Jonathan H Ebel
Biographic Data
| ID | 990816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan H Ebel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan H |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebel |
| SIGNATURE | EBEL J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Academy of Religion |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Risking Reform
In the annual presidential address to the American Society of Church History (ASCH), Jonathan Ebel reflects on both the Depression-era meetings of the society and the efforts of agricultural economist Harry Drobish and his team of reformers in 1930s California. Ebel uses this framing of the ASCH meetings nine decades ago and Drobish's project to consider those who risk reform and he argues that a lesson the ASCH of today can take from the example…
Forum: The Religious Situation, 1968 (Part 1)
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Thou Shalt Kill: A Religious History of the Rifle and the Grenade in America's Great War
This article examines the intersection of religious ideas and movements with the development of weapons technologies during the First World War, arguing that soldiers' ways of understanding and interacting with the rifle and the grenade were an extension both of the technology as a thing and of its meaning as a sign, and that the latter in particular needs to be woven into religious histories of the American experience of war in general, the Grea…
G. I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
G.I. Messiahs examines soldier veneration in twentieth- and twenty-first century America and argues that soldiers are the theological center of American civil religion. This book also recognizes that soldiers engage with and are shaped by the symbols, rituals, and mythologies of American civil religion and are thus its most committed, consistent practitioners. G.I. Messiahs builds this argument by examining episodes from the long American century…
U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation
I started reading Kelly Denton-Borhaug's U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation during a week of extended air travel. In four separate airports, CNN was a significant part of the ambient noise. News in Chicago and New York was of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, mastermind of the attacks of 9/11. News in New York and Rochester was of an underwear bomb plot funded by al Qaeda in Yemen but disrupted before it could be carried out. It is easy…
From Jeremiad to Jihad: "Religion, Violence, and America"
Violence has been a central feature of America's history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through relig…
Undersold and Oversold: Reinhold Niebuhr and Economic Justice
A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War
Journal Article A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War Get access A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War. By Sean A. Scott. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 360pp. $74.00. Jonathan H. Ebel Jonathan H. Ebel University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, Illinois [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 54, Issue…
Re-forming Faith: John Steinbeck, the New Deal, and the Religion of the Wandering Oklahoman
Of the Lost and the Fallen: Ritual and the Religious Power of the American Soldier
Overseas military cemeteries as american sacred space: Mine Eyes Have Seenla Gloire
The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) maintains twenty-three cemeteries worldwide for American soldiers and war workers killed in the Great War and World War II. This article examines ABMC cemeteries as American sacred space, foregrounding their fusion of Christian and American symbol and text and the barely submerged theologies and mythologies to which they point. ABMC cemeteries have given families of fallen soldiers places to mourn a…
Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence
Journal Article Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence Get access Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence. By Jon Pahl. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. xiv, 257 pp. $35.00, ISBN978-0-8147-6762-7.) Jonathan H. Ebel Jonathan H. Ebel University of IllinoisUrbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue …
In Every Cup of Bitterness, Sweetness: California Christianity in the Great Depression
If the past decade has taught Americans anything, it is the danger of treating Wall Street as the sole indicator of the nation's economic health. Those who lived through the Great Depression learned this lesson also. Because so many more Americans and American institutions are investors in 2011 than in 1929, the stock market is a better measure today than it was eighty years ago, but as we relearned in 2008, 2002, and 1987, it is still possible t…
Jesus Freak and the Junkyard Prophet: The School Assembly as Evangelical Revival
Journal Article Jesus Freak and the Junkyard Prophet: The School Assembly as Evangelical Revival Get access Jonathan H. Ebel Jonathan H. Ebel Jonathan H. Ebel, Department of Religion, 3080 Foreign Language Building, MC-160, 707 South Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 77, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 16…
The Great War, Religious Authority, and the American Fighting Man
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Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military Chaplaincy, 1860-1920. Richard Budd
Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. Diane Winston
Of the Lost and the Fallen: Ritual and the Religious Power of the American Soldier
The Great War, Religious Authority, and the American Fighting Man
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Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. Diane Winston
Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military Chaplaincy, 1860-1920. Richard Budd
Jesus Freak and the Junkyard Prophet: The School Assembly as Evangelical Revival
Journal Article Jesus Freak and the Junkyard Prophet: The School Assembly as Evangelical Revival Get access Jonathan H. Ebel Jonathan H. Ebel Jonathan H. Ebel, Department of Religion, 3080 Foreign Language Building, MC-160, 707 South Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 77, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 16…
The Great War, Religious Authority, and the American Fighting Man
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence
Journal Article Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence Get access Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence. By Jon Pahl. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. xiv, 257 pp. $35.00, ISBN978-0-8147-6762-7.) Jonathan H. Ebel Jonathan H. Ebel University of IllinoisUrbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue …
In Every Cup of Bitterness, Sweetness: California Christianity in the Great Depression
If the past decade has taught Americans anything, it is the danger of treating Wall Street as the sole indicator of the nation's economic health. Those who lived through the Great Depression learned this lesson also. Because so many more Americans and American institutions are investors in 2011 than in 1929, the stock market is a better measure today than it was eighty years ago, but as we relearned in 2008, 2002, and 1987, it is still possible t…
From Jeremiad to Jihad: "Religion, Violence, and America"
Violence has been a central feature of America's history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through relig…
Undersold and Oversold: Reinhold Niebuhr and Economic Justice
A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War
Journal Article A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War Get access A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War. By Sean A. Scott. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 360pp. $74.00. Jonathan H. Ebel Jonathan H. Ebel University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, Illinois [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 54, Issue…
Re-forming Faith: John Steinbeck, the New Deal, and the Religion of the Wandering Oklahoman
Of the Lost and the Fallen: Ritual and the Religious Power of the American Soldier
Overseas military cemeteries as american sacred space: Mine Eyes Have Seenla Gloire
The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) maintains twenty-three cemeteries worldwide for American soldiers and war workers killed in the Great War and World War II. This article examines ABMC cemeteries as American sacred space, foregrounding their fusion of Christian and American symbol and text and the barely submerged theologies and mythologies to which they point. ABMC cemeteries have given families of fallen soldiers places to mourn a…
U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation
I started reading Kelly Denton-Borhaug's U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation during a week of extended air travel. In four separate airports, CNN was a significant part of the ambient noise. News in Chicago and New York was of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, mastermind of the attacks of 9/11. News in New York and Rochester was of an underwear bomb plot funded by al Qaeda in Yemen but disrupted before it could be carried out. It is easy…
G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
G.I. Messiahs examines soldier veneration in twentieth- and twenty-first century America and argues that soldiers are the theological center of American civil religion. This book also recognizes that soldiers engage with and are shaped by the symbols, rituals, and mythologies of American civil religion and are thus its most committed, consistent practitioners. G.I. Messiahs builds this argument by examining episodes from the long American century…
G. I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
Thou Shalt Kill: A Religious History of the Rifle and the Grenade in America's Great War
This article examines the intersection of religious ideas and movements with the development of weapons technologies during the First World War, arguing that soldiers' ways of understanding and interacting with the rifle and the grenade were an extension both of the technology as a thing and of its meaning as a sign, and that the latter in particular needs to be woven into religious histories of the American experience of war in general, the Grea…
Forum: The Religious Situation, 1968 (Part 1)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Risking Reform
In the annual presidential address to the American Society of Church History (ASCH), Jonathan Ebel reflects on both the Depression-era meetings of the society and the efforts of agricultural economist Harry Drobish and his team of reformers in 1930s California. Ebel uses this framing of the ASCH meetings nine decades ago and Drobish's project to consider those who risk reform and he argues that a lesson the ASCH of today can take from the example…
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