Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
U.S. Religious History
Professional Information
Professor Ebel's research program involves religion and war, religion and violence, lay theologies of economic hardship all within the American context. He is the author of G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion (Yale, 2015), Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War (Princeton, 2010), and the co-editor with Professor John Carlson of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (California, 2012). He is currently at work on a religious history of the Great Depression in agricultural California, the working title of which is A Wandering Oklahoman Was My Father: Religion and Migration in America’s Great Depression.
Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2004
B.A. Harvard University, 1993
Honors & Awards
Guggenheim Fellow, 2017-2018
Helen Corley Petit Scholar, 2012-2013
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2015-2020
Grants
Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers, 2014-2015
Teaching
REL 236: Religion, Violence, and America
REL 510: Graduate Intro to the Study of Religion
REL 134: Religion, Race, and Resistance
REL 436: Religion in the U.S., 1900-1941
REL 235: History of Religion in America
REL / PHIL 110: World Religions
REL 437: Religion and American Cinema
Office Address
Department of Religion
3092E Foreign Language Building
707 South Mathews
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Office Phone
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Religion
Social Sciences
soldier
Social Sciences
civil religion
Social Sciences
Great Depression
Social Sciences
pilgrimage
Social Sciences
World War I
Arts & Humanities
politics
Social Sciences
Christianity
Social Sciences
Research Output 2002 2018
Thou shalt kill: A religious history of the rifle and the grenade in America's great war
Ebel, J. H., Jan 1 2018, In : Soundings. 101, 3, p. 238-254 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
First World War
history
soldier
weapon
experience
G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
Ebel, J. H., Jan 1 2015, Yale University Press. 241 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
civil religion
soldier
present
consciousness
Religion
American Judaism, Jewish Piety, and the Great War
Ebel, J. H., 2014, In : Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Religions- und Kulturgeschichte. 108, p. 89-106 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Judaism
World War I
Religion
Piety
Soldiers
American Literatures/American Religions
Ebel, J. & Murison, J. S., Jan 1 2014, In : American Literary History. 26, 1, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Religion
literature
American Religion
American Literature
"The Wreckage and all the Glory": Protestant America and the legacy of the Great War
Ebel, J. H., Jan 1 2014, In : Journal of Presbyterian History. 92, 1, p. 5-25 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Glory
Religion
Faith
World War I
Wartime
Activities 1999 2011
Christian Imagery, American Identity, and Memories of War
Jonathan H Ebel (Speaker)Jul 2010
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Religious Visions of America, 1960 – 2006
Jonathan H Ebel (Speaker)Apr 2008
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Wabash Fellowship, Chicago Forum on Pedagogy and the Study of Religion
Jonathan H Ebel (Recipient)2003 → 2004
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Religion and American Life at Yale
Jonathan H Ebel (Recipient)2002 → 2003
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
The Role of Religion in Military Memorial Practices
Jonathan H Ebel (Speaker)Mar 2 2011
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk