Though unknown to scholars today, Frank Wood (1864-1945) was a prominent figure in his day as the teacher of what was said to be the largest Bible class in Chicago. He also helped found the city's first neighborhood historical society. This microhistory uses these two aspects of Wood's life to uncover the role that memory, movement, and a racialized politics of nostalgia played in both the fundamentalist movement and the evangelical world that grew out of it.

This volume provides practical, but provocative, case studies of projects that apply digital technology or digital research methods to the study of religion. An introduction and sixteen essays are organized by the kinds of sources scholars use, focusing on the text mining of digital corpora, the visualization of scholarship through network analysis, and the thick mapping of religious life. A concluding section then focuses on the professional and pedagogical issues that digital scholarship raises for the study of religion.

This collections gathers the work of scholars whose research look at the place where religious history and working-class history converge. Drawing upon in-depth local histories, the essays illustrate how Americans from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while above ground sharecroppers establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism.