Rachel Wheeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Wheeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Wheeler |
| SIGNATURE | WHEELER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4331-6326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Stubborn Entanglements
Kathryn Gin Lum's Heathen is so rich and so vast, I struggled to know where to begin! As I read, I kept being prompted to think back to sources I had encountered in my own research over the years and to think about them in new ways. And so, rather than trying to summarize the book's arguments, I'll aim to preview some of Gin Lum's central interventions by running various bits of sources from my research through the filter of Heathen. My hope is t…
In love with the desert
The Christian desert tradition is undeniably male-centred. How the absent feminine paradoxically “appears” in stories and sayings of the tradition can, however, provide an antidote to the otherwise male-centred character of this literature. This article explores how the author, a female researcher of this tradition, has grappled with the tradition’s male-centred character. It demonstrates a hermeneutic of charity requiring creativity to retrieve …
The Expansive Table
Keywords:: foodfarmingspiritualityrelationshipThomas Berryfarm-to-tablezero wastefarmers marketsgreen sistersfood justice
To Live upon Hope
While To Live upon Hope is grounded in religious studies, it is as much an ethnohistory of the Mohican Indians of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and of Shekomeko, New York. It is unlike other comparative eighteenth-century community histories. Comparative mission history is not a vibrant field. Most historians of the native Northeast typically favor one denomination—whether Congregationalist, Moravian, or Jesuit. Rachel Wheeler has found two separat…
Women and Christian Practice in a Mahican Village
In August 1742, a little-known scene of the Great Awakening was unfolding in the Mahican villages that dotted the Housatonic Valley region of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. On August 10, the colorful Moravian leader, Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf, arrived in the village of Shekomeko to check on the progress of the newly founded mission. Six months earlier, he had overseen the baptism of the first three villagers. Their baptized names-Abr…
Friends to Your Souls
In the summer of 1756, Jonathan Edwards preached a simple yet extraordinary sermon to his Indian congregation at Stockbridge, Massachusetts where he had served as missionary for five years. He counseled his listeners that God "advises us to be friends to our own souls" by seeking after holiness. Edwards encouraged his Indian congregants to take tender care of their souls, to "forsake wickedness and seek after Holiness" and not to "act the part of…
African American extended families and kinship care
The Flexagon Family
In Note 2449 (M.G. 1954, p. 213), Dr. F. G. Maunsell gave an account of two interesting figures, the flexagon ( F ), and a modified “hexahexaflexagram” ( H ). I have been prompted to investigate this subject further, and find that there is really an infinite family of such figures, whose properties become more vivid when they are studied as a group rather than in isolation.
This Fieldwork
It is better to dig than to dance', said St. Augustine. This sober choice between two difficult alternatives is one which, I freely confess, had always appealed to me as that of a balanced and discerning mind. Today I am a little shaken in my confidence. It has been brought home to me, with something of a shock, that this obiter dictum might in a certain sense be cited as a justification of the (to my thinking) distorted outlook of the modern arc…
Mr Collingwood and Mr Randall
But, after all, one guess is as bad as another. Mr Collingwood guesses half a million. Mr Randall guesses . . . but on re-reading Mr Randall I find that he doesn't guess at all. He passes lightly from persuasion to persuasion and ends with x. Indeed, he loses interest in the statistical problem and concerns himself mainly with the Higher griculture or, as he would phrase it, the Agriculture of the Uplands. He bravely ends, however, with Twelve Po…
African American extended families and kinship care
Women and Christian Practice in a Mahican Village
In August 1742, a little-known scene of the Great Awakening was unfolding in the Mahican villages that dotted the Housatonic Valley region of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. On August 10, the colorful Moravian leader, Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf, arrived in the village of Shekomeko to check on the progress of the newly founded mission. Six months earlier, he had overseen the baptism of the first three villagers. Their baptized names-Abr…
Mr Collingwood and Mr Randall
But, after all, one guess is as bad as another. Mr Collingwood guesses half a million. Mr Randall guesses . . . but on re-reading Mr Randall I find that he doesn't guess at all. He passes lightly from persuasion to persuasion and ends with x. Indeed, he loses interest in the statistical problem and concerns himself mainly with the Higher griculture or, as he would phrase it, the Agriculture of the Uplands. He bravely ends, however, with Twelve Po…
This Fieldwork
It is better to dig than to dance', said St. Augustine. This sober choice between two difficult alternatives is one which, I freely confess, had always appealed to me as that of a balanced and discerning mind. Today I am a little shaken in my confidence. It has been brought home to me, with something of a shock, that this obiter dictum might in a certain sense be cited as a justification of the (to my thinking) distorted outlook of the modern arc…
The Flexagon Family
In Note 2449 (M.G. 1954, p. 213), Dr. F. G. Maunsell gave an account of two interesting figures, the flexagon ( F ), and a modified “hexahexaflexagram” ( H ). I have been prompted to investigate this subject further, and find that there is really an infinite family of such figures, whose properties become more vivid when they are studied as a group rather than in isolation.
African American extended families and kinship care
Women and Christian Practice in a Mahican Village
In August 1742, a little-known scene of the Great Awakening was unfolding in the Mahican villages that dotted the Housatonic Valley region of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. On August 10, the colorful Moravian leader, Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf, arrived in the village of Shekomeko to check on the progress of the newly founded mission. Six months earlier, he had overseen the baptism of the first three villagers. Their baptized names-Abr…
Friends to Your Souls
In the summer of 1756, Jonathan Edwards preached a simple yet extraordinary sermon to his Indian congregation at Stockbridge, Massachusetts where he had served as missionary for five years. He counseled his listeners that God "advises us to be friends to our own souls" by seeking after holiness. Edwards encouraged his Indian congregants to take tender care of their souls, to "forsake wickedness and seek after Holiness" and not to "act the part of…
To Live upon Hope
While To Live upon Hope is grounded in religious studies, it is as much an ethnohistory of the Mohican Indians of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and of Shekomeko, New York. It is unlike other comparative eighteenth-century community histories. Comparative mission history is not a vibrant field. Most historians of the native Northeast typically favor one denomination—whether Congregationalist, Moravian, or Jesuit. Rachel Wheeler has found two separat…
The Expansive Table
Keywords:: foodfarmingspiritualityrelationshipThomas Berryfarm-to-tablezero wastefarmers marketsgreen sistersfood justice
In love with the desert
The Christian desert tradition is undeniably male-centred. How the absent feminine paradoxically “appears” in stories and sayings of the tradition can, however, provide an antidote to the otherwise male-centred character of this literature. This article explores how the author, a female researcher of this tradition, has grappled with the tradition’s male-centred character. It demonstrates a hermeneutic of charity requiring creativity to retrieve …
Stubborn Entanglements
Kathryn Gin Lum's Heathen is so rich and so vast, I struggled to know where to begin! As I read, I kept being prompted to think back to sources I had encountered in my own research over the years and to think about them in new ways. And so, rather than trying to summarize the book's arguments, I'll aim to preview some of Gin Lum's central interventions by running various bits of sources from my research through the filter of Heathen. My hope is t…
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