stockton State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ameri…
Religious Movements in the United States
Riley's Empire: Northwestern Bible School and Fundamentalism in the Upper Midwest
In the 1920s a loosely united band of militant conservatives launched a crusade to capture conrol of the major Protestant denominations. These fundamentalists staunchly affirmed the supernatural character and literal accuracy of the Bible, the supernatural character of Christ, and the necessity for Christians to separate themselves from the world. Most often Baptists and Presbyterians, they struggled to reestablish their denominations as true and…
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Riley's Empire: Northwestern Bible School and Fundamentalism in the Upper Midwest
In the 1920s a loosely united band of militant conservatives launched a crusade to capture conrol of the major Protestant denominations. These fundamentalists staunchly affirmed the supernatural character and literal accuracy of the Bible, the supernatural character of Christ, and the necessity for Christians to separate themselves from the world. Most often Baptists and Presbyterians, they struggled to reestablish their denominations as true and…
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880
God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism
Journal Article God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism. By William Vance Trollingcr, Jr. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. x + 233 pp. Cloth, $37.50. Paper, $14.95.) Get access God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism. By Trollingcr William VanceJr.. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. x + 233 pp. Cloth, $37.50. Paper, $14.95.) David Edwin Harreil, Jr. David Edwin Harreil, Jr. …
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880
Journal Article Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880. By Carl F. Kaestle, Helen Damon-Moore, Lawrence C. Stedman, Katherine Tinsley, and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xxiv + 338 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-04946-3.) Get access William J. Gilmore-Lehne William J. Gilmore-Lehne Stockton State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ameri…
Religious Movements in the United States
In Search of the Meaning of Literacy
Cane Ridge: America's Pentecost
Just the Facts, Please
This volume consists of ten essays, of which Kaestle is the sole author of three and coauthor of the remainder. In the first two chapters (part 1), Kaestle surveys the historiography of literacy and reading, a field that resembles a gigantic railroad station. Arriving on trains from various origination pointsancient, medieval, early-modern, and modern history-some historians have stayed in the station only long enough for a quick tour, during whi…
Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880
Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present
Journal Article Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present, by Douglas Jacobsen and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998, 492 pp. $28.00 Get access Ezra Kopelowitz Ezra Kopelowitz Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 235–236, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712291 Published: 01…
Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000
Journal Article Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880–2000. By Yaakov Ariel. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii, 367 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8078-2566-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-4880-8.) Get access William Vance Trollinger, Jr. William Vance Trollinger, Jr. University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
Is There a Center to American Religious History
Over the past few years I have been dealing with a narrow version of this question, as it has applied to the history of Protestantism in the twentieth century. In our book,Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present, Douglas Jacobsen and I argued that the two-party model of Protestantism in the United States-conservative vs. liberal, fundamentalist vs. modernist, and so on-does not take into account the remarkable complexit…
Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935
Review of: Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935. Martin, Robert F.
MATTHEW S. HEDSTROM. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Matthew S. Hedstrom. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. Get access Matthew S. Hedstrom. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. 278. $55.00. William Vance Trollinger, Jr. William Vance Trollinger, Jr. University of Dayton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Journal Article One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s Get access Thomas R. Pegram. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011. xvi, 281 pp. $27.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 628–629, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau404 Published: 01 September 2014
Erin A. Smith. What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America
In this interesting book Erin A. Smith analyzes popular religious books since the late nineteenth century with an eye toward understanding why—despite the scorn heaped on them by intellectuals—they have been so beloved by their readers. Rather than being a comprehensive survey, What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America consists of five case studies: the Social Gospel novels (1880s–1910s), Bruce …
God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right
America is Doomed. God Hates Obama. Fags Doom Nations. Thank God for Dead Soldiers. All of these slogans are from signs held up at military funerals by members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. In God Hates, the sociologist Rebecca Barrett-Fox gives us the first full-scale examination of Westboro, and it makes for fascinating and horrifying reading. She begins her study with an ethnography of the church, including a biogr…
Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid, by Heather D. Curtis
The Antievolution Pamphlets of William Bell Riley: A Ten-Volume Anthology of Documents, 1903–1961
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life. By Kathleen C. OberlinStorytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and the Museum of the Bible. By Paul Thomas
In the past fourteen years, three major Bible-based museums/tourist sites have opened in the United States: the Creation Museum (2007, in Petersburg, Kentucky) and Ark Encounter (2016, in Williamstown, Kentucky)—both of which are Answers in Genesis (AiG) venues—as well as the Museum of the Bible (MotB; 2017, in Washington DC). These three sites have attracted millions of visitors, and they have also attracted a good deal of scholarly attention, i…
From Creationism to QAnon: Answers in Genesis and the Culture Wars
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