MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY.

Clark, Elizabeth A. ; Heitzenrater, Richard P. ; Hillerbrand, Hans J. 等

6 January 2000

A meeting of the American Society of Church History was called to order at 4:15 p.m. on 6 January 2000 by President Ronald L. Numbers in the Streeterville Room of the Chicago Marriott Downtown Hotel in Chicago, Ill.

Following introductions by those present, a proposed agenda submitted by the Secretary was approved. Minutes of meetings held in January and April of 1999 were approved.

The Secretary noted the reported deaths of former members: Jerald C. Brauer, Chicago, Ill.; N. Frederick Lang, Port Charlotte, Fla.; Clyde L. Manschreck, Aurora, Colo.; Sidney E. Mead, Tucson, Ariz.; Louise S. Parker, West Columbia, S.C.; Lloyd G. Patterson, Belmont, Mass.; Lewis W. Spitz, Palo Alto, Calif.; W. J. Trudinger, Johnsonville, Australia; and Carl A. Volz, St. Paul, Minn.

The following applicants were accepted as new members of the Society:

 Mary Anderson,(*) Princeton, N.J.; Sharon L. Arnoult, Austin, Tex.; Timothy
 J. Babalis, San Francisco, Calif.; Steven J. Baden,(*) Fairhaven, Mass.;
 Chris Beneke,(*) Evanston, Ill.; Ellen J. Blue, Harahan, La.; John R.
 Brown, Dallas, Tex.; Robert E. Brown, Kansas City, Mo.; Candy Gunther
 Brown,(*) Cambridge, Mass.; James T. Carroll, New Rochelle, N.Y.; Elizabeth
 A. Castelli, New York, N.Y.; Mary Kupiec Cayton, Oxford, Ohio; Kirsten
 Christensen, Notre Dame, Ind.; Gabe Clevenger,(*) Boiling Springs, N.C.;
 Mark Edwards,(*) West Lafayette, Ind.; James D. Ernest, Peabody, Mass.;
 Janet F. Fishburn, Madison, N.J.; Tyler B. Flynn,(*) State College, Pa.;
 Bridget Ford,(*) Berkeley, Calif.; Melissa P. Ford,(*) Sewanee, Tenn.;
 Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford, Evanston, Ill.; J. Albert Harrill, Bloomington,
 Ind.; Joyce Harrison, Knoxville, Tenn.; Lloyd Harsch,(*) Fort Worth, Tex.;
 James K. Honeyford,(*) Bloomington, Ind.; Susan J. Hubert,(*) Kalamazoo,
 Mich.; Mark D. Hulsether, Knoxville, Tenn.; Jaehyun Kim,(*) Princeton,
 N.J.; Sheryl A. Kujawa, Cambridge, Mass.; Thomas L. Lalley, Washington,
 D.C.; Charles M. Lane,(*) East Patchogue, N.Y.; W. Terry Lindley, Jackson,
 Tenn.; H. Clark Maddux,(*) West Lafayette, Ind.; Biak Hlei Mang,(*)
 Chicago, Ilk; Jeffrey D. Marlett, Albany, N.Y.; Brian Matz,(*) Dallas,
 Tex.; John Maxfield,(*) Princeton, N.J.; Christine McCann, Northfield, Vt.;
 Patrick M. McElhaney, Cincinnati, Ohio; Joseph C. Minnis, Graham, N.C.;
 Linda L. Moeller, New York, N.Y.; David Morgan, Valparaiso, Ind.; Linda
 Munk, Toronto, Canada; Julia H. Nguyen,(*) Baton Rouge, La.; G. Travis
 Norvell,(*) Rochester, N.Y.; Jeannine E. Olson, Palo Alto, Calif.; Lisa J.
 Pruitt, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Richard M. Riss, Zarephath, N.J.; David L.
 Rowe, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Patsy Rutherford, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Michele
 D. Ryan,(*) Santa Cruz, Calif.; Claire L. Sahlin, Denton, Tex.; Jong W.
 Seouh,(*) Princeton, N.J.; Teresa M. Shaw, Claremont, Calif.; Mary Lou
 Shea,(*) Quincy, Mass.; Thomas J. Shelley, New York, N.Y.; Tina
 Shepardson,(*) Durham, N.C.; Michael A. Signer, Notre Dame, Ind.; Horace
 Six-Means,(*) Princeton, N.J.; Beverly P. Smaby, Brookville, Mass.; Kevin
 D. Smith,(*) Madison, Wis.; Peter Snyder,(*) Algonquin, Ill.; Edwin R.
 Tait,(*) Durham, N.C.; Norman T. Taylor, Morristown, Ind.; Wilma F. Taylor,
 Morristown, Ind.; Thomas R. Taylor,(*) Manhattan, Kans.; Andrew Tickle,
 Charlottesville, Va.; Gregory D. Tomlin,(*) Fort Worth, Tex.; Mark D.
 Tranvik, Minneapolis, Minn.; Peter Vethanayagamony,(*) Chicago, Ill.;
 Barbara Wall, Granger, Ind.; David M. Whitford, Orangeburg, S.C.; Stephen
 A. Wilson, Valparaiso, Ind.

