Women and American Religion: Reimagining the Past
Schedule of Events
- Intro
- Schedule of Events
- Speakers
- Conference Papers
- Hotel and Transportation Information
- Conference Registration
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8
Keynote Address, 4:00 p.m., Swift Lecture Hall
Chair: Rosemary Skinner Keller, Union Theological Seminary
"The Presence of Women in American Religion," by Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School
Reception, 5:30 p.m., Swift Common Room
Open to the public.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9
Plenary Session on Women and Religion in Early America, 9:00-10:30, Swift Lecture Hall
Chair: Ruth Bloch, University of California at Los Angeles
"The Women of Revelation: Gender and the Making of a Prophet," by Susan Juster, University of Michigan
"Sarah Osborn's Story: Evangelical Women in the Age of Enlightenment," by Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago
Workshops on Women and Religion in Early America, 11:00-12:30
Chair: Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago
"Revelation, Witchcraft, and the Danger of Knowing God's Secrets," by Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon
Chair: Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University
"Puritan Women, Spiritual Power, and the Question of Sexuality," by Marilyn Westerkamp, University of California at Santa Cruz
Chair: Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
"Beyond the Meetinghouse: Gender and Religion in Early America," by Janet Moore Lindman, Rowan University
Chair: Ellen Skerrett, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Hail Mary Down by the Riverside: Black and White Catholic Women in Early America," by Emily Clark, Lewis and Clark College
Lunch, 12:30-2:00, Swift Common Room
Box lunches will be available in the Swift Hall Common Room for those
who have registered for them in advance.
Plenary Session on Women and Religion in the Nineteenth Century, 2:00-3:30, Swift Lecture Hall
Chair: Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Mortifying Women: Christian Perfectionism and Female Appetites in Nineteenth-Century America," by R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University
"The Circle of Culture: African American Women and Slave Religion," by Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore College
Workshops on Women and Religion in the Nineteenth Century, 4:00-5:30
Chair: Cynthia Jurisson, Lutheran School of Theology
"The Path to 'Americanization': Women and the Restructuring of American Judaism," by Karla Goldman, Jewish Women's Archive
Chair: Rosemary D. Gooden, Seabury Western Theological Seminary
"Women's Popular Literature as Theological Narrative: A Mormon Case Study," by Susanna Morrill, University of Chicago
Chair: Rosalind Hinton, DePaul University
"Unrespectable Saints: Women of the Church of God in Christ," by Anthea Butler, Loyola Marymount
Chair: Kathleen Conzen, The University of Chicago
"'The New Woman at the University': Gender, Americanism, and
the Founding of Trinity College for Catholic Women," by Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame
Chair: Kathryn Long, Wheaton College
"Forbidden or Forgotten Territory? Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century America," by Karin Gedge, West Chester University
Chair: Rowena McClinton, Southern Illinois University
"Reassessing the Role of the 'Native Helper': Christian Indians and the Woman's National Indian Association," by Cathleen D. Cahill, University of Chicago
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
Workshops on Women and Religion in the Twentieth Century, 9:00-10:30
Chair: Edith Blumhofer, Wheaton College
"Engendering Dissent: Women and American Judaism," by Pamela S. Nadell, American University
Chair: Suellen Hoy, University of Notre Dame
"'Just People Who Love to Play Basketball': Writing Women's Religious History as if Women Were People," by Julie Byrne, Texas Christian University
Chair: Julia Speller, Chicago Theological Seminary
"Voices from Nepantla: Latinas in U.S. Religious History," by Daisy L. Machado, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University
Chair: Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University
"Madres, católicas y evangélicas: The Women of Mary's Ministries and Crafting a New Américan Catholicism," by Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana College
Chair: Pamela Jones, The University of Chicago Divinity School
"Varieties of Evangelical Womanhood: The Woman's Missionary Union and Contemporary Southern Baptist Women," by Elizabeth Flowers, Duke University
Plenary Session on Women and Religion in the Twentieth Century, 11:00-12:30, Swift Lecture Hall
Chair: Rosemary Radford Ruether
"Pageant and Performance: African American Women's Religious Drama in the 1920s and 1930s," by Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College
"'Are You the White Nuns or the Black Nuns?': Women Confounding Categories of Race and Gender," by Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University
Lunch, 12:30
Box lunches will be available in the Swift Hall Common Room for those
who have registered for them in advance.
