Call for Proposals, SHA 2012, Mobile, AL

Randall Stephens

Just received some more directions from Marjorie Spruill and Don Doyle on the 2012 SHA conference. They encourage those of us on the program committee to "help create a rich and broad program for 2012 by soliciting exciting proposals particularly in your field." My field, being your field, dear reader, so let's get at it!

Here's the general note about the Mobile conference:

The Program Committee for 2012 invites proposals on all topics related to the history of the American South from its pre-colonial era to today. In addition, for the 2012 meeting in Mobile, it extends a special welcome to proposals relating to:

~ Mobile and the Gulf South

~ International, transnational, or comparative approaches

~ 2012 as an anniversary of major historical events, publications, etc.

Any religious history anniversaries of note? How about the activities of Gulf South missionaries in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era? Religious responses to natural disasters? Religion and labor radicalism? Big Oil and the churches? . . .

Emotion and Christianity: Call for Papers from Editors of Church History

The following special journal CFP comes to us from John Corrigan, one of the editors of the journal Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, published by the American Society of Church History:

The editors of Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topic: “Emotion and Christianity: Feelings Toward and About Jesus and the Saints.” Papers may focus on any historical period and any geographical region. Please send queries or complete manuscripts to: Ms. Tammy Heise, Senior Assistant, Church History, Church-History@admin.fsu.edu.

Boston College Biennial Conference on the History of Religion

This note on Boston College's religion conference just appeared in my in box.

Boston College Biennial Conference on the History of Religion

March 30-31, 2012

"History's Fourth Lens? Race, Class, Gender--and Religion"

The History Department of Boston College invites papers and panels for its Biennial Conference on the History of Religion to be held on March 30-31, 2012. In recent years, scholars have increasingly focused on the important roles that religious intuitions, beliefs, or practices have played in human history. They have also expressed concern that historical analyses done primarily through the lenses of race, class, and gender have neglected or at least deemphasized the religious influences on the lives of their subjects. Such scholars argue that to ignore how religion informed the lives of historical subjects is to fundamentally misinterpret the past. Religion, therefore, is one of a number of forces that interact, collide, and impel the historical experience. We will consider how religion complements race, class, and gender as a lens for historical analysis.

We welcome proposals for full panels and individual papers from both established scholars and graduate students on topics from the medieval period to the present that touch upon the question of religion as history's fourth lens in Christian and non-Christian forms. The geographic scope is broadly defined. Suggested themes include, but are not limited to, the role of religious institutions, practices, and beliefs in:

* Political and economic systems
* Church-state relations
* Class consciousness
* Migration
* Family and community
* Gender identities

Individual paper proposals should include a 300-word proposal, paper title, and current c.v. Panel proposals for two to three presenters should include a 250-word panel abstract (including panel title), a 300-word proposal for each individual paper (including paper title), and a current c.v. for each presenter.

Deadline for submission is October 3, 2011.

To submit a proposal or for further conference details including a schedule, registration form and travel information contact Peter Cajka at peter.cajka.1@bc.edu.

2nd Biennial Conference on Religion and Am. Culture -- Calling all Guest Bloggers

Paul Harvey

By now, I assume those attending the 2nd Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture this coming Thurs. - Saturday in Indianapolis have made their plans, but just in case some more information posted below. The conference features an all-star lineup and is going to be good times for sure.

Kelly Baker and I will post thoughts here on the conference after it's over, or even during it depending on how much the J. W. Marriott in Indy charges for its internet connection (i.e., if it's not free, then it's not for me).

But, this post is really to invite anyone else who is going to be there, and has any thoughts on any of the sessions, to send those along to me (pharvey AT uccs DOT edu) and I'll put them up as a guest post. I'm especially interested in the latter session of the conference, including the finale on "The Future of American Religion," because thanks to American Airlines I have to leave Sat. afternoon and miss the last couple of sessions. So, consider this an open invitation to send along your thoughts. And that goes for those unknown to me presently as well as our contributors who are conference participants, as well as other contributors not on the program but attending (yeah I'm looking at you Janine, Heath, and perhaps some others).

Here's the schedule. See some of you there, and looking forward to making the acquaintance of a few others. Party on!

Graduate School Opportunities at the University of Virginia

The following comes to us from Matt Hedstrom, at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia:

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce a newly redesigned graduate curriculum in American Religions, offering the MA and PhD degrees. The program focuses on the religious cultures of the United States and the Americas in both historical and contemporary contexts. As such, the program is interdisciplinary in its methodology, incorporating historical, theological, literary, and anthropological approaches, and draws on the expertise of the department's large faculty across traditions and methods. Students in this subfield are encouraged to work with faculty in various other departments at the University of Virginia, including Anthropology, Art and Architectural History, English, History, Media Studies, Politics, and Sociology. Students may also draw upon the resources of interdisciplinary programs such as the Carter G. Woodson Center for African American and African Studies, the Program in American Studies, the Program in Jewish Studies, and Studies in Women and Gender (SWAG).

For more information, please go here.

The Historical Society Announces a Competitive RFP-Based Research Program

Randall Stephens

I posted this notice at the HS blog the other day. A very relevant request for proposals for this blog as well!

Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs: Exploring the Role of Religion in the Origins of Novelty and the Diffusion of Innovation in the Progress of Civilizations

With generous funding from the John Templeton Foundation, the Historical Society is launching a major interdisciplinary grants program in September 2011. It will provide $2.0 million in research support for empirical, conceptual, and interpretive work exploring the role religion may play as a driving force of innovation in human affairs.

The competitive RFP-based research program will award approximately 15 two-year grants of $100,000 each and a few larger grants of $250,000 to support archaeological fieldwork and traditional social science and historical investigation, as well as conceptually-oriented analysis.

Donald A. Yerxa will serve as the Program Leader for Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs. And a distinguished board of advisers will be announced this summer.

A request for proposals will be forthcoming later this summer. For more information, visit the RIHA website (under construction) at www.bu.edu/historic/riha

The John Templeton Foundation (www.templeton.org) serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. The Foundation supports research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will. It encourages civil, informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and theologians and between such experts and the public at large, for the purposes of definitional clarity and new insights. The Foundation’s vision is derived from the late Sir John Templeton's optimism about the possibility of acquiring “new spiritual information” and from his commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship. Its motto, "How little we know, how eager to learn," exemplifies its support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries.

Randall Stephens: The Lion in a Norway Winter

Paul Harvey

I'm a little posted out today, so just a brief Monday detour to throw a shout out to co-blogmeister Randall Stephens, who will be traipsing around Norway next year on a Fulbright "Roving Scholars" fellowship. Here's a story about it in the Boston Globe, with Randall at the lectern in fine form (so tempting to post that photo here, but I'll just let you click to see Prof. Stephens in his element). Congratulations, Randall, hope you can teach those Euros a thing or two about the wacky world of American religious history. From an excerpt in the article, sounds like that's the plan:

“It’s quite an honor,” Stephens said. “It’s the only country in the world that has this particular program. It’s the only one that has a Fulbright program like this sponsored by the host country, so the Norwegian government pays for it as well.”

