![]() On March 22 and 23, 2018, the History Department and College of Arts and Letters, along with the Cushwa Center, cosponsored Enduring Trends and New Directions: A Conference on the History of American Christianity, organized by co-chairs Jonathan Riddle and James Strasburg with the support of Darren Dochuk, associate professor of history at Notre Dame. This article considers Mark Noll’s place in the study of American history over the last forty years in light of a recent conference hosted in his honor at Notre Dame. ![]() McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at Notre Dame. ![]() Carter and Laura Rominger Porter, was “a deeply collaborative venture.” Yet, they contend, “arguably no single individual loomed so large in the process as Mark A. Simultaneously, however, another force was at work: a burgeoning scholarly interest in American religious history, especially in its evangelical manifestation. The rise of the religious right in the late 1970s and early 1980s certainly stimulated interest among pundits and popular writers about the background of this religio-political movement. Several developments converged to change this in the decades that followed. ![]() Often confined to church historians teaching in seminaries, the study of religion had yet to significantly penetrate mainstream academic narratives about the American past. In the 1970s, the subfield of American religious history remained on the margins of the historical profession. ![]()
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