Jul 20, 2023 | Antoinette Brown, Benjamin Knoll, Cammie Jo Bolin, Feminism, Feminization of the Church, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Good and Mad, intolerance, Mainline Protestant Churchwomen, Male Supremacy, Margaret Bendroth, Nelle Morton, Southern Baptist Convention, United Church of Christ, Women and Religion, Women's Ordination, Women's Rights |
by Peggy Bendroth Peggy Bendroth served over 15 years as executive director of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston. She has written and edited eight books on American religion, including Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale 1993); Women...
Jan 7, 2020 | Blog Updates, Emily Hunter McGowin, Frederick W. Schmidt, Margaret Bendroth, Rodney Kennedy |
by William Trollinger 2019 was another very good year for the rightingamerica blog, both in the number of visitors/viewers, and the variety of authors’ voices and topics featured. This past year has made clear that we are a community of engaged scholars who seek to...
Dec 10, 2019 | Christian Family, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Horace Bushnell, Margaret Bendroth, Mr. Rogers, Parenting, Religion and Entertainment |
by Margaret Bendroth Two images from the Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood archive at the University of Pittsburgh, as featured in Library Video Magazine (vol. 2, no. 1) and the December 1987 issue of American Libraries. The image on the left is from Mr. Rogers’...
Oct 4, 2019 | Feminism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Margaret Bendroth, Motherhood, Women and Religion |
by Margaret Bendroth Margaret Bendroth is executive director of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston, and a historian of American religion. Her books include Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale 1993); Women and Twentieth-Century...
Jan 14, 2019 | #MeToo Movement, Adam Laats, Areligious, Ark Encounter Attendance, Blog Updates, Corinth Presbyterian Church, Donald Trump, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelical Education, Faithland Map, Feminism, Flood Geology, Gender Roles, Herbie Miller, Immigration, Joel Osteen, Margaret Bendroth, Moody Bible Institute, Paige Patterson, Southern Baptist Convention, Taylor University, Tim Gloege, Zach Spidel |
by William Trollinger Faithland map, 2018. Created by Alex Egoshin using data provided by the Association of Religion Data Archives. 2018 was significant for the rightingamerica blog, both in the variety of authors’ voices and topics featured, and the number of...
Sep 29, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Calvin College, Christian Colleges, Congregational Library, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Gender Roles, Institutional Religion, Margaret Bendroth, Righting America, Southern Baptist Convention |
by Margaret Bendroth One thing that the #MeToo movement and the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings have made blindingly clear is that sexual harassment/abuse is not simply or even primarily a matter of abusive individuals. Instead, it is very much about institutions – be they...
