Bryan F Le Beau
Biographic Data
| ID | 330273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan F Le Beau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan F |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Beau |
| SIGNATURE | LE BEAU B F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Creighton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
O’Hair’s Prominence Recedes
“The Most Hated Woman in America”
“Why I Am an Atheist”
Out of Obscurity
Murray v. Curlett
Epilogue: The Strange Disappearance of Madalyn Murray O’Hair
O’Hair Retires
“The Atheist”
Articulating the Atheist Position
The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O'Hair
In 1964, Life magazine called Madalyn Murray O’Hair “the most hated woman in America.” Another critic described her as “rude, impertinent, blasphemous, a destroyer not only of beliefs but of esteemed values.” In this first full-length biography, Bryan F. Le Beau offers a penetrating assessment of O’Hair’s beliefs and actions and a probing discussion of how she came to represent both what Americans hated in their enemies and feared in themselves. …
Art in the Parlor: Consumer Culture and Currier and Ives
Science and Religion: A Historical Perspective on the Conflict over Teaching Evolution in the Schools
Research Article| October 01 2007 Science and Religion: A Historical Perspective on the Conflict over Teaching Evolution in the Schools Bryan F. Le Beau Bryan F. Le Beau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 187–201. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bryan F. Le Beau; Science and R…
Becoming the Most Hated Woman in America: Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Hunting in Currier and Ives's America
Currier and Ives were the most prolific producers of inexpensive lithographs in nineteenth‐century America, their prints designed to be mirrors of national tastes and attitudes. They never intended to create fine art, but rather to produce images that would be attractive to their largely middle‐class clientele. As people gathered in cities in increasingly large numbers and had their work hours regulated, they had the time, interest, and disposabl…
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way
Journal Article The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: “We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way.” By Bryan F. Le Beau. (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1998. xii, 308 pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-13-442542-1.) Get access Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Page 6…
Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism
Journal Article Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism. By Bryan F. Le Beau. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. x, 252 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2026-8) Get access John Andrew John Andrew Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 224–225, https://doi.org/10…
Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism
The “Angelical Conjunction” Revisited: Another Look at the Preacher‐Physician in Colonial America and the Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735‐1740
Religion and Society in Frontier California
Religion and Society in Frontier California. By Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. x, 241 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-300-05377-0.) Get access Bryan F. Le Beau Bryan F. Le Beau Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 241–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082010 Published: 01 June 1995
The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America
Journal Article The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America Get access Charles L. Harper, Charles L. Harper Creighton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bryan F. Le Beau Bryan F. Le Beau Creighton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 1993, Pages 171–192, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712…
Schooling the Preachers: The Development of Protestant Theological Education in the United States, 1740-1875
This book is a result of a ten-year-long program sponsored by Lilly Endowment, Inc. through Auburn Theological Seminary in New York to study the history of various phases of theological education in the United States. It presents the major themes involved in the development of Protestant theological education in the U.S. between 1740 and 1875. It was during these years that most of the institutional structure of contemporary theological education…
She Told the Story, and the Whole World Wept
The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America
Journal Article The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America Get access Charles L. Harper, Charles L. Harper Creighton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bryan F. Le Beau Bryan F. Le Beau Creighton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 1993, Pages 171–192, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712…
She Told the Story, and the Whole World Wept
She Told the Story, and the Whole World Wept
Schooling the Preachers: The Development of Protestant Theological Education in the United States, 1740-1875
This book is a result of a ten-year-long program sponsored by Lilly Endowment, Inc. through Auburn Theological Seminary in New York to study the history of various phases of theological education in the United States. It presents the major themes involved in the development of Protestant theological education in the U.S. between 1740 and 1875. It was during these years that most of the institutional structure of contemporary theological education…
The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America
Journal Article The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America Get access Charles L. Harper, Charles L. Harper Creighton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bryan F. Le Beau Bryan F. Le Beau Creighton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 1993, Pages 171–192, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712…
The “Angelical Conjunction” Revisited: Another Look at the Preacher‐Physician in Colonial America and the Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735‐1740
Religion and Society in Frontier California
Religion and Society in Frontier California. By Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. x, 241 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-300-05377-0.) Get access Bryan F. Le Beau Bryan F. Le Beau Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 241–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082010 Published: 01 June 1995
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way
Journal Article The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: “We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way.” By Bryan F. Le Beau. (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1998. xii, 308 pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-13-442542-1.) Get access Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Page 6…
Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism
Journal Article Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism. By Bryan F. Le Beau. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. x, 252 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2026-8) Get access John Andrew John Andrew Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 224–225, https://doi.org/10…
Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way
Hunting in Currier and Ives's America
Currier and Ives were the most prolific producers of inexpensive lithographs in nineteenth‐century America, their prints designed to be mirrors of national tastes and attitudes. They never intended to create fine art, but rather to produce images that would be attractive to their largely middle‐class clientele. As people gathered in cities in increasingly large numbers and had their work hours regulated, they had the time, interest, and disposabl…
Becoming the Most Hated Woman in America: Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Art in the Parlor: Consumer Culture and Currier and Ives
Science and Religion: A Historical Perspective on the Conflict over Teaching Evolution in the Schools
Research Article| October 01 2007 Science and Religion: A Historical Perspective on the Conflict over Teaching Evolution in the Schools Bryan F. Le Beau Bryan F. Le Beau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 187–201. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bryan F. Le Beau; Science and R…
O’Hair’s Prominence Recedes
“The Most Hated Woman in America”
“Why I Am an Atheist”
Out of Obscurity
Murray v. Curlett
Epilogue: The Strange Disappearance of Madalyn Murray O’Hair
O’Hair Retires
“The Atheist”
Articulating the Atheist Position
The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O'Hair
In 1964, Life magazine called Madalyn Murray O’Hair “the most hated woman in America.” Another critic described her as “rude, impertinent, blasphemous, a destroyer not only of beliefs but of esteemed values.” In this first full-length biography, Bryan F. Le Beau offers a penetrating assessment of O’Hair’s beliefs and actions and a probing discussion of how she came to represent both what Americans hated in their enemies and feared in themselves. …
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