Bret E Carroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 341807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bret E Carroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bret E |
| FAMILY NAME | Carroll |
| SIGNATURE | CARROLL B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Stanislaus |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spiritualism's Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale
Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice
In American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism (2002), Dean Grodzins attributed scholars' neglect of Theodore Parker to his having been “passionately religious ... without being theologically conservative,” a world view “that many today find alien” (p. xi). Former Unitarian Universalist Association president John A. Buehrens, who consulted with Grodzins while writing Conflagration, evidently took that observation as a challenge. Buehr…
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America by Corinne T. Field
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America, by Corinne T. Field. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xiii, 243 pp. $32.95 US (paper). To the discussion of belonging and exclusion in the United States, Corinne Field brings a new perspective that considers childhood as a construct deployed by adults for social and political purposes. Using an intellectual history appro…
Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age
When did religious pluralism become an American value? The nation's historical grounding in both First Amendment religious freedom and practical Protestant dominance and exclusionism makes this a complicated question. Recent explorations of American religious pluralism by William Hutchison, Barbara McGraw, Chris Beneke, Kevin Schultz, and others have produced a lively debate. Saving Faith is the most recent contribution. David Mislin argues that …
Worlds in Space: American Religious Pluralism in Geographic Perspective
The dynamic of American religious pluralism contains at its core a spatial politics configured by a longstanding pattern of Anglo-Protestant dominance coupled with a widespread though tension-filled acceptance of religious pluralism. This dynamic has been particularly dramatic and intense since the 1960s because of an increase in the numbers of adherents of non-Protestant and non-Western religions in the United States and an increase in the degre…
Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity
Since Neil Harris's Humbug appeared in 1973, scholars have explored in increasing depth the dynamics of a democratic antebellum popular culture and an emerging mass-entertainment industry driven, Harris argued, by an “operational aesthetic” grounded in appeals to public curiosity and individual judgment (Humbug, 1973, p. 57). Independent scholar David Chapin built on and extended that body of work by examining the antebellum “culture of curiosity…
The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America
Review Article| November 01 2004 The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America Bret. E. Carroll Bret. E. Carroll Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2004) 8 (2): 119–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.8.2.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Reflections on Regionalism and U.S. Religious History
The concept of region has been perhaps the most important in the historical study of religious geography in the United States. Its centrality is due at least in part to its having been proposed as an organizing principle at the inception of that field in its modern form by historian Edwin Scott Gaustad and geographer Wilbur Zelinsky about four decades ago. But the concept has been, and remains, highly problematic. This brief essay first explores …
The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers
Journal Article The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers. By Anna M. Speicher. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8156-2807-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8156-2850-1.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll California State University, Stanislaus Turlock, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
A Higher Power to Feel: Spiritualism, Grief, and Victorian Manhood
This article examines the relationship among gender identity, spirituality, and emotion and addresses the largely unexamined subject of male grief in Victorian America by analyzing the way in which mid-nineteenth-century Spiritualist men deployed grief in their narratives of religious redemption. Participating in a broader cultural conversation about gender in the Victorian middle class, these men suggested that grief and Spiritualist commitment …
Spiritualism in Antebellum America
Journal Article Spiritualism in Antebellum America. By Bret E. Carroll. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xvi, 227 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33315-6.) Get access Jon Butler Jon Butler Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1589–1590, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568313 Published: 01 March 1999
I Must Have My House in Order: The Victorian Fatherhood of John Shoebridge Williams
This article explores the complexities of middle-class fatherhood in Victorian America through an analysis of the unpublished and published writings of Spiritualist medium John Shoebridge Williams. Through mediumistic dialogues with the spirit of his deceased daughter, Williams negotiated the changing and often contradictory ideologies of ideal manhood and fatherhood that accompanied the modernization of family life. The result was a synthetic mo…
Spiritualism in Antebellum America
Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden
Journal Article Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden. By Richard Francis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xvi, 256 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-3093-3.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1506–1507, https://doi.…
