William Stell
Biographic Data
| ID | 982680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Stell |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Stell |
| SIGNATURE | STELL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Born Again Queer
A groundbreaking history of evangelicalism and homosexuality in the United States Evangelicals claim that their opposition to homosexuality is an inherent feature of their faith, rooted in their unchanging beliefs about the Bible. Most scholars, journalists, and observers have accepted this account; in Born Again Queer , William Stell upends it. Arguing that the antigay majority in evangelicalism has been less dominant and more vulnerable than pr…
Unscripted Revelation
Over the course of the nineteenth century, the use of sign language in religious settings—first in schools, then at revivals, and eventually in churches—generated provocations in religious thought and innovations in religious practice. These provocations and innovations warrant conceiving of “Deaf Christianity” as a distinct, incipient religious tradition in the nineteenth-century United States. From its beginning, this religious tradition in the…
Panic of proximity
Throughout the 1970s, the largely LGBTQ+ membership of the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) was frequently described as evangelical by its observers, including by some evangelical leaders. Meanwhile, antigay evangelical writers labored to convince their audiences that the MCC was not what it looked like, and its members were not like them. This article analyzes the array of discursive strategies that antigay evangelical writers used to deny,…
On Celebration and Critique in Queer Religious Studies
On Celebration and Critique in Queer Religious Studies William Stell Monique Moultrie, Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023) Joseph Plaster, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin District ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023) Katrina Daly Thompson, Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America ( New York: New York Un…
Public Confessions
According to a popular narrative about religious revival after World War II, Americans of all stripes rallied around the conviction that religion was crucial for the survival of democracy, that the spread of “Judeo-Christian values” would secure victory in the Cold War. That spread was an astounding success, we are told, as indicated by unprecedented levels of membership in religious bodies at mid-century as well as by a less quantifiable religio…
Christianity's American Fate
Guess Who's Coming to Church
On the cover page of the September 23, 1922, issue of the Chicago Defender, editor Robert S. Abbott announced Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday. Less than a month later, the Federal Council of Churches announced its inaugural Race Relations Sunday. Through a comparative analysis of these two events, this article reconsiders historians' tendency to assume and emphasize a shared faith across racial lines when discussing interracial religious practice in …
From Neighbors to Outcasts
Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism
Reviewed by: White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler William Stell Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021) As an undergraduate student at an evangelical college, I was taught that Karl Barth’s commentary on Romans “dropped a bomb on the playground of the theologians.” I was also taught that this was a good and necess…
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Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism
Reviewed by: White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler William Stell Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021) As an undergraduate student at an evangelical college, I was taught that Karl Barth’s commentary on Romans “dropped a bomb on the playground of the theologians.” I was also taught that this was a good and necess…
From Neighbors to Outcasts
Public Confessions
According to a popular narrative about religious revival after World War II, Americans of all stripes rallied around the conviction that religion was crucial for the survival of democracy, that the spread of “Judeo-Christian values” would secure victory in the Cold War. That spread was an astounding success, we are told, as indicated by unprecedented levels of membership in religious bodies at mid-century as well as by a less quantifiable religio…
Christianity's American Fate
Guess Who's Coming to Church
On the cover page of the September 23, 1922, issue of the Chicago Defender, editor Robert S. Abbott announced Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday. Less than a month later, the Federal Council of Churches announced its inaugural Race Relations Sunday. Through a comparative analysis of these two events, this article reconsiders historians' tendency to assume and emphasize a shared faith across racial lines when discussing interracial religious practice in …
Panic of proximity
Throughout the 1970s, the largely LGBTQ+ membership of the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) was frequently described as evangelical by its observers, including by some evangelical leaders. Meanwhile, antigay evangelical writers labored to convince their audiences that the MCC was not what it looked like, and its members were not like them. This article analyzes the array of discursive strategies that antigay evangelical writers used to deny,…
On Celebration and Critique in Queer Religious Studies
On Celebration and Critique in Queer Religious Studies William Stell Monique Moultrie, Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023) Joseph Plaster, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin District ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023) Katrina Daly Thompson, Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America ( New York: New York Un…
Born Again Queer
A groundbreaking history of evangelicalism and homosexuality in the United States Evangelicals claim that their opposition to homosexuality is an inherent feature of their faith, rooted in their unchanging beliefs about the Bible. Most scholars, journalists, and observers have accepted this account; in Born Again Queer , William Stell upends it. Arguing that the antigay majority in evangelicalism has been less dominant and more vulnerable than pr…
Unscripted Revelation
Over the course of the nineteenth century, the use of sign language in religious settings—first in schools, then at revivals, and eventually in churches—generated provocations in religious thought and innovations in religious practice. These provocations and innovations warrant conceiving of “Deaf Christianity” as a distinct, incipient religious tradition in the nineteenth-century United States. From its beginning, this religious tradition in the…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)