Catherine A Brekus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine A Brekus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine A |
| FAMILY NAME | Brekus |
| SIGNATURE | BREKUS C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings
Contested Words
Ever since the nineteenth century, when Robert Baird published the first single-volume history of religion in the United States, scholars of early America have debated how to define three contested words: history, America , and religion . They have argued over how historical change takes place, whose histories are important to tell, and whether history, as a field, should focus on the practices of everyday life or on the power of ideas. Scholars …
Paul B. Moyer. The Public Universal Friend
In 1776 Jemima Wilkinson, a twenty-three-year-old woman from Cumberland, Rhode Island, woke up from a severe illness and claimed to have been transformed into the Public Universal Friend, a genderless spirit sent by God. According to the Friend (as she/he now insisted on being called), Wilkinson’s soul had ascended to heaven, but her body had been left behind as a holy tabernacle for the spirit to inhabit. Leaving home to travel across southern N…
Salem's Tragedy
Salem's Tragedy Catherine A. Brekus A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. By E mersonW. B aker. Pivotal Moments in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 414 pages. Cloth, paper. Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692. By Benjamin C. Ray. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. 264 pages. Cloth, ebook. Is there anything new to say about the Salem witchcraft trials? Many super…
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Sarah Osborn's World
Writing Religious Experience
No Silent Witness
This book explores the lives of three generations of women in the Eliot family, a prominent family in the Unitarian tradition. By shifting the angle of vision away from male ministers to their mothers, wives, and daughters, Cynthia Grant Tucker hopes to shed light on how Unitarian women made sense of their lives within a male-dominated church. The Eliot coat of arms proclaimed “Tace et Face,” a slogan that was translated variously as “Action spea…
Evangelical Disenchantment
Special Issue
A Separate Canaan
Strangers and Pilgrims
Strangers and Pilgrims
A Speaking Aristocracy
Journal Article A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut. By Christopher Grasso. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 511 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2471-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4772-0.) Get access Catherine A. Brekus Catherine A. Brekus University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
Strangers and Pilgrims
Come Shouting to Zion
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of tr…
Strangers and Pilgrims
Harriet Livermore, the Pilgrim Stranger
On a Sunday morning in January of 1827, "all the taste and fashion" of Washington, D.C., streamed toward the Capitol to witness one of the most remarkable events to take place in the gentlemanly preserve of the Hall of Representatives: Harriet Livermore, a devout evangelical and the daughter of a former Congressman, had convinced the Speaker of the House to allow her to preach to Congress. With crowds of eager spectators spilling out of the Hall …
Evangelicalism
Beyond a Christian Commonwealth
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Writing Religious Experience
Harriet Livermore, the Pilgrim Stranger
On a Sunday morning in January of 1827, "all the taste and fashion" of Washington, D.C., streamed toward the Capitol to witness one of the most remarkable events to take place in the gentlemanly preserve of the Hall of Representatives: Harriet Livermore, a devout evangelical and the daughter of a former Congressman, had convinced the Speaker of the House to allow her to preach to Congress. With crowds of eager spectators spilling out of the Hall …
Evangelicalism
Beyond a Christian Commonwealth
Harriet Livermore, the Pilgrim Stranger
On a Sunday morning in January of 1827, "all the taste and fashion" of Washington, D.C., streamed toward the Capitol to witness one of the most remarkable events to take place in the gentlemanly preserve of the Hall of Representatives: Harriet Livermore, a devout evangelical and the daughter of a former Congressman, had convinced the Speaker of the House to allow her to preach to Congress. With crowds of eager spectators spilling out of the Hall …
Come Shouting to Zion
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of tr…
Strangers and Pilgrims
A Separate Canaan
Strangers and Pilgrims
Strangers and Pilgrims
A Speaking Aristocracy
Journal Article A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut. By Christopher Grasso. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 511 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2471-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4772-0.) Get access Catherine A. Brekus Catherine A. Brekus University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
Strangers and Pilgrims
Special Issue
Evangelical Disenchantment
No Silent Witness
This book explores the lives of three generations of women in the Eliot family, a prominent family in the Unitarian tradition. By shifting the angle of vision away from male ministers to their mothers, wives, and daughters, Cynthia Grant Tucker hopes to shed light on how Unitarian women made sense of their lives within a male-dominated church. The Eliot coat of arms proclaimed “Tace et Face,” a slogan that was translated variously as “Action spea…
Writing Religious Experience
Sarah Osborn's World
Forum
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Paul B. Moyer. The Public Universal Friend
In 1776 Jemima Wilkinson, a twenty-three-year-old woman from Cumberland, Rhode Island, woke up from a severe illness and claimed to have been transformed into the Public Universal Friend, a genderless spirit sent by God. According to the Friend (as she/he now insisted on being called), Wilkinson’s soul had ascended to heaven, but her body had been left behind as a holy tabernacle for the spirit to inhabit. Leaving home to travel across southern N…
Salem's Tragedy
Salem's Tragedy Catherine A. Brekus A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. By E mersonW. B aker. Pivotal Moments in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 414 pages. Cloth, paper. Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692. By Benjamin C. Ray. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. 264 pages. Cloth, ebook. Is there anything new to say about the Salem witchcraft trials? Many super…
Contested Words
Ever since the nineteenth century, when Robert Baird published the first single-volume history of religion in the United States, scholars of early America have debated how to define three contested words: history, America , and religion . They have argued over how historical change takes place, whose histories are important to tell, and whether history, as a field, should focus on the practices of everyday life or on the power of ideas. Scholars …
Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings
History (14 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Religious studies (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Theology (7 works)