Religious Studies Department - University of California, Santa Barbara





	Faculty - Catherine L. Albanese, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Religious Studies Professor of Religious Studies and the J.F. Rowny Endowed Chair in Comparative Religions

		Ph.D. in American Religious History - University of Chicago albanese@religion.ucsb.edu Areas of Academic Interest: U.S. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Religion and American Culture Metaphysical Religion in the U.S. Religion and Healing Historiographical Issues
	Statement: The field of American religious history is currently exploring new models for narrating the story of religion in the United States. Older consensus models are no longer in favor. I argue for a contact model that foregrounds the meetings and encounters between religious people. Such a model emphasizes the religious combinations made by individuals as well as between and among traditions in and through their American experience. My own work tries to develop this model in a variety of venues. Recent Publications: A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). A history of the "third force" in American (U.S.) religion - alongside mainstream denominationalism and evangelicalism - beginning from the time of the European Renaissance. America: Religions and Religion, 4th. ed. (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2006). Textbook. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). Uses concept of nature religion to explore various eras and movements in American religious history. Reconsidering Nature Religion (Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2002). A rethinking of the concept and kinds of nature religion in the U.S. after over a decade since Nature Religion in America appeared. American Spiritualities: A Reader (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001). An anthology that develops a typology for spirituality in past and, especially, present-day spirituality in the United States. Courses Taught: Undergraduate: RS 7: Introduction to American Religion RS 151A: Religion in American History to 1865 RS 151B: Religion in American History since 1865 Graduate: RS 258: Seminar in Religion in America Curriculum Vitae: http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/faculty/Albanese_CV.pdf
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