Protestant Religion, Missions, and Global Networks in the 18th and 19th Centuries
May 20–21, 2014
This conference will examine eighteenth- to late nineteenth-century familial, evangelical, and reform networks in a transnational purview. In the wake of eighteenth century evangelical revivalism, Protestant denominations of all stripes founded missions to convert the “heathens” in far-flung global locales. American historians have written about 18th- century revivalism as “the First [American] Great Awakening,” scholars of Britain have traditionally focused on revivalism as it impacted Great Britain, and scholars have studied the pietistic practices that hailed from Halle, Württemberg, Herrnhut and elsewhere in the German-speaking states. Exciting new scholarship from across the historical disciplines and national fields of inquiry has, however, sought fresh ways to study this spiritual revival and religious enthusiasm and to reframe its interaction with culture and politics, focusing in particular on the transnational study of evangelicalism, missions, and social reforms through both clerical and familial networks. Protestant Religion, Missions, and Global Networks brings together junior, mid-level, and senior scholars whose current research takes these approaches to issues related to Protestant missions; evangelizing slaves and Native Americans; slave-trade abolition and slave emancipation; and familial and global religious networks.
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Edward E.
Andrews
Providence College
Peter
Burschel
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Aaron
Spencer Fogleman
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Travis
Glasson
Temple University, Philadelphia
Jan
Hüsgen
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Sünne
Juterczenka
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Klaus
Koschorke
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Andrea
Major
University of Leeds
Gisela
Mettele
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Yair
Mintzker
Fellow
2013/2014
Princeton University
Peter Hanns
Reill
Fellow
1986/1987
University of California, Los Angeles
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