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Afghanistan moves to salvage ancient Buddhist citytags: historic preservation, China, Afghanistan, Buddhism, Silk Road
It had the potential to be another Afghanistan Buddha disaster, recalling the Taliban's destruction of two ancient statues that had stood for centuries in this country's west: A buried Buddhist city lost to time was about to be obliterated by what promised to be one of the largest copper mines in the world.
Now, however, thanks to delays in construction of the massive mine and a hefty influx of cash from the World Bank, the 1.5-square-mile Mes Aynak complex is an archaeological triumph – though bittersweet.
An international team of archaeologists and more than 550 local laborers are now frantically excavating what turns out to be a unique window into Afghanistan's role on the ancient Silk Road connecting China and India with the Mediterranean.
With its Buddhist city, a ring of perhaps a half-dozen monasteries and a striking complex of workshops and mine shafts built into a high mountain ridgeline at an altitude of 8,200 feet, the site shows the interplay of Buddhism, mining and trade during the years it was in operation, now thought to be from the fifth to the late eighth centuries....
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I bought one of these in 1991 and it has held up great! I've done all kind of projects with this vise and have abused it regularly. Still as good as the day I bought it. Very strong.Two minor gripes: First, is the rotation lock tends to slip if just hand tightened. I have to tap it with a hammer to really lock it down. Second, the jaw design is very basic. No knotch for round stock, or smooth surface option etc. Mot big deals but minor quirks.
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I bought this Vice for a simple bearing replacement job and I set it up on a workbench. I placed the bearing housing inside and started to tap the bearing out. The jaws wouldnt...Read complete review
I bought this Vice for a simple bearing replacement job and I set it up on a workbench. I placed the bearing housing inside and started to tap the bearing out. The jaws wouldnt hold so I tightened it up a bit and when I hit the bearing again the lip of the vice broke off. I returned the item to Harbor Freight with my receipt and the lady seemed as though she doubted my story. She asked if I wanted to exchange it for another and I said no because it was not built well at all. Another clerk was standing there listening to the conversation and made a comment about customers with a bad attitude. I will NEVER buy anything from HF again. Save your money and buy QUALITY Tools.
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By mbehr
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This vise is well worth the money. Seems to work fine. I'd like to get an extra set of brass jaws. One funny thing (maybe all vises, I don't know) it only has 3 mounting holes. But it is very stable when bolted to my bench.
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By Grass Man
from Umatilla, FL
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This vise is solid as a rock. Easy to open, easy to tighten down on material. Strong load capacity, up to 220lbs. Love it!
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Great workbench addition.
By Chuck
from Carrollton, Georgia
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Good vice. Does the job..
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By Leer
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Follow directions, and it will last for you.
Good value
By Kkbeachhouse
from Omaha NE
Good light weight vise for the value. Great for someone who needs a vise occasionally. works well.
good vice for the cose
By hello
from Albuquerque, NM
I'm not sure why this vise doesn't have a better rating on here. I couldn't find a similarly priced vice better than this one. It seems sturdy so far. I use it for light work at my home work bench. Follow the directions and it will last. It's good and solid compared to the one I saw at other stores for around the same price (much more sturdy with a bigger anvil.) Just clean it up and oil the threads a bit. It seems like it will improve with use after a bit of cleaning.My main gripe with this vise is that the paint overspray made it unusable without a little work. I couldn't spin the handles to change the swivel whiteout some paint removal. The handles didn't fit through their holes with all the paint on them. Some of the edges were a little sharp but easily fixed with some light filing and sanding. I plan on making some soft jaws for it. I couldn't find a a good quality used vise for less than this, but I didn't spend hours scouring the internet either. A few minutes of work is all it takes to get a good quality vise for way cheaper than the alternatives.
Worked very well for me
By Increditec
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My son decided he wanted to build a new computer desk using 3/4" black iron pipe. The big box stores either wouldn't cut the threads we needed or couldn't cut threads in the lenghths of pipes we needed. I picked up this vice, a pipe cutter and a thread cutter from harbor freight. This vice held the pipe for the cuts and, more importnatly, for the pipe threader which required that the pipe be cranked down very tight in the vice to keep from spinning. All tools worked perfectly and we are now painting his almost complete desk.I fully expect this vice to last me a lifetime and it cost me about half what it would have from the other guys.
Nice tool that works well.
By MisterSir
from NJ
I got this vice and I like it. I had a small hobby vice that could not hold unwieldy objects securely. This heavier duty vice works much better. I cannot comment on how it performs with extra heavy duty work. I did have one issue with this vice.One of the jaws has a patterned surface, with dozens of little protrusions and you might wind up stamping your bolts with them. The jaw is not flat and it can havethat effect on your bolts and wood material if a really tight clamp is needed.The metal pads on the jaws are screwed in and replaceable but I have not seen anywhere they are sold. (To get another flat one or one with the indentation for rounded objects to be held)
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By CJ
from Louisiana
I have an old jeep and have this mounted to my rolling work bench. It is great for light use. I sometimes have to tap it with a hammer for a tight clamp but other that that it has worked just fine for the past 3 years. This is a Harbor Freight vise, use it like one.
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Decent vise, Great value
By Gunner
from Polk City, FL
Decent vise for the money. Certainly not a professional piece of equipment, but for general use in a home garage it's worth the price.
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Qantas will replace Singapore with Dubai as its hub for European flights from March 2013 and coordinate pricing, sales and schedules with Emirates under the partnership unveiled on Thursday.
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With the Independence Day week-end just concluded, I wanted to commend a recent book that speaks to the perennial questions of religion and the American Revolution--S. Scott Rohrer's Jacob Green's Revolution: Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014).
Now, I will be featuring Jacob Green's Revolution prominently in a forthcoming review essay in the Journal of the Early Republic, but let me take a different tact here and suggest that this "microhistory" actually says some very interesting things about the Revolution.
Or, more to the point, the book succeeds by highlighting three individuals whose stories helpfully reveal contrasting religious visions during the founding era.
