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Religion & Violence in Early America

Religion & Violence in Early America is a conference sponsored by the Yale University School of Graduate Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in cooperation with the Jonathan Edwards Center and the Initiative on Religion and Politics.

April 11-12, 2008

Program Friday April 11. 2008

8:00 a.m.     Registration opens: United Church on the Green, at the corner of Temple and Elm Street, New Haven

9:00-30       Welcome   Jon Butler, Yale University School of Graduate Studies

9:30-11:30   Session I Sacralizing the Flesh, Chair Harry S. Stout, Yale University
                  
1:00-3:00    Session II Biblical Hermeneutics of Violence, Chair Kenneth P. Minkema, Yale University

3:30-5:30     Session III Discourses of Violence in the Early Republic, Chair Douglas Winiarski, University of Richmond


Program Saturday April 11, 2008

8:30 a.m      Registration opens in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., New Haven

9:30-11:30   Session IV Transatlantic Heresies, Chair John Demos, Yale University

1:00-3:00     Session V Violenence and Cross-cultural Translations of the Sacred, Chair Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside

3:30-5:30   Session VI Holy Wars, Chair Charles Cohen, University of Wisconsin, Madison