Books, Primary Reading
Robert R. Mathisen, ed., Critical Issues in American Religious History: A Reader
Brett E. Carroll, The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America
Books, Secondary Reading
John Corrigan and Winthrop S. Hudson, Religion in America, 7th ed.
Compendium:
Colleen McDannell, “Beyond Dr. Dobson: Women, Girls, and Focus on the Family,” in Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton, eds., Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002) pp. 113-131.
Randall Balmer, “American Fundamentalism: The Ideal of Femininity,” in John Stratton Hawley, ed. Fundamentalism and Gender (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) pp 47-62 (60-62 are fn).
Diana L. Eck, “American Muslims: Cousins and Strangers,” Chapter 5 in A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Now Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation (HarperSanFrancisco, 2001) 222-293.
Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992) Prologue (pp 1-18) and Chapter 7 “The United States in Prophesy” (pp 225-253).
Useful Websites: These American churches and organizations have significant impact on Norwegian Churches today.
Willow Creek Community Church, IL: http://www.willowcreek.org/
Saddleback Church, CA: http://www.saddleback.org/flash/default.htm
Youth With a Mission: http://www.ywam.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1
Contemporary Christian Music: http://www.ccmmagazine.com/
Sojourners (part of the Evangelical left in the USA). V?rt Land often presents their material: http://www.sojo.net/
Beliefnet (an interfaith website that gives an overview of popular American religion today): http://www.beliefnet.com/
Essential Reference Books/pamphlets:
- A good dictionary: (Webster’s is preferable, but others will suffice if you are unable to get Webster’s – though they are often better for British English, than American.)
- James D. Lester and James D. Lester, Jr., Writing Research Papers (available in Akademika in the English section). See especially the chapter on plagiarism.
- Dorothy Burton Sk?rdal, Rules for Writing English: A Practical Handbook for Students and Teachers of English in Norway (Available through Kompendia Utsalg at Akademika)
- Either Turabian or MLA handbook (for bibliography and footnote styles)