123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Missions to the World: Transnational Perspectives on Modern American Religions

Missions to the World: Transnational Perspectives on Modern American Religions

AHA Session 12

Friday, January 2, 2009: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Mercury Rotunda (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University

Papers:

Mormon Matriarchs: LDS Women, the World’s Congress of Representative Women, and the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago
Reid L. Neilson, Brigham Young University

South toward Heaven: America's Southern Rim and the Transnational Missions of Christian Entrepreneurs
Darren E. Grem, University of Georgia

Young Americans: Evangelical Youth Culture and Expressions of “American Democracy” in the Late Cold War
Eileen S. Luhr, California State University at Long Beach

Performing the Persecuted Body: American Evangelicals, Islam, and Global Solidarities
Melani McAlister, George Washington University

Comment:

John H. Hayes, Wake Forest University

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