(*)designates free students

Regular members 42
Free members 31

Total 73

The Executive Secretary reported that the Society's website was finally in operation, and he invited members to use the site's many features. President Numbers appointed Catherine A. Brekus, Dale A. Johnson, and Charles H. Lippy to comprise an advisory committee for recommending adaptations that might serve the Society's constituency with more numerous and beneficial features.

Grant Wacker presented the report of the editors of Church History. In it he described a greater balance of essays submitted to the journal, and he outlined some anticipated improvements over the next few years. After accepting the report with thanks, Council approved the appointment of Russell E. Richey as a fifth editor of the journal, and it also approved the operational asking budget for fiscal year 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001.

Copies of the audited financial report covering the fiscal year 1 December 1997 to 30 November 1998 were distributed to members present. Council voted to receive the report and to recommend its adoption to the annual business meeting. In addition to approving the journal's budget, Council then approved the Executive Secretary's more comprehensive asking budget for the current year. It noted with approval that hereafter both budgets will be developed and audited in the same time period, following the July-June fiscal pattern.

Margo Todd reported for the Research Committee, announcing that the Douglass Prize winner for 1999 was Kathryn Burns for her article, "Gender and the Politics of Mestizaje: The Convent of Santa Clara in Cuzco Peru," published in volume 78 (1998) of Hispanic American Historical Review. She also announced that the Schaff Prize winner for 1999 was David Cressy for his book, Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, published by Oxford University Press. In addition to approving of these choices, Council voted to accept an experimental program, to be conducted over the next five years, during which time a maximum of three people who are not members of the Society might be named as members of the Research Committee. It also authorized expenditures of funds up to a total of one thousand dollars in order to advertise the prize competitions in other historical journals. The President agreed to appoint a committee to investigate the scope and adequacy of all current prizes.

Peter W. Williams presented recommendations for the Committee on Nominations. Council voted to accept the report and to recommend its personnel to the business meeting.

Council authorized John Piper, chair of the Finance Committee, to invest 25 per cent of the Society's liquid assets in order to achieve greater financial growth. He was also encouraged to pursue the possibility of developing endowment funds by soliciting contributions through wills and annual gifts.

Council approved an increase in subscription fees. Beginning in January of the year 2001, the cost of the journal to libraries in the United States will be sixty dollars per annum, and that to foreign libraries, seventy-five dollars.

President Numbers introduced changes in both the constitution and the by-laws. Council voted to approve the following:

Constitution

Current wording:

Section 1. The officers of the Society shall be a President, a President-Elect, an Executive Secretary, and an Assistant Secretary, should there be one so designated. The President and the President-Elect shall be elected annually for a term of one year and shall not be eligible for re-election. The editors of Church History shall be ex officio officers with voice but not vote.

