Tisa Wenger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 349688 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tisa Wenger |
| PRENOMES | Tisa |
| SOBRENOME | Wenger |
| ASSINATURA | WENGER T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Fighting for Oak Flat
This article foregrounds the Western Apache fight to save the sacred site of Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat, which at this writing is threatened by a proposed copper mine. Like many other Native peoples, Western Apaches have historically resisted colonial suppression by reconfiguring ancestral traditions to make them legible to authorities as religion. In their current struggle, Western Apaches are restoring and repairing their relationships w…
Whose Religion? Whose Freedom
SINCERELY HELD: AMERICAN SECULARISM AND ITS BELIEVERS. By Charles McCrary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, Pp. [xiii] + 300. Hardcover, $95. Paper, $30. In Sincerely Held, Charles McCrary has written a compelling new history of secularism in the United States through the concept of “sincerely held religious belief.” Sincerity emerges in this book as a defining feature of the American secular subject—more on this below—and the politica…
Making Religion, Making the West
This essay surveys the parallel trajectories of U.S. western history and U.S. religious history to suggest what each of them can gain from deeper mutual engagements. It argues that U.S. western history and its adjacent fields can benefit from more sustained attention not only to particular religious practices and traditions, but also to the dynamics of religion-making or, in other words, to the social processes that configure “religion” and shape…
John Tanner, Colonial Credulity, and Comparative Religions
This essay explores the human stakes of theorizing religion in the early nineteenth century, on the borderlands of an expanding U.S. empire. It does so through the lens of a single text, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (U.S. Interpreter at the Saut de Ste. Marie) during Thirty Years Residence among the Indians. Published in 1830, the Narrative offers an entrée into the circulation of knowledge and debates about religion…
Provincializing Secularism
This is a book you will want to sit with, think with, mull over, and then read over again. It was not until my second reading that I saw the double entendre of the title—Make Yourselves Gods—and how well it captures the layers of Coviello’s analysis. The phrase is first of all a quote from Joseph Smith, and it signals the expansive ambitions for divinization that early Mormons embraced with a prophetic fervor that culminated in the practice of po…
Claiming the Term "Liberal" in Academic Religious Discourse
The three papers which follow were originally presented at the triennial Unitarian Universalist Convocation in 2016, sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society and Collegium, an Association for Liberal Religious Studies
Church, State, and 'Native Liberty' in the Belgian Congo
This essay describes a religious freedom controversy that developed between the world wars in the Belgian colony of the Congo, where Protestant missionaries complained that Catholic priests were abusing Congolese Protestants and that the Belgian government favored the Catholics. The history of this campaign demonstrates how humanitarian discourses of religious freedom-and with them competing configurations of church and state-took shape in coloni…
Nationhood and Resistance
This essay compares Weisenfeld's “religio-racial” movements to contemporaneous Jewish nationalist and Zionist movements, suggesting that the axis of nation is just as important as race and religion for understanding their various efforts to reconfigure communal identities and to position themselves in relation to global systems of race and empire
Religious Freedom
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national discourse--Wenger calls it “religious freedom talk”--that cannot possibly be separated from the evolv…
“A New Form of Government”
Indian Dances and the Politics of Religious Freedom, 1870-1930
This article examines Native American demands for religious freedom in an era when the U.S. government systematically suppressed indige-nous traditions. Records from across Indian country reveal that reli-gious freedom claims emerged as only one option in a broader strategic toolbox. While tribal leaders named some ceremonies as reli-gion, they defended others as harmless social events similar to white dances, or as the Indian way of celebrating …
We Have a Religion
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not truly religious and therefore not eligible for the constitutional protections of the First Amendment. This book shows that cultural notions about what …
Juan Soldado
Journal Article Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint Get access Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint. By Vanderwood Paul J.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xvi + 332 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95, paper.) Tisa Wenger Tisa Wenger Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2006, P…
We Are Guaranteed Freedom
Indian Dances and the Politics of Religious Freedom, 1870-1930