From American immigration to post-World War II pop culture; from civil rights to the Civil War, Stephen’s talks will range the full expanse of 19-20th century cultural and religious history.

“[It’s about] how Americans make sense of their history,” Stephens said. “It’s a nice coincidence that it’s the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and how we still fight about this history that dates back 150 years or more … there is a great interest in Europe about these ideological battles that have raged throughout history.”

Second Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture

Paul Harvey

Here's the announcement for the 2nd Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture in Indianapolis, June 2-4, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. The full program is here; it features luminaries in the field such as Robert Orsi, Ann Taves, Kathryn Lofton, Tracy Fessenden, Gerardo Marti, and many more. Blogmeister Kelly J. Baker will be there blogging away, as will I; the first of these biennial conferences got some blog play here courtesy of Linford Fisher, and the full proceedings from that conference, in 2009, can be freely downloaded here.

Announcement below; click here for registration, which includes 1/2 price rates ($75) at the new J. W. Marriott in downtown Indy.

CSRAC Hosts Second Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture

The Second Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture is slated for June 2-5, 2011, at the new JW Marriott Hotel in downtown Indianapolis.

Sponsored by the Center and by Religion & American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, the purpose of the biennial conference series is to combine the insights of those working from different perspectives to help create new and better understandings of religion’s role in American life. The first Conference on Religion and American Culture, held in Indianapolis June 4-7, 2009, laid the foundation for the series, with a focus on recognizing disciplinary boundaries and exploring how scholars within those disciplines might learn from each other. Proceedings of those sessions are available for free on this website.

The overarching theme of this second conference will be “change.” Changing understandings of both religion and culture, as well as the effects these changes have on ways of thinking about religion’s role in American culture, will be the focus. “Most crucial is the change over the past few decades toward thinking about religion as it is expressed in everyday life, religion as lived experience,” said Philip Goff, Executive Director of the CSRAC.

“The conference will have three parts,” continued Goff. “Two opening sessions on changing definitions of religion and what this means for its study, four topical sessions where we play out this question in specific research areas, and then two sessions on what the future holds (or may hold). The 2009 conference was primarily about bringing together senior people from different disciplines to discuss the field broadly, and we succeeded. The meeting in 2011 is about bringing a similarly strong group together with much greater attention to what religion is coming to mean in America, and how this affects any effort to understand it.”

The conference will open June 2 with a reception in Osteria Pronto at the JW Marriott. The hotel, which opened in February, is Indianapolis’s newest and largest, with 1005 guest rooms in 34 stories and 104,000 square feet of meeting, banquet, and exhibit space. A special conference rate of $74.50 has been made available for a block of rooms, thanks to a grant from Lilly Endowment. Once that block of rooms is sold out, the rate will be $149 per night. (Please note that you will be asked for a credit card to guarantee your reservation. The rate of $74.50 is available to registered conference participants only, one discounted room per participant, and will not be applied until you check in at the hotel. This is so whether you make your reservation online or by phone.)

Conference registration before May 5 is recommended; registration fees increase from $85 professional and $45 student to $110 professional and $65 student after May 5. Onsite registration will be $130 professional and $80 student.

Register for the conference.

Jonathan Walton Speaking at ENC

Randall Stephens

Jonathan Walton (Assistant Professor of African American Religions, Harvard Divinity School) will give a public lecture on "The Preachers' Blues: Reclaiming Authority on Wax," Wednesday, April 13, 4:00pm, Shrader Lecture Hall, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA.

Walton, a social ethicist and African American religious studies scholar, is the author of Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of African American Religious Broadcasting (New York University Press, 2009) a groundbreaking study on religion, media, and theology. Cornel West (Princeton University) describes the book as "the best work we have on the complex dynamics of the Black megachurch phenomenon. Walton is a brilliant cultural critic and courageous prophetic voice!" James Cone (Union Theological Seminary) lauds Watch This! as "An important examination of the Black Electronic Church. Jonathan Walton brings new insights into the major TV evangelists in the African American community."

Professor Walton will speak at ENC on the history of the religious "race" record industry and the the cultural ethos and competing ethical values of black Christian communities during the 1920s and 1930s. Like all forms of mass culture, says Walton,

religious records served multiple purposes and were interpreted by listeners at varying registers. For many, religious recordings were spiritually edifying and liberating, just as they were wildly entertaining. Critics have show that these religious recordings contested the aesthetic values of the black middle class even as they reinforced bourgeois behavioral codes. By turning our attention to the shared interests of male preachers and the recording industry, I describe how sermons stressing personal piety and culturally familiar stereotypes shaped cultural debates concerning the style, content, and purpose of evangelical preaching in the 20th century.

Edwin Gaustad, 1923-2011

Paul Harvey

It's a sad week for American history scholars, with the passing of Manning Marable just on the verge of the publication of his magnum opus, and now of Edwin Gaustad, an eminence grise of and prolific scholar in American religious history. The New York Times has his obituary here. A brief excerpt:

Although his principal field was colonial religious history, Professor Gaustad ranged far and wide as a scholar. He explored the contested territory of religious liberty, pluralism and dissent in colonial America, but he also wrote general histories that carried the story forward to the present day and published a series of atlases, frequently updated, that gave a geographical picture of religious belief in the United States. His first book, “The Great Awakening in New England” (1957), made the case that the religious revival fanned by preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield had more than religious importance, profoundly affecting political and intellectual life in America. He also challenged the revisionist view that the movement was really an economic and class insurgency, arguing that it enjoyed support among all classes.

Columbia Guide to Religion in American History Book Cover

Paul Harvey

As you longtime blog readers know, we are very slow and reluctant to engage in any form of self-promotion here at RiAH, but every once in a blue moon will give in to the temptation to feature a book, out or forthcoming, from one of our contributors, or heck, even myself and a contributor.

Last year we celebrated the completion of the manuscript for the Columbia Guide to Religion in American History, and now it's into production and we have the launch of the book cover. This is going to be one of those very expensive reference works that are meant for libraries, so I hope some of you can alert your librarians at the appropriate time. Of course, if you feel like shelling out $75 or whatever it is for the book, go right ahead, but if you don't, I'll understand. Just make your univ. library do so.

Also, quite a few contributors to and longtime readers of this blog wrote pieces for this book (Lin Fisher, for example, opens the volume with a great piece on "Colonial Encounters," and Jane Smith of Harvard Divinity School, whom I interviewed previously on the blog, closes the main portion of the book with an essay on Islam in America), and I'm especially proud of a very lengthy and substantive introduction that Ed Blum and I produced for the volume, which features an exploration of ten major paradoxes of American religious history. The book also features some excellent bibliographic work produced by co-blogmeister Randall Stephens, including a filmography, discography, and list of electronic resources, as well as an extensive A-Z glossary of Am. religious history.

Religion and the Marketplace: Fall Conference in Heidelberg

Below is an announcement for a conference this fall in Heidelberg that will be of interest to many of you. Click the "call for papers" link below for further details.

