Religion and Culture in the Americas Seminar
Sponsors: Albion College; the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame; University of Illinois at Chicago; and Wheaton College.
Absent Icons: Harriet Newell, Ann Judson, and the Materiality of the Cult of Women Missionaries in 19th Century America
Christopher Allison, University of Chicago
Friday, October 25, 2019
3 pm to 5 pm / B-82
This essay examines the material culture of American female missionaries in the first half of the 19th century. The paper examines how American Protestant people sought to