(Charles) John
Sommerville
Professor of History Emeritus
3756 NW 28 Place
Gainesville, FL 32605
(352) 378-2808
(352) 392-6927 (fax)
cjsommerv@gmail.com
Publications: Books
RELIGIOUS IDEAS FOR SECULAR UNIVERSITIES (Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B Eerdmans, 2009), 189 pp.
RELIGION IN THE NATIONAL AGENDA; WHAT WE MEAN BY RELIGIOUS, SPIRITUAL, SECULAR (Waco, TX: Baylor University, 2009), 241 pp.
THE DECLINE OF THE
SECULAR
UNIVERSITY (New York: Oxford University, 2006)
HOW THE NEWS MAKES US
DUMB: THE DEATH
OF WISDOM IN AN INFORMATION SOCIETY (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity,
1999),
155 pp.
Translations of the same into Japanese, Indonesian and
Thai.
THE NEWS REVOLUTION IN
ENGLAND: CULTURAL
DYNAMICS OF DAILY INFORMATION (New York: Oxford, 1996), 197 pp.
THE SECULARIZATION OF
EARLY MODERN
ENGLAND; FROM RELIGIOUS CULTURE TO RELIGIOUS FAITH (New York: Oxford,
1992),
227 pp.
THE DISCOVERY OF
CHILDHOOD IN PURITAN
ENGLAND (Athens: University of Georgia, 1992), 211 pp.
Named by Choice as
one of the
Outstanding Academic Books of 1992.
THE RISE AND FALL OF
CHILDHOOD (Beverly
Hills and London: Sage, 1982), 254 pp.
Revised edition of the
same, reprinted
by Random House, 1990.
Translations of the same into Danish, Dutch, Korean.
POPULAR RELIGION IN
RESTORATION ENGLAND
(Gainesville: University
Presses of Florida, 1977), 152 pp.
Publications: Chapters
CHRISTIANITY IN THE POST-SECULAR WEST, eds. John Stenhouse and Brett Knowles (Adelaide, Australia: ATF Press, 2007), "Post-Secularism, or Problematizing the Secular," pp.85-96.
READER'S GUIDE TO BRITISH
HISTORY,
ed. David Loades (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003). Contributed
Religion,
history of: Secularization.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
POLITICS AND RELIGION,
ed. Robert Wuthnow (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998).
Contributed
Secularization, pp. 678-681.
CHINESE VIEWS OF
CHILDHOOD, ed. Anne
Behnke Kinney (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995). Contributed
Foreword.
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
OF BRITISH
RADICALS IN THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY, eds. Richard Greaves and Robert Zaller (Brighton:
Harvester, 1982-83). Contributed seven articles.
THE FAMILY IN HISTORY;
INTERDISCIPLINARY
ESSAYS, eds. Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg (New York: Harper,
1973). Contributed the final essay, Toward a History of Childhood and
Youth, pp. 227-235.
The same, reprinted by
Octagon Books,
1976.
Publications: Selected
articles
"The Exhaustion of Secularism,"CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CHRONICLE REVIEW, (9 June 2006), B6-7.
"Secularism at Bay," FIRST THINGS, 134 (2003), pp. 11-13.
"Christian
Historiography?
A Pragmatic Approach," FIDES ET HISTORIA, 35 (2003), pp. 1-7.
"Post-secularism
Marginalizes the University:
A Rejoinder to Hollinger," CHURCH HISTORY, 71 (2002), pp. 848-857.
"Stark's Age of Faith
Argument and
the Secularization of Things: A Commentary," SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION, 63
(2002),pp. 361-372.
"Interpreting Seventeenth
Century English
Religion as Movements," CHURCH HISTORY, 69 (2000), pp. 749-769.
"Resurrecting Religion in
a New (Hermeneutical)
Dimension," FIDES ET HISTORIA, 30 (1998), pp. 21-30.
"Secular
Society/Religious Population:
Our Tacit Rules for Using the Term 'Secularization," JOURNAL FOR THE
SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF RELIGION, 37 (1998), pp. 249-253.
"Surfing the
Coffeehouse," HISTORY
TODAY, 47 (June, 1997), pp. 8-10.
"Is Religion a Language
Game? A Real-World
Critique of the Cultural-Linguistic Theory," THEOLOGY TODAY, 51 (1995),
pp. 594-599.
"Defining Religion and
the Present
Supreme Court," JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY, 6 (1994), pp. 167-180.
"The Secularization
Puzzle," HISTORY
TODAY, 44 (October, 1994), pp. 14-19.
"Why the News Makes Us
Dumb," FIRST
THINGS (opinion monthly), (October, 1991), pp. 22-27.
"Debate: Religious Faith,
Doubt and
Atheism," PAST AND PRESENT, 128 (1990), pp. 152-155.
"Puritan Humor, or
Entertainment, for
Children," ALBION, 21 (1989), pp. 227-247.
