Framing the Nation: Religion, Film, and American Belonging

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Research Article| April 01 2019 Framing the Nation: Religion, Film, and American Belonging Judith Weisenfeld Judith Weisenfeld JUDITH WEISENFELD is the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University and associated faculty in the Department of African American Studies. She is the author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (New York: New York University Press, 2016), which received the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions; Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007); and African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905–1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997). Her current research focuses on psychiatry, race, and African American religions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Mormon History (2019) 45 (2): 23–48. https://doi.org/10.5406/jmormhist.45.2.0023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Judith Weisenfeld; Framing the Nation: Religion, Film, and American Belonging. Journal of Mormon History 1 April 2019; 45 (2): 23–48. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jmormhist.45.2.0023 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of Mormon History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.