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I. Meaning and power at social sites Sexuality in American religious history Ann Taves -- Ritual sites in the narrative of American religion Tamar Frankiel -- Women's history is American religious history Ann Braude -- The Illusion of shifting demand: supply-side interpretations of American religious history Roger Finke -- II. Contract and exchange at geographical sites Eastward ho! American religion from the perspective of the Pacific rim Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Indians, contact, and colonialism in the Deep South: themes for a postcolonial history of American religion Joel W. Martin -- Voices from the attic: the Canadian border and the writing of American religious history William Westfall -- Exchanging selves, exchanging souls: contact, combination, and American religious history Catherine L. Albanese

Abstract
This introduction outlines the contributions of Global Religious History, or Global History of Religion, to the issue of religious comparison. First, it argues for religious comparison as an integral part of religious studies that should not be abandoned but revised. Second, it addresses the larger framework of debates in religious studies and global history, arguing for the value of Global Religious History in avoiding Eurocentrism, but also tendencies within the postcolonial spectrum that mirror Eurocentric shortcomings. What is often perceived as a crisis in religious studies is understood here as an ongoing process of reflection and refinement that allows us to contextualize both the object of study and its researcher. Finally, this outline presents concrete elements that can inform revised approaches to religious comparison, including a genealogical method, entanglement and decentered historiography, and translingual practice. This allows us to expand our scope not only geographically, but also temporally.

The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History provides an affordable and accessible reference to over 750 outstanding individual women and women's organizations in American religious history.--From publisher description