This article examines Native American demands for religious freedom in an era when the U.S. government systematically suppressed indige-nous traditions. Records from across Indian country reveal that reli-gious freedom claims emerged as only one option in a broader strategic toolbox. While tribal leaders named some ceremonies as reli-gion, they defended others as harmless social events similar to white dances, or as the Indian way of celebrating …
We Are Guaranteed Freedom
We Are Guaranteed Freedom
Juan Soldado
Journal Article Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint Get access Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint. By Vanderwood Paul J.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xvi + 332 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95, paper.) Tisa Wenger Tisa Wenger Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2006, P…
We Have a Religion
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not truly religious and therefore not eligible for the constitutional protections of the First Amendment. This book shows that cultural notions about what …
Indian Dances and the Politics of Religious Freedom, 1870-1930
This article examines Native American demands for religious freedom in an era when the U.S. government systematically suppressed indige-nous traditions. Records from across Indian country reveal that reli-gious freedom claims emerged as only one option in a broader strategic toolbox. While tribal leaders named some ceremonies as reli-gion, they defended others as harmless social events similar to white dances, or as the Indian way of celebrating …
“A New Form of Government”
Religious Freedom
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national discourse--Wenger calls it “religious freedom talk”--that cannot possibly be separated from the evolv…
Nationhood and Resistance
This essay compares Weisenfeld's “religio-racial” movements to contemporaneous Jewish nationalist and Zionist movements, suggesting that the axis of nation is just as important as race and religion for understanding their various efforts to reconfigure communal identities and to position themselves in relation to global systems of race and empire
Claiming the Term "Liberal" in Academic Religious Discourse
The three papers which follow were originally presented at the triennial Unitarian Universalist Convocation in 2016, sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society and Collegium, an Association for Liberal Religious Studies
Church, State, and 'Native Liberty' in the Belgian Congo
This essay describes a religious freedom controversy that developed between the world wars in the Belgian colony of the Congo, where Protestant missionaries complained that Catholic priests were abusing Congolese Protestants and that the Belgian government favored the Catholics. The history of this campaign demonstrates how humanitarian discourses of religious freedom-and with them competing configurations of church and state-took shape in coloni…
Provincializing Secularism
This is a book you will want to sit with, think with, mull over, and then read over again. It was not until my second reading that I saw the double entendre of the title—Make Yourselves Gods—and how well it captures the layers of Coviello’s analysis. The phrase is first of all a quote from Joseph Smith, and it signals the expansive ambitions for divinization that early Mormons embraced with a prophetic fervor that culminated in the practice of po…
John Tanner, Colonial Credulity, and Comparative Religions
This essay explores the human stakes of theorizing religion in the early nineteenth century, on the borderlands of an expanding U.S. empire. It does so through the lens of a single text, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (U.S. Interpreter at the Saut de Ste. Marie) during Thirty Years Residence among the Indians. Published in 1830, the Narrative offers an entrée into the circulation of knowledge and debates about religion…
Making Religion, Making the West
This essay surveys the parallel trajectories of U.S. western history and U.S. religious history to suggest what each of them can gain from deeper mutual engagements. It argues that U.S. western history and its adjacent fields can benefit from more sustained attention not only to particular religious practices and traditions, but also to the dynamics of religion-making or, in other words, to the social processes that configure “religion” and shape…
Fighting for Oak Flat
This article foregrounds the Western Apache fight to save the sacred site of Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat, which at this writing is threatened by a proposed copper mine. Like many other Native peoples, Western Apaches have historically resisted colonial suppression by reconfiguring ancestral traditions to make them legible to authorities as religion. In their current struggle, Western Apaches are restoring and repairing their relationships w…
Whose Religion? Whose Freedom
SINCERELY HELD: AMERICAN SECULARISM AND ITS BELIEVERS. By Charles McCrary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, Pp. [xiii] + 300. Hardcover, $95. Paper, $30. In Sincerely Held, Charles McCrary has written a compelling new history of secularism in the United States through the concept of “sincerely held religious belief.” Sincerity emerges in this book as a defining feature of the American secular subject—more on this below—and the politica…
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