Conference "Religion and the Marketplace:
New Perspectives and New Findings"

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October 6-8, 2011, Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Call for Papers

As decided at the 2010 meeting of the European Association of American Studies in Dublin, the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), in cooperation with the American Studies Network (ASN), will host a conference entitled “Religion and the Marketplace: New Perspectives and New Findings.” The HCA will host the conference on October 6-8, 2011, as part of Heidelberg University’s 625 anniversary celebration.

This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to investigate and explain how the conditions of the marketplace have determined, influenced, and limited American religion in the past and present. Given the prominence of the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses in the American constitution, a broad-based ‘competition for souls and purses’ has historically helped define the contours of religion in America. This conference will build upon previous insights while probing further into the complex relationship between religion and the marketplace along the lines described below.

We invite scholars in American Studies and related fields (geography, history, law, literature, media studies, political science, religious studies, theology, etc.) to submit paper abstracts for this conference. Individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) should be specifically directed at one (or more) of the panel topics included in the CFP. Abstracts must be received by March 31, 2011. Participants will be notified by May 1, 2011. All questions and submissions should be sent electronically to:djunker@hca.uni-heidelberg.de.

We especially desire participation from European scholars working in these fields, but welcome submissions from all around the world. The HCA will cover travel expenses (economy), lodging and meals for conference participants.

Tues, March 1 Symposium on Religion and Politics in DC

Religion in American Politics and Society: A Model for Other Countries?

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Copley Formal Lounge, Georgetown University, Lunch will be served.

Keynote address by Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver

Featured panelists include Imam Feisal Rauf, Rabbi David Saperstein, Jim Wallis, and John Witte

These and other panelists will discuss the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspective in three sessions.

Is the dominant American approach to religion, society, and the state worthy of emulation in other countries? The question is not only academic, but it has policy implications both for the American future and for U.S. efforts to promote religious freedom and democracy worldwide. It intersects with global controversies about international norms, national self-determination, proselytism, and the rights of religious communities. On March 1, 2011, Georgetown University will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss these issues. Three panels will examine these questions from the perspective of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, respectively. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver will deliver a lunchtime keynote address. The symposium is sponsored by Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and is made possible through the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation.

For additional information including the day-long agenda, please see the event website.

2nd Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture

Paul Harvey

The following conference announcement comes to us from Phil Goff, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture in Indianapolis. The first Biennial Conference was hosted in Indianapolis in the summer of 2009; click here for our contributor Linford Fisher's report from that conference, and click here for the full conference proceedings from 2009. Full schedule and registration/hotel information for this conference in the first weekend of June is below. I'm looking forward to it already.

Second Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture

Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture

Indianapolis, Indiana

June 2-5, 2011



We are pleased to announce the Second Biennial Conference on Religion and

American Culture, to be held at the new J.W. Marriott in downtown

Indianapolis, June 2 through June 5. The theme for this meeting is "change,"

focusing both on changes in religion in North America over time and changes

in how we understand the topic. Scholars from multiple perspectives will

serve on multidisciplinary panels. The conference schedule is given below.



Like the conference in 2009, the room will be set up in a circle with

audience members on risers around the central round table. This set-up

promotes more participation from the audience and deeper conversation among

the panelists and those surrounding them. The hotel is again conveniently

located in downtown Indianapolis among restaurants, museums, and public

parks - all very conducive to continuing conversations begun in sessions.



Thanks to a grant from Lilly Endowment, we have reserved a block of rooms at

the J.W. Marriott at the special rate of $74.50 per night. Once those rooms

have sold out, rooms will be $149, so please be sure to reserve your room

right away. Early registration rates are available until May 5. To reserve

your room, register for the conference, or print a copy of the schedule,

please go to www.iupui.edu/~raac/<http://www.iupui.edu/~raac/>. (Note: the

special hotel rate of $74.50 will not appear on the screen but will be

billed correctly.)



CONFERENCE SCHEDULE



Thursday, June 2



Arrival and Registration

Opening Reception



Friday, June 3



PART A: CHANGING WHAT "RELIGION" MEANS

"What are our academic assumptions about religion?"

Panelists: Penny Edgell (Sociology, University of Minnesota)

Robert Orsi (Religious Studies, Northwestern University)

Ann Taves (Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara)



"Revisiting the secularity/secularization question"

Panelists: Tracy Fessenden (Religious Studies, Arizona State University)

Paul Froese (Sociology, Baylor University)

Rhys Williams (Sociology, Loyola University Chicago)



PART B: CHANGING RELIGION IN A CHANGING CULTURE



"Religion's role in political identity"

Panelists: Edward Curtis (Religious Studies, Indiana University -

Purdue University Indianapolis)

Paul Djupe (Political Science, Denison University)

Clyde Wilcox (Government, Georgetown University)



"Religion's role in immigration and globalization"

Panelists: Gerardo Marti (Sociology, Davidson College)

Timothy Matovina (Theology, University of Notre Dame)

Fenggang Yang (Sociology, Purdue University)



Saturday, June 4



"Religion's role in personal identity"

Panelists: Sylvester Johnson (Religious Studies, Indiana

University-Bloomington)

Sally Gallagher (Sociology, Oregon State University)

Laurie Maffly-Kipp (Religious Studies, University of North

Carolina)



"Market models for understanding religion"

Panelists: Roger Finke (Sociology, Pennsylvania State University)

James Hudnut-Beumler (Vanderbilt Divinity School)

Kathryn Lofton (American Studies and Religious Studies,

Yale University)



PART C: CHANGES IN THE FUTURE, REAL AND IMAGINED

"Changes in the understanding and uses of scripture"

Panelists: Charles Cohen (History and Religious Studies, University of

Wisconsin)

Kathleen Flake (Vanderbilt Divinity School)

Charles Hambrick-Stowe (First Congregational Church, Ridgefield,

CT)



"The future of religion in America"

Panelists: David Daniels (Church History, McCormick Theological Seminary)

Mark Silk (Religion, Trinity College)

Julie Byrne (Religion, Hofstra University)



Concluding reception

New England-Maritimes American Academy of Religion News

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This arrived in my inbox from Rebecca Sachs Norris, American Academy of Religion. It should be of interest to our readers who live in what we now call the Snow Belt.

Greetings from your regional steering committee!

Please note -- some of these announcements are especially for GRADUATE STUDENTS

2011 Joint Mid-Atlantic / New England-Maritimes Regional Meeting

Registration for the regional meeting is now open and can be accessed at www.aarweb.org/Meetings/Regions/registration.asp?Region=MA.

Deadlines

After Feb. 1, the fees for all presenters go up to $75. All presenters must be pre-registered by March 1.

If you are a NEMAAR graduate student and are giving a paper at the regional conference you are eligible for the NEMAAR graduate student awards for excellence. To be considered for these awards please send your paper by February 18 to Rebecca Sachs Norris at rsnorris@sacredgames.org. If you have a serious difficulty with this deadline please contact us at that address – we may be able to grant extensions under some conditions.

The deadline for discounted room rates is March 1. Please see this link for housing information: http://www.aarweb.org/About_AAR/Regions/Mid-Atlantic/call.asp.

