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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Research Output
G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
Ebel, J. H., Nov 24 2015, Yale University Press. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America
Carlson, J. D. (ed.) & Ebel, J. H. (ed.), Jun 2012, University of California Press. 250 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War
Ebel, J. H., Apr 11 2010, Princeton University Press. 253 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Forum: The Religious Situation, 1968 (Part 1)
Holscher, K., Ebel, J., Riess, J., Edmonds, J. L. T., Heo, A. & Kelman, A. Y., Dec 1 2019, In : Religion and American Culture. 29, 1, p. 1-35 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey
Open Access
Poetry as Piety: Chaplain Thomas Coakley and the Cult of the American Soldier in the Great War
Ebel, J. H., 2019, In : Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pieta. XXXII, p. 39-64Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Activities
Divinity School Fellowship
Jonathan H Ebel (Recipient)
1999 → 2001
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
Roundtable on Religion in the United States Military
Jonathan H Ebel (Speaker)
Sep 2011
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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)
Jan 2009
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association
Jonathan H Ebel (Chair)
Nov 2009
Activity: Attendance types › Participation in conference