Recommended revision:

Section 1. The officers of the Society shall be a President, a President-Elect, an Executive Secretary, and an Editor representing Church History. Together with the immediate past President, these officers shall constitute the Executive Committee of the Society. The President and the President-Elect shall be elected annually for a term of one year and shall not be eligible for re-election.

By-Laws

Article I. Duties of Officers

Section 1. Duties of the President shall include but not be limited to the following: preside at every meeting of the Society and of the Council, serve on the Program Committee for the annual meeting, serve as the chair of the Committee on Nominations and Personnel for the year following his or her term of office, appoint chair(s) for program and local arrangements committees for the upcoming Spring meeting with the approval of the Council, appoint special committees as needed with the approval of the Council, represent the Society faithfully during his or her term of office, and such other responsibilities as are normally on the president of a scholarly society.

[Action taken: delete phrase in boldface]

Article VI. Interest Groups

Section 1. Scholars with a common interest in a particular area of church history may petition the Council for recognition as an interest group. The petition shall include the name of the proposed interest group, a statement of purpose, the particular area to be stimulated and developed, bylaws or some other statement of organization (including provisions for the selection of officers), and a statement of how formation of this interest group will benefit the American Society of Church History.

Section 2. Interest groups will determine their own criteria for membership, which need not include membership in the American Society of Church History.

Section 3. An interest group may assess dues for its own activities and may have the entire management and control of said funds.

Section 4. Interest groups will be entitled to a minimum of one session at the annual meeting. Additional sessions at the annual meeting and at the spring meeting will be at the discretion of the respective Program Committees.

Section 5. Interest groups must be open to all interested members of the American Society of Church History and must restrict their activities to the scholarly pursuit of knowledge.

Section 6. Council may withdraw recognition from an interest group for good and sufficient reasons.

[Action taken: acceptance of all sections]

The President announced his intention of appointing a committee that would review the activities of the current Executive Secretary and report back with a positive or negative recommendation regarding renewal. Council approved of this procedure, since the current appointment ends in 2001.

Hans Hillerbrand began a discussion by observing that the Society now stands in an advantageous position to increase and strengthen its programs and constituency. In an effort to explore possibilities along those experimental lines, Council approved of Peter Williams's determining whether there might be ASCH-sponsored sessions at annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion. He was also authorized to expend a maximum of five hundred dollars connected with such activity.

In a similar vein, Council agreed that a fact-finding committee be appointed to explore such questions as whether the Spring meeting might be turned into the major Society gathering each year, whether the Society should develop a relationship with the AAR analogous to that which it has with the AHA, and whether registration fees might be substantially raised.

Council adjourned at 6:30 p.m.

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY

The annual business meeting of the American Society of Church History was held in the Chicago Ballroom of the Chicago Marriott Downtown Hotel in Chicago, Ill., called to order at 4:45 p.m. by President Ronald Numbers.

The following financial report covering the fiscal year 1 December 1998 to 30 November 1999 was submitted and accepted:

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NEW ASSETS FOR THE YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 30

 1999 1998
REVENUE:
 Membership dues $56,415 $37,695
 Subscriptions 62,709 66,964
 Advertising 4,825 6,900
 Sale of copies 550 710
 Microfilm -- 326
 Reprints 550 550
 Miscellaneous receipts 5,193 3,561
 Interest income 11,416 11,144
 Royalty -- 1,638

 Total Revenue 141,658 129,488

EXPENSES:
 Printing and distribution 57,379 50,986
 Postage and supplies 12,275 7,682
 Editorial services 26,234 27,060
 Refunds and cancellations 150 48
 Outside services -- 4,000
 Secretarial services 7,500 7,804
 Executive Secretary stipend 12,000 12,000
 Dues and subscriptions -- 985
 Prizes and awards 2,250 2,000
 Legal and professional services 2,000 1,775
 Postage, supplies, and printing -- 2,665
 Telephone 815 652
 Travel 1,749 3,333
 Seminars 25 30
 Depreciation expense 239 289
 Meals and entertainment 177 --
 Meeting expense 4,370 2,943
 Payroll taxes 3,623 4,185
 Miscellaneous 95 293
 Equipment maintenance -- 84
 Insurance expense 692 --
 Website expense 250 --
 Bank charges 371 261
 Copyright expense 100 --
 Program expenses 3,725 --

