Charles L Cohen

Biographic Data

ID302072
NAMECharles L Cohen
GIVEN NAMESCharles L
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN C L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS150
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America

    Open AccessCharles L CohenARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America Get access Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America. By Michael D Breidenbach. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. xii, 355 pp. $45.00.) Charles L Cohen Charles L Cohen University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American…

  • For the Good of Their Souls: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country

    Open AccessCharles L CohenARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    William B. Hart contests the characterization of the easternmost members of the Longhouse of the Iroquois Confederacy as “faithful Mohawks.” Such a judgment, he charges, interprets their Anglican Protestantism from a Eurocentric perspective, emphasizing how well Mohawks may have internalized Christian beliefs and become bona fide converts instead of determining what their engagement with the Church of England meant to the Natives themselves. Moha…

  • The Production of American Religious Freedom

    Charles L CohenARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    The secular liberal commonplace that religion in America is a private concern needing political and legal safeguards presents religious freedom as a static, abstract right that “protects individual choices in a marketplace” (pp. 1–2). This conception is wrong, Finbarr Curtis insists, because “religious freedom” is not a single thing but a “malleable rhetoric” produced by contests within a larger political economy that is anything but a neutral do…

  • Robert C. Fuller. The Body of Faith: A Biological History of Religion in America

    Charles L CohenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Provocative in intention if sometimes pedestrian in outcome, bold in its challenges while modest about its claims, Robert C. Fuller's The Body of Faith argues that scientific advances in fields like evolutionary biology and neuroscience commend an interdisciplinary approach to American religious history that acknowledges human physiology. Confronted by existential perils, the body and brain have developed coping mechanisms—such as creating attach…

  • Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending

    Charles L CohenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2012

    Journal Article Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending. Get access Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending. (Material Texts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2011. Pp. xiii, 368. $45.00. Charles L. Cohen Charles L. Cohen Universi…

  • Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America

    Barbara E Lacey, Charles L Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2009

    This book originated in papers presented at a 2004 conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and focuses principally on Protestantism in postbellum and modern America. The history of religious print culture in the United States is a new interdisciplinary field, one derived from the history of the book, as developed in good measure by David D. Hall, and from relig…

  • The Colonization of British North America as an Episode in the History of Christianity

    Open AccessCharles L CohenARTICLEChurch History2003Cited by: 1References: 13

    The proposition that, to paraphrase Carl Degler, Christianity came to British North America in the first ships, has long enjoyed popular and scholarly currency. The popular account, sometimes found today in evangelical Christian circles, holds that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries colonists erected a mighty kingdom of God whose gates the humanist barbarians have unfortunately breached. The scholarly variation derives from Perry Miller'…

  • Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity . Gary L. Ebersole

    Charles L CohenARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1998

  • Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1997

  • The Post-Puritan Paradigm of Early American Religious History

    Charles L CohenARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1997Cited by: 3

    P RONOUNCING recovery of American religious possibly |the most important achievement of last thirty years for understanding American culture, Henry F. May in i964 highlighted six topics restored to the historical front parlor, including three-Puritanism, Edwardsian Calvinism, and revivalism that had much engaged colonial specialists.1 Revisiting this list in late i990S brings to mind how much early American scholarship had contributed to larger r…

  • Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1996

  • Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1996Cited by: 102

    Introduction 1. Houses, gardens, and fences: signs of English possession in the New World 2. Ceremonies: the theatrical rituals of French political possession 3. The requirement: a protocol for conquest 4. 'A New Sky and New Stars': Arabic and Hebrew science, Portuguese seamanship, and the discovery of America 5. Sailing in the wake of the Portuguese Conclusion: the habits of history

  • The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844

    Charles L Cohen, John L BrookeARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1996

    List of illustrations List of maps Preface Part I. A Prepared People: 1. Dreams of the primal Adam 2. The true spiritual seed 3. Something of our ancestors Part II. Hermetic Purity and Hermetic Danger: 4. A Urim spiritual 5. Alchymical experiments 6. I was born in Sharon Part III. The Mormon Dispensation: 7. Secret combinations and slippery treasures in the land of Zarahemla 8. The mysteries defined 9. Temples, wives, bogus-making and war 10. The…

  • Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America

    Charles L Cohen, Julius H RubinARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995

  • The Profane, the Civil, & the Godly: The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679-1749

    Charles L Cohen, Richard P GildrieARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article The Profane, the Civil, & the Godly: The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679–1749. By Richard P. Gildrie. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-271-01065-7. Paper, $16.96, ISBN 0-271-01068-1.) Get access Charles L. Cohen Charles L. Cohen University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…

  • The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521- 1704

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1995Cited by: 32

  • Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1994

  • Legend and Lore of the Americas before 1492: An Encyclopedia of Visitors, Explorers, and Immigrants

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1994

  • The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England . C. John Sommerville

    Charles L CohenARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1994

  • The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1993

  • The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1993

    The European discovery of the Americas in 1492 was one of the most important events of the Renaissance, and with it Christopher Columbus changed the course of world history. Now, five hundred years later, this 2-volume reference work will chart new courses in the study and understanding of Columbus and the Age of Discovery. Much more than an account of the man and his voyages, The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia is a complete A-Z look at the wo…

  • The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1993

  • The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore 1615-1655

    Charles L CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1992

    dissolution of the ill-starred Virginia Company in 1624 left Virginia -- now England's first royal colony -- without a formal raison d'etre. Most historians have suggested that the nascent local societies were anarchic, under the thrall of violent and unscrupulous men.James Perry asserts the opposite: The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655 depicts emergent social cohesion. In a model of network analysis, Perry mines cou…

  • Patrick Henry, the Orator. Great American Orators

    Charles L Cohen, David A McCantsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1992

  • Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse

    Charles L Cohen, Philip GrevenARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse. By Philip Greven. (New York: Knopf, 1991. xvi + 263 pp. $22.95.) Get access Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse. By Greven Philip. (New York: Knopf, 1991. xvi + 263 pp. $22.95.) Charles L. Cohen Charles L. Cohen University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by th…