Friday, January 3, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

52. Consuming Is Believing: Consumer Culture and Religious Identity in the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Hilton, Conference Room 4D

Joint session with the American Jewish Historical Society

Chair: Andrew R. Heinze, University of San Francisco

Papers: Christian Body Gospels and American Fitness Culture
 R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University

 Learning to Shop in Zion: The Consumer Revolution in Great Basin Mormon Culture, 1847–1910
 Greg ("Fritz") Umbach, City University of New York

 Keeping Up with the Goldbergs: Jewish Suburban Identity and Postwar Consumer Culture
 Aleisa Fishman, American University

Comment: David Morgan, Valparaiso University

   

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