 Total Expenses 13,601 129,075

INCREASE IN NET ASSETS 5,639 413

NET ASSETS, beginning of year 38,782 248,673

PRIOR PERIOD ADJUSTMENT -- (10,304)

NET ASSETS, end of year 244,421 238,782

 ASSETS

 1999 1998
CURRENT ASSETS:
 Amboy Bank--CD $31,814 --
 Amboy Bank 188,975 --
 Amboy Bank--checking 24,254 27,974
 Corestates Bank-4.00% CD -- 28,701
 Corestates Bank-5.75% CD -- 84,347
 Corestates Bank-5.75% CD -- 24,160
 Corestates Bank-6.10% CD -- 55,935
 Accrued interest receivable 323 17,440

 Total Current Assets 245,366 238,557

EQUIPMENT:
 Office equipment, net of accumulate 183 422
 depreciation of $8,099 and $7,861

TOTAL ASSETS 245,549 238,979

 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES:
 payroll tax liability $1,128 $197

NET ASSETS, UNRESTRICTED 244,421 238,782

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NEW ASSETS 245,549 238,979

Grant Wacker presented the following report of the editors of Church History:

Volume 68 of Church History (1999) comprised the second volume edited at Duke University by Elizabeth A. Clark, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Hans J. Hillerbrand, and Grant Wacker. This volume contained 1116 pages, or 252 pages more than the previous year, and 305 pages more than the annual average for Church History volumes in the 1990s.

During 1999 the journal published twenty-two articles--one on ancient Christianity, three on medieval topics, nine on Reformation and early modem topics, two on modem Europe, six on North American topics, and one on modern Asia. Three of these articles contained black-and-white photographs or art. During the calendar year, Church History received 685 books from publishers and printed three hundred book reviews and notes, as well as three review essays.

Church History also published one film review in 1999. Further, the journal printed fifteen full-page and five half-page advertisements. Church History received eighty-four manuscripts during 1999 (including both new manuscripts and revised ones originally submitted in 1998). Of these, thirteen addressed topics in ancient Christianity, eight focused on the medieval period, thirteen addressed Reformation and early modern topics, ten focused on Europe after 1700, thirty-four focused on some aspect of North American history, and six addressed non-Western topics. Of these eighty-four manuscripts, the editors have made decisions on sixty-seven, while seventeen are still under consideration.

The editors made a total of eighteen manuscript decisions in 1999 (this figure includes manuscripts submitted in 1999, leftovers from 1998, and occasionally more than one version of the same manuscript). Of these, the editors accepted fourteen, provisionally accepted eight, gave four the "revise-and-resubmit" judgment, rejected ten with the opportunity to resubmit, and rejected fifty outright. In addition, two authors withdrew their manuscripts.

Currently, six manuscripts and sixty-five book reviews are in press for the March 2000 issue. In addition, seven more manuscripts have been accepted, and 168 books are out for review.

The editors would like to acknowledge the hard work of the first cohort of graduate assistants, Jay Blossom, Caroline Schroeder, and Anne Blue Wills. The present graduate assistants include Caroline Schroeder (senior assistant), Tina Shepardson (book reviews), and Edwin Tait (copy editing). The editors thank them all for a job well done. In addition, they would like to thank the associate editors--William Adler, David Aers, Peter Kaufman, Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Bruce Mullin, Russell Richey, David Steinmetz, and Thomas Tweed--for their many hours of hard work during editorial meetings and at other times as well. Finally, the editors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the advisory editors--Jon Butler, Caroline Walker Bynum, Averil Cameron, Robert Frykenberg, Nathan Hatch, Christine Heyrman, Brooks Holifield, Hartmut Lehmann, Patricia Cox Miller, Heiko Oberman, Robert Orsi, Andrew Porter, John Van Engen, and Merry Wiesner-Hanks.