The first is the book's title character. The Rev. Jacob Green (1722-1790) grew up in Massachusetts and attended Harvard. There, he was caught up in the Great Awakening, fascinated by the theology of Jonathan Edwards, and went on to travel with George Whitefield. In New Jersey, he was convinced to become a Presbyterian minister, and he would spend the rest of his life as a minister in Hanover in Morris County. As a minister, Green published several widely-read works, most expressing the theological concern for purifying the Church. Among them was a popular tract, A Vision of Hell, imagining the schemes of demons to destroy the church. Its appeal was heightened as it included engravings by the Bostonian Paul Revere. In the first section, Rohrer provides a very good description of Green as pastor. He reads deeply into Green's sermons, both published and unpublished (most were on either the Gospel of John or Acts). So, the book works well as religious history.
As Green's life moves into the Revolutionary period, Rohrer deftly switches to political history. With the Imperial crisis of the 1770s, Green advocated for Revolution. In 1776 he wrote a pamphlet that proved very important for the Middle Colonies, arguing against Reconciliation with Great Britain. Because of the popularity of that work, he was actually sent to the New Jersey Provincial Congress in 1776. As a politician he did little, though he helped New Jersey overthrow its royal governor and move to put a new, popularly elected government in place. He even chaired the committee that drafted New Jersey's first Constitution. As the Revolution went on, Green decried moral laxity in citizens and soldiers--he saw this challenge up close, as he hosted 14 soldiers in his home.
As the War wound down, Green once again moved into the role of a reformer. He called for economic reforms with adjustment of the currency and a just fix for the Congress's financial problems. Paying down the national debt was also a moral concern that Green raised. Green advocated against slavery, adding his Reformed, reforming voice to the calls for emancipation. In religious matters, after the war, he broke his church away from the Presbyterian synod to form an "associated synod of Morris county." This was more "Consociational"--or, more like the Congregational arrangement of his New England boyhood. He wanted synods to be advisory but for all power to lie with the Congregations; the Presbyterian format was too restricting for him. In his last years, he worked to improve discipline, behavior, and piety in his own congregation--leading to one last revival season before his death.
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Does the contemporary urban religious congregation have any substantial impact on the city or surrounding metropolitan area it calls home?
It is a simple question on the surface, but one heavy with meaning for any religious historian whose work deals substantially with urban subjects. In many ways, there is substantial overlap between the dominant narratives of urban and religious histories, particularly in the twentieth century; the themes and descriptors used to describe the fate of the postwar American city, phrases that try to capture its decentralization, fragmentation, and reterritorialization, could easily be applied in histories of American religion that trace the decline of the denominational mainline, the rise of evangelicalism, the augmentation and pluralization of the American religious landscape, and the persistent increase of the "nones" or spiritual "seekers." Indeed, many of the developments of postwar American religious history are deeply intertwined with developments in postwar American geography and urban history, the most prominent example, perhaps, being the migration of urban churches from the inner to the outer rings of the city and eventually to the suburbs, patterns of migration that followed suburbanizing congregants from the 1950s onward. To consider the role or impact of the contemporary congregation in urban America today is to hint at the interrelatedness of these historical restructurings, an urban restructuring and a religious restructuring, and to wonder skeptically at their effect on the possibility of building religious communities in the spatially-disjointed, polarized, and ostensibly secular "postmetropolis."
In their recent book Religion and Community in the New Urban America, Paul D. Numrich and Elfriede Wedam analyze fifteen case studies of congregations from a variety of traditions throughout the greater Chicagoland area. Their aim is to better understand the unique challenges of urban congregations today, how these challenges affect congregational life and a congregation's ability to build a stable and intimate community, and to what extent congregations make a notable impact on their surrounding environments and thus participate in urban change. The volume may be read as a continuation of the important work that has come out of the Religion in Urban America Program that began at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the early '90s, in which Numrich and Wedam were involved. In 2000, the program published Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City, an important volume that drew on research of over seventy-five Chicago-area congregations to describe the variety of congregational communities and their functions throughout Chicago. In Religion and Community, Numrich and Wedam zoom in on questions concerning the making of community in and through urban congregations, and the urban impact of congregations on their surroundings. Although they repeatedly warn against exaggerating the effects of congregations on contemporary urban life, they nevertheless demonstrate that religious congregations are not only shaped by their urban environments, but that they have also "played a role in recent urban restructuring."
Civil Religion in America, etc.
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A Mixtape on Theory & 'Religion' Dedicated to American Historians: Side A
Posted by Michael J. Altman
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Michael J. Altman
Last month, at the Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture, I was hanging out with RiAH blogger Heath Carter and friend of the blog Tim Gloege when Heath leaned over the table and said to me, "So, Mike, tell me what historians don't understand about 'religion.'"
"Yea," said Tim. "You should write a blog post on that. 10 books of theory that every historian should read."
Little did I know that Heath's question, posed to me the night of our arrival to Indianapolis, would be one of the major themes of the conference. The next morning opened with a panel on "what is religion?" and the second day saw more poking and prodding around how historians and religious studies scholars should think about the category religion. By the end of the conference I found myself defending genealogical critiques of categories like "religion" or "Hinduism."
(Side note: That I'm typing this blog post on my laptop is proof enough that I still find use in the so-called "genealogical turn" and have not, indeed, taken a sledgehammer to my computer as recommended.)
So, I'm going to follow Tim's advice. I offer this mixtape of theoretical essays and books to all my American historian friends who want to think about the category "religion" a little deeper, with a little more nuance, and with a little more theory. Like all mixtapes, this one carries with it my own tastes and is offered with affection in hopes that a track or two will inspire you to listen deeper in the artist's catalog.
The Business Practices of Corporate Evangelicals
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Tim Gloege's recent book, Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism (UNC Press, 2015), details the ways that business shaped the evangelicalism of the Moody Bible Institute in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book intervenes in several different subfields, including the history of fundamentalism and evangelicalism and the history of religion and capitalism. But before I get to the historiography, first the history.
Gloege argues that Moody Bible Institute, including evangelists D. L. Moody, R. A. Torrey, and James M. Gray, as well as businessmen such as Cyrus McCormick and Henry P. Crowell, "weaved disparate ideas drawn from business and religion into a compelling, if unstable form of evangelical Protestantism" which he terms "corporate evangelicalism." Corporate evangelicalism was an attempt to create a "respectable evangelicalism" which could resolve the tension between evangelicals' rejection of "churchly" institutions and the very real excesses of unbridled individualism. By being respectable, evangelicalism could appeal to the middle classes, even if it lost its ability to appeal to the working classes. Being businesslike was a way of being modern without becoming a modernist.
According to Gloege the development of corporate evangelicalism fell into three chronological stages. First, the nineteenth century featured a "compulsory denominational identity" against which evangelicals like Moody rebelled. The evangelicals, borrowing techniques from the businesses they ran or that funded them, instead built the Moody Bible Institute into a "branded institution." This brand guaranteed the purity, in terms of doctrine, practice, and associations, of the students it educated to be Christian workers. When the oatmeal magnate Henry Crowell took over the Institute he instituted stricter rules about dress and deportment, and segregated the living quarters of African American students off campus, in order to appeal to the respectable middle class. However, neither Crowell nor any other institution could entirely maintain their control over celebrity evangelists who had their own brands, and so we are left today with a "present in which the brand alone is all that matters."
What Happens When a Symbol's Meaning Changes?
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Much has transpired recently regarding the killing of nine African-Americans in South Carolina and its impact galvanizing those who see the Rebel Flag as a symbol of racism and hate. Living in the South since the early 1990s, I have seen the flag frequently in both Georgia and North Florida. I have heard the argument that it represents heritage and is not a symbol of racism. Assuming this is true, for the moment, such an argument still misses that symbols change and their meanings evolve. This is something that I have had to examine in my study of the Theosophical Society because another symbol of bigotry and hate, the swastika, is part of their organizational seal.
The Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 in New York City and promoted Eastern ideals and traditions, particularly Hinduism and Buddhism. The swastika is a common symbol within these traditions and has been used within the iconography for centuries. Even today, if you are in some Asian countries and see a restaurant with a swastika on its sign, it means the restaurant serves Buddhist-friendly vegetarian food. Thus, it is not surprising that the society adopted the swastika as part of their logo. At one point, Blavatsky explained the swastika "is the summary in a few lines of the whole work of creation, or evolution." It is a symbol of the dynamic aspects of creation, a point Theosophy stresses.
But we all know that the swastika was also adopted by the Nazi party as their emblem and is connected in the minds of most people to the racism and genocide of the Nazi regime. This was done fifty years after the Theosophical Society incorporated the symbol into its seal. Yet, now that the meaning of the swastika has changed, many claim that Theosophy, and in particular its founder Madam Blavatsky, is racist. Despite the fact that Blavatsky died two years after Hitler was born, there are numerous websites which use the inclusion of the swastika in the TS logo as evidence for its connection to Nazism.
CFP: Sacred Texts and Comics: Religion, Faith, & Graphic Narratives
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I just came across this recently posted CFP and had to share it, as the proposed volume sounds fascinating. It is an interdisciplinary project and is intended to include essays that examine a wide range of faith traditions. This seems like a great potential opportunity for the historians and religious studies scholars on this blog, especially those who work with material and visual culture.
Call for Papers
CFP: Sacred Texts and Comics: Religion, Faith, and Graphic Narratives
Ken Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Assaf Gamzou, Israeli Cartoon Museum (email@example.com)
Sacred Texts and Comics: Religion, Faith, and Graphic Narratives
The last decade has produced critical and expressive studies in sacred canonical texts and comics. Witness, for example, the artistic works from R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis (2009) and JT Waldman's Megillat Esther (2005), as well as scholarly publications from Karline McLain's India's Immortal Comic Books (2009), A. David Lewis's edited volume Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (2010), and Samantha Baskind's and Ranen Omer-Sherman's editorial work for The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2010).
Sacred Texts and Comics: Religion, Faith, and Graphic Narratives is a proposed volume for the "Critical Approaches to Comics Artists" series at the University Press of Mississippi that builds upon, but also beyond, Western or "major" religious traditions to develop a broader landscape of religious graphic mediums. We encourage submissions that engage Islamic, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Native American, African Diaspora traditions, or other religious communities from a variety of disciplinary or cross-disciplinary perspectives. Such critical approaches may include studies in religion, literature, theology, art history, culture, anthropology, political science, or other disciplines that work with the multi-dimensional features of graphic narratives.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Depictions of the sacred in comics.
- The place of historical exegesis and critical, religious interpretation in graphic narratives.
- Comics as a form and method of interpretation.
- The ways in which the graphic, formal features engage notions of the sacred.
- The modes by which graphic narratives represent the sacred or conceptions of religion.
- The ways in which religious identity and belief are represented and explored in graphic mediums.
- The multiple ways that visual culture informs religious practice.
Please send a 500-1000 word abstract, CV, and contact information to Ken Koltun-Fromm (email@example.com) and Assaf Gamzou (firstname.lastname@example.com) by August 21, 2015. Haverford College will host a symposium on "Sacred Texts and Comics" on May 5th and 6th, 2016 that will include workshops for contributors to this proposed volume. Please indicate your interest in and
availability to participate in the symposium (all expenses will be paid, including a small stipend).
"For Too Long"
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Just for those who missed, here is a link to President Obama's eulogy of the Reverend Clementa Pinckney today in Charleston, which is (among other things) full of references to religion in American history, everything from Amazing Grace to Marilynne Robinson to slave revolts to "collective salvation."
Note: it should load up automatically, but if it doesn't, the speech begins at about 1:22 (one hour twenty-minutes in).
Also: Here is the transcript of the speech.
Writing about Charleston
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EMILY: When the news broke Wednesday evening about the mass shooting in Mother Emanuel, I was deeply sad. Being on the west coast, I was still up and on my computer so I watched the immediate aftermath on Twitter. The realization that it was Denmark Vesey's church and on June 17 was a painful one. I woke up Thursday morning and now was mad about what happened. I sat at my desk and read a bunch about the shooting and the media's coverage of it. I fumed. I thought about the all-too-neat historical trajectory from southern slavery to the night before. I yelled "Why?" at my computer a few times, even though I knew why. I read Laudato Si, the pope's encyclical about climate change that had just been released that morning, but I couldn't really focus on the words. The only things that jumped out to me were lines about social justice. Charleston was on my mind no matter what I did. Then I got an email about it.
MATT: I too awoke in a rage. Since I'm starting at the College of Charleston in August, friends had texted me through the night about the Mother Emanuel massacre. The news was almost the first thing I saw when I got up Thursday morning. What made this even more poignant for me was that I had just planned a class trip to Emanuel AME the day before. Wednesday morning I sat in a coffee shop drafting my African American religions syllabus for the fall. One of things that most excites me about teaching this subject in this place is the depth of African American (religious) history in "the Holy City" – something people across the country have now been awoken to tragically. That morning I typed "Special Class Visit to Emanuel AME Church" into my syllabus. I toyed with calling the church right then and there to schedule a visit, but decided against it. What's the rush, I thought. This made it seem all the more surreal when horror visited the Mother Emanuel community that very night.
Ex Machina, Gender, and Post-humanist New Religious Movements
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A couple of months ago I went to go see the British Sci-Fi thriller Ex Machina, the directorial debut of Alex Garland, author of The Beach (novel), and screenplay writer for 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and Dredd. You can find the film's trailer, synopsis and other information on the official website. I had been anxiously awaiting this film's release not only as an admirer of Garland's earlier work, but also because this already acclaimed film seemed to have much in common with the research I had been developing over the past two semesters. I had become interested in the sub-sub-genre, gender and new religious movements, particularly post-humanist new religious movements. It may be worth noting that this project was the first instance in which gender seemed so essential, not because I developed a new interest in gender studies, or because I saw gender as a means to fill a gap in the scholarship, but because I became convinced that expressions of gender and sexuality were fundamental features of these particular movements. This observation also applied to Ex Machina, which explored similar post-human themes of technological embodiment and consciousness, and communicated these ideas through the sex appeal of the film's main character Ava and her post-gendered A.I. body.
Loving God's Wildness: A Conversation with Jeffrey Bilbro
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Quakers to Know: Margaret Hope and S. Allen Bacon
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I had the pleasure of meeting Margaret Hope Bacon, who died in 2011, and her husband Allen, who died in 2013, when I was working on my biography of Lucretia Mott. Margaret, a prolific writer and historian, had published a wonderful biography of Mott, titled Valiant Friend, in 1980. The Bacons were activists. Like many of their 19th c. Quaker predecessors, this unassuming couple acted on their religious convictions to promote racial equality, peace, and other causes. With some important exceptions, including Allan Austin's recent book on the American Friends Service Committee (read Karen Johnson's interview with Austin here and here), Quakers get more attention in histories of early America than they do in histories of the twentieth century. The obituaries of the Bacons, published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, offer a starting point for further histories of twentieth-century Quaker activism.
S. Allen Bacon was a Quaker by birth, and educated at Quaker schools like Westtown and Haverford. He and Margaret met at Antioch College. Though his obituary states that the "two helped work to integrate the school," Antioch had (at least in theory) admitted African American students since the 19th century. In the 1940s, students protested and the college decided to actively diversify, recruiting both African American and Japanese American students. During World War II, Allen was a conscientious objector, and, through the Civilian Public Service program, worked with patients in a mental hospital. Afterward, he made a career of community organizing in the settlement house movement in Philadelphia.
Unlike her husband, Margaret Hope Borchardt was not born a Quaker. She grew up in New York City and graduated from Antioch College in 1943. She did not join a Quaker meeting until her three children prompted her to do so. In addition to her writing, from 1962 to 1984, Margaret worked at the American Friends Service Committee (see Guy Aiken's recent post on its archives). Her many social and political commitments included the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, which in Mott's day did not allow female members. As she told one interviewer, "I've always been interested in what motivates people to do good works. There's a spirit running through humanity that keeps producing people who have the urge to make life better for their fellow human beings." Accordingly, her list of biographical subjects include Mott, Quaker prison reformer Abby Hopper Gibbons, and African American abolitionist Robert Purvis. For future historians, she left her abundant research materials to the Friends Historical Library.
Paul Wood's Absolution Under Fire: A Case Study in Religious Memory and Sacred Imagery
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Andrew Mach
|Absolution Under Fire at the Snite Museum of Art
Corby's action received little coverage at the time, but by 1890 his "absolution under fire" at Gettysburg had taken on iconic status in Catholic circles. Brigade veteran St. Clair Mulholland called for Corby to be awarded the Medal of Honor and spearheaded the successful effort to erect a statue in the chaplain's honor at Gettysburg. Another eyewitness told his wife that the absolution had made him "as strong as a lion," while speakers upheld Corby as a model of American Catholic spiritual devotion and patriotism. [1]
Arguably the most popular and influential account of Corby's battlefield sanctity, however, grew out of a nineteen-year-old student's keen imagination and considerable artistic talent. In September 1891, University of Notre Dame professor James Edwards, eager to record Corby's absolution for posterity, commissioned art student Paul Wood to put the scene to canvas. "This is just the kind of work which I love to paint," Wood confided to his diary, "scenes of blood, carnage, death, sudden and fearful." [2]
Taking considerable artistic license, Wood placed Corby against the dramatic backdrop of the heights of Little Round Top, further incorporating blood and carnage into the otherwise solemn scene. His finished work, entitled Absolution Under Fire, received critical acclaim for its striking imagery and lifelike appearance, leading at least one newspaper reporter to wrongly describe the teenage Wood – who had never experienced battle in his life – as a "witness" to Corby's 1863 absolution. [3]
Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism: An Interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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When the semester ended in May, I had a stack of books on my to-read list. Fortunately for me, the first I chose to pick up was Kristin Kobes Du Mez's A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Problem of Christian Feminism (Oxford, 2015). I enjoyed it so much that I reached out to Kristin to see if she would discuss the book and give RiAH readers a taste of her work, and she graciously agreed. Kristin is an associate professor of history at Calvin College. You can follow her on twitter @kkdumez.
