Publications

Books

Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust (Indiana University Press, 2009).

Edited Books

The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Religion and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2022).

New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase (University of Missouri Press, 2009).

Selected Articles

“Religious Spaces of American Whaling,” in Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World, John Corrigan, ed. (University of South Carolina Press, 2017), 133-152.

“Whales, Cannibals, and Second Nature,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 3 (2015): 190-197.

“The Study of American Religion, Looming Through the Glim,” Religion (June 2012): 425-437.

“The Work of Class in Southern Religion,” The Journal of Southern Religion 13 (2011).

“Class and Labor,” in The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, Philip Goff, ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 71-89.

“Allegories of Progress: Industrial Religion in the United States,” with Kathryn Lofton and Chad Seales, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 88 (2010): 1-39.

“Sensing Class: Religion, Aesthetics, and Formations of Class in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Fields,” in Religion and Class in America: Culture, History, and Politics, Sean McCloud and William Mirola, eds. (Brill, 2008), 175-196.

Selected Public-Facing Writing

“Extracting Corporate Religion”, with Judith Ellen Brunton, The Immanent Frame, April 2021.

“Haunting the Religious Studies Classroom,” American Academy of Religion’s Spotlight on Teaching, October 2017.

“Oceanic Religion,” Religion in American History Blog, April 2013.

“Highway,” Frequencies: A Collaborative Genealogy of Spirituality, December 7, 2011.