David Harrington Watt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5177893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Harrington Watt |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Harrington |
| FAMILY NAME | Watt |
| SIGNATURE | WATT D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Antifundamentalism in Modern America
This book provides a pathbreaking account of the role that the fear of fundamentalism has played—and continues to play—in American culture. Fundamentalism has never been a neutral category of analysis, and the book scrutinizes the various political purposes that the concept has been made to serve. In 1920, the conservative Baptist writer Curtis Lee Laws coined the word “fundamentalists.” The book examines the antifundamentalist polemics of Harry …
Whose Freedoms? Which Religions
Being Asked to participate in this roundtable gave me a welcome opportunity to see how a very fine scholar—one whose training is quite different from my own—approaches an issue (religious freedom) in which I’ve long been interested. Nelson Tebbe is a skillful writer, and the arguments he makes in Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age are well thought out and carefully explained. Reading Tebbe’s book afforded me a great deal of pleasure. My inte…
Antifundamentalism in Modern America
Holy Nation
Matthew Avery Sutton. American Apocalypse
In the past four decades, a number of the most astute students of American religion—Randall Balmer, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Joel Carpenter, Darren Dochuk, Timothy Gloege, Paul Harvey, George M. Marsden, and Grant Wacker, for example—have focused their attention on modern evangelicalism. Drawing on the work of those scholars and on years of diligent work with primary sources, Matthew Avery Sutton has crafted a dazzling new overview of evangeli…
Words upon the Word
James Bielo's Words upon the Word is a short, intelligent, and well-written analysis of what happens when Protestant Christians who live in the United States come together in small- and medium-sized groups to read the Bible. Scholars working in a number of different disciplines—anthropology, American studies, religious studies, women's studies, political science, and sociology, for example—have produced a rich scholarly literature on contemporary…
The Meaning and End of Fundamentalism
Book reviewed in this article: HOLY TERRORS: THINKING ABOUT RELIGION AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 By Bruce Lincoln STRONG RELIGION: THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISMS AROUND THE WORLD By Gabriel A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan UNDERSTANDING FUNDAMENTALISM: CHRISTIAN, ISLAMIC AND JEWISH MOVEMENTS By Richard T. Antoun Walnut THE BATTLE FOR GOD By Karen Armstrong THE CLASH OF FUNDAMENTALISMS: CRUSADES, JIHADS AND MODERNITY By Tariq Ali
Bible-Carrying Christians
This book focuses on the relationship between conservative Protestants and social power in the U.S. The book, which is particularly concerned with which sorts of power relationships seem natural and which do not, is based on fieldwork (conducted in the early 1990s), in three Philadelphia churches: Oak Grove Church, Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, and the Philadelphia Church of Christ. The data drawn from that fieldwork suggests that in the ear…
Democratisation or the democratisation of corruption? The case of Uganda
The state of corruption
The aim of this article is to provide an evaluation of Uganda's current strategy to fight corruption. Like many countries on the African continent, Uganda has deemed it necessary to make attempts to reduce and control corruption within the public sector. As awareness of the deleterious and debilitating effects of corruption has grown, so too have both internal political factors and external pressures from aid donors increased in order to push for…
The Way We Never Were
A Transforming Faith
Journal Article A Transforming Faith: Explorations of Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism, by David Harrington Watt. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991, ix + 213 pp. $32.00; $12.95 (paper) Get access Kimon Howland Sargeant Kimon Howland Sargeant University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 1993, Pages 226–227, https://doi.org/…
A Transforming Faith
A Transforming Faith
Journal Article A Transforming Faith: Explorations of Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism. By David Harrington Watt. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xii + 213 pp. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 0-8135-1716-8. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8135-1717-6.) Get access Susan Curtis Susan Curtis Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Is…
Mama Lola
Journal Article Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, by Karen McCarthy Brown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, x + 405 pp. $24.95 David Watt David Watt Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 3, Fall 1992, Pages 338–339, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711714 Published: 01 October 1992
Habermas and the Public Sphere
Journal Article Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, x + 498 pp. $45 Get access David Harrington Watt David Harrington Watt Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 4, Winter 1992, Pages 466-468, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711450 Published: 01 December 1992
A Transforming Faith
Over the course of the twentieth century, evangelicals have in a variety of ways adjusted their world view to accommodate the changes in modern life. At the same time, there are important continuities between the ideas and attitudes of evangelicals in the 1920s and those of the late 1970s. Little attention has actually been paid to changes in this important social and political group since the Scopes trial and the election of 1976, when evangelic…
The Private Hopes of American Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, 1925-1975
Much of the best recent scholarship on conservative Protestantism in the middle decades of this Century focuses on what is sometimes called the "mainstream" of interdenominational evangelicalism. Although this variety of evangelicalism was deeply influenced by and, indeed, in some respects the direct successor to the fundamentalist movement of the 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's, it did not begin to assume its present shape until the early 1940's. The…
Western Security
Democratisation or the democratisation of corruption? The case of Uganda
The state of corruption
