124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Religion and the Senses in the Eighteenth Century

Religion and the Senses in the Eighteenth Century

American Society of Church History 26

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Torrey 1 (Marriott)

Chair:

Sophia A. Rosenfeld, University of Virginia

Papers:

Sensing the Supernatural: The Role of the Senses in Eighteenth-Century American Catholic Spirituality
Joshua Burgess, University of South Carolina

Empirical Wonders: Sense and Faith at Scottish Revivals, 1690–1750
Roark Atkinson, Ramapo College of New Jersey

"Enthusiasm," Revival, and the Limits of Sensory Reliability in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
James K. Honeyford, Indiana University

Out of Their Senses? The Physicality of Religious Enthusiasm in England, 1700–30
Lionel Laborie, University of East Anglia

Comment:

Sophia A. Rosenfeld, University of Virginia

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