1. Christian Smith, “Introduction: Correcting a Curious Neglect, or Bringing Religion Back In,” in Christian Smith, ed., Disruptive Religion: The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism (New York and London: Routledge, 1996), 1–25, at 11.
2. The Kidnapped Clergyman; or, Experience the Best Teacher (Boston: Dow and Jackson, 1839); Daniel S. Whitney, Warren: A Tragedy in Five Acts, Designed to Illustrate the Protection Which the Federal Union Extends to the Citizens of Massachusetts (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1850); William Wells Brown, The Escape; or, A Leap to Freedom, in Black Drama—1850 to Present, Alexander Street Press, L.L.C., available at <
http://www.alexanderstreet.com
>, cited September 15, 2003. The Escape and excerpts of The Kidnapped Clergyman are also available in Eric Gardner, ed., Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery (New Milford, CT: Toby Press, 2005). Brown’s The Experience is no longer extant; my analysis of the play is based on a synopsis in an advertisement in the National Anti-Slavery Standard (May 9, 1857), 3 (quoted in W. Edward Farrison, William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969], 279).
3. David Swartz, “Bridging the Study of Culture and Religion: Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Symbolic Power,” Sociology of Religion 57 (September 1996): 71–85, at 79.
4. Pierre Bourdieu, “Genesis and Structure of the Religious Field,” Comparative Social Research 13 (1991): 1–44; Pierre Bourdieu, “Legitimation and Structured Interests in Weber’s Sociology of Religion,” in Scott Lash and Sam Whimster, eds., Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987) 119–136.
5. Rhys H. Williams, “Religion as Political Resource: Culture or Ideology?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 354 (December 1996): 368–378.