by shields | Feb 24, 2014 | Workshop
The Religions in America Workshop and Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Present: “A Vacated Tomb, an Occupied Cenotaph, and an Animate Coffin: Reanimated Women in Poe, Hawthorne, and Faulkner” Amanda Leigh Davis English University of Chicago Date:...
by shields | Feb 6, 2014 | Workshop
Dear Workshoppers, See below for info about our next meeting! “The Cadences of Time: Human Transience in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson” A Discussion with Professor Clark Gilpin at the Religions in America Workshop DATE: Thursday, February 13 TIME: 12:00...
by shields | Jan 31, 2014 | Workshop
Dear Workshoppers, Our next meeting will be this coming Thursday! Friend of the Divinity School Monica Mercado will present a chapter from her dissertation entitled, “The Place of Catholic Women’s Culture in Turn of the Century America.” DATE:...
by shields | Jan 15, 2014 | Workshop
Dear Workshoppers, It’s been too long! I hope your holidays were wonderful, and that you’re all having an easy enough time getting back into the swing of things. I’m pleased to announce that our first Religions in America meeting will take...
by shields | Oct 29, 2013 | Workshop
Our next workshop meeting will be Thursday, November 7. Kyle Wagner will discuss his dissertation proposal, “From the Fringes to the Right: Anticommunism and the Negotiation of American Pentecostal Identity”: “The trajectory of American...
by shields | Oct 17, 2013 | Workshop
Our next meeting will take place this coming Thursday! David Mihalyfy will present a chapter of his dissertation: “Superhuman Knowledge and Antebellum Anti-Traditional Biblical Criticism” From the mid-1840s on, Americans who accepted the supernatural...
by shields | Oct 7, 2013 | Workshop
I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir when I say that American religion is hot right now. Take for example this season’s hit Fox show Sleepy Hollow, which posits that George Washington fought a secret war with the devil. While the show may not be...
by changp | May 16, 2012 | Workshop
Dear Workshop, On Thursday, May 24, David Mihalyfy, Ph.D. Candidate in History of Christianity will present a chapter from his dissertation: “…almost all romantic stories have been suggested by some actual circumstance…”: Tom Paine Confronts Late...
by changp | May 3, 2012 | Workshop
Dear Workshop, On Thursday, May 10, M. Sahm Suh, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and Sociology of Religion will present a chapter from his dissertation: “The Conservative Turn of the New Christian Right” Time: 12:00, Thursday, May 10, 2012...
by changp | Apr 20, 2012 | Special Event
Dear Workshop, On Thursday, May 3rd, we will be having a seminar on “The Craft of Teaching.” Our special guest is Ann Taves, AM 1979, PhD 1983 (History of Christianity), Virgil Cordano, OFM, Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of Religious...
