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Conservative Christians opposed the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion. They fretted about sex education curricula and denounced homosexuality. The Southern Baptist Convention erupted in a dispute between moderates and conservatives that centered on the issue of women's ordination. White southerners provided support for Christian right campaigns, illustrating the increasing priority they placed on issues related to gender and sexuality. Conservatives' focus on gender roles and their implications for social order arose because those beliefs appeared under attack. Feminism and the gay rights movement struck conservative Christians as assaults on scripture. In response, the Christian right forwarded a \"family values\" agenda that ascribed leadership roles to men and encouraged women to embrace their roles as wives and mothers. The gendered order that conservatives prized drew on a belief in hierarchy that previous generations of southerners had used to support slavery and segregation. Southern conservatives recast the ethic of masculinity to mute its historical connection with white supremacy. Yet they maintained cultural and theological commitments to the ideal of hierarchy, enabling them to resist feminist and homosexual demands for equal rights in a post-Civil Rights era. This dissertation traces the history of the Christian right from 1965 to 1995. I examine several venues—including private Christian academies, public school boards, political campaigns, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the military—where conservative Christians made political stands in defense of traditional beliefs about gender and sexuality. In each of these venues, conservatives manifested a belief that God had outlined a gendered hierarchy in scripture—and that humans who ignored God's plan invited their own destruction. The Christian right mobilized conservative Protestants to defend \"biblical\" manhood (and womanhood) in both secular and Christian forums. 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Troubled by corporal and capital punishments practiced in the colonial period, they offered themselves as disciplinary specialists in the country's experiments with reformatory incarceration. From their own backgrounds of communal discipline and spiritual experience, they offered a moral vision of sin and redemption necessary to reform offenders within prison walls. While they often met with inmate resistance, troubles with state officials proved their biggest obstacle. Lawmakers with different perspectives on the prison's purpose balked at the reformers' and ministers' methods, especially their high cost. In response to the state's refusal to accept their reformatory project as a whole, the Protestant activists attempted several strategies to shape inmates' experience. Nevertheless, they gradually lost influence in a prison system they had helped establish. This dissertation traces Protestant reformers' and ministers' work to influence prison development in New York State, which hosted one of the nation's groundbreaking penal experiments and was widely copied across the nation. It shows the Protestant activists' intention to make the prison a reforming institution, the resources within their traditions on which they drew, and the way in which they faced the political difficulties of realizing their vision within the tumultuous climate of the early republic and antebellum periods.", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "2006", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Christianity Imprisoned", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00294\nAdvisor: Adviser Grant Wacker\nSource: DAI, 68, no. 05A (2006): p. 1986\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF HISTORY, CHURCH HISTORY, UNITED STATES SOCIOLOGY, CRIMINOLOGY AND PENOLOGY", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "TGIQ669D", "version": 4034, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/TGIQ669D", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/TGIQ669D", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Chang", "parsedDate": "2002", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "TGIQ669D", "version": 4034, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "\"Breaking the Shackles of Hierarchy\": Race, Religion, and Evangelical Nationalism in American Baptist Home Missions, 1865--1900", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Derek Stanley", "lastName": "Chang" } ], "abstractNote": "This dissertation is a comparative study of the late-nineteenth century domestic evangelical efforts of the American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) among Chinese migrants on the Pacific Coast and blacks in the U.S. South. Using an institutional analysis, it investigates the interconnections among the religious, racial, and nationalist ideologies of an organization of native-born, European-Americans as it encountered and ministered to migrants from China and ex-slaves. The study also examines the responses of Chinese and freedpeople to the ABHMS project as expressions of cultural and political agency. Slave emancipation, African-American citizenship, and the increased migration and settlement of the Chinese challenged American assumptions about the racial and cultural composition of the nation's polity. Establishing institutions for the Chinese and for blacks, the ABHMS sought to incorporate these populations into the body politic through Christian education and conversion. As sites of intercultural contact, ABHMS missions provided the institutional bases for the formation of alternative, more inclusive imaginings of the nation even as most definitions of the polity grew increasingly narrow through segregation, disfranchisement, and exclusion. Drawing on national organizational records, local church and mission documents, official and personal papers, legal cases, newspapers, manuscript census data, and other sources, the dissertation explores of two connected levels of mission work. First, it examines how ABHMS ideology constrained the egalitarian promise of its inclusive rhetoric in practice while implicating it in the process of racialization. The ABHMS envisioned an expansive Christian nation which was to serve as the point of origin for God's empire—an ideology termed here as “evangelical nationalism.” It offered an alternative to biologically-bound racial definitions of “American” by positing conversion to Christianity as the central standard for national inclusion. Yet, the inclusive trajectory of its project was undercut by a process—exemplified by the discourse of “uplift”—which required the delineation of cultural difference. Second, the dissertation explores how the aspirations of African-American and Chinese mission participants drove ABHMS projects toward more democratic aims, and how evangelical programs served as institutional and expressive bases for black and Chinese community-building and congregation. Chinese and black proselytes used mission resources to struggle for autonomous churches and schools, forming networks—sometimes transnational in scope—of ministers, teachers, missionaries, and other co-religionists. They carved out space for communal worship and social congregation which helped them to sustain their dignity in an oppressive environment.", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "2002", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "\"Breaking the Shackles of Hierarchy\"", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00408\nAdvisor: Co-Chairs Sydney Nathans Nancy A. 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E. E. Lindquist, John Collier, and the Moral Landscape of Federal Indian Policy, 1910--1950", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "David Wilson", "lastName": "Daily" } ], "abstractNote": "This dissertation uses the career of G. E. E. Lindquist, a reformer and Congregationalist missionary based in Lawrence, Kansas, as a reference point for understanding Protestant engagement with federal Indian policies between 1910 and 1950. According to research in Lindquist's papers, the records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and the papers of several ecumenical Protestant organizations, a coalition of Protestant missionaries and lobbyists maintained an informal religious establishment in Indian affairs throughout the early twentieth century. While the BIA encouraged the Christianization of the Indians as part of its program of gradual assimilation, Protestant leaders reciprocated with a defense of the BIA against radical critics, who wanted to effect a rapid assimilation by abolishing the BIA and removing federal protections over Indian lands. But when John Collier, a cultural pluralist and champion of Indian religions, became BIA Commissioner in 1933, he dropped the individualizing and Christianizing goals of assimilation and sought instead to preserve the distinctly tribal basis for Native Americans' religious, political, and economic life. His twelve-year administration created a crisis for Protestant leaders that laid bare the ambiguities of their commitment to assimilation as well as their sense of custodial authority in Indian affairs. Many Protestant leaders in the ecumenical Home Missions Council acquiesced to Collier's innovations at first, since their