Respectfully submitted

Elizabeth A. Clark
Richard P. Heitzenrater
Hans J. Hillerbrand
Grant Wacker
Editors

Peter Williams reported for the Committee on Nominations and Personnel. The following positions were filled: President-Elect, Amanda Porterfield; Council, Class of 2002: Ellen Louise Babinsky, Catherine A. Brekus, Charles L. Cohen, Leigh Eric Schmidt, and Lee Palmer Wandel; Committee on Membership: Sharon Elkins (chair); Class of 2000: Phyllis Airhart and Kelly Spoerl; Class of 2001: David Brakke, Patricia DeLeeuw, Kathleen M. Joyce, Charles Odahl, and Keith Sprunger; Class of 2002: Amy Oden, Randi Walker, and Ray Kibler II; Committee on Research: Margo Todd (chair), Steven M. Avella, Lynda L. Coon, Ralph Keen, William V. Trollinger, Michael McGiffert, Sabine MacCormack, and Lamin Sanneh.

After a general discussion of changes for professional expansion and financial growth, constituents voted to approve changes in the constitution and by-laws, the latter to take effect immediately, the former to be voted upon in one year.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:45 p.m. The following program was presented for those attending:

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6

1:30-4:00 P.M. Marriott, Lakeview Room

Church History Editorial Board Meeting

4:15-6:15 P.M. Marriott, Streeterville Room

ASCH Council Meeting

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7

7:00-8:30 A.M. Marriott, Lakeview Room

Breakfast for Women in Theology and Church History

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Bucktown Room

Demons in Late Antiquity

Chair: J. Albert Harrill, Depaul University

"The Physiology of Demonology," Dale B. Martin, Yale University

"Creative Demons in Ascetic Perspective: The Case of the Nag Hammadi Documents," Richard Valantasis, Iliff School of Theology

"Robbers in the House: The Demons in the Earliest Monastic Literature from Egypt," David Brakke, Indiana University

Comment: Teresa Shaw, Claremont Graduate School

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Oldtown Room

Religion on the Edge: Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy on Frontiers of Christianity

Chair: John C. Eby, Loras College

"The Witness of Heaven: The Persecution of Buddhist and Catholic Sectarians in Confucian China," Tom Reilly, Pepperdine University

"Nez Perce and Dakota Presbyterian Pastors: Orthodoxy and Cultural Integrity," Bonnie-Sue Lewis, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary

"The Petrification of Heresy: Concepts of Heterodoxy in the Early Middle Ages," John C. Eby

Comment: George H. Shriver, Georgia Southern College

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Printers Row Room

Negotiating Gender and Autonomy: Nuns, Religion, and Conflict at the Crossroads

Chair: Patrick Allitt, Emory University

"Entrepreneurs for Souls: Catholic Nuns and the Development of Health Care Institutions," Barbara M. Wall, University of Notre Dame

"Hospital Hierarchies: Medical Men, Women Religious, and the Art of Compromise," Kathleen M. Joyce, Duke University

"Fear, Frustration, and Fortitude: Catholic Sisters and Japanese Occupation," James T. Carroll, Iona College

Comment: Patrick Allitt

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Streeterville Room

Youth, Religion, and American Culture

Chair: Larry Eskredge, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals

"Youth, Christianity, and the Crisis of Civilization, 1930-45," Thomas Bergler, University of Notre Dame

"Pro Parvulis: Catholic Children's Literature from 1930 to 1945," Cecilia A. Moore, University of Dayton

"Recreating America: Christian Youth Ministry and Cultural Change since 1930," Jon Pahl, Valparaiso University

