Stewart Davenport

Current Book Project

• Sex and Sects: The Story of Mormon Polygamy, Shaker Celibacy, and Oneida Complex Marriage. (Under review.)

Book

• "Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon:" Northern Christians and Market Capitalism 1815-1860. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. 

Articles and Essays

• "Das Adam-Smith Problem and Faculty Psychology in the Antebellum North." History of Political Economy. Spring, 2008.
• "Pro-capitalist Christendom: An Explanation And An Apology." Books & Culture: A Christian Review. Oct. 23, 2010. Review essay of Bethany Moreton's To Serve God and Wal-Mart and Jay W. Richards's Money, Greed, and God.
• "Two Schools, One Thesis, Still No Clear Answer." Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 28-A (2010): 319-327. Review essay of Donald E. Frey's America's Economic Moralists. 
• "Two Cheers for McCloskey."  Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 27-A (2009): 225-233. Review essay of Deidre N. McCloskey's The Burgeois Virtues. 
• "The Faking of the United States." Reviews in American History 36 (2008): 349-356. Review essay of Stephen Mihm's A Nation of Counterfeiters. 
• "Liberal America/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus?" Journal of the Early Republic 24, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 190-197.

Book Reviews

• Review of Brigham Young: Sovereign in America, by David Vaughn Mason, Communal Societies 35, no. 1 (2015): 109-112. 
• Review of America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837, by Alasdair Roberts, History: Review of New Books 41, no. 4 (2013): 129. 
• Review of Paradoxes of Prosperity: Wealth-Seeking Versus Christian Values in Pre-Civil War America, by Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman and Dwight L. Teeter Jr.," Business History Review 84, no. 3 (Autumn 2010): 592-595.
• Review of American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865, by Kathleen D. McCarthy, Journal of Markets and Morality 7, no. 1 (2004): 162-165.

Conference Presentations

• "Latter-day Judas: The Effects of John C. Bennett's Betrayal on Joseph Smith and Mormon Polygamy." Communal Studies Association Conference, Zoar, Ohio, Oct. 2017.

• "Millenarian Revivals in Comparative Perspective: The Mormon Reformation and the Shaker Era of Manifestations." Communal Studies Association Conference, "Anticipating the End Times," Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 2016.

• "American Sex and Sects: Comparing Mormon Polygamy, Shaker Celibacy, and Oneida Complex Marriage." Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, University Church of St. Mary, Oxford University, August 2016.

• "Are American Religious Historians Cynical about American Religious Life?" Historiographical Heresy: A Conference on the Legacy of Jon Butler, Yale University, April 6, 2013.

• "In Dow We Trust?" Panel discussion on the Mortgage and Credit Crisis from a Christian Perspective, 2009 Annual Conference on Christian Legal Thought, San Diego, CA, January 2009.

• "Protestant Appropriations of John Locke and Adam Smith in the Antebellum North." HOPE [History of Political Economy] conference, Keeping Faith: Religious Belief and Political Economy, Duke University, April 2007.

• "Whither the Early Republic: A Roundtable Prognostication." Panel discussion on early American history. 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Brown University, July 2004.

• "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Making Political Economy Safe for the Christian Republic." Conference on Christianity and Economics: Integrating Faith and Learning in Economic Scholarship, Baylor University, Nov. 2002.

Public Lectures

• "California and Kansas, Republicans and Civil War." Los Angeles Civil War Round Table, September 2012.
• "Oral Tradition and the Slave Trade." Black History Month lecture, Payson Library, Pepperdine University, February 2012.
• "Slavery: The Not-So-Peculiar Institution." Los Angeles Civil War Round Table, September 2011.
• "Tyler and Texas, Mexico and Manifest Destiny." Los Angeles Civil War Round Table, June 2011.
• "Sex and Marriage in American Utopian Communities, 1790-1890." Humanities and Teacher Education Symposium, Pepperdine University, January 2011.
• "The Origins of New World Racial Slavery." Black History Month lecture, Payson Library, Pepperdine University, February 2010.