Religious Studies
| Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England | ||
| Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution | ||
| Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century | ||
| Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 | ||
| Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 | ||
| Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography | ||
| A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion | ||
| The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America | ||
| Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871 | What did it take for New England Indians and colonists to live alongside one another in peace? Was it possible for native communities to maintain distinct cultural and geographic boundaries after the English had seized the balance of power? In this presentation, David J. Silverman answers these questions by using Martha's Vineyard as a case study. He also shows that some island Wampanoag communities, such as Aquinnah (or Gay Head), lasted because their members were willing to adapt in order to preserve their land base and community ties. |
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| Re-envisioning Black ‘Book History’: The Case of AME Church Print | In this lecture, Professor Gardner asked how careful consideration of nineteenth-century African American experiences can and should reshape our discussions of early Black print. His talk drew on diverse print material that was produced by, for, or via the African Methodist Episcopal Church between 1840 and 1870. He focused on how and why diverse African Americans came to, conceived of, and used print, with emphasis on the ways such exploration challenges dominant senses of terms like “writer,” “editor,” “reader,” and especially “print,” “history,” and “American culture.” |