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
Journal Article The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-century America. By Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv, 222 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-19-303827-4. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-19-509835-8.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84…
The Religious Construction of Masculinity in Victorian America: The Male Mediumship of John Shoebridge Williams
After John Shoebridge Williams became a Spiritualist medium in February 1852, establishing what he believed to be contact with the spirit of his deceased daughter, Eliza, and access to the wisdom of the spirit world, the sixty-one-year-old man came to the startling realization that he was assuming the features of a woman. At least, this is what he thought as he recorded the events of March 15, 1852, in his spiritual Journal:When walking the stree…
Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers, and American Culture
Journal Article Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, lts Defenders and Dehunkers, and American Culture. By David J. Hess. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xii, 243 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-299-13820-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-299-13824-0.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, …
The Religious Fringe: A History of Alternative Religions in America
Journal Article The Religious Fringe: A History of Alternative Religions in America. By Richard Kyle. (Downers Grove, 111.: InterVarsity, 1993. 467 pp. $17.99, ISBN 0-8308-1766-2.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 225–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081991 Publishe…
Worlds in Space: American Religious Pluralism in Geographic Perspective
The dynamic of American religious pluralism contains at its core a spatial politics configured by a longstanding pattern of Anglo-Protestant dominance coupled with a widespread though tension-filled acceptance of religious pluralism. This dynamic has been particularly dramatic and intense since the 1960s because of an increase in the numbers of adherents of non-Protestant and non-Western religions in the United States and an increase in the degre…
Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age
When did religious pluralism become an American value? The nation's historical grounding in both First Amendment religious freedom and practical Protestant dominance and exclusionism makes this a complicated question. Recent explorations of American religious pluralism by William Hutchison, Barbara McGraw, Chris Beneke, Kevin Schultz, and others have produced a lively debate. Saving Faith is the most recent contribution. David Mislin argues that …
Reflections on Regionalism and U.S. Religious History
The concept of region has been perhaps the most important in the historical study of religious geography in the United States. Its centrality is due at least in part to its having been proposed as an organizing principle at the inception of that field in its modern form by historian Edwin Scott Gaustad and geographer Wilbur Zelinsky about four decades ago. But the concept has been, and remains, highly problematic. This brief essay first explores …
I Must Have My House in Order: The Victorian Fatherhood of John Shoebridge Williams
This article explores the complexities of middle-class fatherhood in Victorian America through an analysis of the unpublished and published writings of Spiritualist medium John Shoebridge Williams. Through mediumistic dialogues with the spirit of his deceased daughter, Williams negotiated the changing and often contradictory ideologies of ideal manhood and fatherhood that accompanied the modernization of family life. The result was a synthetic mo…
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
Journal Article The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-century America. By Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv, 222 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-19-303827-4. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-19-509835-8.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84…
Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers, and American Culture
Journal Article Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, lts Defenders and Dehunkers, and American Culture. By David J. Hess. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xii, 243 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-299-13820-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-299-13824-0.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, …
The Religious Fringe: A History of Alternative Religions in America
Journal Article The Religious Fringe: A History of Alternative Religions in America. By Richard Kyle. (Downers Grove, 111.: InterVarsity, 1993. 467 pp. $17.99, ISBN 0-8308-1766-2.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 225–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081991 Publishe…
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
Journal Article The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-century America. By Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv, 222 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-19-303827-4. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-19-509835-8.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84…
The Religious Construction of Masculinity in Victorian America: The Male Mediumship of John Shoebridge Williams
After John Shoebridge Williams became a Spiritualist medium in February 1852, establishing what he believed to be contact with the spirit of his deceased daughter, Eliza, and access to the wisdom of the spirit world, the sixty-one-year-old man came to the startling realization that he was assuming the features of a woman. At least, this is what he thought as he recorded the events of March 15, 1852, in his spiritual Journal:When walking the stree…