K: In today's parlance, Katharine Bushnell was an internationally-known anti-trafficking activist, a feminist theologian, and an evangelical Christian who believed the Bible to be the authoritative Word of God. She was one of the global leaders in the "first wave" of Christian anti-trafficking activism in the late 19th century, and it was this activism that opened her eyes to the fact that the men perpetrating acts of violence against women were, more often than not, Christian men—a realization that ultimately led her to write her remarkable feminist theology. What makes her theology so compelling is that even as she challenged traditional patriarchal readings of the Scriptures in dramatic ways, because she relied on retranslation as well as reinterpretation, she was able to do so while scrupulously upholding the authority of the Scriptures. Much of her theological work holds up well even by today's standards, and she has a small but devoted following to this day among evangelical Christians, in America and around the globe.
Yet outside of these circles, she remains largely unknown. Sometimes I like to think of Bushnell as the most important American evangelical you've probably never heard of. She certainly is one of the most fascinating. If you're interested in Christianity and feminism, in connections between Christian patriarchy and abuse, in feminism and evangelical purity culture, or in "evangelical feminism" more generally, Bushnell's story really is essential reading. In short, Katharine Bushnell is important for who she was and for what she did, and for her continuing influence today. But as a historian I also think that part of her significance lies in the fact that she was for so long forgotten—by Christians and feminists alike. That's part of her story, too, and a very instructive part—and that's really the story of A New Gospel for Women.
Conservative vs. Liberal or Evangelical vs. Churchly?
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I recently reviewed Timothy Gloege's very fine book Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism for Christianity Today. (You can find that review here.) I'm still thinking, though, about a framing move Gloege makes in his introduction that could be useful for scholars writing on a variety of topics. Gloege writes on p. 13,
There are several things I really like about this reframing and a few I'm not so sure about.
In Memoriam: Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, June 17
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And for context: Douglas Egerton, "Before Charleston Church Shooting, A Long History of Attacks"
John Garrison Marks, "The African Church and Black Resistance in Antebellum Charleston"
Integral Mission and the Reshaping of Global Evangelicalism: A Conversation with David C. Kirkpatrick
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I recently had the chance to catch up with David C. Kirkpatrick, who successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Edinburgh on Monday (congratulations, David!). Readers of the blog will no doubt be interested in his work, which tracks the rise of progressive evangelicalism in Latin America - a story which, as we discuss below, has important implications for the historiography on postwar American evangelicalism. His manuscript is currently entitled, "C. René Padilla: Integral Mission and the Reshaping of Global Evangelicalism," and will be a great book before you know it.
HC: Many readers of this blog are familiar with liberation theology but fewer, perhaps, with misión integral. Can you tell us a bit about it?
DK: Thank you for having me, Heath! The development of Latin American social Christianity - both Protestant and Catholic - reflected wider transnational intellectual trends. In the aftermath of the Marshall Plan in Europe and the failure of American development projects in Latin America, many economists in the 1960s began to question economic theories of development in favor of dependency theory. Dependency theory argued that Latin America did not simply lag behind Western countries in terms of economic development, but suffered from an unjust system that channelled resources from peripheral, poor nations to core, wealthy economies. What Latin America needed, then, was not development within the world economy but liberation from the world economic status quo. Dependency theory also created an ideological unity and shared suspicion of Western efforts, funding, and ideology among a politically conscious theological elite in the Global South. The reality of dependency was as unacceptable in theology as in economics.
This shift from theories of development to theories of dependency is the background for the emergence of Catholic theologies of liberation, perhaps most well-known in the career of Peruvian Dominican priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, and his 1971 book Teologia de la Liberación. Latin American evangelicals shared this postwar intellectual context with liberation theologians, yet negotiated a unique path of paternalism with North American evangelicalism - especially in the seminaries and historic mission organizations. This intersection of imported theological and political influence from the North, and a growing awareness of dependence in the South created a third path toward the emergence of new, inculturated, and holistic forms of Christianity.
|Ecuadorian theologian René Padilla speaking
at the Lausanne Congress of 1974
(Courtesy Billy Graham Center Archives of Wheaton College)
Job Announcement: MHA seeking Executive Director
Posted by Cara L. Burnidge
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- Fundraising: endowment development; active solicitation of new members; representation of MHA to diverse audiences; collaborating with other organizations to promote the public presence of the MHA
- Promotion and Communication: management of the organization's website and social media presence; preparing and distributing the MHA digital quarterly newsletter (using InDesign software)
- Administration and Record-keeping: promptly managing the routine daily business, financial, correspondence, accounting, and other operations of the MHA office; preparing annual budgets, maintaining MHA's office files, records, correspondence
- Conference Management: staging the annual MHA conference, including contract negotiations, conference pre-planning, publicity, management, etc.
- Interface and community-building: working with the MHA Board of Directors to plan and host the Board's quarterly meetings (including preparation of agenda and taking of minutes); preparing new Board members; developing and implementing strategic planning initiatives, coordinating and thanking volunteers and donors
- possess strong administrative, office management, and interpersonal skills
- manage and coordinate the responsibilities, activities, and objectives of the Board
- have strong written and verbal communication skills; be comfortable in addressing diverse audiences
- possess a working knowledge of QuickBooks, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe InDesign, and Act/Stage
- deal well with periods of high pressure and stress, especially during the annual conference; be highly organized with great attention to detail
- understand and work with financial reports, budgets, investments, tax returns; negotiate contracts for conference sites, facilities, services, advertisers, and exhibitors
- possess an interest in Mormonism and the Mormon historical community
Summering with the Dead
Posted by Laura Leibman
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American Dead and Undead," but I have already been enjoying spending time in some of America's finest cemeteries. Sunday I had the pleasure of traversing Beth Olam in Cypress Hills, the resting place of congregants and leaders of three of New York's oldest Jewish congregations, Shearith Israel, B'nai Jeshurun, and Shaaray Tefila.
|Looking out from the B'nai Jesurun
Section of the Cemetery
I was at Beth Olam to pay homage to the graves of the Brandon and Moses families, whom I am researching this summer and on whom I had just spoken at Shearith Israel earlier in the week.