The aim of this article is to provide an evaluation of Uganda's current strategy to fight corruption. Like many countries on the African continent, Uganda has deemed it necessary to make attempts to reduce and control corruption within the public sector. As awareness of the deleterious and debilitating effects of corruption has grown, so too have both internal political factors and external pressures from aid donors increased in order to push for…
Western Security
Western Security
A Transforming Faith
Over the course of the twentieth century, evangelicals have in a variety of ways adjusted their world view to accommodate the changes in modern life. At the same time, there are important continuities between the ideas and attitudes of evangelicals in the 1920s and those of the late 1970s. Little attention has actually been paid to changes in this important social and political group since the Scopes trial and the election of 1976, when evangelic…
The Private Hopes of American Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, 1925-1975
Much of the best recent scholarship on conservative Protestantism in the middle decades of this Century focuses on what is sometimes called the "mainstream" of interdenominational evangelicalism. Although this variety of evangelicalism was deeply influenced by and, indeed, in some respects the direct successor to the fundamentalist movement of the 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's, it did not begin to assume its present shape until the early 1940's. The…
A Transforming Faith
A Transforming Faith
Journal Article A Transforming Faith: Explorations of Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism. By David Harrington Watt. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xii + 213 pp. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 0-8135-1716-8. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8135-1717-6.) Get access Susan Curtis Susan Curtis Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Is…
Mama Lola
Journal Article Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, by Karen McCarthy Brown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, x + 405 pp. $24.95 David Watt David Watt Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 3, Fall 1992, Pages 338–339, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711714 Published: 01 October 1992
Habermas and the Public Sphere
Journal Article Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, x + 498 pp. $45 Get access David Harrington Watt David Harrington Watt Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 4, Winter 1992, Pages 466-468, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711450 Published: 01 December 1992
A Transforming Faith
Journal Article A Transforming Faith: Explorations of Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism, by David Harrington Watt. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991, ix + 213 pp. $32.00; $12.95 (paper) Get access Kimon Howland Sargeant Kimon Howland Sargeant University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 1993, Pages 226–227, https://doi.org/…
The Way We Never Were
Democratisation or the democratisation of corruption? The case of Uganda
The state of corruption
The aim of this article is to provide an evaluation of Uganda's current strategy to fight corruption. Like many countries on the African continent, Uganda has deemed it necessary to make attempts to reduce and control corruption within the public sector. As awareness of the deleterious and debilitating effects of corruption has grown, so too have both internal political factors and external pressures from aid donors increased in order to push for…
Bible-Carrying Christians
This book focuses on the relationship between conservative Protestants and social power in the U.S. The book, which is particularly concerned with which sorts of power relationships seem natural and which do not, is based on fieldwork (conducted in the early 1990s), in three Philadelphia churches: Oak Grove Church, Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, and the Philadelphia Church of Christ. The data drawn from that fieldwork suggests that in the ear…
The Meaning and End of Fundamentalism
Book reviewed in this article: HOLY TERRORS: THINKING ABOUT RELIGION AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 By Bruce Lincoln STRONG RELIGION: THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISMS AROUND THE WORLD By Gabriel A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan UNDERSTANDING FUNDAMENTALISM: CHRISTIAN, ISLAMIC AND JEWISH MOVEMENTS By Richard T. Antoun Walnut THE BATTLE FOR GOD By Karen Armstrong THE CLASH OF FUNDAMENTALISMS: CRUSADES, JIHADS AND MODERNITY By Tariq Ali
Words upon the Word
James Bielo's Words upon the Word is a short, intelligent, and well-written analysis of what happens when Protestant Christians who live in the United States come together in small- and medium-sized groups to read the Bible. Scholars working in a number of different disciplines—anthropology, American studies, religious studies, women's studies, political science, and sociology, for example—have produced a rich scholarly literature on contemporary…
Matthew Avery Sutton. American Apocalypse
In the past four decades, a number of the most astute students of American religion—Randall Balmer, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Joel Carpenter, Darren Dochuk, Timothy Gloege, Paul Harvey, George M. Marsden, and Grant Wacker, for example—have focused their attention on modern evangelicalism. Drawing on the work of those scholars and on years of diligent work with primary sources, Matthew Avery Sutton has crafted a dazzling new overview of evangeli…
Holy Nation
Antifundamentalism in Modern America
Antifundamentalism in Modern America
This book provides a pathbreaking account of the role that the fear of fundamentalism has played—and continues to play—in American culture. Fundamentalism has never been a neutral category of analysis, and the book scrutinizes the various political purposes that the concept has been made to serve. In 1920, the conservative Baptist writer Curtis Lee Laws coined the word “fundamentalists.” The book examines the antifundamentalist polemics of Harry …
Whose Freedoms? Which Religions
Being Asked to participate in this roundtable gave me a welcome opportunity to see how a very fine scholar—one whose training is quite different from my own—approaches an issue (religious freedom) in which I’ve long been interested. Nelson Tebbe is a skillful writer, and the arguments he makes in Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age are well thought out and carefully explained. Reading Tebbe’s book afforded me a great deal of pleasure. My inte…
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