"Anglican, Puritan, and
Sectarian in
Empirical Perspective," SOCIAL
SCIENCE HISTORY, 13 (1989), pp. 109-135.
"The Destruction of
Religious Culture
in Pre-Industrial England," JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 15 (1988), pp. 76-93.
"Real Childhood or Real
Life? Industrialization
and Rich Children," STUDIES
IN POPULAR CULTURE, 9 (1986), pp. 1-13.
"The Religious Music of
the 20th and
21st Centuries," RELIGION (University of Lancaster), 14 (1985), pp.
245-267.
"The Distinction of
Education and Indoctrination
in England," 1549-1719, JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS, 44 (1983), pp.
387-406.
"Why Studying Children's
Literature
Isn't Fun Anymore," HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, 23 (1983), pp.
515-522.
"The Family Fights Back:
Its Struggle
with Religious Movements," FIDES ET HISTORIA, 15 (1982), pp. 6-23.
"Breaking the Icon: The
First Real
Children in English Books," HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, 21 (1981), pp. 51-75.
"The Anti-Puritan Work
Ethic," JOURNAL
OF BRITISH STUDIES, 20
(1981),
pp. 70-81.
"English Puritans and
Children: A Social-Cultural
Explanation," JOURNAL OF PSYCHOHISTORY, 6 (1978), pp. 113-137.
"Religious Typologies and
Popular Religion
in Restoration England," CHURCH HISTORY, 45 (1976), pp. 1-10.
"On the Distribution of
Religious and
Occult Literature in Seventeenth-Century England," THE LIBRARY
(Oxford),
29 (1974), pp. 221-225.
"Toward a History of
Childhood and
Youth," JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY
HISTORY, 3 (1972), pp. 439-447.
"Conversion versus the
Early Puritan
Covenant of Grace," JOURNAL
OF PRESBYTERIAN HISTORY, 44 (1966), pp. 178-197.
Translations of articles into German, Spanish, Polish, Czech.
Education
University of
Iowa, 1965-68,
Ph.D. granted 1970.
Dissertation: Popular
Religious Literature
in England, 1660-1711: A Content Analysis, Committee: Henry Horwitz,
Rosalie
Colie, Sidney Mead, Stow Persons, William Aydelotte.
University of Reading
(England), 1961-62.
University of Kansas,
1956-61, 1962-63,
B.A., M.A.
Previous Employment
Stanford
University, 1968-71
(instructor)
Awards
Who's Who in
America, 2003
Senior Mentor in History,
Pew Younger
Scholars Mentoring Program, 2000-03
Senior Fellow, Harvard
Center for
the Study of World Religions, fall 1996
Member, Institute for
Advanced Study
(Princeton), 1993-94
Fellow, Commonwealth Center
for Literary
and Cultural Change (Univ. of Virginia), spring, 1994 (declined)
Earhart Foundation Research
Grants,
summer 1996, 1998, 2000
U. of Florida Research
Development
Awards, summer 1985, 1989
U. of Florida Humanities
Council Grants,
summer 1974, 1978
One of six designated
President's
Scholars at UF, 1977
American Philosophical
Society travel
grant, 1974
Clark Library seminar
fellowship,
U.C.L.A., summer 1973
NDEA-IV fellowship,
University of
Iowa, 1966-67
Exchange scholarship to
Univ. of Reading
(Eng.), 1961-62
Presentations (Papers or
Seminars)
James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton
Amherst College
Faith and Law (Washington, DC)
University of Colorado
University of Saskatchewan
Villanova University
Wynnewood Institute (Philadelphia)
C.S. Lewis Foundation
Harvard
University, Center
for the Study of World Religions
Princeton University
Princeton University, Davis
Center
for Historical Research
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Virginia
University of Otago, New
Zealand
Rutgers University, Center
for Historical
Analysis
Princeton Theological
Seminary
Cambridge University
Oxford University
London University, Institute
for Historical
Research
Baylor University
American Historical
Association (3)
Southern Historical
Association (2)
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church
History
Escuela Normal Victor
Mercante, Villa
Maria, Argentina
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Current Projects
WHAT WE MEAN BY
RELIGIOUS:
THE LIMITS OF SECULARIZATION (book length, completed)
Reviewed Books for
AMERICAN
HISTORICAL REVIEW
(10)
BOOKS & CULTURE
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: A
CURRENT
BIBLIOGRAPHY (7)
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY (2)
JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY
HISTORY
ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN
ACADEMY OF
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
CHURCH HISTORY (8)
HISTORY OF EDUCATION
QUARTERLY (3)
ALBION (4)
SCRIBLERIAN
JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF
RELIGION
THE HISTORIAN
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE
FAMILY
FIRST THINGS
CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE
BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW
FIDES ET HISTORIA
BRITISH POLITICS GROUP
NEWLETTER
Reviewed Manuscripts or
Proposals for
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commercial
presses
scholarly journals
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