Spiritualism in Antebellum America
Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden
Journal Article Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden. By Richard Francis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xvi, 256 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-3093-3.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll University of Texas Arlington, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1506–1507, https://doi.…
Spiritualism in Antebellum America
Journal Article Spiritualism in Antebellum America. By Bret E. Carroll. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xvi, 227 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33315-6.) Get access Jon Butler Jon Butler Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1589–1590, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568313 Published: 01 March 1999
I Must Have My House in Order: The Victorian Fatherhood of John Shoebridge Williams
This article explores the complexities of middle-class fatherhood in Victorian America through an analysis of the unpublished and published writings of Spiritualist medium John Shoebridge Williams. Through mediumistic dialogues with the spirit of his deceased daughter, Williams negotiated the changing and often contradictory ideologies of ideal manhood and fatherhood that accompanied the modernization of family life. The result was a synthetic mo…
A Higher Power to Feel: Spiritualism, Grief, and Victorian Manhood
This article examines the relationship among gender identity, spirituality, and emotion and addresses the largely unexamined subject of male grief in Victorian America by analyzing the way in which mid-nineteenth-century Spiritualist men deployed grief in their narratives of religious redemption. Participating in a broader cultural conversation about gender in the Victorian middle class, these men suggested that grief and Spiritualist commitment …
The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers
Journal Article The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers. By Anna M. Speicher. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8156-2807-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8156-2850-1.) Get access Bret E. Carroll Bret E. Carroll California State University, Stanislaus Turlock, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
Reflections on Regionalism and U.S. Religious History
The concept of region has been perhaps the most important in the historical study of religious geography in the United States. Its centrality is due at least in part to its having been proposed as an organizing principle at the inception of that field in its modern form by historian Edwin Scott Gaustad and geographer Wilbur Zelinsky about four decades ago. But the concept has been, and remains, highly problematic. This brief essay first explores …
The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America
Review Article| November 01 2004 The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America Bret. E. Carroll Bret. E. Carroll Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2004) 8 (2): 119–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.8.2.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity
Since Neil Harris's Humbug appeared in 1973, scholars have explored in increasing depth the dynamics of a democratic antebellum popular culture and an emerging mass-entertainment industry driven, Harris argued, by an “operational aesthetic” grounded in appeals to public curiosity and individual judgment (Humbug, 1973, p. 57). Independent scholar David Chapin built on and extended that body of work by examining the antebellum “culture of curiosity…
Worlds in Space: American Religious Pluralism in Geographic Perspective
The dynamic of American religious pluralism contains at its core a spatial politics configured by a longstanding pattern of Anglo-Protestant dominance coupled with a widespread though tension-filled acceptance of religious pluralism. This dynamic has been particularly dramatic and intense since the 1960s because of an increase in the numbers of adherents of non-Protestant and non-Western religions in the United States and an increase in the degre…
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America by Corinne T. Field
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America, by Corinne T. Field. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xiii, 243 pp. $32.95 US (paper). To the discussion of belonging and exclusion in the United States, Corinne Field brings a new perspective that considers childhood as a construct deployed by adults for social and political purposes. Using an intellectual history appro…
Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age
When did religious pluralism become an American value? The nation's historical grounding in both First Amendment religious freedom and practical Protestant dominance and exclusionism makes this a complicated question. Recent explorations of American religious pluralism by William Hutchison, Barbara McGraw, Chris Beneke, Kevin Schultz, and others have produced a lively debate. Saving Faith is the most recent contribution. David Mislin argues that …
Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice
In American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism (2002), Dean Grodzins attributed scholars' neglect of Theodore Parker to his having been “passionately religious ... without being theologically conservative,” a world view “that many today find alien” (p. xi). Former Unitarian Universalist Association president John A. Buehrens, who consulted with Grodzins while writing Conflagration, evidently took that observation as a challenge. Buehr…
Spiritualism's Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale
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