If you are looking for a roommate for the conference please contact NEMAAR at Nemaarproposal@gmail.com. All we can offer in this regard is to pass on contact information.

Upcoming Event for Graduate Students (Co-sponsored by NEMAAR)

Theological Times: A Gathering for Doctoral Students of Theology

Boston, February 18-19, 2011
Information and Registration: www.TheologySalon.org

The Harvard Theology Salon invites all doctoral students of theology across the New England Region to join us in Boston, Feb 18-19, 2011. This gathering will critically and self-reflexively explore theology as it is being practiced, taught, and creatively rethought. In the process, the gathering will strengthen and augment our collaborative community of emerging theological scholars. All doctoral students who understand themselves to do theology (however conceived) are encouraged to attend. For more information, please visit the website above or contact Hannah Hofheinz at hhofheinz@mail.harvard.edu. We are grateful to NEMAAR for supporting this event, and hope that many of you will join us!

NEMAAR Call for Conference or Event Proposals (available to all NEMAAR members)

We aim to support our membership by co-sponsoring your events in different parts of the region. Conferences, teaching workshops, salons or other gatherings to benefit AAR members are eligible. NEMAAR’s contribution can include funds of up to $800 towards expenses and access to regional e-mail notices to publicize the event. For further information please see:
http://www.aarweb.org/About_AAR/regions/New_England-Maritimes/callproposals.asp

Further Regional Meeting Information
We encourage everyone to attend. The theme for the conference is Religion and Embodiment, and the plenary speakers are Miguel De La Torre, Marie Griffith, and Kieran Scott. Please see below for more details on the speakers.

Miguel De La Torre is a member of the faculty at the Iliff School of Theology. Among his published books are the recent volumes Liberating Jonah: Forming an Ethics of Reconciliation (Orbis, 2007), Lily Among the Thorns: Imagining a New Christian Sexuality (Wiley, John and Sons, 2007), and Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (Orbis, 2004). De La Torre chairs the AAR's Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee. In conjunction with his plenary address, he will be leading a workshop for faculty and graduate students on diversifying the field of religious studies for scholars from groups underrepresented within the Academy.

Marie Griffith is the John A. Bartlett Professor at the Harvard Divinity School. Griffith is the author of Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity (University of California Press, 2004) and God’s Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission (University of California Press, 1997). Her current research focuses on the role of sexuality among American evangelical Christians.

Kieran Scott is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Religion and religious studies department at Fordham University in New York City. He is the coeditor, with Harold Horell, of Human Sexuality in the Catholic Tradition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007); and the coeditor, with Michael Warren, of Perspectives on Marriage: A Reader (3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2006).

Lilly Fellows Program Book Award

Announcing the Fourth Biennial Lilly Fellows Program Book Award

The Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts invites nominations for the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award.

The biennial Lilly Fellows Program Book Award honors an original and imaginative work from any academic discipline that best exemplifies the central ideas and principles animating the Lilly Fellows Program. These include faith and learning in the Christian intellectual tradition, the vocation of teaching and scholarship, and the history, theory or practice of the university as the site of religious inquiry and culture.

Works under consideration should address the historical or contemporary relation of Christian intellectual life and scholarship to the practice of teaching as a Christian vocation or to the past, present, and future of higher education. Single authored books or edited collections in any discipline, published in 2007 to 2010, are eligible. The committee will receive nominations of academic faculty, clergy, and others. Authors or editors cannot nominate their own works.

Please note that the nomination deadline is March 1, 2011. A Prize of $3000 will be awarded at the Lilly Fellows Program National Conference at Samford University, October 21-23, 2011.

For nomination procedures, please visit: http://www.lillyfellows.org, or email lillyfellows.program AT valpo DOT edu

AHA's American Religion Sessions, Saturday-Sunday

Randall Stephens

I've copied and pasted below and the majority of the AHA sessions on American religion. The previous post covered Thursday and Friday. This one, much longer, has all the rest. The problem: too many great sessions in the same time slots. I suppose that's a good problem, right? (Apologies for the nutty formatting and the length of this!)

American Historical Association, Boston, MA, Saturday Jan. 8 - Sunday January 9

****Saturday, Jan. 8, 9:00–11:00 A.M.****

Rites and Rights of Passage: Enslaved Girls and
Women in the United States South and Barbados
Hynes Convention Center, Room 204
Sponsored by the AHA Committee on Minority Historians

Chair: Daina R. Berry, University of Texas at Austin
Papers: Badge of Slavery: Pubescent Female Slaves and Clothing
Courtney Moore, University of Florida
“Hanging Matters”: Enslaved Women, Bodily Punishments,
Death, and “Sacred Terror” in Urban Barbados
Marisa J. Fuentes, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
A Woman’s War Revised: Slave Women on the Civil
War’s Battlefi elds
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Comment: Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University

A Temple without Walls: Environmentalism as
“Secular Religion”
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Exeter Room
Joint session with the American Society for Environmental History

Chair: John L. Larson, Purdue University
Topics: Agnostic Gospels: Divining Nature in the Work of
Julian and Aldous Huxley
Richard Samuel Deese, Northeastern University
The Public Reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring:
Rationality, Spirituality, and Interpretations of Nature
Michelle Mart, Pennsylvania State University at Berks
Parareligion, Earth Nationalism, and the Quest for the
Sacred in Nature
Bron Taylor, University of Florida
Environmental Morality and Artisanal Pork: Local
Food to Save the Planet
Thomas R. Dunlap, Texas A&M University
Comment: Sarah T. Phillips, Boston University

Words and Deeds: New Perspectives on Catholic
Laywomen in Twentieth-Century America
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Clarendon Room
Joint session with the American Catholic Historical Association

Chair: Carol Coburn, Avila University
Papers: “What a Blessing it is to be Fond of Reading Good
Books”: Reading Circles and Catholic Women in Turnof-
the-Century America
Monica Mercado, University of Chicago
“Up against a Stone Wall”: Gender, Power, and the
National Catholic Community Houses
Jeanne Petit, Hope College
The Ladies in Hats Have Their Say: The National
Council of Catholic Women, Vatican II, and the
Women’s Movement, 1962–75
Mary Henold, Roanoke College
Comment: Mel W. Piehl, Valparaiso University


Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History
Hynes Convention Center, Room 209
Joint session with the American Society of Church History

Chairs: Andrea Sterk, University of Florida
Nina Caputo, University of Florida
Panel: Carlos Eire, Yale University
Susanna Elm, University of California at Berkeley
Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame
John H. Van Engen, University of Notre Dame

Social and Political Utilizations of Gender and
Sexuality in African American Religion and
the Black Church
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Wellesley Room

Chair: Houston Roberson, Sewanee: University of the South
Papers: The Press and the Pulpit: Black Newspapers, Ministers,
and Sexuality, 1925–35
Kim Teresa Gallon, Muhlenberg College
“Guilty Partners”: Black Churches, Black Freedom, and
Black Sexuality in Postemancipation Virginia
Nicole Myers Turner, University of Pennsylvania
“Nothing Is Too Good for the Youth of Our Race”:
Black Nuns and the Struggle for Catholic Education in
the Jim Crow South
Shannen Dee Williams, Rutgers University-
New Brunswick
Comment: Tracey E. Hucks, Haverford College

