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About Lane Davis
Lane Davis is Assistant Professor of Religion at Huntingdon College. His scholarship explores twentieth-century Protestant history.NBN Episodes hosted by Lane:
January 3, 2023
The Old Faith in a New Nation
Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Protestants, who relied on common sense and "the Bibl…
December 23, 2022
The End of Public Execution
Michael Ayers Trotti's The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion and Punishment in the American South (The University of North Carolina Press, 2022)…
June 30, 2022
Open Hearts, Closed Doors
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism (NYU Press, 2021) uncovers the largely overlooked role that lib…
June 14, 2022
Separating Church and State
In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson distilled a leading idea in the early American republic and wrote of a wall of separation between church and state…
March 11, 2022
Black Fundamentalists
As the modernist-fundamentalist controversy came to a head in the early twentieth century, an image of the “fighting fundamentalist” was imprinted on …
June 14, 2021
Religion and the American Revolution
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. …
April 19, 2021
A New Christian Identity
In A New Christian Identity: Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), Amy B. Voorhees …
March 8, 2021
Point of Reckoning
Duke University officially integrated its student body in the early 1960s, but the University itself did little to make students of color feel as thou…
March 2, 2021
Calhoun
In Calhoun: American Heretic (Basic Books, 2021), historian Robert Elder documents the life and thought of one of America's most controversial statesm…
February 3, 2021
Mother of American Evangelicalism
Arlin Migliazzo’s Mother of Modern Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears (Eerdmans, 2020) documents the life and ministry of one of t…
January 19, 2021
Dividing the Faith
In Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (NYU Press, 2020), Richard J. Boles argues that, contrary to tradit…
December 24, 2020
The Amateur Hour
Jonathan Zimmerman’s The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) is the first full-length history of college t…
December 16, 2020
Renewal
In Renewal: Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II (U Chicago Press, 2019), Mark Wild traces the achievements and losses of Amer…
December 2, 2020
The Glass Church
In The Glass Church: Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry (Rutgers UP, 2020), Mark Mulder and Gerardo Mart…
November 5, 2020
Between Dixie and Zion
In Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel (University of Alabama Press, 2020), Walker Robins explores how Southern Bapt…
October 27, 2020
Tornado God
In Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather (Oxford UP, 2020), Peter J. Thuesen links the “numinous” religious experiences of Americans as t…