gradual approach to assimilation held some sympathies for Collier's effort to preserve the Indian land base and protect Indian communities from rapid social change. But by the end of Collier's tenure as Commissioner in 1945, the Home Missions Council increasingly followed the initiative of G. E. E. Lindquist, Collier's most outspoken missionary antagonist. A long-standing gradualist, he ultimately revived the radicals' hostility toward the BIA and used the language of the rising civil rights movement to defend assimilation policies and justify the elimination of the BIA and its protections over Indian lands. In Lindquist, then, this dissertation argues that ecumenical Protestants changed their dominant mode of advocacy for assimilation from the rhetoric of Indian wardship, with its paternalistic and benevolent-minded gradualism, to the rhetoric of civil rights, with its more abrupt and egalitarian-minded interest in liberating the Indians from federal domination. This shift in approach was significant for several reasons. First, it provided momentum and moral sanction for the “termination” policies of the 1950s, which sought, often without tribal consent, to end federal recognition of Indian tribes. Second, it created new tensions between missionaries and Christian Indian leaders over treaty rights and tribal self-government. For by defending the federal government's unique trustee obligations to Native Americans, Christian Indian leaders laid bare the limits of their support for assimilation and foreshadowed Indian activists' tribal nationalism in the 1960s. And finally, the shift in Protestant priorities betrayed an inherent instability within assimilationist attitudes toward the BIA. Protestants like G. E. E. Lindquist tended either to support the BIA as a guardian of the Indians' welfare and resources, or villify the BIA as an entrenched bureaucracy interested in isolating the Indians and controlling their resources. Missionary leaders for the most part went into Collier's term as the BIA's strongest advocates, but in light of his innovative changes in favor of tribal self-government and cultural freedom, they came out among the BIA's strongest critics.", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "2000", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Guardian Rivalries", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00377\nAdvisor: Supervisor Grant Wacker\nSource: DAI, 61, no. 07A (2000): p. 2759\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, GENERAL HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, CHURCH", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "SN4FVC54", "version": 4034, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/SN4FVC54", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/SN4FVC54", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "HAMNER", "parsedDate": "1997", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "SN4FVC54", "version": 4034, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "Habits of a Christian Nation: An Alternative Genealogy of American Pragmatism (charles Sanders Peirce, William James)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "MARTHA GAIL", "lastName": "HAMNER" } ], "abstractNote": "This dissertation investigates what is American about American pragmatism. Recognizing that Charles Sanders Peirce and William James drew their intellectual questions from European discourses, especially European psychology, the project interrogates what is distinctly 'American' about the only philosophical movement indigenous to this country. The dissertation argues that pragmatism's Americanness lies in the specific ways in which it altered European concepts and dispositions according to a residually 'Puritan' past. The pragmatists addressed questions concerning the nature of 'science' and the nature of 'the human,' questions which encapsulate broader cultural debates about the proper role and method of science and the possibility of scientifically studying 'the human.' Since these debates coalesce in Europe in efforts to articulate a scientific psychology, the dissertation focuses on the American reception and repositioning of European psychology. Delineating the intellectual spaces of German and Scottish psychology prepares the way for its repositioning by Peirce and James within theories of human knowing and being that emphasize the disciplined and purposive production of the self (ascesis) through habits (Peirce) or the will (James). Such repositioning is the constitutive mark of American pragmatism. The dissertation offers detailed readings of Hermann von Helmholtz, Wilhelm Wundt, William Hamilton, and Alexander Bain. Closely examining the concepts of consciousness, causality, will, action and belief shared by these four thinkers and drawing methodologically from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's metaphor of striated and smooth spaces, the dissertation constructs the striated (gridded) spaces of German and Scottish psychology. It then indicates how conceptual lines of flight from those European spaces enable the production of the striated space of American pragmatism. The project examines how Peirce and James mutate the European concepts and argues that the smooth spaces or conditions of possibility of that transmutation can be articulated through the cultural legacy of American Puritanism. Deploying 'Puritanism' as a smooth space points to its fluid or deterritorialized character. The dissertation uses the persistence of 'Puritanism' in American rhetoric to capture the pragmatists' investments in constructing notions of subjectivity that balance 'matters of the heart' (religion and sentiment) with matters of the mind (science and reason).", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1997", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Habits of a Christian Nation", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00354\nAdvisor: Supervisor: KENNETH J. 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The most significant options, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Farmers' Movement, used public speech to create communities and define their boundaries. Each group's public speech reflected a distinctive value system and a unique world view with solutions to the social and personal upheaval in the state. The appearance of these new communities prompted one to ask what in their speeches proved attractive to those Methodists and Baptists who listened to these emerging movements. The dissertation examined the rhetoric of these new groups in isolation and in the context of Baptist and Methodist sermons to answer that question. It tied these groups together based on Clifford Geertz' description of religion as a symbolic world view. Borrowing from techniques employed in New Testament scholarship such as Dale Martin's Slavery as Salvation, it analyzed the themes in the rhetoric and the sources on which it drew as well as the strategies which it employed. Dominant motifs, underlying assumptions, community boundaries, and group mores were given particular attention. An important interpretive model was Donald Mathews' Religion in the Old South. Mathews argued that Southern evangelicals in the early national period promoted a distinctive world view to sidestep Anglican dominance and create religious and social space for themselves. Analogously, the speeches of late nineteenth century movements such as the WCTU and Farmers' Movement promulgated a symbolic world which allowed them to circumvent restrictions in later Baptist and Methodist sermons. The study concluded that part of the appeal of the WCTU and Farmers' Movement was the willingness of their speakers to address social problems which Baptist and Methodist preachers did not address in their sermons. Speeches by emerging groups dealt with problems created by emerging industrialism, changing social structures, and governmental policy and proposed systemic solutions to these problems. Baptist and Methodist preachers of both races concentrated instead on individual regeneration in their sermons. The study also clarified the prevalence of Lost Cause rhetoric, millennial speculation, and commercial imagery in the state's religious speech.", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1996", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Rhetorics of Discontent", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00302\nAdvisor: Supervisor Russell E. 