Comment: Robert Orsi, Indiana University

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Wrigleyville Room

Popular Religion in America

Chair: Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology

"Maternalism vs. Materialism in Mary Baker Eddy's Mother Church of Christian Science: Or, How Architecture and Gender Compromised Mind," Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Macalester College

"Jesus of Nashville: Bible Editions and Popular Religion in Twentieth-Century America," Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University

Comment: Gary Laderman, Emory University

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, River North Room

Christianity and the Coming of the Civil War

Chair: Harry S. Stout, Yale University

"Religion, Social Mobility, and the Culture of Aspiration in the Old South," Beth Barton Schweiger, Journal of Southern Religion

"Abraham Lincoln, the Churches, and the Mobilization of Union Sentiment during the American Civil War," Richard Carwardine, University of Sheffield

"Death and the Validation of Evangelicalism in the Civil War South," Charles Wilson, University of Mississippi

Comment: Phillip Shaw Paludan, University of Kansas

12:15-1:45 P.M. Marriott, Lakeview Room

Luncheon

Presiding: Robert M. Kingdon, University of Wisconsin at Madison

"`Deep-Breasted Beauties': How Leopold von Ranke Discovered Catholicism," Thomas A. Brady, University of California at Berkeley

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, Bucktown Room

Ritual in the Reformation

Chair: Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin

"The Social Location of Baptism in Early Modern Germany," Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona

"Some Aspects of Baptism in the Reformation," Karen Spierling, University of Wisconsin

"The Spiritual Eye of Processions," Edward Muir, Northwestern University

Comment: Lee Palmer Wandel

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, Miami Room

The Church on the Eve of the Reformation (Joint session with the AHA)

Chair: Robert Bireley, Loyola University of Chicago

"The Spanish Church and Catholicism ca. 1500," Sara T. Nalle, William Patterson University

"Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy," David S. Peterson, Washington and Lee University

"Piety in France around 1500," Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College

Comment: Elizabeth G. Gleason, University of San Francisco

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, Oldtown Room

Women's Voices, Women's Actions in Early Modern European Christianity

Chair: Sharon Michalove, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Virgins of Remarkable Virtue: The Influence of Women Religious on Peter Canisius," Kirsten Christensen, University of Notre Dame

"Prayer as Gendered Voice in Early Modern Puritanism," Robert Naehar, University of Connecticut and Emma Willard School

"`In My Hand for Lending': Quaker Women's Meetings in London, 1654-97," Michele Ryan, University of California at Santa Cruz

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, Printers Row Room

Gender and the Social Gospel

Chair: Margaret Bendroth, Calvin College

"Walter Rauschenbusch and `The Woman Movement': A Gender Analysis," Janet F. Fishburn, Drew University

"`The Woman's Cause is Man's?' Frances Willard and the Social Gospel," Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford, Northwestern University Women and `Social Betterment' in the Social Gospel of Josiah Strong," Wendy Deichmann Edwards, Ashland Theological Seminary

Comment: Margaret Bendroth

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, Streeterville Room

Reading, Learning, and Changing Religious Culture in Colonial New England

Chair: David Hall, Harvard University

"New England's Daughters and the Tree of Knowledge: Puritan Perceptions of the Female Intellect," Kristin Kobes, University of Notre Dame

"Cosmopolitan Provincials: Religious Literary Culture in Eighteenth-Century Boston," John T. O'Keefe, Harvard University

"Protestants, Popery, and Prognostications: Almanacs and Changing Religious Culture in Early-Eighteenth-Century New England," Thomas S. Kidd, University of Notre Dame

Comment: The audience

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, Wrigleyville Room

Queer Theory and the Study of Ancient Christianity

Chair: Elizabeth A. Clark, Duke University

"Queering Clement's Queerness," Denise K. Buell, Williams College

"Queering Origen," Stephen D. Moore, Drew University

"The Queer Lives of Saints," Virginia Burrus, Drew University

Comment: Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, River North Room

Early Modern Anglo-American Religious Reform

Chair: Karen Bruhn, Arizona State University

"Accommodation and Attraction: William Perkins and the Creation of Calvinist Culture," Lori Ferrell, Claremont Graduate School