American Catholic Historical Association Session 6
Cultural Conflicts, Cultural Change: Catholic
Higher Education in Twentieth-Century America
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Falmouth Room

Chair: David J. O’Brien, College of the Holy Cross
Papers: Surviving a Hostile Time: Catholic Higher Education
and the Second Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Bill Trollinger, University of Dayton
Advancing Christian Culture: Catholic Higher
Education and the Engendering of Theology
Sandra Yokum, University of Dayton
“A General Cultural Education Prior to Marriage”: The
Little-Known History of Catholic Junior Colleges
Fernanda Perrone, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Comment: David J. O’Brien

American Society of Church History Session 21
Religion in the Great Depression: Global
Collapse, Local Crises
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room D

Chair: Jon Butler, Yale University
Papers: In Every Cup of Bitterness, Sweetness: California
Christianity in the Great Depression
Jonathan Ebel, University of Illinois
The Redemption of Souls and Soils: Religion and the
Rural Crisis in the Mississippi Delta
Alison Collis Greene, Yale University
“God Is Not Affected by the Depression”: Pentecostal
Missions during the 1930s
Heather D. Curtis, Tufts University
Comment: Jon Butler

American Society of Church History Session 22
Retelling the History of American Christianities
The Westin Copley Place, Essex Ballroom Northwest

Chair: David G. Hackett, University of Florida
Papers: American Christianity in the Plural
Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago
Redeeming Modernity: Christian Theology in America
W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago
Christianity, National Identity, and the Contours of
Religious Pluralism
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
Comment: David G. Hackett

Conference on Faith and History
Bracketing Faith and Historical Practice:
A Roundtable
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Maine Room

Chair: Randall J. Stephens, Eastern Nazarene College
Panel: Randall Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University
Margaret Bendroth, Congregational Library (Boston)
Eugene B. McCarraher, Villanova University
Jon H. Roberts, Boston University
Grant Wacker, Duke University Divinity School
Lauren Winner, Duke University Divinity School
Comment: The Audience

****Saturday, Jan. 8, 11:30 A.M.–1:30 P.M.****

American Empire in Africa: Colonization,
Liberia, and a Benevolent Empire
Hynes Convention Center, Room 201

Chair: Ronald G. Walters, Johns Hopkins University
Papers: W.N. Lewis vs. Rev. John Seys: Power, Ideology, and
Race in Colonial Liberia
Matthew P. Spooner, Columbia University
“Benevolence” Abroad: The American Colonization
Society’s New Agenda, 1892–1964
Jennifer Walton-Hanley, Western Kentucky University
America in Africa: African Colonization and American
Empire, 1815–1925
Matthew J. Hetrick, University of Delaware
Comment: David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania

Suffering and the Sacred in American Society:
Protestant Debates about Faith and Affl iction
from the Puritans to the Present
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
Papers: “Our Brethren lay bleeding”: Early New England
Responses to European Protestant Suffering
Adrian Weimer, University of Mississippi
The Question of Suffering: Debating Religion in the
American Prison, 1830–50
Jennifer Graber, College of Wooster
“The Whole Gospel for the Whole Man in the Whole World”:
Holiness Missionaries and the Healing of “Heathen” Suffering
Heather D. Curtis, Tufts University
Saving the World from Suffering: The Development of the
Christian Humanitarian Organization, World Vision
David King, Emory University
Comment: W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago

A Retrospective on the Scholarship
of Richard L. Bushman
Hynes Convention Center, Room 304
Joint session with the American Society of Church History
and the Mormon History Association

Chair: Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University
Panel: Catherine Kelly, University of Oklahoma
Laurie Maffl y-Kipp, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Harry S. Stout, Yale University
Gordon S. Wood, Brown University
Comment: Richard L. Bushman, Claremont Graduate University

Modernizing the Secular City:
Urban Planning and Social Identity
in the Americas, 1850–1950
Hynes Convention Center, Room 203
Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History

Chair: Mark A. Healey, University of California at Berkeley
Topics: El río Mapocho: espacio público e intervención
urbana en Santiago de Chile, 1885–1915
Simon Castillo Fernandez, Universidad de Chile
Migrantes andinos y esfera pública: el surgimiento
de los clubes regionales, Perú, 1850–1900
Jose Ragas, University of California at Davis
Transporte colectivo y políticas públicas: intervención,
nacionalización, estatización en Santiago de Chile,
1941–53
Marcelo Mardones Penaloza, Pontifi cia Universidad
Catolica de Chile
White Space, Black Place: The Transnational Imagined
Community of the Black Press in São Paulo and Chicago,
1900–50
Cristian Castro, University of California at Davis

Entering by the Narrow Gate: Catholicism and
American Identity in the Early Republic
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Tremont Room

Chair: Nancy L. Schultz, Salem State College
Papers: “This wretched set of people, the Catholics”: Harriett
Low’s Unitarian Bookshelf, China, 1829–34
Kimberly Alexander, Strawbery Banke Museum
American Slavery, American Freedom, American Catholicism
Maura Jane Farrelly, Brandeis University
Manifest Destinations: Contesting Catholicism in Early
American Travelogues
Dane A. Morrison, Salem State College
Comment: The Audience

American Society of Church History Session 26
Methodist Media: Comparing Means of Communicating the Message
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room C

Chair: Richard P. Heitzenrater, Duke University
Papers: Evangelical Encounters: Authenticity in Early
Methodist Worship
Erika K. R. Hirsch, Boston University
An Evangelical Public Relations Campaign: The
Methodist Episcopal Church and Print Culture,
1792–1834
Elizabeth A. Georgian, University of Delaware
“The Spirit-Filled Teacher”: Methodist Educational
Missions in Nineteenth-Century Asia
David W. Scott, Boston University
Methodists and India: Mapping, Contact, and Travel
in the Christian Advocate, 1860–90
Michael J. Altman, Emory University
Comment: Russell E. Richey, Emory University

American Society of Church History Session 27
Christianity and Global Sociopolitical Action
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room D

Chair: J. Michelle Molina, Northwestern University
Papers: The First Reactions to the World Council of Churches’
Program to Combat Racism
Antti Laine, University of Helsinki
The Political Vision of Latin America’s Catholic Youth,
c. 1900–50
Stephen Andes, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Ties That Bind: The International Sister Church
Movement among American Christians, 1980–2008
Janel Kragt Bakker, Catholic University of America
Comment: J. Michelle Molina

****Saturday, Jan. 8, 2:30–4:30 P.M.****

Transplanting the Sacred: Missionary and
Immigrant Uses of Religion in Foreign Lands
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Exeter Room

Chair: Rick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene University
Papers: Women and the Sacred in the Transatlantic Religious
Marketplace of the Nineteenth Century: An Exploration of
Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant Women’s Religious Societies
Loretta Long Hunnicutt, Pepperdine University
Roman Catholics in the Wild West: Immigrant
Missionary Priests in Gold Rush California
Bryan J. Lamkin, Azusa Pacifi c University
Building and Rebuilding the African Church: French
Catholic Missionaries in Interwar Colonial Algeria
Bradley R. Hale, Azusa Pacifi c University
Syncretistic Americanism: Evangelical Missions and the
Reconstruction of Postwar Japan
Jon P. DePriest, San Diego Christian College
Comment: Erik C. Maiershofer, Hope International University