Founded in 1851, Beth Olam is the fourth and current cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and New York's first Jewish congregation. Unlike the three earlier cemeteries, Beth Olam is located outside of Manhattan in Queens.
|Calvert Vaux Chapel with Cardozo
graves in foreground
Although the vast majority of the stones in the Shearith Israel section (including those of the Brandon and Moses families) were in keeping with other Spanish-Portuguese cemeteries of this era, I found myself entranced with the less common and more unusual mausoleums, particularly their elaborate use of stained glass, which gave the mausoleums a synagogue-like feel. Stained glass was common in synagogues of this era, and most of the symbols used on the windows were Jewish ones, most prominently the eternal flame. Also popular, however, was a neoclassical woman in mourning (either in metal or in Shaaray Tefila in glass), similar to ones found in Christian garden cemeteries of the era, such as in Lowell. Below are some of images from the Beth Olam cemetery, arranged by which congregation's section they are from.
"My Goal Wasn't to Write an Exposé": Reviewing Going Clear
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News reports say that when the film finished at Sun Dance, it received a standing ovation. A quick Google search of "Going Clear" immediately makes the controversy clear: the top two links (paid ads by the Church of Scientology) that attempt discredit the film. The Third link is also paid ad bought by HBO trying to pedal its wares. My students tell me that the film trended on Twitter. All of us who teach alternative religions or new religious movements will have to contend with this documentary for some time, if for no other reason because of its popularity and/or notoriety.
Gibney's film is based upon Lawrence Wright's book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Knopf, 2013; paperback Vintage, 2013). [Reviewed by Jonathan Den Hertog here] Wright's credentials as a journalist are impeccable, having won numerous awards for journalism including a Pulitzer Prize for his book Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006). Going Clear was a finalist for both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Award. The documentary condenses much of Wright's research, but, on the screen it packs a visual punch. This is not to mention that a video documentary very likely reached a younger demographic Wright's book ever did. (At least, I can say that none of my students had read Wright's book, even though it was a New York Times Best Seller, but they knew about the documentary.) Wright is interviewed to lay out the goal of the film. He notes that he has studied Jonestown and radical Islam and wished to ask the question about religious individuals: "Why do they believe one idea rather than another?" He continues:
There are often good-hearted people, idealistic, but full of a crushing certainty that eliminates doubt. My goal was not to write an exposé. It was to understand Scientology, to try to understand what people got out of it. Why did they go into it in the first place?These questions are the heart of the documentary as they were for Wright's book. Wright, in fact, is a guiding presence throughout the documentary. He explains and interprets the footage and interviews the viewer sees. In this sense it is better to understand him as a collaborator with Gibney rather than simply a "talking head."
CFP: 2015 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture: The Spirit of Sports
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Seth Dowland
I wanted to pass along this call for proposals about a fall conference that looks fascinating -- Baylor's Symposium on Faith and Culture. This year's topic is "The Spirit of Sports."
Dates: Thursday, November 5-Saturday, November 7
Location: Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Deadline for Proposals: July 31, 2015
The love of play and the desire for competition are woven deeply into human experience. From vacant lots-turned-playing fields to modern stadiums, from pick-up games to professional leagues, from Olympic record seeking to fantasy-league deal making, sports have become a defining feature of our culture.
Sports provide us with heroes and villains, role models, platforms for social commentary, and even pulpits for evangelism. Sports cut across social barriers, uniting people from diverse ethnic, financial, and religious backgrounds. Sports also reveal the best and worst of who we can become. Through sports we can develop self-discipline and virtues of character like courage, perseverance, and honesty, or we can cultivate baser human traits like vainglory, greed, and the desire to dominate at all costs.
Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Race in the Cold War Era
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"The position of Fundamentalism," wrote Frederick Lewis Allen in 1931, "seemed almost hopeless. The tide of all rational thought in a rational age seemed to be running against them."[1] Half a century later a Milwaukee reporter figured that "conservative Christians always regard politics as 'a dirty business' unworthy of men of the cloth," until fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell and the Reagan landslide victory proved otherwise.[2] That was the line that Falwell himself took in his March 1965 sermonic response to civil rights activism: "Ministers and Marches." "Our only purpose on earth is to know Christ and make Him known," he counseled members of his Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia.[3] Of course, this was at the same time that Falwell was preaching adamantly against communism, statism, liberalism, and meddlesome civil rights agitators.
|Vic Lockman's cartoon of MLK running roughshod over
law and order, Christian Beacon, June 11, 1964. Click to enlarge.
The recent scholarship of Matthew Sutton, Darren Dochuk, Molly Worthen, Uta Balbier, Axel Schäfer, Daniel Williams, Kim Phillips-Fein, and a host of others has pretty much buried this notion of political/cultural disengagement. Things were not as they'd often been reported. No, fundamentalists did not retreat into their dark, dank church basements, to sit quietly and wait for the second coming, surrounded by walls decked out with colorful premillennial charts. No, the saints did not throw in the political towel after W.J. Bryan's botched 1925 exegesis in Dayton, Tennessee.
I wanted to know a little more about how evangelicals and fundamentalists engaged with politics and culture in the 1950s and 1960s. So, for an article I recently published in the Journal of American Studies, "'It Has to Come from the Hearts of the People': Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Race, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act," I zeroed in on believers' reaction to and understanding of civil rights legislation and race relations during the high season of the Cold War. What did stalwarts make of some of the most important legislation to pass through congress since the tumult of the Civil War and Reconstruction? How did white responses range across the spectrum of center to far right? (The cartoons I include here from the Christian Beacon represent one end of the field.) Here's one of the takeaways from the article:
American Possessions: Interview with Sean McCloud
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Today I interview Dr. Sean McCloud about his new book American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States (Oxford University Press, 2015). He teaches religious studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where he also directs graduate studies in the Religious Studies department. Dr. McCloud is the author of numerous books and articles, including Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Phillip Luke Sinitiere (PLS): The short title of your book, American Possessions, speaks to the larger contours of your scholarship and marks your book's subject as both "religious" and "material." As someone who has convincingly called scholars to consider the material and class dimensions of American religion, can you unpack the title of your book with a view to articulating its main argument?
