Darren dochuk biography
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Darren Dochuk
Dochuk has written widely on modern U.S. history. His most recent book is Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (Basic Books, 2019). He is also the author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (Norton, 2011), winner of the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians (awarded for dissertation manuscript), John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association, and Ellis Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. He has edited and co-edited several books, including Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting Religion and Politics in the 20th Century United States (forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press), The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States (Routledge Press, 2018), God’s Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Faith in the New Millen • 4min read March 3, 2020 Organized standardization and independent wildcatting can show up in grantmaking, too. Darren Dochuk’s well-received new book Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America is a comprehensive history of how Christianity and the petroleum industry tillsammans shaped the America in which we live today, including its role in the world and the current internal divisions about its very identity. Walter Russell Mead lauds it as “one of the most original and insightful accounts of recent American history to appear in many years.” Philanthropy plays a part in it. Dochuk is an associate professor of history at Notre Dame. He previously authored the award-winning From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. As part of its vast examination, his 688-page Anointed With Oil looks at both the organized standardization of the business-minded Rockefeller family’s and the ind • Indeed, the concept of the “American Century,” commonly used to describe this nation’s hundred-year ascendancy, is itself a product of petroleum and religion’s arresting reciprocity. When missionary son and magazine publisher Henry Luce coined the term in 1941, he did so fully aware of how his fellow citizens drew special assurance from oil’s seemingly divine potentials, and attached them to a politics of exceptionalism. Luce also knew that as much as oil was America’s blessing and the source of its leadership in the world, it was also a burden that came with costs to the nation and its people, and the land they inhabited. Focused on the mid-twentieth century—Luce’s day—but with an eye to wider and longer trends, this talk will explore some of the ways that religion and oil together shaped existence for modern Americans, amid constant crisis, at the moment of their nation’s heightened authority. It will pay particular attention to evangelical Protestants who, in dispr
Darren Dochuk