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The central assumption of this tradition is that there exists a fundamental harmony between Catholicism and the United States. The dissertation describes the institutional arrangements and theoretical paradigms which shaped Catholic scholarship in the twenties and thirties. Philosophy played a central academic role in the standard Catholic curriculum, organizing all other branches of knowledge, while theology was relegated to the seminary. Thus the history and political theory servicing the Americanist tradition were shaped by philosophy, not theology. Americanist historians, such as Peter Guilday, underscored the Catholic contribution to the founding and development of the United States--thus demonstrating, by means of critical historical methods, a harmony between Catholicism and the United States. This thesis was also the centerpiece of Americanist political theory. The central claim was that the U.S. founding was based on medieval Catholic theories of popular sovereignty and separation of power. Catholic political theorists such as John A. Ryan and Moorhouse F. X. Millar, S. J., circumvented the official Catholic church-state doctrine, which upheld the Catholic confessional state as normative, to show that Catholic tradition is fully consonant with religious freedom as affirmed in the U.S. Constitution. Americanist history and political theory came together in the work of John Courtney Murray, S. J. Murray's work was deeply shaped by the Americanist tradition yet, more than his predecessors, he acknowledged the tensions between Catholicism and the U.S. Thus Murray was a tragic future, striving for an unattainable harmony between Church and nation. An alternative tradition is also presented. Through figures such as Virgil Michel, O. S. B., and Paul Hanley Furfey, this counter-tradition put forth a more compelling form of Catholic political and social theory, based more squarely on the beliefs and practices of the Church.", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1996", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "In Service to the Nation", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00470\nAdvisor: Supervisor: STANLEY HAUERWAS\nSource: DAI, 57, no. 05A, (1996): 2077\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, GENERAL THEOLOGY PHILOSOPHY HISTORY, UNITED STATES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "FT5VAT9T", "version": 4034, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/FT5VAT9T", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/FT5VAT9T", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "KARS", "parsedDate": "1994", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "FT5VAT9T", "version": 4034, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "\"breaking Loose Together\": Religion and Rebellion in the North Carolina Piedmont, 1730-1790", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "MARJOLEINE", "lastName": "KARS" } ], "abstractNote": "Because the North Carolina Piedmont was the center of the Great Awakening in the South, the site of the largest uprising among colonial farmers before 1776, and the theater of intense partisan warfare during the Revolution, it provides an ideal site to investigate how religion, economics, and politics interacted to shape rural life in the eighteenth century. In the first part of the work, I use land and court records, and loyalty claims to sketch the changing economy of the Piedmont from the beginning of settlement in the 1740s to the 1770s. I argue that local elites tried as much as possible to manipulate the chaotic land market to their own advantage. While growing integration into the Atlantic economy created opportunities for some Piedmont inhabitants, many others fell into debt. A scarcity of currency and the collusion of creditors and court officials created great hardships for farmers trying to pay off debts and taxes. The majority of Piedmont settlers came from northern colonies and brought with them much of the radical ferment of the Great Awakening. Using church records and the diaries of itinerant ministers, I argue in part two that denominational divisions among Piedmont inhabitants have been exaggerated and that the religious enthusiasm of the unchurched has been overlooked. In fact, many backcountry immigrants, whether they officially belonged to a church or not, were deeply influenced by the radical religious climate unleashed by the Great Awakening. As people grew increasingly exasperated with the corruption of their officials, they fused radical Protestant ideas about the importance of individual conscience with radical Whig ideas about the right to resist unjust government to fuel and justify their rebellion. In the third and last part of the dissertation, I examine the Regulation and its relationship to the American Revolution. I use petitions, participants' papers, and government sources to discuss the rebellion in terms of the enfolding revolutionary conflict at home and in the larger context of agrarian conflict and popular resistance elsewhere in the world. I argue that the Regulation foreshadowed many of the social struggles which accompanied the conflict with Britain.", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1994", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "\"breaking Loose Together\"", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00517\nAdvisor: Supervisor: PETER H. WOOD\nSource: DAI, 55, no. 10A, (1994): 3297\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "HISTORY, UNITED STATES RELIGION, GENERAL ECONOMICS, HISTORY", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "HGF4EITP", "version": 4034, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/HGF4EITP", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/HGF4EITP", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "SCANLAN", "parsedDate": "1992", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "HGF4EITP", "version": 4034, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "Conversion, Suppression, or Limited Partnership: Problems in the Protestant Colonial Ethic (spenser Edmund, Hakluyt Richard, Williams Roger, Eliot John, Marvell Andrew, Defoe Daniel, Puritanism, Indians)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "THOMAS JOSEPH", "lastName": "SCANLAN" } ], "abstractNote": "The English colonial experience in Ireland and America shaped, indeed determined, what it meant to be an English Protestant. Heavily influenced by Richard Hakluyt's accounts of the atrocities committed by the Spaniards in the New World, English colonists set about their work determined to convert the native populations rather than kill them as the Spanish had done. Thus, in his A View of the Present State of Ireland, Edmund Spenser, whose own estate was vulnerable to Irish troubles, had to confront the failures of an explicitly Protestant colonial policy. Rather than reading Spenser's text as a rationale for genocide, I argue that it is a devastating (albeit darkly cynical) critique of what it meant to be a Protestant colonist. Fearful of producing another Ireland, and yet aware that no English colonial venture could fail to include the conversion of the native population as part of its mission, the colonists in New England adopted missionary work as one of their goals. As the seventeenth century progressed, the discourse on missionary work emerged as one that transcended the bitter political debates in which England was mired. I argue that in America writers such as Roger Williams and John Eliot discovered that talking about Indians could afford them protection from the political censorship of both the puritans and the crown. Although Eliot believed in proselytizing the Indians, and Williams did not, each used the seemingly neutral format of a tract about Indians to launch an incisive political critique. But the colonial discourse was not simply a shield to protect writers from the censors. Andrew Marvell, for instance, in his Bermudas, turned to the colonial metaphor as he attempted to articulate a new notion of Protestantism that might negotiate the differences between Anglicanism and Nonconformity. And finally, questions of the propriety of conversion and colonialism permeate Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Instead of projecting Robinson Crusoe forward into literary history as a text that contains the seeds of the future development of the novel, I suggest that we treat it as a retrospective analysis of Protestant colonial policy. Defoe is thus driven by the same concerns that faced English Protestant writers more than a century earlier.", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1992", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Conversion, Suppression, or Limited Partnership", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00237\nAdvisor: Supervisor: ANNABEL PATTERSON\nSource: DAI, 54, no. 01A, (1992): 0174\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "LITERATURE, MODERN LITERATURE, ENGLISH LITERATURE, AMERICAN RELIGION, HISTORY OF HISTORY, UNITED STATES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "KJ9GRVEW", "version": 4033, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/KJ9GRVEW", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/KJ9GRVEW", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "GERSHMAN", "parsedDate": "1992", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "KJ9GRVEW", "version": 4033, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "Hamiltonian Ideals and the Bill of Rights: American Rejection and Canadian Compromise: A Comparative Study of American and Canadian Jewish Communities, Religious Freedom Guarantees and Constitutional Implications (united States Constitution)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "GARY PAUL", "lastName": "GERSHMAN" } ], "abstractNote": "The adoption of a new Constitution in Canada in 1982 suggested a new era in general rights and liberties for Canadian Citizens. Having previously existed on Parliamentary passed charters and government bestowed privileges, since 1982, Canadians have rights and privileges which are supposed to be immune from parliamentary revocation. The United States, since 1791, has had an imbedded Bill of Rights, firmly guaranteeing various rights and liberties. Yet, the