Sacred Mountains: How Science, Medicine, and Leisure Transformed Alpine Spaces into Spiritual Places
Hynes Convention Center, Room 308

Chair: Susan Schrepfer, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Papers: Holy Mountains and Hollow Men: The Search for
Sanctuary in the Eastern Alps
Tait Keller, Rhodes College
Medicinal Mountains and Curative Climates: How
Physicians Made the Andes Sacred
Mark Carey, University of Oregon
Claiming Nature through Risky Behavior: How the
Leisure Class Appropriated the Rocky Mountains and
Found Transcendence in the Process
Diana Di Stefano, Bucknell University
Comment: Michael F. Robinson, University of Hartford

Sacralizing Rebels, Riots, and Rituals: Early Veneration of the American Revolution
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Grand Ballroom Salon A

Chair: Simon Finger, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Panel: Zara Anishanslin, College of Staten Island,
City University of New York
Katherine Jorgensen Gray, Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth Milroy, Wesleyan University
Comment: Simon Finger

Why Study Religion in the American West?
Hynes Convention Center, Room 311

Chair: Tisa J. Wenger, Yale University
Topics: A Western Theme to American Religious History?
David W. Wills, Amherst College
Taking the West Seriously in American Religious History
Quincy D. Newell, University of Wyoming
Borderlands Religion and the American West
Roberto Lint Sagarena, Middlebury College
Sacred but Not Religious: Finding Religion in the West
and the West in Religion
James B. Bennett, Santa Clara University
Getting Religion: New Themes for the Study of the
American West
Tisa J. Wenger

Women and Electoral Politics in the Long 1920s: Race, Gender, and Political Culture
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Orleans Room

Chair: Alison M. Parker, The College at Brockport (State
University of New York)
Topics: “Too Pure for Politics?”: Women, Nonpartisanship, and
the Hughes Campaign Train of 1916
Laurie Kozakiewicz, University at Albany
(State University of New York)
“Scared from the Polls”: Boston African American
Women, Disenfranchisement, and the 1920
Massachusetts Legislative Elections
Julie de Chantal, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mapping Black Women’s Local and National Politics in
1920s Washington, D.C.
Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy, University of Maryland
at College Park
Racial Uplift Is Not Enough: Nannie Helen Boroughs
and “Gender Uplift”
Courtney Lyons, Baylor University
Comment: Gayle Gullett, Arizona State University

American Society of Church History Session 29
Faith in the City: Urban Religions and the
Narratives of Modernity
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room B

Chair: Wallace Best, Princeton University
Papers: Doers of the Word: Adult Bible Classes and Urban
Reform in the Progressive Era
Christopher D. Cantwell, Cornell University
“Official Host of the Son of God”: Visions of a Catholic
America at Chicago’s International Eucharistic Congress
Matthew John Cressler, Northwestern University
“Thy Neighbor as Thyself ”: Religious Uplift and the
Reform Work of Lugenia Burns Hope in Atlanta
James R. Young Jr., Princeton University
Comment: Kathryn Lofton, Yale University

American Society of Church History Session 30
Things True and Useful: Writing History in
the Mormon Tradition
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room C

Chair: Susanna Morrill, Lewis and Clark College
Papers: History Thrown into Divinity: Faith, History, and the
Founding Events of Mormonism
Matthew Bowman, Georgetown University
“A New Order of Things”: Polygamy, Faith, and Scholarship
John G. Turner, University of South Alabama
“We’re Not the Mormons”: Alterity and Church History
in the Community of Christ
David J. Howlett, Kenyon College
Comment: Susanna Morrill

American Society of Church History Session 31
Religious Intolerance in American History
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room D

Chair: Heather D. Curtis, Tufts University
Panel: Chris Beneke, Bentley College
John Corrigan, Florida State University
Jon F. Sensbach, University of Florida
Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis
Comment: The Audience

****Sunday, Jan. 9, 8:30–10:30 A.M.****

Exploiting the Fear of Violence: Creating Solidarity during the Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Era
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Exeter Room

Chair: Robert M. Calhoon, Journal of Backcountry Studies
Papers: The Use of Violence in Revolutionary Boston
Benjamin L. Carp, Tufts University
Religious Violence and Religious Liberty in the Early
National United States
Chris Beneke, Bentley College
Loyalist Lessons from the “Unnatural Rebellion”
Ruma Chopra, San Jose State University
Comment: Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Beyond the Protestant Nation: Religion and the Narrative of American History
Hynes Convention Center, Room 110

Chair: Christopher D. Cantwell, Cornell University
Panel: Catherine L. Albanese, University of California at
Santa Barbara
Lila Corwin Berman, Temple University
Wallace Best, Princeton University
Richard L. Bushman, Claremont Graduate University
Robert Orsi, Northwestern University

Refugee Politics: New Research on European Jewish Refugees in the 1930s and 1940s
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Berkeley Room
Joint session with the Conference Group for Central
European History

Chair: Jeffry M. Diefendorf, University of New Hampshire
Papers: Refugee Status and Immigration Law before and after
the Evian Conference
Diane Afoumado, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
Emigration of Elderly Jews from Vienna to the United
States, 1938–41
Melissa Jane Taylor, Offi ce of the Historian, U.S.
Department of State
The Voyage of the St. Louis Revisited
C. Paul Vincent, Keene State College
Comment: Jeffry M. Diefendorf

Boundaries of Bondage, Frontiers of Freedom: Mobility and Slavery, Race, Nation, and Religiosity in the Atlantic World
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Grand Ballroom Salon A
Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History

Chair: Stephanie M. Camp, Rice University
Papers: Uncommon Winds: Race, Passports, and the Legal
Culture of Travel in Cuba
David A. Sartorius, University of Maryland at
College Park
Across the Miles: Slavery, Mobility, and the Law in
Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Camillia Cowling, University of Nottingham
“Where I Can Show Myself to Be a Man”: Christianity,
Colonization, and Gender Conventions among African
American Emigrants to Liberia, 1830–60
Jessica Millward, University of California at Irvine
“A New Canada”: A Maritime Route to Freedom in
Northeastern Brazil
Celso Castilho, Vanderbilt University
Comment: The Audience

Locating the Origins of the Second Vatican Council: Global Transformations, Spatial Shifts, and Refashioning
the Sacred in Twentieth-Century Catholicism
Hynes Convention Center, Room 102
Joint session with the American Catholic Historical Association