Sean McCloud (SM): First Phil, thank you for these questions, and thanks both to you and the folks at Religion in American History for kindly expressing interest in American Possessions. In the short title of this intentionally short book (intended, among other things, to mirror the length of a spiritual warfare manual), I hoped to evoke two meanings for "possessions" that point to the work's themes. Overall, I suggest that U.S. religious culture in the twenty-first century can be characterized as immersed in and constitutive of an era of possessions—on the one hand of consumer goods, objects, and technologies and, on the other, of spirit entities such as demons and ghosts—and that Third Wave Evangelicalism and its practice of spiritual warfare provides a case study through which these trends converge. I have always been interested in how those things scholars and practitioners define as "religious" are always deeply intertwined with and dependent upon the historical moment that they exist within, and how that historical moment's material conditions and social structures push, propel, encourage, and discourage particular ideas and activities. I see Third Wave spiritual warfare as one social formation that registers some of the most prescient themes and social/historical forces in contemporary American religion.
SM: There are hundreds of spiritual warfare books out there and the meanings of that term can vary between different groups of evangelicals. My specific focus is on Third Wave spiritual warfare."Third Wave" is a term coined by former Fuller Theological Seminary Professor C. Peter Wagner in several articles and books he wrote in the 1980s. The name described what he and some of his colleagues viewed as a new evangelical movement of the Holy Spirit—the latest in an historical succession with two previous "waves," the birth of Pentecostalism at the turn of the twentieth century and the charismatic movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Demons are real for this group. They aren't metaphors or symbols for something else. As I write in the book, without the demonic there would be no Third Wave spiritual warfare. First, demons provide a material and spatially-located form of theodicy, explaining why certain places, objects, and people have been witness to tragedy and sin. Events and phenomena as variant as plane disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, haunted houses, generational alcoholism in families, and national financial crises are all explained via some combination of human sins and demonic activities. Second, demons are the focal point of attention and attack in spiritual warfare. Because Satan and his evil spirits stand between the individual and her salvation through Jesus Christ, expelling demons from people, objects, and places is the goal of spiritual warfare practices. Third, and most broadly, in asserting the reality and even physical presence of demons, one simultaneously asserts the reality of the entire Third Wave theology of God, Satan, and the spiritual world.
What Came First?: Postwar Evangelicalism or the Religious Right?
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I have been thinking about a fun paper assignment for an undergraduate course: What came first--postwar Southern evangelicalism or the Religious Right? If we can trace causality, which one was the parent of the other movement?
A number of recent books (which I begin to list below) speak to this question. If we look at them carefully, we find that they arrive at a number of different definitions of "postwar Southern evangelicalism." Scholars assess differently the degree to which this religious movement was inherently dispensationalist and fundamentalist in origin (theologically driven), and to what extent it was culturally and politically driven---inherently pro-business, inherently Southern, and based in a kind of traditionalist paternalism. At the heart of this great debate in the scholarship right now are several related questions. I will list a few below, not only for keeping track of the scholarly debate, but also for further prompting in this suggested undergraduate assignment.
Defining and Historicizing Southern Evangelicalism:
1) To what extent do dispensationalist/ apocalyptic ideas about the end times (including the figure of FDR and the international problem of fascism) define Southern evangelicalism?
2) To what extent should we identify Southern Protestants outside of National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)- related churches as Southern evangelicals? For example, are folks from the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union, or Highlander Folk School, Southern evangelicals? Are African Americans outside of mainline denominations Southern evangelicals? Do those labor/religious leaders who attended Union Theological Seminary in the liberal 1930s, who later returned to small churches in the South, count as Southern evangelicals? Can we find Southern evangelicals in mainline Protestant churches?
3) How directly did Southern businessmen's funding of institutes for "Christian free enterprise" influence the creation of Southern evangelicalism? To what extent was Southern evangelicalism already established before these institutes took hold?
4) **To what extent were Southern evangelicals repelled from the Federal Council of Churches' mainline churches and their programs for theological reasons, and to what extent were Southern evangelicals opposed to the Federal Council for social and political reasons?
CFP: U.S. Catholic Historian Issue on Politics in the Twentieth Century
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For more than thirty years the U.S. Catholic Historian has published theme-based issues relevant to the history of American Catholicism. An upcoming issue will address the theme of "Politics in the Twentieth Century." Contributions could include, but are not limited to, studies of the following:
- Catholic political allegiances and "issues" that impact voting
- Role of Catholics in public policy debates
- Biographical studies of Catholic elected officials and candidates
- Catholic participation in U.S. political parties
- Comparative studies of the Catholic vote across regions, time, etc.
- Role of bishops/Bishops' Conference in politics
Fr. David Endres
Editor, U.S. Catholic Historian
After the Wrath of God: An Interview with Anthony M. Petro
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Anthony M. Petro. After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion. (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2015)
On July 1, Oxford University Press will release Anthony Petro's After the Wrath of God. Having read many drafts of this project over the years, I am particularly excited to interview him here on the blog.
SKM: After the Wrath of God deals with very recent history. Can you talk a bit about how you approached this topic?
AMP: The book looks at the history of Christian responses to the AIDS crisis in the United States. The CDC first reported cases of what would eventually be called AIDS in 1981. In 1996, the "AIDS cocktail" became available, rendering HIV a manageable disease for most people with access to health care. I focus on this decade and half, calling it (a bit playfully) the "long 1980s." We could come up with other ways to periodize the Eighties or the initial years of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., but this span worked well for my research.
I consider this history pretty recent, but when you think about it, it was already a generation ago! Let me put it this way: most of our first and second year undergrads today were born after 1996 -- years after Ryan White died and after Magic Johnson revealed his HIV diagnosis. For most of our students, this is just plain history.
SKM: Yet the Eighties still feel close to us.
AMP: Maybe this is because we can't quite let that decade go, but I don't think it's simply because so many of us lived through it. We are, in many ways, still living with the major political, economic, and cultural changes that erupted then--the culture wars, the decline of the welfare state, and the way that we increasingly think about every aspect of our lives in terms of economization (just look at debates in higher education today).
This was also the decade that introduced most Americans to the intimate lives of gays and lesbians -- and this was done very much through news coverage of the AIDS crisis. Of course, genealogies of the culture wars and of neoliberalism go much further back than the Eighties. Likewise with the way many Americans thought about gay sexuality and AIDS. Following Mark Jordan's lead, I trace the languages that many Christians have used to describe AIDS as a sexual epidemic to much earlier theological rhetoric about sodomy.
