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The latest proposed drafts of the ASCH Constitution and Bylaws are now live! You can find them at http://www.churchhistory.org/about-us/constitution-bylaws/

Adrian Weimer is a historian of colonial America and early modern religion and politics at Providence College. Her research focuses on the history of toleration, martyrdom and Protestant historical imagination, Calvinist resistance theory, the history of spirituality, and Protestant-Catholic relations. Her most recent publications include “Elizabeth Hooton and the Lived Politics of Toleration in Massachusetts…

Bradley Kime is a doctoral student in Religious Studies and Jefferson Fellow at the University of Virginia. We thank Bradley for taking the time out of his schedule to answer a few questions for us about his upcoming article in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, which is titled, “Infidel Deathbeds: Irreligious Dying and…

Eric Wickman is an adjunct faculty in the College of Christian Studies at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Eric received his PhD from the University of Saint Louis in 2013 under the direction of Father Ken Steinhauser. His research focuses on Hilary of Poitiers and early Christian soteriology. We thank Professor Wickman for taking the…

Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland (Australia). Professor Harrison has published extensively in the area of intellectual history with a focus on the philosophical, scientific, and religious thought of the early modern period. He has been a Visiting Fellow…

Please see the message below for information about the Linda F. Dietz Prize! Each year the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire offers the Linda F. Dietz Prize — $500 and publication of the winning article. The Linda F. Dietz prize is awarded to the best submission written in either French or English by a…

Greetings from Bloomington, Indiana! Many of us have just returned from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the ASCH in Denver, which was a great success. We had nearly 250 registered participants, including a number of international scholars and many graduate-student presenters. The quality of the panels seemed especially strong. Highlights of the conference include a…

Call for Papers – Religion and Politics in Early America (Beginnings to 1820) St. Louis, March 1-4, 2018 We seek proposals for panels and individual papers for the special topics conference on Religion and Politics in Early America, March 1-4, 2018, in St. Louis, Missouri. Individual papers are welcome, but preference will be given to…

Phyllis D. Airhart is Professor of the History of Christianity at Emmanuel College. Her interests include North American Christianity, religion and public life, and the history of spirituality. She is a past recipient of Victoria University’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the United Church of Canada’s Davidson Trust Award for excellence in teaching and…

Mark Chancey is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University. Professor Chancey specializes in biblical studies, although his some of his latest work has focused on the study of religion in modern North America. His most recent books are Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus (Cambridge University Press, 2005)…