9/9/2023 0 Comments Hidden in plain sight ctShe examines the spiritual memoirs of Sarah Osborn, a schoolteacher in Newport, Rhode Island, in the middle of the 18th century. But Brekus does not focus on Locke and Jefferson. The movement is generally considered to have been dominated by elite men, such as John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, whose rationalistic outlooks threatened the survival of religion. In her own essay for the volume, Brekus takes a new look at the Enlightenment. She wants to change how her colleagues think, writing, "My hope is that historians will always ask themselves whether their research could be transformed or enriched if they asked questions about women's lives as well as men's." Sometimes, the answer will be no, but often, Brekus is sure, the answer will be yes. Nor does she aim to replace male-dominated narratives with female-dominated narratives. She expresses even more frustration with the field of women's history, which seems to have decided in the 1980s that religion was bad for women and should be ignored.īrekus does not merely request equal time for women. She notes that George Marsden's textbook, Religion in American Culture, mentions 246 men by name and only 29 women, and many syllabi for American religion courses skip women altogether. Contributions to The Religious History of American Women vary somewhat in strength, but the best of them amply bear out Brekus's claim that close attention to religious women unsettles standard narratives about both gender and faith in America.īrekus begins the volume with a masterful overview that highlights recent advances in the study of religious women and indicts both women's historians and religious historians for failing to notice. Brekus urges the strangers to face each other and see what they have been missing. Some solid work on religious women has appeared since 1997, but women's history and religious history continue to slide past each other with few nods of recognition. Pre-registration is strongly suggested to guarantee a seat.Ten years ago, historian Ann Braude threw down a gauntlet for her discipline, declaring in the title of a widely read essay, "Women's History Is American Religious History." She was frustrated that scholars who studied women and scholars who studied religion so seldom addressed each other, even though the majority of women in America have always been religious, and the majority of religious adherents in America have pretty much always been women. Tour starts and ends at the historic Mill on the River with several site stops for further exploration. Tickets are $20 for either tour and include, historically based bus tour around the town of South Windsor, water and light snack. We highly recommend reserving lunch or dinner for before or after your tour! Please note that the tour ticket price does NOT include any food provided by Mill on the River. Pick-up and Drop-off will take place at the historic Mill on the River Restaurant at 989 Ellington Road in South Windsor.
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