"The Laws and Rules of Exchange in Anglo-American Puritanism," Mark Valeri, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond

"Spectral Bodies and Haunted Minds," Janice Knight, University of Chicago

Comment: Peter I. Kaufman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

7:30-8:30 P.M. Marriott, River North Room

Plenary Session

Chair: Ron Numbers, University of Wisconsin at Madison

"Democracy's Demons: Authority, Alterity, and Coercion in American Religious History," Robert Orsi, Indiana University

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Bucktown Room

American Restorationism

Chair: Richard Bushman, Columbia University

"Back to the Future: The Latter-Day Saints' Transition to the Twentieth Century," Kathleen Flake, University of Chicago

"Separate but Equal: The Reorganized Latter-Day Saints and the Lure of the Twentieth Century," Paul M. Edwards, Center for the Study of the Korean War

"The Transformation of the Restoration Vision in the Stone-Campbell Tradition, 1900-1930," Richard T. Hughes, Pepperdine University

Comment: Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Oldtown Room

Teaching the History of Christianity: Pedagogy and Technology

Chair: David Holmes, College of William and Mary

Panel:

Peter W. Williams, Miami University of Ohio

Richard Heitzenrater, Duke University

Lawrence R. Rast Jr., Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Ind.

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Printers Row Room

Contrasting Identities: Theology and Culture in Colonial America

Chair: E. Brooks Holifield, Emory University

"A Mirror of Anglican Gentility: Descriptions of Amerindian Culture and the Description of Civic Identity in Late-Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth-Century Virginia," Kevin Hardwick, James Madison University

"Visible Saints and Notorious Sinners: Presbyterianism and the Vicissitudes of the Baptist Movement in New England," Peter Wallace, University of Notre Dame

"`A Little Sorry, Scandalous Drove': Congregational Reaction to Anglicanism in Boston, 1719-25," R. Bryan Bademan, University of Notre Dame

Comment: E. Brooks Holifield

9:30-11:30 A.M. Marriott, Scottsdale Room

At the Margins of Empire: British Missionaries and the Colonial Encounter (Joint session with the AHA)

Chair: James Gump, University of San Diego

"Intimacy, Knowledge/Power, Ambiguity: Cultural Brokers at the Margins of Empire," Lynn Zastoupil, Rhodes College

"Christian Customary Law: Anglican Missionaries, Polygyny, and South African Missionary Communities, 1850-1910," Modupe Labode, Iowa State University

"Going Native: Missionaries Confront Imperial Boundaries in Colonial India," Jeffrey Cox, University of Iowa

Comment: Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

12:45-1:45 P.M. Marriott, Lakeview Room

Luncheon

William R. Hutchison's The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism: Twenty-Five Years

Presiding: John F. Wilson, Princeton University

Panel:

Margaret Bendroth, Calvin College

James Turner, University of Notre Dame

E. Brooks Holifield, Emory University

Response: William R. Hutchison, Harvard University

2:00-4:00 P.M. Tour of Chicago Houses of Worship

Leaders:

Peter W. Williams, Miami University of Ohio

David Holmes, College of William and Mary

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, Oldtown Room

Twelfth-Century Biblical Exegesis

Chair: Grover A. Zinn, Oberlin College Melancholy, Skin Color and the `Man of Sorrows' in Rabbinic Exegesis of Isaiah," Willis Johnson, The Divinity School, University of Chicago

"History or Genealogy: Responses to Christian Culture in Twelfth-Century Jewish Exegesis," Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame

Comment: Grover Zinn

2:30-4:30 P.M. Marriott, Streeterville Room

Religion and Social Structure in Modernizing America

Chair: Amanda Porterfield, University of Wyoming

"Catholic Charities and the Making of the Public Welfare State in Indianapolis, 1930," Mary Mapes, Indiana University-Purdue University

