Richard D Shiels

Biographic Data

ID681447
NAMERichard D Shiels
GIVEN NAMESRichard D
FAMILY NAMEShiels
SIGNATURESHIELS R D
AFFILIATIONSThe Ohio State University Newark
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX1

  • Newark Earthworks Initiative

    Open AccessRichard D Shiels, Richard ShielsARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833

    Richard D Shiels, Peter S FieldARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1999

    This book examines the demise of one Massachusetts intellectual elite, the Congregational Standing Order, and the rise of another, the Boston Brahmins, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Peter S. Field traces the division within the culturally dominant class to the emergence of a new group of wealthy urban merchatns, who funded Brahmin efforts to create America's first secular high culture. With the founding of the Monthly…

  • Asylum for Mankind: America, 1607-1800

    Richard D Shiels, Marilyn C Baseler et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article “Asylum for Mankind”: America, 1607–1800. By Marilyn C. Baseler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xiv, 353 pp. $39.95 and The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom. By John T. Noonan Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiii, 436 pp. $35.00 Get access Richard D. Shiels Richard D. Shiels Ohio State University Newark, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…

  • Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History

    Richard D Shiels, Roger D Launius et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1998

    Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited is a welcome and important compilation of fourteen of the best articles on Nauvoo, Illinois, published between 1960 and 1992 by various scholars with differing perspectives and interpretations.The authors-older, yovmger.Mormon, Reorganization, and non-Mormon-write on political, social, economic, religious, and cultural issues.Their styles vary from faithful and partisan history to the most objective.The litera…

  • Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening: Church and Society in Early National Baltimore

    Richard D Shiels, Terry D BilhartzARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening: Church and Society in Early National Baltimore. By Terry D. Bilhartz. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986. 236 pp. $27.50.) Get access Richard D. Shiels Richard D. Shiels Ohio State University, Newark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 168–169, https://doi.org/10.2…

  • The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England

    Richard D Shiels, Harry S StoutARTICLEJournal of American History1987Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England. By Harry S. Stout. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xii + 398 pp. $29.95.) Get access Richard D. Shiels Richard D. Shiels Ohio State University, Newark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Page 1045, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902174 Published: 01 …

  • The Scope of the Second Great Awakening: Andover, Massachusetts, as a Case Study

    Richard D ShielsARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1985Cited by: 1

    Richard D. Shiels, The Scope of the Second Great Awakening: Andover, Massachusetts, as a Case Study, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 5, No. 2, Religion in the Early Republic (Summer, 1985), pp. 223-246

  • The Feminization of American Congregationalism, 1730-1835

    Open AccessRichard D ShielsARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1981Cited by: 11

    THERE ARE FAR MORE GODLY WOMEN IN THE WORLD THAN THERE ARE godly Men, Cotton Mather observed in 1691. To illustrate his point, he referred to the sex ratio of church members in Boston: In a church of between three and four hundred Communicants, there are but a few more than One Hundred Men. Nearly a century and a half later, Frances Trollope recorded a similar observation: I never saw, or read, of any country where religion had so strong a hold u…

  • The Second Great Awakening In Connecticut: Critique of the Traditional Interpretation

    Open AccessRichard D ShielsARTICLEChurch History1980References: 8

    As a doddering old man in 1850, Lyman Beecher told his children about the religious conditions at Yale College fifty-five years earlier. His words have become familiar to students of American religious history. The school had been "in a most ungodly state" when he entered as a student in 1795, he recalled. Its president, Ezra Stiles, had been ineffective as a pastor. Immorality and religious skepticism had been rife. Then Timothy Dwight replaced …

  • From Office to Profession: The New England Ministry, 1750-1850

    Richard D Shiels, Donald M ScottARTICLEJournal of American History1979

    Journal Article From Office to Profession: The New England Ministry, 1750–1850. By Donald M. Scott. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. xv + 199 pp. Notes and index. $12.00.) Get access Richard D. Shiels Richard D. Shiels Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1117–1118, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894598 Publ…

  • Christians in the American Revolution

    Richard D Shiels, Mark NollARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1978

  • Rebuilding the Christian Commonwealth. New England Congregationalists and Foreign Missions, 1800-1830

    Richard D Shiels, John A Andrew Iii et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1977

  • A Colonial Pastor: Jonathan Edwards the Younger: 1745-1801

    Richard D Shiels, Robert J FermARTICLEJournal of American History1977

    Journal Article A Colonial Pastor: Jonathan Edwards the Younger: 1745–1801. By Robert L. Ferm. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976. 214 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $7.95.) Get access Richard D. Shiels Richard D. Shiels Ohio State University, Newark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 2, September 1977, Pages 416–417, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901848 Published: 0…

  • Calvinism versus Democracy. Timothy Dwight and the Origins of American Evangelical Orthodoxy

    Richard D Shiels, Stephen E BerkARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1975