history of the United States has been replete with examples of discrimination despite these basic guarantees. Since the Charter has been fashioned from an American model, the question naturally arises are basic rights and privileges more securely guaranteed under the new system than under the former system of an amorphous constitution and no imbedded bill of rights? What will be the effect of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? Will the new guarantees really provide for more protection? To study this, the dissertation compares the United States and Canadian constitutions. It is a historical study of the constitutional development in both countries in the context of freedom of religion guarantees. Using the Jewish Communities in both nations as a model, it is the study of the ability of Jewish citizens to interact with society in light of limitations sometimes imposed upon constitutional guarantees. The model is then extended in order to discern which structure better protects the individual's rights and freedoms. After reviewing secondary literature dealing with North American Jewish communities, extensive case law, Parliamentary and Congressional debates and various documents from archival sources in both countries, two things become apparent. A Bill of rights is not a cure-all. Lack of an imbedded protective system does not necessarily restrict rights. In addition, careful allegiance to the words of a bill of rights or a constitution can often cause as many problems as it may solve. By comparing the two systems, it is possible not only to come to conclusions about the implications of the Canadian Charter, but to objectively assess the benefits and detriments of the American structure.", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1992", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Hamiltonian Ideals and the Bill of Rights", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00341\nAdvisor: Supervisor: CLARK CAHOW\nSource: DAI, 53, no. 09A, (1992): 3344\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, CANADIAN LAW RELIGION, GENERAL", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "893VZSP3", "version": 4033, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/893VZSP3", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/893VZSP3", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "TREXLER", "parsedDate": "1991", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "893VZSP3", "version": 4033, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "Education with the Soul of a Church: The Yale Foreign Missionary Society and the Democratic Ideal (china, Missionary Society, Secularization)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "JEFFREY ALAN", "lastName": "TREXLER" } ], "abstractNote": "Founded in 1901 by a group of Yale alumni, administrators, and faculty, the Yale Foreign Missionary Society set out to Christianize China by training its elite in the ways of \"Christian civilization.\" Within two decades, the mission sponsored a college, middle school, and medical school in Changsha, capital of the Hunan province. Developments in China eventually led the mission to support Huachung College in Wuchang and, following the communist victory on the mainland, the New Asia College in Hong Kong. Accompanying these changes overseas was another important shift at home. By 1964, the Yale mission, now known as the Yale-in-China Association, claimed to be a secular organization focused entirely on educational concerns. Yale-in-China's secularization was nothing less than the fulfillment of its founders' desire to represent both religious and national ideals. Even those who did not believe in the supernatural, they thought, would freely admit nonsectarian Christianity's spiritual value in preserving a republican community. What they soon discovered was that neither their Yale nor Chinese constituencies shared this belief. Student uprisings in Changsha, the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, and secularization at Yale made the Society increasingly aware that regardless of evangelicalism's tolerant, nondogmatic character, to assert that democratic ideals needed a Christian basis was in itself a sectarian claim. The mission's leaders responded by emphasizing liberal tolerance over communitarian virtue. Because sectarianism ran counter to the democratic Christian spirit, Yale-in-China could claim that removing religious faith from the Society's public identity was a Christian act. The history of Yale-in-China illustrates how one group of Protestant elites adjusted to cultural pluralism. Idealism, pragmatism, and industrial capitalism all nurtured an array of assumptions highly conducive toward embracing tolerance as the central ideal of a democratic institution. The secularization of the Yale Foreign Missionary Society thus provides insight into a broader trend not only within educational missions, but the American Protestant establishment--by the 1960s, the champions of a distinctly Christian social ethic now favored, in the words of Richard John Neuhaus, a \"naked public square.\"", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1991", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Education with the Soul of a Church", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00358\nAdvisor: Supervisor: GEORGE MARSDEN\nSource: DAI, 53, no. 02A, (1991): 0531\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF HISTORY, UNITED STATES AMERICAN STUDIES EDUCATION, RELIGIOUS", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "S43MXP5Z", "version": 4033, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/S43MXP5Z", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/S43MXP5Z", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "SENSBACH", "parsedDate": "1991", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "S43MXP5Z", "version": 4033, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1856 (slavery)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "JON FREDERIKSEN", "lastName": "SENSBACH" } ], "abstractNote": "This study explores the lives of enslaved and free African-Americans in North Carolina's Moravian settlement from 1763 to 1856. It is the first sustained account of contact between German immigrants and blacks in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-America. \"A Separate Canaan\" thus seeks to add a new dimension to historical understanding of the development of African-American culture and of an era of both fluidity and volatility in early American race relations. The Protestant group known as the Renewed Unity of Brethren, or more commonly the Moravian Church, originated in fifteenth-century Czechoslovakia and later, after being driven underground, spread to eastern Germany. From there the Brethren planted settlements in North America in the eighteenth century, including one in North Carolina on a 100,000-acre tract called Wachovia in 1753. The Brethren had evangelized heavily among enslaved Africans in the West Indies but did not oppose slavery. In the 1760's the Moravians began buying slaves for agricultural, industrial, craft, and domestic labor. Moravian slaveholding remained relatively small-scale through the eighteenth-century (some ten percent of the total population of about 1,100 was enslaved in 1800). Perhaps for that reason, many slaves were acculturated into a German society to a degree highly unusual in North America. Scores (including a handful of Africans) joined the Moravian Church and incorporated themselves into the tightly-knit social and religious fabric of the Moravian church communities. Some were skilled, literate artisans who held high positions in the labor hierarchy. Most slaves were bilingual in German and English, and a number of slave children received education in integrated Moravian schools. But fear of slave revolt and increasing racial chauvinism led white Brethren to distance themselves socially from blacks in the early nineteenth century. These developments reflected both philosophical changes among white Moravians and a growing racial divisiveness in the nation at large. By 1822 African-Americans were segregated out of Moravian churches and organized into an all-black congregation under the pastorship of a white minister. The distinctiveness of earlier race relations was lost. The study is based on voluminous church diaries, reports and minutes, most written in German script, housed in the Moravian Church Archives, Southern Province, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1991", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "A Separate Canaan", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00717\nAdvisor: Supervisor: PETER H. 