Jon Butler

Biographic Data

ID3626461
NAMEJon Butler
GIVEN NAMESJon
FAMILY NAMEButler
SIGNATUREBUTLER J
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS68
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1927
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Some Brief Comments about my 2004 “Jack-in-the-Box Faith” Article

    Open AccessJon ButlerARTICLEModern American History2025

  • God in Gotham? Really

    Open AccessJon ButlerARTICLEChurch History2021References: 1

    The generous, warm-hearted comments about God in Gotham from Wallace Best, Deborah Dash Moore, and Thomas Tweed, plus John McGreevy's introduction, do, indeed, please its author. I am relieved that no one said I should have remained a colonialist or that the book merely replicates what others have said. But the writing of history never ends, and their comments open fascinating avenues for deeper explorations of religion in the seemingly inhospita…

  • God in Gotham

    Jon Butler, Jon T ButlerBOOKGod in Gotham2020

    A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity’s rationalism, bureaucrat…

  • God, Gotham, and Modernity

    Jon ButlerARTICLEJournal of American History2016Cited by: 1

  • Forum

    Open AccessJon ButlerARTICLEChurch History2011References: 2

    Few topics seem more natural and, sadly, timelier than American religion in bad economic times, our own or the economic depression of the 1930s. The essays by Heather Curtis, Jonathan Ebel, and Alison Greene point up how little we know about religion in the 1930s and, by implication, how little religion has informed policy during our own economic downturn. Perhaps our own crisis is still too new or we are distracted by the "Christian nation" deba…

  • Theory and God in Gotham

    Open AccessJon ButlerARTICLEHistory and Theory2006Cited by: 1

    Theory" is all the rage among religious studies scholars generally. But with the tiniest number of exceptions, this is not true in American religious history. American history in general has not proven receptive to theoretically oriented scholarship, and American religious history may epitomize this aversion; most histories of religion in America follow the classic forms of narrative history. yet the study of religion in modern urban America illu…

  • Three Minds, Three Books, Three Years

    Jon Butler, Jon T ButlerARTICLEJewish Social Studies2006

    T hree truly exceptional books appeared in the early 1930sexceptional not only for their absolute brilliance but for emphasizing religion in history as well as modern times. In 1932, Reinhold Niebuhr published Moral Man and Immoral Society, which shook liberal Christianity to its core with its powerful denunciation of naive faith in optimism and progress and its blunt assertion of the reality of evil still darkening human achievement. A year late…

  • Jack-in-the-Box Faith

    Jon ButlerARTICLEJournal of American History2004Cited by: 23

    It has seldom been possible, much less wise, to assess American history before the Civil War without taking religion seriously. The Puritans fascinated nineteenth-century historians and novelists alike, although the portraits left by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville easily outlasted those crafted by George Bancroft or even the truculent Brooks Adams. Then in the 1930s Samuel Eliot Morison and Perry Miller transformed the Puritans' crabbed …

  • Inheriting the Revolution

    Jack P Greene, Joyce Appleby et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002

  • Becoming America

    Jon ButlerBOOKBecoming America2001

  • Becoming America

    Edward Countryman, Jon ButlerARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. By Jon Butler. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 324 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-00091-9.) Get access Edward Countryman Edward Countryman Southern Methodist, University Dallas, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 173–174, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674931 Published: 01 J…

  • Becoming America

    Ruth H Bloch, Jon Butler et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

  • The Revival of 1857-58

    Jon ButlerARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2000

  • Revolutionary Anglicanism

    Jon Butler, Nancy L RhodenARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2000

    Decisions of loyalism or patriotism were rarely easy during the American Revolution, and the colonial Anglican clergy, all of whom had taken oaths to the King and his Church, faced a particularly difficult dilemma. Revolutionary governments demanded that they repudiate their oaths, end prayers for the King and alter the liturgy. Examining the plight of these clergymen, this study tracks down every one of the 300-plus Anglican ministers in the 13 …

  • Spiritualism in Antebellum America

    Jon Butler, Bret E CarrollARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    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

  • Africans' Religions in British America, 1650-1840

    Open AccessJon ButlerARTICLEChurch History1999Cited by: 1

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  • The Mormon Hierarchy

    Jon ButlerARTICLENova Religio The Journal of…1997

    Book Review| October 01 1997 The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power. By D. Michael Quinn. Signature Books, 1994. 686 + xv pages. $29.95 cloth. Jon Butler Jon Butler Yale University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1997) 1 (1): 166–167. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1997.1.1.166 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Dat…

  • Religion in Early America

    Jon ButlerARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1997

    Ra ELIGION stood at the very center of early American life, sometimes obviously, sometimes in convoluted, difficult ways. Christian holidays paced the calendar, now Protestant not Catholic. Notions of providence transformed simple settlement into transcendent venture throughout the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century, the Anglican itinerant Charles Woodmason worried that so many preachers pretend[ed] to know the best fashion in which C…

  • The Perfect Law of Liberty; Elias Smith and the Providential History of America

    Jon Butler, Michael G KennyARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1996

  • Beyond a Christian Commonwealth

    Jon Butler, Jon T Butler et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel with the American Republic, 1830–1860. By Mark Y. Hanky. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 210 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2121-7.) 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 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 226–227, ht…

  • The Protestant Evangelical Awakening

    Jon Butler, W R WardARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article The Protestant Evangelical Awakening. By W. R. Ward. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xviii, 370 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-41491-1.) 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 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1446–1447, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080635 Published: 01 March 1994

  • Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism

    Jon Butler, Richard E BrantleyARTICLEAmerican Literature1993

  • Christianity Comes to the Americas, 1492-1776

    Jon Butler, Charles H Lippy et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Christianity Comes to the Americas, 1492–1776. By Charles H. Lippy, Robert Choquette, and Stafford Poole. (New York: Paragon, 1992. xii + 400 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 1-55778-234-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55778-501-5.) Get access Jon Butler Jon Butler Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1573–1574, https://doi.org/1…

  • Exile and Kingdom

    Jon Butler, Avihu ZakaiARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1993

  • The Papers of William Penn

    Jon Butler, Marianne S Wokeck et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Papers of William Penn. Ed. by Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn. Vol. III: 1683–1700, The Papers of William Penn. Ed. by Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn. Vol. IV: 1701–1718 and The Papers of William Penn. Ed. by Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn. Vol. V: William Penn's Published Writings Get access The Papers of William Penn. Ed. by Dunn Richard S. Dunn Mary Maples. Vol. III: 1685-1700. Ed. by Wokeck Marianne S. Wi…