Edited Special Collections
Special Issue: Who “Belongs” at Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Table? Reflections on American History, Identity, and Immigration
“On Pendulum Effects in American Historical Memory” — Mark A. Noll
“Many Great Migrations: Colonial History and the Contest for American Identity” — Matthew Rowley
“Ghosts of Thanksgiving Past, Present, and Future” — Soong-Chan Rah
“‘Inharmonious Elements’ and ‘“’Racia Homogeneity’: New England Exceptionalism and Immigration Restriction” —Christine Arnold-Lourie
“Who Owns the Pilgrim Fathers? American Protestants and a Contested Legacy” — Margaret Bendroth
“The ‘First Thanksgiving’ in the 21st Century—As Retold in Presidential Proclamations” — Judd Birdsall
“A Conversation About History, Race, Immigration, and the City on a Hill” — Matthew Rowley and Abram Van Engen
Reviewed by Dennis Hoover on the The London School Economics Religion and Global Society website.
Special Issue: Nationalism, Populism and the Struggle for Christian Heritage and Identity
“Editorial” — Karina Bénazech Wendling and Matthew Rowley
“A Posture of Protest? The Search for Christian Identity in A Post-Secular Society: Between Secularised Eschatology and A Sacralisation of History” — Mariëtta van der Tol and Matthew Rowley
“Bishops, Kings and Leviathan: Nationalism and Integralism in Light of High Church Anglican Political Thought” — Andrew Nolte
“‘Teaching the poor of the Irish nation’: The Endeavours of the Protestant “Sons of Erin” to Educate Their Catholic “Brethren” in the Age of Catholic Agitation, 1800–1850” — Karina Bénazech Wendling
“Prophetic Populism and the Violent Rejection of Joe Biden’s Election: Mapping the Theology of the Capitol Insurrection” — Matthew Rowley
Special issue: Religion, Hermeneutics and Violence
“Religion, Hermeneutics and Violence: An Introduction” —Matthew Rowley and Emma Wild-Wood
“The Use of Violent Biblical Texts by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda” — Helen Nambalirwa Nkabala
“Early Modern Religious Violence and the Dark Side of Church History” — John Coffey
“Christian Responses to Islamism and Violence in the Name of Islam” — Colin Chapman
“Child Sacrifice, Conquest and Cosmic War: On the Harmful Habitation of Biblical Texts” — Matthew Rowley
“Christian Hermeneutics and Narratives of War in the Carolingian Empire” — Robert A.H. Evans
Journal Articles
‘Reverse-Engineering the Covenant: Moses, Massachusetts Bay and the Construction of a City on a Hill’, Journal of the Bible and its Reception 8, no. 2 (2021): 209–27.
‘Trump and the Protestants: How Do the Religious Right and Left Use History in a Populist Era’, Cicero Papers 20, no 5 (2020): 1–11.
‘Toxic and Intoxicating: Puritan Theology and the Thirst for Power’ (Latimer Trust, 2019) 2019 St Antholin’s Lectureship on Puritan theology.
‘“All Pretend an Holy War:” Radical Beliefs and the Rejection of Persecution in the Mind of Roger Williams’, Review of Faith & International Affairs 15.2 (2017): 66–76.
‘What Causes Religious Violence? Three Hundred Claimed Contributing Causes’, Journal of Religion and Violence 2 (2014): 361–402.
Academic Blog
Confessing the Past, Connecting the Dots in American History, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs (November 17, 2021). Georgetown University
‘Will America Resemble what it Reveres? The Debate About Celebrating and Confronting History’, Centre for the Study of the Bible and Violence (1 Nov 2020)
‘From Witness to Warrior: Remembering the Red Sea in British Warfare, 1560–1660’, Remembering the Reformation (July 2019). Cambridge University
‘Forgetting and Remembering the Reformation’s First Female Pamphleteer’, Remembering the Reformation (September 2019). Cambridge University
‘From Fratricide to Revival: Forgetting the Origin of an Evangelical Saying, 1642–1889’, Remembering the Reformation (September 2019). Cambridge University
The History of Religion and Conflict 