I'm glad to see that historians and religious studies scholars have become more attentive to this period, though -- a number of amazing books now abound on the history of religion and politics in the 1970s and 1980s.
Religion and Rosie the Riveter
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I always feel that it's worth noting that my June entries fall on June 6, the anniversary of D-Day. I take that as justification to reflect on religion in the era of World War II. Last year, Sean Brennan wrote about the Roman Catholic chaplain, Fr. Fabian Flynn. This year, we have another guest poster. Adina Johnson is a Ph.D. student in U.S. History at Baylor University. Her research is on women and religion during World War II. I'm delighted that she was willing to share a few thoughts with the RiAH blog. ~Jonathan Den Hartog
In the midst of World War II, the Seattle Times expressed the distinctiveness and value of a woman's contribution to the war effort: "Men fight the war with bayonets, long hours at defense jobs, 'leisure' hours at air-raid drills. Women fight the war with stewpans, knitting needles, alarm clocks that go off at 4 o'clock in the morning, rudely awakened babies, unelastic budgets, fast-rising prices." The advertisement suggested a man might receive more glory for his efforts, but "women's work" was just as important to America's effort to win the war. For the Times, a woman's service in the private sphere was as essential, and as patriotic, as a man's sacrifice in the public sphere.
Iconic images from the American war effort such as Rosie the Riveter, Red Cross nurses, victory gardens, gold stars hanging in windows, and female WASP pilots all convey the importance of a woman's contribution to the Allied cause, and the righteousness of her doing so no matter the cost. For conservative Protestants, however, the story was more complicated because of deep-seated ideals regarding the value of a woman's presence within a Christian home. Conservative Protestant periodicals from the war years show that a woman who chose to become a soldier or war-worker held a precarious position within the Christian community. The press attempted to alleviate some of this unease by describing her public roles using the language of domesticity and spirituality, even as her work took her far outside the bounds of traditional Victorian womanhood.
No image would come to symbolize the role of American women during World War II more indelibly than "Rosie the Riveter". The quintessential "Rosie" was a woman who exemplified patriotic femininity while working in a wartime factory wearing overalls and a bandanna. Indeed, many women entered the work force for the first time during the war, in traditionally masculine jobs. However, both mainstream Americans and conservative Protestants wrestled with the impact of this change. Both voiced concerns for the health of the family, and emphasized the necessity of other wartime roles for women, but the conservative Protestant press could never quite bring itself to fully affirm the idea of a mother or wife working outside the home.
The experiences of conservative Protestant women in relation to war work reflect the experiences of American women as a whole. Some entered the work force while others stayed home with their families. Pat Williams, a Southern Baptist woman from West Texas, observed that many women in her church worked at a munitions plant about thirteen miles away, especially those women whose husbands were in the service. She recognized that this was a new phenomenon, "Before then women basically didn't many of them work outside the home, nurses probably, school teachers, and a few secretaries . . . But most women just stayed home." Donna M. Panknin Denton, from Waco, Texas, worked two jobs during the war. Her first job was playing the organ or piano for local funerals. Her primary job, though, was working at a war plant that manufactured ammonia and nitric acid. She noted, "Of course, I was in the administrative building," a comment that revealed her assumption that women wouldn't work in the factory itself. Most conservative Protestant women were able to navigate the potential conflict between war work and their responsibility as Christian wives and mothers without much trouble.
Call for Participants: NAASR Job Workshop (AAR/SBL Atlanta, 2015)
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If you're an early career scholar and planning to apply for jobs in Religious Studies, this one's for you: NAASR will be hosting a job market workshop alongside the 2015 AAR/SBL Meeting in Atlanta.
Participants will have the opportunity to work with current and former chairs of Religious Studies departments from a variety of institutions. Through several activities (which you can read more about here), participants will workshop practical and strategic job market advice with veterans of the hiring process. Not a member of NAASR? No problem. This workshop is open to all, though preference will be given to scholars at the "ABD" stage and currently on the market. If you haven't been to a NAASR panel before, fear not: we'd be happy to have you, too.
To register for this no-cost workshop, or to learn more about it, please click here. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me (mgraziano [at] fsu [dot] edu).
We hope you'll join us in Atlanta!
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Listen up! Salvage Preservation and Recording Religion
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Someone Should Write a Book About Vacation Bible School
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As I drive around Tuscaloosa, Alabama, I can't help but notice that every church has a banner out advertising Vacation Bible School. It's that time of year, I guess. For those who don't know about VBS, it is a week long event at many churches during the summer. Kids are dropped off for about half the day and engage in all sorts of games, songs, and teaching.
Anyone know if anyone has written a history of Vacation Bible School? #twitterstorians
— Michael J. Altman (@MichaelJAltman) May 29, 2015
I sent this tweet on Friday because my wife asked me, "When did churches start doing Vacation Bible Schools?" I thought for a second. Then I realized I really didn't know. I mumbled something about the late nineteenth century and then walked away frustrated that I didn't know more. So I sent that tweet. And no one responded with any answers. So, over the weekend I started googling around and doing some very preliminary digging. Here's what I found.


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"K-town" Episode 1 Filmed in 4K
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A New Series Filmed in 4K in beautiful Kelowna, BC by James Purdie and Curtis Good about people discovering the "Spiritual Path" in life and all the awareness that goes along with it as well as the meaningful connections.
Episode 1: Anthony Meets Raymond.
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If you're looking for a healthier way to eat, let me introduce to you the "Bibimbap Diet."
Bibimbap is a very popular dish of rice and vegetables in Korea, but there's a certain "healthy wisdom" in this dish which you can expand into an entire diet. This is something that I've started to do in the last few years myself.
First off, let's look at how to make the easy Bibimbap.
1. Cook some rice. (I strongly recommend Calrose if you're living in the West. It's the same brand used in Korea.)
2. Prepare an assortment of vegetables such as: Lettuce, onions, thinly sliced carrots, mushrooms, bean sprouts, spinach, seaweed and or any fresh vegetables you want to add.
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I want you to be right, but realistically I just can't help but doubt. Bolden probably *is* trying to take positive steps. Let's see how long it is before the same backward governance and bureaucracy that has crushed every other administrator of NASA since Apollo crushes him, too.
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