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Faculty - Catherine
L. Albanese, Ph.D.
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Ph.D. in American Religious History - University of Chicago
Areas of Academic Interest:
- Religion and American Culture
- Metaphysical Tradition
- Religion and Healing
- Historiographical and Theoretical 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. My own work tries to work out the model in a variety of venues, currently in a cultural study of the metaphysical tradition on which I am at work.
Recent Publications:
- America: Religions and Religion, 3d. ed. (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1999). 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.
- A Cobbler's Universe: Religion, Poetry, and Performance in the Life of a South Italian Immigrant (New York: Continuum, 1997). Translation of poems of Frank S. Spiziri, along with an extended introduction and annotations, arguing for a third form of South Italian spirituality in the U.S. (beyond church-oriented and feste-oriented) that was free-thinking and agnostic.
- American Spiritualities: A Reader (Bloomington: Indiana University press, forthcoming in 2000/2001). An anthology that develops a typology for spirituality in past and, especially, present-day spirituality in the United States.
Current/Planned Research/Projects:
- Writing a cultural history of metaphysical religion in the United States
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate:
- RS 7: Introduction to American Religion
- RS 147: Religion and the American Experience
- RS 150: American Spiritualities
- RS 151A: Religion in American History to 1865
- RS 151B: Religion in American History since 1865
- RS 193B: Religion and Healing in Global Perspective (teamtaught with
Alan Wallace)
Graduate:
- RS 258: Seminar in Religion in America
