Catherine L. Albanese Explained

Catherine L. Albanese (born 1940) is an American religious studies scholar, professor, lecturer, and author. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Chestnut Hill College in 1962. She received her Master’s Degree in History from Duquesne University in 1968, and completed her Doctorate for History of Christianity at the University of Chicago in 1972.^[1]

She taught Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and served as chair of the department. She was influential in founding the North American Religions Section of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in the 1970s. In 1994, she was elected president of the AAR.^{[2] [3]}

She is the author of the religion textbook America: Religions and Religion, which is in its fifth edition.^[4] Other books she has authored include Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion and the New America (1977),^[5] Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age (1990),^[6] and (2007).^{[7] [8]} She edited The Spirituality of the American Transcendentalists: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker and Henry David Thoreau, which was published in 1988.^{[9] [10]}

Albanese was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2014.

As of October 2021, Albanese is the Distinguished Emerita Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Albanese, Catherine L. 1940– Encyclopedia.com. 2021-10-22. www.encyclopedia.com.
2. Web site: Catherine L. Albanese. 2021-10-22. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. en.
3. Web site: Review of the 2014 American Lectures in the History of Religions Religious Studies News. 2021-10-22. rsn.aarweb.org.
4. Web site: America: Religions and Religion, 5th Edition - Cengage. 2021-10-22. www.cengage.com. en.
5. Findlay. James. 1978. Review of Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion and the New America. The New England Quarterly. 51. 4. 606–608. 10.2307/364164. 364164 . 0028-4866.
6. Book: Nature Religion in America. Chicago History of American Religion . University of Chicago Press . en.
7. Wentz. Richard E.. March 1992. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. By Catherine L. Albanese. Chicago History of American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. xvi + 267 pp. $24.95.. Church History. en. 61. 1. 128–129. 10.2307/3168047. 3168047 . 161162806 . 1755-2613.
8. Web site: Republic of Mind and Spirit Yale University Press. 2021-10-22. yalebooks.yale.edu.
9. Williams. Peter W.. September 1990. The Spirituality of the American Transcendentalists: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker, and Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Catherine L. Albanese. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1988. ix + 360 pp. 34.95 paper.. Church History. en. 59. 3. 416–417. 10.2307/3167767. 3167767 . 1755-2613.
10. Web site: Mercer University Press: The Spirituality of American Transcendentalists: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bron. 2021-10-22. www.mupress.org.
11. Web site: Catherine L. Albanese – Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara. 2021-10-22. en-US.