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In interpreting these years, scholars have focused on historic male-oriented theological and cultural contests. They have subsumed debates concerning gender, particularly women's roles, within conversations on biblical interpretation and church polity. Few have acknowledged women as key players. In addressing this gap, I drew on textual and field-based research. First, I visited the Woman's Missionary Union's archives, where I explored women's activities within the denomination from its 1845 founding onwards. Next, I combed the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, concentrating on events after 1979. I perused denominational state newspapers, national publications, organizational newsletters and magazines, accounts of the annual convention, select correspondence, and women-related conferences and programs. I also consulted Baylor University's Institute for Oral History, listening to its interviews with conservative male leaders and ordained women. As for field-based research, I attended nine conferences and retreats held by Southern Baptist-related women's organizations. Several groups had developed in response to the controversies. When possible, I participated in their local branches, and I surveyed members. Finally, I conducted interviews with 23 women. Most had held leadership positions in these organizations during the battles. My thesis is three-fold. First, Southern Baptist history involved an ongoing tension between a traditionalist understanding and prophetic understanding of evangelical womanhood. While the traditionalist understanding prevailed, at certain transitional moments, the prophetic understanding gained strength. Second, the period after World War II defined one such moment. Namely, a confluence of outside forces penetrated and transformed the South. The introduction of modern scholarship, civil rights, and feminism unleashed historic Southern Baptist tensions. These tensions invoked both ideological debates like inerrancy and cultural ones over race, ethnicity, and gender. Together, they triggered the Southern Baptist battles. But third, as anti-segregationists won the day and inerrancy became increasingly nebulous, gender relations became the final and most tempestuous battleground. Contestations over womanhood trumped other issues in dividing Southern Baptists. In sum, I argue that amidst sweeping regional change, Southern Baptist men and women searched for order and gender became the decisive weapon in their internal battles.", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "2007", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Varieties of Evangelical Womanhood", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00339\nAdvisor: Adviser Grant A. Wacker\nSource: DAI, 68, no. 06A (2007): p. 2501\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF HISTORY, UNITED STATES WOMEN'S STUDIES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "X45WAS3V", "version": 4033, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/X45WAS3V", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/X45WAS3V", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Berry", "parsedDate": "2005", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "X45WAS3V", "version": 4033, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "Seaborne Conversions, 1700--1800", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Stephen Russell", "lastName": "Berry" } ], "abstractNote": "The beliefs of the Old World did not simply transfer to the New, but experienced a translation in the crossing. The close reading of eighteenth-century travel narratives benefits the understanding of American religion by viewing religious beliefs during a moment of liminality---an in-between time and space---in which no particular religious institution predominated. Three groups---sailors, passengers, and clergymen---constitute the objects of the study and provide its evidentiary base through letters, diaries, autobiographies, and ship's logs. This research argues that the process by which North America developed an increased reliance upon individualism and a functional religious pluralism incubated onboard Atlantic sailing vessels. These eighteenth-century voyages combined divergent and competing worldviews in a relatively open, non-institutional atmosphere that reveals the particular mentalities of the participants and their belief systems. Section one describes the environmental circumstances aboard ship that formed the backdrop for seagoing religious belief and culture---the maritime dimensions of time, space, gender, nature, and providence. Section two examines how distinct cultures and religious approaches adapted to ship life, and how the weeks and months spent at sea altered their religions. The ocean crossing placed limitations on varying Protestant traditions. The \"Middle Passage\" of African slaves offers helpful comparisons with this European experience, showing the common alterations and challenges that both underwent. Unlike passengers, sailors remained in the in-between space of the Atlantic. Seamen have often suffered the label irreligious, but a closer examination of their lives reveals profoundly religious rituals and behaviors. Individualism characterized the religion of sailors whose lives demonstrated the effects of institutional religious deprivation. Sailors also had to navigate multiple religious options. These shipboard meetings help to explain the formation of broader patterns in American culture, especially the emergence of a functional pluralism. The eighteenth century sea passage did not create pluralism but placed multiple world-views into single communities. In short, the ship crossing germinated the American approach to denominationalism involving mutual acceptance and competition, openness and exclusivity. The ship anticipates the difficulties of twenty-first century life, as well as providing a model for navigating modern trends such as globalization and religious pluralism.", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "2005", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00352\nAdvisor: Adviser Grant Wacker\nSource: DAI, 67, no. 09A (2005): p. 3442\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF AMERICAN STUDIES HISTORY, UNITED STATES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "9QXAVSTT", "version": 4033, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/9QXAVSTT", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/9QXAVSTT", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "WINGERD", "parsedDate": "1998", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "9QXAVSTT", "version": 4033, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "City Limits: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in Urban America. St. Paul, Minnesota, 1838-1934 (st. Paul, Urban History, Irish, Catholic)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "MARY LETHERT", "lastName": "WINGERD" } ], "abstractNote": "By historicizing a particular phenomenon of cultural politics, this study tackles the larger problem of how political cultures develop. Why, it asks, did working people in St. Paul give only tepid support to the militant labor movement and vibrant third party politics that fueled social change in Minneapolis during the Depression? What made these workers \"conservative?\" Traditionally, their behavior has been attributed to the supposedly inherent conservatism of the city's Irish-Catholic working class. \"City Limits\" challenges this assumption by tracing St. Paul's political culture to its roots in the city's origins. It argues that politics, broadly conceived to include ethnicity, religion, and class experience, was fundamentally influenced by limitations and opportunities built into the structure of the city's economy. As social understandings formed within a specific economic context, they reinforced themselves and powerfully shaped the ensuing course of city politics and business. The cultural values embedded in ethnic, religious, and class affiliations became inextricably tied to another place-based allegiance that I term \"civic identity.\" I argue that under circumstances of economic weakness civic identity can have the capacity to be more powerful than the more mythic constructions of regionalism or nationalism, which themselves are shaped by the contingencies of local experience. In St. Paul, civic identity was particularly compelling because the city was consistently at an economic disadvantage with Minneapolis, which claimed cultural as well as economic superiority. The effect was not a community of consensus but rather the construction of a locally circumscribed arena in which opposing interests could bargain effectively within a set of common understandings. Similar contests over the obligations and meaning of place occurred in cities and towns throughout the nation, with varying effect on local culture, politics and society. Whether the result was a deeply divided citizenry, an intense parochialism, or something in-between, the struggle over civic identity had a real meaning in the way people interacted in the everyday world of their lives and affected their relationship with the world outside their community. This study situates place-based politics as central to an understanding of the larger political terrain.", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1998", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "City Limits", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00508\nAdvisor: Co-directors: WILLIAM H. CHAFE; LAWRENCE GOODWYN\nSource: DAI, 59, no. 04A, (1998): 1316\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "HISTORY, UNITED STATES RELIGION, HISTORY OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "SRT55X6D", "version": 4033, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/SRT55X6D", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/SRT55X6D", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "DENZLER", "parsedDate": "1998", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "SRT55X6D", "version": 4033, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "The Lure of the Edge: Science, Religion and the Alien Abduction Movement (ufos)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "BRENDA", "lastName": "DENZLER" } ], "abstractNote": "This dissertation is a study of the ways in which science and religion are used within the UFO community as adequate and satisfying frameworks for understanding the phenomenon of alien abductions. Proponents of the scientific framework call for more rigorous application of the scientific method to the investigation of such accounts. Others point out the inadequacies of Newtonian-era science for studying and understanding abductions and even UFOs in general. Some appeal to insights drawn from the New Physics. Others advocate a more humanistic approach, drawing on folklore, the occult and esoteric religious traditions. The reports of abductees about their experiences are susceptible to a variety of interpretations which can support any one of the above approaches. They are on the whole, however, not substantially similar to the reports of the contactees from the 1950s and 1960s, which were founded in the occult and esoteric traditions. The study also considers the nature and extent of the acceptance of UFO reports by the scientific and the religious communities.", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1998", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "The Lure of the Edge", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00474\nAdvisor: Co-supervisors: RUSSELL E. RICHEY; GRANT WACKER\nSource: DAI, 59, no. 07A, (1998): 2553\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, GENERAL HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY OF SCIENCE FOLKLORE", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "7Z6UQKKU", "version": 4033, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/7Z6UQKKU", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/7Z6UQKKU", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Baxter", "parsedDate": "1996", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "7Z6UQKKU", "version": 4033, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "In Service to the Nation: A Critical Analysis of the Formation of the Americanist Tradition in Catholic Social Ethics", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Michael John", "lastName": "Baxter" } ], "abstractNote": "This dissertation traces the formation of the \"Americanist tradition\" in Catholic social ethics from 1915 to 1960. The central assumption of this tradition is that there exists a fundamental harmony between Catholicism and the United States. The dissertation describes the institutional arrangements and theoretical paradigms which shaped Catholic scholarship in the twenties and thirties. Philosophy played a central academic role in the standard Catholic curriculum, organizing all other branches of knowledge, while theology was relegated to the seminary. Thus the history and political theory servicing the Americanist tradition were shaped by philosophy, not theology. Americanist historians, such as Peter Guilday, underscored the Catholic contribution to the founding and development of the United States--thus demonstrating, by means of critical historical methods, a harmony between Catholicism and the United States. This thesis was also the centerpiece of Americanist political theory. The central claim was that the U.S. founding was based on medieval Catholic theories of popular sovereignty and separation of power. Catholic political theorists such as John A. Ryan and Moorhouse F. X. Millar, S. J., circumvented the official Catholic church-state doctrine, which upheld the Catholic confessional state as normative, to show that Catholic tradition is fully consonant with religious freedom as affirmed in the U.S. Constitution. Americanist history and political theory came together in the work of John Courtney Murray, S. J. Murray's work was deeply shaped by the Americanist tradition yet, more than his predecessors, he acknowledged the tensions between Catholicism and the U.S. Thus Murray was a tragic future, striving for an unattainable harmony between Church and nation. An alternative tradition is also presented. Through figures such as Virgil Michel, O. S. B., and Paul Hanley Furfey, this counter-tradition put forth a more compelling form of Catholic political and social theory, based more squarely on the beliefs and practices of the Church.", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1996", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "In Service to the Nation", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00470\nAdvisor: Supervisor Stanley Hauerwas\nSource: DAI, 57, no. 05A (1996): p. 2077\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, GENERAL THEOLOGY PHILOSOPHY HISTORY, UNITED STATES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "CHSMJZD4", "version": 4033, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/CHSMJZD4", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/CHSMJZD4", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "lastModifiedByUser": { "id": 324018, "username": "jwieringa", "name": "Jeri Wieringa", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jwieringa", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "LONG", "parsedDate": "1993", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "CHSMJZD4", "version": 4033, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "The Revival of 1857-1858: The Power of Interpretation (religious Awakenings, Mass Movements)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "KATHRYN TERESA", "lastName": "LONG" } ], "abstractNote": "The Revival of 1857-58 was hailed by contemporaries as one of the most significant events of the nineteenth century, another in a series of \"Great Awakenings\" that had periodically swept the United States. In contrast, even though revivalism has long been accepted as both a topic of interest and a useful interpretative tool for the study of religion in America, the '57-58 Revival has been eclipsed in twentieth century academic circles by scholarly fascination with earlier awakenings. There has been no recent, in-depth treatment of the event. The present study seeks to place the '57-58 Revival within the historical context of mid-nineteenth century America and to suggest fresh interpretations of it in light of critical issues in current scholarship. A central preoccupation underlying this project concerns questions of interpretation and methodology as they relate to the study of religious awakenings as multifaceted mass movements. The dissertation examines the '57-58 Revival from a variety of interpretative perspectives that helped to shape the contours of the event. It draws from a range of primary and secondary materials, including published histories of the revival, periodicals, church records, diaries and memoirs. Instead of a progressive narrative proposing a single thesis, the dissertation offers a multi-layered account of the whole. Each chapter views the event from a different angle. Chapter one argues that the revival \"happened\" when certain clergy said so, that is, when members of a particular interpretative community recognized the upsurge of religious interest as an expression of an established historical pattern of cyclical awakenings. Chapter two explores the idea that for ordinary people the significance of the event was based on social relationships. Chapter three considers public debates over whether genuine revival would lead to a reformation of the nation. Chapter four points to the role of the mass circulation daily press. Chapter five discusses issues of gender in light of traditional interpretations of 1857-58 as a \"laymen's revival.\" The theme throughout is the power of interpretation operating on many levels as a key to understanding the 1857-58 Revival.", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1993", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "The Revival of 1857-1858", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00390\nAdvisor: Supervisor: GEORGE M. MARSDEN\nSource: DAI, 54, no. 11A, (1993): 4138\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF AMERICAN STUDIES HISTORY, UNITED STATES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "G2Z5ZBHZ", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/G2Z5ZBHZ", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/G2Z5ZBHZ", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "McArver", "parsedDate": "1995", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "G2Z5ZBHZ", "version": 1, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "\"A Spiritual Wayside Inn\": Lutherans, the New South and Cultural Change in South Carolina, 1886-1918", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Susan Wilds", "lastName": "McArver" } ], "abstractNote": "", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1995", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "\"A Spiritual Wayside Inn\"", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00448\nAdvisor: Supervisor Grant Wacker\nSource: DAI, 57, no. 02A (1995): p. 726\nAbstract: Between the years 1886 and 1918, significant social change took place in the cities, towns, and countryside of the American \"New South.