• Early American Music and the Construction of Race 

  Barnes, Rhae L.; Goodman, Glenda; Gordon, Bonnie; Ryan, Maria; Bailey, Candace; Garcia, David F.; Ramsey, Guthrie P., Jr.; Marshall, Caitlin; Eyerly, Sarah; Wheeler, Rachel (University of California Press, 2021-12)
• Commentary: Pain, Stigma, and the Politics of Self-Management 

  Jain, Andrea R. (Oxford, 2020-05)
• Western Esotericism in Brazil: The Influence of Esoteric Thought on the Valley of the Dawn 

  Hayes, Kelly E. (University of California Press, 2020-02)

  The Brazilian religion known as the Valley of the Dawn is an international new religious movement known for its eclectic cosmology and collective rituals performed by adepts dressed in ornate garments. Headquartered outside ...
• ‘Namaste All Day’: Containing Dissent in Commercial Spirituality 

  Jain, Andrea R. (Harvard Divinity School, 2019)
• The Transnational and Diasporic Future of African American Religions in the United States 

  Curtis, Edward E., IV; Johnson, Sylvester A. (Oxford, 2019-06)

  This article calls forth a vision for the future study of African American religions in the United States by examining how transnational contact and diasporic consciousness have affected the past practice and are likely ...
• Review of Craig Atwood's Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem 

  Wheeler, Rachel (The University of Chicago Press, 2004)

  Colonial Moravians are far more popular today than they ever were in the eighteenth century. Then, Moravians were suspected of being “papists” on account of their liturgical practices, mistrusted because of their close ...
• The left needs its own story of American greatness 

  Wheeler, Rachel (Washington Post, 2018-10-17)
• Charlottesville, Exodus, and the Politics of Nostalgia 

  Wheeler, Rachel (2017-08-22)
• Review of Linford D. Fisher's The Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America 

  Wheeler, Rachel (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)

  Linford Fisher’s The Indian Great Awakening joins a growing body of scholarship on Native American engagement with Christianity. Much of that work so far (including my own) has focused on particular individuals or communities. ...
• Review of Adam Jortner's, The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier 

  Wheeler, Rachel (American Antiquarian Society, 2012-07)

  I wanted to like this book. I really did. But Jortner lost me pretty early on. The premise appeared promising. He would show how two religious cultures—Indian nativism and Anglo-American deism—clashed and led to the dramatic ...
• Review of Gunlög Fur's A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters among the Delaware Indians 

  Wheeler, Rachel (Alexander Street, 2011)

  Gunlög Fur's A Nation of Women is an ambitious book. It is essentially an overview of Delaware history and cultural change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from a gender studies perspective. During this time, ...
• Review of Jane T. Merritt's At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier 

  Wheeler, Rachel (MIT Press, 2004)

  It has been more than a decade since White published The Middle Ground,a monumental study of the shared world of colonists and Indians in the Great Lakes region during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.1The ...
• Review of Daniel R. Mandell's Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 

  Wheeler, Rachel (MIT Press, 2009)

  Virtually every nineteenth-century local history of a New England town begins with a chapter about the last “red man” to have lived there. The tone is generally somber but optimistic—marking the sad but inevitable passing ...
• Women and Christian practice in a Mahican village 

  Wheeler, Rachel (University of California Press, 2003)

  This article explores the development of native Christianity in the mid-eighteenth century at the site of a Moravian mission in the Mahican village of Shekomeko. Two native women, baptized Sarah and Rachel, appear prominently ...
• Review of Carole Blackburn’s Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650 

  Wheeler, Rachel (MIT Press, 2001)

  Blackburn proposes a new reading of the encounter between Jesuit and Indian in seventeenth-century New France. A work of historical anthropology driven by the insights and agenda of colonial discourse studies, Harvest of ...
• Review of Jonathan Edwards, A Life. George Marsden. New Haven; London : Yale Univ Pr, 2003. 

  Wheeler, Rachel (De Gruyter, 2006)

  By now, it would seem there is not much left to be said about George Marsden’s commanding biography of Jonathan Edwards. It has been awarded prizes too numerous to list, (but including the Bancroft, the Merle Curti, and ...
• Review of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Nancy Shoemaker (New York, Oxford University Press, 2004) 211 pp. 

  Wheeler, Rachel (MIT Press, 2005)

  Shoemaker’s A Strange Likeness is the latest contribution to a growing field of study devoted to tracing the development of racially oriented identities (in this case, “red” and “white” rather than “black” and “white”) in ...
• Lessons from Stockbridge: Jonathan Edwards and the Stockbridge Indians 

  Wheeler, Rachel (University Press of America, 2005)
• The Canonical Black Body: Alternative African American Religions and the Disruptive Politics of Sacrality 

  Edmonds, Joseph L. Tucker (MDPI, 2018-01)

  “The Canonical Black Body” argues that central to the study of African American religions is a focus on the black body and the production and engagement of canons on the sacred black body within the black public sphere. ...
• The Canonical Black Body: Alternative African American Religions and the Disruptive Politics of Sacrality 

  Tucker Edmonds, Joseph Lennis (MDPI, 2018-01-09)

  “The Canonical Black Body” argues that central to the study of African American religions is a focus on the black body and the production and engagement of canons on the sacred black body within the black public sphere. ...

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