Nichole Renée Phillips

Originally delivered as the 2021 H. Paul Douglass Lecture: The Meaning of American Progress: Race, Science, and Redemption Religious Research Association

As the United States ponders 250 years of nationhood, I have returned to my 2021 H. Paul Douglass Lecture, delivered at the Religious Research Association’s Annual Meeting, to help contextualize where the nation stands today. As I argued then, America’s citizenry, researchers, an...