\" This dissertation examines the ways in which the men and women of one southern white Protestant denomination, the Lutheran church in South Carolina, dealt with these changes. Many southern Protestant denominations increasingly divided during these years into two quite distinctive constituencies. One consisted of a growing population of college-educated, middle-class business leaders who appropriated the New South ideals and goals of their rapidly changing society for religious purposes and wished to expand the church beyond its traditional, more local horizons. In opposition stood rural farmers who still followed patterns of life very similar to those of a half-century before, and who continued to center the church around a generations-old tradition binding together family, neighbors, and wider networks of kin into a community of care and support defined primarily by its local character. Different constituencies within the church thus began to define the \"denomination\" in different ways: one in theological terms, one in more familial ones. This study indicates that although the urban clergy controlled the church press and the synodical bureaucracy, rural clergy and lay persons may have been ultimately more influential in determining the directions of the church at large. Southern Lutherans remained conservative both theologically and socially, although the changes initiated in this era marked a turning point in the denomination's life. Utilizing individual parish records, personal correspondence and papers, the weekly southern Lutheran denominational newspaper, synodical minutes, minutes of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, college and seminary catalogues, secular newspapers, parochial reports, and oral histories, this dissertation explores a denominational tradition little examined in the South. The study also moves denominational history away from a history concentrated on institutions, clergy and leadership to one which focuses on the laity, particularly on the sometimes quite differing experiences of men and women within the church. Men and women often differed in their responses to the challenges of their society, and gender tensions played an important role in larger discussions.\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF HISTORY, UNITED STATES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "2QJE28M2", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/2QJE28M2", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/2QJE28M2", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "INGERSOL", "parsedDate": "1989", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "2QJE28M2", "version": 1, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "Burden of Dissent. Mary Lee Cagle and the Southern Holiness Movement (alabama)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "ROBERT STANLEY", "lastName": "INGERSOL" } ], "abstractNote": "", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1989", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00331\nAdvisor: Supervisor: STUART C. HENRY\nSource: DAI, 50, no. 08A, (1989): 2531\nAbstract: The study is an interpretive biography of Mary Lee Cagle (1864-1955) of Alabama, revivalist and pastor, whose career spanned 1895 to the mid-1940s, and an examination of the roots of her ministry. The central thesis is that Mary Cagle's \"call\" to preach forced upon her the classic dilemma between conscience and obedience, reflected in her life as conflict between her sense of divine will and a Southern Methodism that did not permit women to preach; and that the burden of sectarian dissent that she accepted was a logical resolution of that conflict that led to personal liberation. The study examines the roots of her decision in the broader holiness movement of which she was a part, particularly in Free Methodism; in the organization of the New Testament Church of Christ, a Southern restorationist sect with whose origins she was intimately connected and of which she was a key shaper; the sect's role as a parent-body of the present-day Church of the Nazarene; the role of women who influenced and were influenced by the Rev. Mrs. Cagle; literature defending woman's right to preach; and the outcome of a life that accepted the \"burden of dissent.\" Close attention is paid to two of Mary Cagle's \"sisters\" in the ministry: Donie Adams Mitchum and Elliott J. Sheeks, natives, respectively, of Tennessee and Kentucky. The study makes extensive use of fugitive source material in the religious and secular press, and in manuscript collections, including a key private collection. Manuscripts used include personal journals, correspondence between female preachers, sermon notes, and unpublished reminiscences. Published materials include official documents of the New Testament Church of Christ, its Holiness Church of Christ successor, and the Church of the Nazarene; Mary Cagle's autobiography (1928); the writings of her first husband; and pamphlet literature. The study also analyzes dominant motifs in the call narratives of nine female preachers, eight of whom belonged to Mary Cagles sect. Mary Lee Cagle's ministry contributed to the Southern roots of the Church of the Nazarene and its heritage of ordaining women to the Christian ministry. Mrs. Cagle and other women in her circle filled unconventional roles as preachers, organizers of churches, pastors, ordained elders, co-creators and shapers of a Southern sect, and co-founders of a twentieth-century denomination. Her career had social implications as well as religious ones, for her public life reflected continuities with the broader themes of the woman's movement of the nineteenth century.\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES HISTORY, UNITED STATES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "MPVBAFJF", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/MPVBAFJF", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/MPVBAFJF", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "MARTIN", "parsedDate": "1988", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "MPVBAFJF", "version": 1, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "Cultural Hermeneutics on the Frontier: Colonialism and the Muscogulge Millenarian Revolt of 1813 (creek Indians)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "JOEL WAYNE", "lastName": "MARTIN" } ], "abstractNote": "", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1988", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Cultural Hermeneutics on the Frontier", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00428\nAdvisor: Supervisor: CHARLES H. LONG\nSource: DAI, 49, no. 09A, (1988): 2695\nAbstract: In general historiographic terms, the motivating problematic of this dissertation is one shared widely by ethnohistory: to recover the history of Amerindians and make their stories part of American History. The dissertation contributes to this broad revisionist agenda by reconstructing the Creek (Muscogulge) Indians' experience of the invasion of the South from 1670 to 1814. Topics closely examined are the deerskin trade, patterns of intercultural contact (the exchange of gifts, intermarriage, race relations) and economic transformations occurring in the eighteenth century. Sources consulted include a wide variety of primary documents (colonial records, government agent reports, letters, memoirs, \"talks,\" treaties, travel accounts, maps, etc.), ethnographic materials, and secondary histories and anthropological works. Methodologically, this inquiry attempts to rethink the relationship of religion and history. This rethinking occurs at two interrelated levels. The dissertation seeks to (1) demonstrate the importance of Muscogulge religion in Muscogulge history; and (2) introduce methodologies which enable historians to take the Great Spirit and other spirits seriously as real forces in American History. In addressing the first level, the dissertation argues that Muscogulge religion continually and strongly shaped the people's responses to colonialism. Indeed, a careful examination of the \"Redstick\" millenarian revolt of 1813 reveals that the Muscogulge revolt was rooted in a conflict of cosmologies concerning the meaning of land. The revolt was empowered by contact with spirits of water, earth and sky, guided by shamans, and took the form of collectively shared religious experience: initiation into a New World identity. As for the second level, the dissertation argues that the writing of Muscogulge history (and hence of American history) necessarily must bend to acknowledge in some way the historical relevance and reality of the vital spirits discerned and revered by the Muscogulge and other Amerindians. Within the dissertation this \"heterological\" inclination is achieved by adopting the methodological approach embodied in the the History of Religions. The History of Religions allows us to speak meaningfully of spirits without mystification or reductionism. Additionally, poststructuralist thought (Michael Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari) sharpens the work's discussion of resistance.