Colleen McDannell

About the Author

Colleen McDannell is Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the name: Colleen McDonnell

Image credit: from University of Utah faculty page

Works by Colleen McDannell

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Heaven: A History (1988) 214 copies, 1 review

Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America (1995) 106 copies, 1 review

Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 1. (2001) — Introduction — 44 copies

The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900 (1986) 42 copies

Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression (2004) 39 copies

Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 2. (2001) — Editor; Introduction — 38 copies

Sister Saints: Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy (2018) 25 copies

Catholics in the Movies (2007) 17 copies

The Spirit of Vatican II: A History of Catholic Reform in America (2011) 17 copies

Storia del paradiso (1991) 3 copies

By Colleen Mcdannell - Heaven: A History (Yale Nota Bene) (2nd Revised edition) 1 copy

Mormon Gender in the Mid-Twentieth Century 1 copy

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The New York Irish (1996) — Contributor — 40 copies, 1 review

Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion (2001) — Contributor — 14 copies

The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender (Routledge Handbooks in Religion) (2020) — Contributor — 4 copies

Mormon Studies Review, Volume 2 (2015) (2015) — Contributor — 3 copies

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

Mormon Studies Review - Volume 6 (2019) (2019) — Contributor — 2 copies

Sunstone - Vol. 19:2, Issue 102, June 1996 (1996) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 20:1, Issue 105, April 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 50, Number 2 (Summer 2017) (2017) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Issue 129, October 2003 (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1954
Gender: female
Education: University of Colorado (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
Temple University (PhD)
Occupations: history professor, University of Utah
Organizations: University of Utah
Awards and honors: Sterling M. McMurrin Chair in Religious Studies, University of Utah
Short biography: Colleen McDannell, Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah.
Nationality: USA
Map Location: USA

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galuf84 51 reviews

Heaven : a history by Colleen McDannell

Under the surface of this book is a historical materialist argument that is never fully articulated and because of which it suffers to bring a real understanding of why the concept of heaven changes. Feudal lords want heaven to be feudal. Capitalists want heaven to have work and private property.

Also unexplored are African American, African, and Asian traditions of heaven which I assume must radically be different from the middle class and theological intelligentsia. Also no where was the show more Slavic or Eastern Orthodox interpretation of heaven or for that matter Tolstoy's The kingdom of heaven is within you.

It is a history of European/American Protestant and Catholic theology so it doesn't really paint a complete picture of Christian heaven when 75% of the world's Christians aren't included. show less

Jul 27, 2022

kijabi1 7,225 reviews

Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in Modern America by Colleen McDannell

American Protestants--especially evangelicals--have traditionally had, and continue to have, a strong material and visual dimension to their religious lives

Jan 6, 2012