Amanda Porterfield
Amanda Porterfield is a historian of American religion with interests in the place of religion in business, law, politics and modern art. Her most recent book is Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Research Interests
- Religion in Corporate Organization
- American Religion, Politics, and Law
- History of Christianity
- Religion in Modern American Arts
Selected Publications
Books (See also in Amazon.com "Books by Amanda Porterfield")
- Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation (Oxford University Press)
- The Business Turn in American Religious History, co-edited with John Corrigan and Darren Grem (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
- Religion in American History, co-edited with John Corrigan (Blackwell, 2010)
- The Power of Religion: An Introduction to World Religions (Oxford University Press, 2010; orig. 1998)
- Protestant Experience in America (Greenwood, 2006)
- Healing in the History of Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2005)
- Religion on Campus, coauthored with Conrad Cherry and Betty DeBerg (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
- The Transformation of American Religion (Oxford University Press, 2001)
- The Power of Religion (Oxford University Press, 1998)
- Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Female Piety in Puritan New England (Oxford University Press, 1992)
- Feminine Spirituality: From Sarah Edwards to Martha Graham (Temple University Press, 1980)
Work in Progress
- Soul Descending: Physicality, Humanity, and Modern Dance
- The Lost Diaries of Anne Hutchinson