\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF EDUCATION, HEALTH HISTORY, UNITED STATES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "W3ZG87D2", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/W3ZG87D2", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/W3ZG87D2", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Armstrong", "parsedDate": "2003", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "W3ZG87D2", "version": 1, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "The Emotional Culture of the Gilded-Age Wesleyan Holiness Movement", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Christopher Robert", "lastName": "Armstrong" } ], "abstractNote": "", "thesisType": "Ph.D.", "university": "Duke University; 0066", "place": "", "date": "2003", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00370\nAdvisor: Supervisor Grant Wacker\nSource: DAI, 65, no. 01A (2003): p. 177\nAbstract: This dissertation views the Wesleyan Camp meeting phase of the nineteenth-century holiness movement through its “emotional culture.” The method is a close-grained survey of the movement's reading style, its favored literary modes, and the emotion-scripts embedded in its most characteristic genres: doctrinal books, testimonies, and songs. The movement, with its institutional focus in the National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness, invested itself in constructing an orthopathy—a set of “scripts” for its characteristic emotions of joy, rest, doubt, and fear—that was just as important for its adherents as its orthodoxy. Why? Because they faced a Victorian “Climactic modernization” that, as Charles Taylor has argued, destroyed the old, traditional moral “maps” that had once helped individuals locate and define themselves—precipitating a modern crisis of selfhood. Two competing Victorian models of selfhood were the “autonomous, successful, in-control self” and the “relational, dependent, romantic self.” The latter posed intimate relationship as the only sure source of stable, secure identity. The “map” to that selfhood was a sentimental one. That is, it used written texts to help readers reconstruct emotional situations in their imaginations, and thereby become emotionally competent, sensitive, relational selves. I identify in these texts three characteristic “battles” of the movement and show how the movement's emotional commitments led it to various responses, some positive and some ironic. Behind these three battles lay the struggle to bring order to one's own ambivalent, slippery emotions—the necessary precursor to communion with the other (God), and therefore, for the holiness folk, the most necessary step to romantic selfhood.\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, HISTORY OF HISTORY, UNITED STATES THEOLOGY", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "B996T6TQ", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/B996T6TQ", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/B996T6TQ", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "FULTON", "parsedDate": "1999", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "B996T6TQ", "version": 1, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "'no Biography or History Had a Word to Say About It': A Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Newly Discovered (women Writers, Critical Edition, New England, Parish Life)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "PETER MARK", "lastName": "FULTON" } ], "abstractNote": "", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1999", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "'no Biography or History Had a Word to Say About It'", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00408\nAdvisor: Supervisor JANE TOMPKINS\nSource: DAI, 60, no. 05A (1999): p. 1557\nAbstract: ‘No Biography or History Had a Word to Say About It’: A Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Newly Discovered is a project of literary discovery and reclamation. It presents a\ncritical edition of a unique holograph document entitled Lights and Shadows: Parish Sketches By A Pastor's Wife, written by an anonymous American woman at mid-century. The question it starts from is two-fold: How do we appreciate the forgotten traces of invisible lives? How do we begin to fathom a text of unknown provenance? Many of the materials used are archival in nature. The document itself comprises nine handwritten booklets located in the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Other nineteenth-century texts and artifacts that provide a frame of reference include original letters, diaries, poems, and photographs that reside in various locations in\nConnecticut: The New Haven Colony Historical Society, The New Haven Free Public Library, Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, and The Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford. The method of analysis is largely that of immanent critique, insofar as the primary texts are revealed and then situated in relation to one another in a manner that allows understanding to unfold incrementally, as in a narrative. Additionally, references are provided to contemporary studies of nineteenth-century women writers, to histories of nineteenth-century women, to current theorizations of authorship, autobiography, women's subjectivity, and to recent practices of biography and biographical criticism. The culmination and centerpiece of the work is a “new” and accessible nineteenth-century text that reveals, in part, the dynamics of a small, New England parish at mid-century. The extended critical and editorial apparatus which frames this text leads to a demonstration of how tenuous the boundaries can be between fiction and non-fiction, biography and autobiography—and ultimately to a questioning of the very distinction between “made” and “lived” truths, “self” and “other.”\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "LITERATURE, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES RELIGION, HISTORY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES BIOGRAPHY", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } }, { "key": "IH8VIUSB", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 668, "name": "American Religious History", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/668/items/IH8VIUSB", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/american_religious_history/items/IH8VIUSB", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 23000, "username": "AaronSizer", "name": "Aaron Sizer", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/aaronsizer", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "BURLEIN", "parsedDate": "1997", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "IH8VIUSB", "version": 1, "itemType": "thesis", "title": "Lift High the Cross: White Supremacy and Christian Triumphalism in Contemporary Colorado (bible, Religious Right, James Dobson, Focus on the Family, Pete Peters, Scriptures for America)", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "ANN MARIA", "lastName": "BURLEIN" } ], "abstractNote": "", "thesisType": "PH.D.", "university": "DUKE UNIVERSITY; 0066", "place": "", "date": "1997", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "numPages": "", "DOI": "", "ISBN": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Lift High the Cross", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "Pages: 00399\nAdvisor: Supervisor: BRUCE B. LAWRENCE\nSource: DAI, 58, no. 08A, (1997): 3166\nAbstract: This dissertation is an ethnographic cultural history which explores the religious dimensions of the contemporary right. I argue that the right deploys the Bible as a counter-memory that protests modernity. My analysis consists of two in-depth case studies, each drawn from sociologically different sectors of the right. The first case study explores Pete Peters and his ministry, Scriptures for America. Peters is identified with Christian Identity, a religiously based white supremacist movement affiliated with militias. The second case study explores James Dobson and his ministry, Focus on the Family. Dobson is identified with the Family Values Movement, a sub-formation of the religious right. The case studies are based on primary materials, including: radio, shortwave and TV broadcasts, taped sermons, newsletters, magazines and other printed documents, as well as selected interviews. I argue that each ministry relies on modern secular media to invoke images of a sacred past in order to protest the secularization of modern life. Rather than trying to turn back the clock, each ministry uses the institutional, conceptual and symbolic spaces provided by modern media to portray religion as a scandal to the modern world. What the right markets under the sign of traditional religion is the possibility of protest and passion, the possibility of overcoming the postmodern sense of powerlessness and indifference enough to invest oneself in the world. After exploring the biblical world-views of each ministry, I conclude by tracing convergences between the competing and even antithetical counter-memories that each ministry disseminates. I explore two particular areas of convergence. First, Peters and Dobson converge through revisionist accounts of American history which identify the nation as God's Temple in need of cleansing. Second, Peters and Dobson converge through the discourse of family values, which draws on biblical metaphors of marriage to envision gender as a sacred category.\nProvider: OCLC", "tags": [ { "tag": "RELIGION, GENERAL HISTORY, UNITED STATES AMERICAN STUDIES", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [ "Z6PT4MWV" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z", "dateModified": "2011-11-26T16:36:58Z" } } ]