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: Ph.D., University of California,
Santa Barbara
: Religion in America
: callahanrj@missouri.edu
My primary interest is religion in America.
These are especially interesting times for the study of religion in the
United States as the discipline searches for new ways to tell the story
of the nation's complex history of religious diversity and cultural interaction.
Trained in folk studies, history of religion, sociology of religion, and
American religious history, I approach religion through its lived expressions
and practices. I am particularly interested in the ways that people creatively
and constantly negotiate identity, significance, and power through religious
idioms in the dense contexts of their everyday lives. Similarly, I am
interested in the new and often surprising forms of religious expression
that emerge in unexpected times and places as individuals and communities
negotiate the ordinary and extraordinary experiences that make up all
of our lives.
My recent research follows these
interests into the world of work and labor, exploring how particular occupational
cultures, material settings, and relations of exchange inform and are
informed by religious idioms. I have just completed a study on coal miners
in eastern Kentucky that looks at a variety of ways that miners and their
families responded religiously to the introduction of industrial coal
mining into their lives. I am currently beginning a long-term research
project on the religious worlds of seafaring, focusing initially on New
England's whaling industry. I also continue to develop ways of thinking
about the place of work and labor in the study of religion.
Research Images >>
RS 3210 History of Religion in Post-Civil War America
RS 3800 Religion in America Today
RS 4100/7100 Modern Perspectives in the Study of Religion
RS 4130 Haunting and Healing: The Supernatural in American Culture
RS 4210/7810 African-American Religions
RS 7300 Religious History: Religion and Everyday Life in America
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New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., ed. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008).
Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008).
“Class and Labor,” in The Blackwell Companion to Religion in American History, Philip Goff, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming).
"Sensing Class: Religion, Aesthetics, and Formations of Class in Eastern Kentuckys Coal Fields," in Religion and Class in America: Culture, History, and Politics, Sean McCloud and William A. Mirola, eds.(Leiden: Brill, 2008).
"A Reorienting View from the Center of the Country," in New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., ed. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008).
“Walter Benjamin and Religious Studies,” Epoché: The University of California Journal for the Study of Religions 24(2006): 1-18.
A major essay on "Sacred Time" and entries on "Fourth of July" and "Vacations" in the Encyclopedia of Religion and American Cultures,
ed. Gary Laderman and Luís Léon (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO,
2003).
Summer Humanities Grant Writing Institute, sponsored by the Office of Research and the Center for Arts and Humanities, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007
Religion and the Sea, University of Missouri Research Board, 2005-2006.
Religion and the Sea, MU Research Council, 2005-2006.
Provost's Research Leave Program, MU, 2005-2006.
Fellow, Young Scholars in American Religion, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2004-2005.
Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award for Undergraduate Teaching, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004-2005.
Explorations of the Lived Religion of Nineteenth Century New England Whalers, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2004.
Moving Boundaries: American Religion(s) through
the Louisiana Purchase, Missouri Humanities Council Grant, 2003.
Moving Boundaries: American Religion(s) through
the Louisiana Purchase, American Academy of Religion Regional
Development Grant, 2003.
Connecting Local History with National and
Global Themes, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion
and Theology Small Project Grant, 2003.
Working with Religion, MU Research
Council Summer Stipend, 2003.
Predoctoral Fellowship, Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.
Dissertation Fellowship, Pew Program
in Religion and American History, Yale University, 1998-1999
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Richard
J. Callahan, Jr.