Chair: Terence Fay, Toronto School of Theology for St.
Augustine’s Seminary and the University of St.
Michael’s College at the University of Toronto
Topics: The Dynamic 1950s: The American Laity before Vatican II
Timothy Kelly, Saint Vincent College
From Mothers to Experts: Catholic Women’s
Contribution to the Second Vatican Council
Agnès Desmazières, Sciences Po Paris
In the Shadow of the Vatican: Producing and Defi ning
the Spirit of the Second Vatican Council in a Florentine
Parish, 1954–69
Trevor Kilgore, University of Michigan
Repositioning the Sacred: Roman Catholic Church
Architecture in Britain and the Second Vatican Council
Robert Proctor, Mackintosh School of Architecture,
Glasgow School of Art
Decolonization of the Filipino Church
Terence Fay

An Imperial Gaze at the Sacred Myth of American Exceptionalism
Hynes Convention Center, Room 204

Chair: Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
Panel: Daniel Byrne, University of Evansville
Lisa K. Jarvinen, La Salle University
Timothy Roberts, Western Illinois University
Patricia Rogers, Michigan State University
Comment: Cary Fraser, Pennsylvania State University

Responses of Native Americans and African Slaves to Atlantic Missions
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Simmons Room

Chair: Erik R. Seeman, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)
Papers: A Seventeenth-Century French Capuchin Mission among
the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil: Atlantic Perspectives
and Comparative Insights
Celine Carayon, Utah Valley University
Reassessing the Beginnings of Evangelical Protestantism
among Slaves in the Carolina Lowcountry
Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University
“Translated from the Dominions of Darkness”: Native
Missionaries, Language, and Scientifi c Authority in the
Nineteenth Century
Sean P. Harvey, Seton Hall University and American
Antiquarian Society
Comment: Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis

‘Au‘a ‘Ia: Native Hawaiian Remembering
Hynes Convention Center, Room 303

Chair: Momi Kamahele, University of Hawai‘i-Leeward
Community College
Topics: Sacred Text: The Power of Oli
Momi Kamahele
Kamehameha the Great’s Spiritual Conquest
Genai Keli‘ikuli, University of Hawai‘i-Leeward
Community College
The Kumulipo: Chanting Power and Knowledge
Luukia Archer, University of Hawai’i-Leeward
Community College
Comment: Mansel Blackford, Ohio State University

Unconventional Virtues: Ecstasy, Quilts, and Food in American Society and Culture
Hynes Convention Center, Room 306

Chair: J. C. Burnham, Ohio State University
Papers: Sacred Ecstasy: Revivals, Reproduction, and Salvation
in America
Kathy J. Cooke, Quinnipiac University
“Conserve Food to Save Yourselves”: The Politics of
Religion in World War I Food Conservation
Helen Veit, Michigan State University
Preserving Virtue: Quilts as Symbols of Lost Values
Karin E. Gedge, West Chester University

American Catholic Historical Association Session 12
Twentieth-Century American Catholicism
Addresses the Social Question: Three Vignettes
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Hyannis Room

Chair: Jeffrey M. Burns, Academy of American
Franciscan History
Papers: Father Nelson Baker’s Fight with the State of New York
Richard Gribble, Stonehill College
Get[ting] a Clean Victory? The Nonviolent Spirituality
of Dorothy Day and Cesar Chavez
Anne Klejment, University of St. Thomas
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan: Catholicism and
the Ethics of Life and Death in the 1970s and Beyond
James P. McCartin, Seton Hall University
Comment: Jeffrey M. Burns

American Society of Church History Session 35
Alternative Social Gospels: Unconventional
Sources of Protestant Reform in a Transatlantic
Context, 1877–1930
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room C

Chair: Bill Trollinger, University of Dayton
Papers: Abraham Kuyper’s Social Gospel
James Bratt, Calvin College
“Non-Partisan Christians”: The Moral Imperative of
Social Reform and the Power of Unexpected Alliances in
Chicago, 1893–1925
Sarah Miglio, University of Notre Dame
The Social Gospel in Pittsburgh, 1916–30
Tyler B. Flynn Jr., Eastern University
Comment: Bill Trollinger

****Sunday, Jan. 9, 11:00 A.M.–1:00 P.M.****

No Sacred Story: Reframing Abraham Lincoln in Historical Memory
Hynes Convention Center, Room 103

Chair: W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Papers: “Man Up, Lincoln”: Gender and Image in Civic Life
Leslie J. Lindenauer, Western Connecticut
State University
Martha E. May, Western Connecticut State University
Was Abraham Lincoln Gay? A History of Intense Identifi cations
Christopher Castiglia, Pennsylvania State University
“Serving the Lord and Abe Lincoln’s Spirit”: Lincoln
and Memory in the WPA Narratives
David A. Silkenat, North Dakota State University
Comment: David W. Blight, Yale University

In Life and Death: The Sacred Ties of Friendship in the Early United States
Hynes Convention Center, Room 109

Chair: Jan E. Lewis, Rutgers University-New Brusnwick
Papers: Faithful Friends: The Sacred Ties of Heterosocial
Friendship in the Early American Republic
Cassandra A. Good, University of Pennsylvania
Burn This: Preserving Private Papers in the Early
United States
Alea R. Henle, University of Connecticut
Spirit Politics: Antebellum Reform and the Shape of
American Spiritualism
Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
Comment: Mary L. Kelley, University of Michigan

Uncovering the “Religious” in Religious History
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Clarendon Room

Chair: Mark McGarvie,
University of Richmond
Topics: Why is Religion Always About Something Else?
Richard Schaefer, Plattsburgh
(State University of New York)
Religious History as Religious Studies
Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
Religious History as Intellectual History
Mark McGarvie
Using Religion to Teach History Teachers
John White, University of Dayton

Therese Neumann: Modern Stigmatic, International Cult Figure, and Anti-Nazi Symbol
Hynes Convention Center, Room 204
Joint session with the American Catholic Historical Association

Chair: Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College
Papers: Konnersreuth, USA: American Catholics and the Cult
of Therese Neumann
Paula M. Kane, University of Pittsburgh
The Issue of Resistenz: Therese Neumann and Her
Circle During the Era of National Socialism
Ulrike Wiethaus, Wake Forest University
Sacred, Secular, or Fraudulent: Competing Representations
of the Therese Neumann Phenomenon in Germany
Michael E. O’Sullivan, Marist College
Comment: Thomas A. Kselman, University of Notre Dame

Martyrs, Memorials, Pageants, and Parades: Race and the Politics of Remembering (and Forgetting) in Nineteenth-Century America
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Simmons Room

Chair: David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Papers: Race, Empire, and the Forgotten War: Why
Nineteenth-Century Americans Had So Much Trouble
Remembering Their 1846 War with Mexico
Amy Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University
“Here Triumphed in death ninety Christian Indians”:
Commemorating the Massacre of Moravian Indians at
Gnadenhutten, Ohio, 1782
Karin L. Huebner, Early Modern Studies Institute,
Huntington Library and University of Southern
California
A Pure and Sublime Monument to Washington: Race,
National Identity, and the Washington National
Monument in the Antebellum Era
Jeffrey A. Kosiorek, Hendrix College
Comment: Sarah J. Purcell, Grinnell College

The Influences of Slavery on Colonial Christianity
Hynes Convention Center, Room 308