"Rolling Religion Down the Hill: White Mill Workers in a Southern City in the Late Nineteenth Century," Julia Walsh, Webster University

"Better Living through Religion: Dayton, Tennessee as a Progressive Religious Community in 1928," Andrew Nolan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Comment: Michael Hamilton, Seattle Pacific University

4:30-5:15 P.M. Marriott, River North Room

Business Meeting

5:30-6:30 P.M. Marriott, River North Room

Presidential Address

Chair: Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University

"`The Most Important Biblical Discovery of Our Time': William Henry Green and Primeval Chronology," Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin at Madison; President, ASCH

6:45-7:45 P.M. Marriott, Lakeview Room

Reception

9:00-11:00 P.M. Marriott, Wrigleyville Room

The Uses of Film in the Classroom: Robert Duvall's The Apostle

Facilitator: Jay Blossom, Duke University

SUNDAY, JANUARY 9

8:30-10:30 A.M. Marriott, Bucktown Room

New Perspectives on Early American Methodism

Chair: Russell E. Richey, Duke University

Panel:

John H. Wigger, University of Missouri at Columbia

Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Boston College

Dee E. Andrews, California State University

William R. Sutton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8:30-10:30 A.M. Marriott, Oldtown Room

Interlocking Christian Histories: Africa and the West

Chair: Grant Wacker, Duke University

"Anti-Slavery and Antistructure in West African History," Lamin Sanneh, Yale University

"The Autonomy of the African Church in a Colonial Context," Jehu Anciles, African University, Zimbabwe, and Fuller Theological Seminary

Comment: Marcia Wright, Columbia University

8:30-10:30 A.M. Marriott, Printers Row Room

Religious Pluralism in the Early Mid-Atlantic Colonies

Chair: Joyce Goodfriend, University of Denver

"The Revolt of the Long Swede and the Problem of Pluralism in Early Colonial New York," Evan Haefeli, Princeton University

"The `Ubiquitarians' of West Jersey: Rural Protestantism and the Problem of Denominational Order in the Early Delaware Valley," John Fea, State University of New York at Stony Brook

"Suffering Shepherds and Scattering Sheep: Reliving the Lutheran Reformation in America, 1703-48," Beth Lewis Pardoe, Princeton University

Comment: A. Gregory Roeber, Penn State University

11:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M. Marriott, Bucktown Room

Colonial Pietism and German-American Religious Traditions

Chair: J. Steven O'Malley, Asbury Theological Seminary

"Virgins and Hermits on the Conestoga Frontier: Gender Understandings of the Ephrata Cloister," Jeff Bach, Bethany Theological Seminary

"Piety and Tolerance in Colonial Pennsylvania," Stephen Longenecker, Bridgewater College

Comment: Mary Beth Stein, George Washington University

11:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M. Marriott, Oldtown Room

Catholicism Encounters Modernity

Chair: Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame

"`A Work to Do': Pastoral Ministry at John Henry Newman's Oratory in Birmingham during the 1850s and 1860s," Nancy Benvenga, Union Theological Seminary, New York

"`Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don't': Religious Leadership and Radical Change," Cecilia Murray, O.P., Mt. Salt Mary College

"Before Casti connubii: Early Roman Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the United States," Sharon M. Leon, University of Minnesota

Comment: Sandra Yocum Mize, University of Dayton

11:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M. Marriott, Printers Row Room

Religious Identity and Religious Experience in Imperial Germany, 1870-1918

Chair: John W. Boyer, University of Chicago

"Protestant Music, Liturgy, and Religious Identity in Strasbourg, 1871-1914," Anthony J. Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

"The Dilemma of Ethnic vs. Religious Identity in a Secularizing German Jewish Community," Steven Lowenstein, University of Judaism

"Good Catholics and Free Citizens: Parishes, Politics, and Community in Upper Silesia, 1890-1914," James Bjork, University of Chicago

Comment: Helmut W. Smith, Vanderbilt University

Respectfully submitted,

Henry W. Bowden Executive Secretary