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The
Boston-Area American Religious History Group brings together American
religious historians from across the city to discuss research and
writing. Dozens of American religious history specialists teach
and
work at the roughly fifty colleges
and universities in the region.
Their research and writing ranges over time—from the colonial era to
the modern period—and represents a wide variety of subjects—Catholcism,
Judaism, science and religion, pentecostalism, and religious pluralism,
to name only a few.
The Thursday sessions run from 7:00 to 8:30 pm, with a short social
period thereafter. At each meeting one presenter shares a
recent
piece—a book
chapter, article, or essay. The paper of the evening's presenter
will be circulated in
advance. Two commentators offer brief remarks (5-8 minutes)
at
each meeting, which are followed by a general discussion with
participants.
Commentators are responsible for
refreshments.
At its first meeting on March 19, 2009, the group decided to meet three
times a semester and to hold meetings at one designated institution for
the full year. Professor Jon Roberts
has agreed to host the
gathering
through spring 2009 in the Boston University history department's
seminar room. Grad student participation has been tabled for the
rest
of this year. Participants will revisit that issue after getting
a
better sense of attedance.
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2011 Schedule
Spring 2011
January 27, 7:00pm: Linford
Fisher (Brown University), introduction
to his forthcoming The Indian Great
Awakening: Religion and the
Shaping of Native
Cultures in Early America. Comments: Maura
Farrelly (Brandeis
University) and Chris
Beneke (Bentley University).
2010 Schedule
Fall 2010
December 2, 7:00pm: Chris
Beneke (Bentley University), "Not by Force or Violence: Cruelty,
Anti-Catholicism, and the American Revolution in Religious Liberty."
Comments: Clifford
Putney (Bentley University) and Owen
Stanwood (Boston College).
October 28, 7:00pm: Alan
Rogers (Boston College) "The Twitchell Case, 1986-1993."
Comments: Randall
Stephens (Eastern Nazarene
College) and Stephen
Berry (Simmons College).
September 30, 7:00pm: Clifford
Putney (Bentley University), "Luther Gulick, Springfield College,
and the YMCA Triangle." Comments: Jon
Roberts (Boston University) and Chris
Beneke (Bentley University).
Winter/Spring 2010
April 29, 7:00pm: Owen
Stanwood (Boston College), "Britain’s Galleys: Political Prisoners
and American Plantations, 1660-1689." Comments: Chris
Beneke (Bentley University) and Stephen
Berry (Simmons College).
March 25, 7:00pm: Jon
Roberts (Boston University), "Science and Christianity in America:
A Limited Partnership." Comments: Peggy
Bendroth (Congregational Library) and Donald Yerxa
(Historical Society).
February 25, 7:00pm:
Peggy
Bendroth (Congregational Library), "The Way They Were: Twentieth
Century Congregationalists and the Problem of Historical Memory."
Comments: Clifford
Putney (Bentley University) and Heather
Curtis (Tufts University).
January 28, 7:00pm: Chris
Beneke (Bentley University),
"Consumer Rights?: The Free Market and the Founders' Approach to
Church-State Relations." Comments: Randall
Stephens (Eastern Nazarene
College) and Jon
Roberts (Boston University).
2009 Schedule
Fall 2009
December 3, 7:00pm: Maura
Farrelly (Brandeis
University), "Introduction" to MS in progress: Papist Patriots: The Making of an American
Catholic Identity. Comments: James
O'Toole (Boston College) and Chris
Beneke (Bentley University).
October 29, 7:00pm: Stephen
Berry (Simmons College), "Early
American Ships' Logs as Theological Texts: Divining the Sacred amidst
the Mundane (and Maritime)." Comments: Owen
Stanwood (Boston College) and Chris
Beneke (Bentley University). Boston
University History Department, Room 504, 226 Bay State Road.
September 24, 7:00pm: Randall
Stephens (Eastern Nazarene
College), "'And Smile to See a Burning World': Premillennial
Authorities and Modern American Evangelicalism." Comments: Stephen
Berry (Simmons College) and Cynthia
L. Lyerly (Boston College). Boston
University History Department, Room 504, 226 Bay State Road.
Spring 2009
April
30, 7:00 pm: James
O'Toole (Boston College),
"Reinventing the Sacrament: American Catholics and Extreme
Unction." Comments: Peggy
Bendroth
(Congregational Library) and Maura
Farrelly (Brandeis
University). Boston
University History Department, Room 504, 226 Bay State Road.
March 19, 7:00 pm: Jonathan
Sarna (Brandeis University), "The Democratization of American
Judaism." Boston
University History Department, Room 504, 226 Bay State Road.
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