Chair: Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Papers: The Politics of Conversion: The International
Moravian Baptismal Controversy in the 1750s
Katherine Gerbner, Harvard University
“In the time of war no French Negroes ever run away
from their Masters”: British Discourses of Slave Religion
and Loyalty Following the Seven Years’ War
Maria Alessandra Bollettino, Framingham State College
“God’s Just Judgment”: The Infl uence of Slave Resistance
on the Religious Discourses of the First Great Awakening
Justin James Pope, George Washington University
Comment: Jon F. Sensbach, University of Florida

American Catholic Historical Association Session 16
American Catholics and Print Culture
Marriott Boston Copley Place, Hyannis Room

Chair: Carrie T. Schultz, Boston College
Papers: The Making of “Ours”: Religious Life as Described in
Jesuit Custom Books
Casey C. Beaumier S.J., Boston College
Januarius De Concilio and the American Catechism:
New Evidence Questioning the Authorship of the
Baltimore Catechism
Biff Rocha, Benedictine College
Indiana’s Catholic Print Culture and Anti-Catholic
Movements in the 1920s
Joseph White, Catholic University of America
Comment: Carrie T. Schultz

American Society of Church History Session 36
The Formation of Protestant Identities through Book Selling (and Burning)
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room A

Chair: Katherine Carté Engel, Texas A&M University
Papers: One Prophecy, Three Sybils: How Booksellers Shaped
the Literary Culture of Ursula Shipton, 1641–49
Joshua A. Kercsmar, University of Notre Dame
“Justly Offencive”: Banning Books in Puritan
Massachusetts
David Powers, independent scholar
Printing a Public: Evangelical Book Publishers and
the Emergence of the Twentieth-Century Evangelical
Coalition
Daniel Vaca, Columbia University
Comment: Katherine Carté Engel

American Society of Church History Session 37
Strangers in an Ever-Stranger Land: Evangelicals Confront New England, 1834–1937
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room B

Chair: Dana L. Robert, Boston University
Papers: Fifty-Six Years of Circuit Riding in New England:
William Gordon and the Vicissitudes of Nineteenth-
Century Methodism
Brian Curtis Clark, Hartford Seminary
Charles Cullis, Gaetano Conte, and the Reconfi guration of
the Evangelical Holiness Movement in Boston, 1860–1905
Benjamin Hartley, Palmer Theological Seminary,
The Seminary of Eastern University
“It Is a Battle-Royal”: A. Z. Conrad’s Preaching at Park
Street Church, Boston, during the Fundamentalist-
Modernist Controversy
George W. Harper, Asia Graduate School of
Theology, Philippines
Comment: John G. Turner, University of South Alabama

American Society of Church History Session 38
Authors Meet Critics: Christian Nonviolence in the Twentieth Century
The Westin Copley Place, St. George Room C

Chair: Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University
Panel: A. J. Ballou, Boston University
Dan McKanan, Harvard University
Comments: Patricia Appelbaum, Springfield College
Joseph Kip Kosek, George Washington University

Conference on Latin American History Session 57
Franciscans, Indigenous Peoples, and the Battle for the Sacred in Colonial New Spain
The Westin Copley Place, North Star Room

Chair: Jeffrey M. Burns, Academy of American
Franciscan History
Papers: Spiritual Re-Conquests: The Franciscan Order and the
Continued Extirpation of Maya Idolatry, 1570–1670
John F. Chuchiak IV, Missouri State University
Religion and Trade: The Native Revolt of 1790 Against
the Franciscans in the Upper Amazon Frontier
Rick Goulet, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
One God, One Faith, One Baptism
Mark Zinn Christensen, Pennsylvania State University
Comment: Karen Melvin, Bates College

Saving the World? The Changing Terrain of American Protestant Missions, 1910 to the Present

March 24-25, 2011

Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC

The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College (IL), with a grant from the Lilly Endowment, is sponsoring a two-day conference at Duke Divinity School to explore the evolving nature of American Protestant missions since the famed Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910. Through lectures and panel discussion a number of distinguished scholars will examine the American mission enterprise over the last century while discussing the extent to which America continues to play a role in the shaping of global Christianity.

Participants include: Thomas Kidd (Baylor University), Mark Noll (University of Notre Dame), Robert Priest (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), Dana Robert (Boston University), Marsha Snulligan-Haney (Interdenominational Theological Center), Brian Stanley (University of Edinburgh), and Grant Wacker (Duke Divinity School)

For more information and to register, please visit isae.wheaton.edu/projects/final-conference.

CFP: The King James Bible and the World It Made

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Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion

Invites you to a conference celebrating the

The King James Bible and the World It Made, 1611-2011

April 7-9, 2011

Baylor University

Click Here for Call for Papers, due December 31, 2010 (this has been extended from the original November 15th deadline)

King James 2011

In 1611, England issued its official translation of the complete Bible, a masterful work that laid the foundation for an emerging Christian culture in the English-speaking world. At the time, it was not obvious that the new translation would have the impact that it did, but it was soon clear that the King James Bible would overcome its competitors, as it provided a magnificent new standard by which all later works would be judged. It would indelibly mark the literature and culture of England, America, and all regions across the globe touched by Britain’s empire. From small rural churches to great halls of power, the ideas and words of the King James Version helped form a new culture rooted in the Bible: the modern culture of the English-speaking world.

To celebrate and reflect upon the incomparable influence of the King James Bible, Baylor University will host “The King James Bible and the World It Made, 1611-2011,” on April 7-9, 2011. Organized by Baylor’s Institute for Click for Call for Papers due December 31, 2010 (this has been extended from the original November 15th deadline)
Call for Papers King James 2011

The year 2011 marks the four hundredth anniversary of one of the landmark events in the history of Christianity: the publication of the King James Bible.

Studies of Religion, this conference will be one of the preeminent international events recognizing this auspicious moment in the history of Anglo-American and world Christianity. It will assemble distinguished scholars from around the globe to consider the history and ramifications of the Bible in English.

Major conference themes will include the way that the King James Bible created a common literary and religious culture in the English-speaking world; the significance of vernacular translation for Christian growth and development; and the challenges posed by recent declines in biblical literacy and the end of the King James’s dominance as the Bible translation for English-speaking Christians.

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley)

David Bebbington (University of Stirling)

Philip Jenkins (Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Laura Knoppers (Penn State University)

Alister E. McGrath (Kings College, London)

Mark Noll (University of Notre Dame)

Lamin Sanneh (Yale University)

N.T. Wright (University of St. Andrews)

Southern Cultures Announcement and CFP

Paul Harvey

The following announcement from the journal Southern Cultures will be of interest to some of you here:

Southern Cultures, the award-winning quarterly from UNC's Center for the Study of the American South, has added several more essays and features to the section of our website that focuses of American religion, including content from our brand new issue. We'd also like to remind scholars of religion in the South--and related topics--that we're interested in your
submissions.

Over 58,000 readers in classrooms in over 60 countries have viewed our content online. To read our material on religion, please visit here. You'll also find our submission guidelines, content on other subject areas, and more information about our latest issue here.

I would just add that cruising through the journal's most popular articles and pieces from the last decade yields a lot of fun reading, including Michael Butler's "Sin, Salvation, and Southern Rock."