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This dissertation offers an answer to the question of how the Midwest, specifically the middle Mississippi Valley, came to be the American heartland. In this dissertation, I argue that evangelicalism was instrumental in the making of the...
This dissertation examines the John of the Cross' (1542-1591) construction of a uniquely "Discalced Carmelite identity" in his writings, with particular emphasis on his works, the Ascent of Mount Carmel and the Dark Night. The focus of...
The ethnic and national melange that characterized the Pacific Northwest in the first half of the nineteenth century (Native Americans, Metis, Hawaiians, British, Americans, and French-Canadians all called it home) facilitated a wide...
Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is the largest Christian broadcasting entity in the world. Through its programming and global satellite outreach, TBN has grown and nurtured the pentecostal Faith movement. Affirming the divine right to...
This dissertation examines Southern civil religion in the post-Reconstruction era (c. 1877-1920). Geographically, it focuses on the "unfinished South" – an area encompassing Middle and West Florida, Southwest Alabama, and Southwest...
This is a study of the practice of the Roman Catholic priesthood and a history of French missionaries in the United States. From 1789 to 1865—from the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of the American Civil War—hundreds of...
Although religious innovation in America historically has been the norm rather than the exception, mainstream Americans have often viewed new religious movements with suspicion and occasionally with outright alarm. The question...
This study examines the development of apocalypticism in Mormon culture from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Specifically, it argues that a major shift in apocalyptic thought in the twentieth century was essential...
This study focuses on the practice of Spiritualism among a group of Afro-creole men from 1858 until 1877 in New Orleans. It contends that Spiritualism was the process in which these Afro-creoles envisioned the proper social, political, ...
'The Gospel According to the Klan' identifies the intimate relationships between Protestantism, nationalism, gender and whiteness in the print culture of the 1920s Klan in order to demonstrate that the Klan reflected the values, ideals...
"Homosexuality and the American Catholic Church: Reconfiguring the Silence, 1971-1999" examines how during the latter decades of the 20th century gay and lesbian Catholic voices and reconciling ministries emerged from a specific and...
Among the pueblos of Nuevo Mexico, Franciscan missionaries and Pueblo Indians structured their perceptions of and relationships with one another within religious frameworks. The history of cultural contact and interaction between friars...
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