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Awakenings &  Revivals History Conference 
 
   
 
 
Schedule of Events

  The Conference will be held in the Supreme Courtroom at the School of Law
at Liberty University on Campus North unless otherwise noted.

April 16 - 18, 2009



 
Thursday April 16, 2009
 
3:00 pm – Registration Opens
 
4:00 – 5:15 pm – Paper Session One
 
                Panel 1 -   Revival in the Camp: The Civil War as Religious Experience
 
                             Justin Stowe, Liberty University
   Revivalism in the Camp During the American Civil War Between 1863 and 1864
 
                             Joseph Super, Liberty University
                                Baptist Hymnody and Theology in Civil War Revivals
 
                              Chair: TBA
 
                Panel 2 – Text and the First Great Awakening
 
                              Keith Pacholl, West Georgia University
                                 ‘Frenzies, Convulsions, and Madness:’ Critiquing the Great Awakening in
     Eighteenth Century Periodicals
 
                              Zachary McCleod Hutchins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
                                  The Changing Language of Conversion: From Pilgrimage to New Birth in
     the Earthly Eighteenth Century
 
                              Chair: TBA
 
5:30 – 7:00 – Dinner (on your own)
 
7:30 – 8: 45 – Plenary Session One – Dr. Timothy Hall, Central Michigan University
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Friday April 17, 2009
 
8:30 – 10:00 am Paper Session Two
 
                Panel 1 – Twentieth Century Revivals and Personalities
 
                             Jerry Hopkins, East Texas Baptist University
                                 Evangelist Ham’s Pietist Preparation: Reading and Revivals in American
                                 Evangelicalism
 
                             J. D. Bowers, Northern Illinois University
                                  Billy Sunday and the Unitarian Revivals
 
                             Doug Hankins, Trinity International University
     Following Up: Dawson Trotman and the Billy Graham Crusades
                                  (1949-1956)
 
                   Chair: TBA
 
                Panel 2 – Calvinism and Revival
 
                              Ken Stewart, Covenant College
                                   Revival as a Defining Issue in the American Calvinist Tradition
 
                              Frank Smith, Independent Scholar
                                   Evangelism and Ecclesiastical Politics: The Role of the Presbyterian
      Evangelistic Fellowship in Founding the Presbyterian Church in America
 
                    Chair: Roger Schultz, Liberty University
 
                                 
10:00 – 10:30 Break
 
 
10:30 – 12:00 Paper Session Three
 
               
     Panel 1 – Revival in Post Civil War United States
 
                            Justin Pettegrew, Grand Valley State University
                                  D.L. Moody in the Chicago YMCA: The Active Christian Man and the
                                  Business of Revivalism
 
                            Matt McCarter, Director of Friends Center, Guildford College
                                  Allen Jay, Renewal Friends, and Quaker Revivals: The Transformation
                                  Of Quakerism in the South
 
                            Samuel Avery-Quinn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
                                  Revival in the Register of the Tragic: Tragic Figures and Tragic
                                  Performances in Sermons Preached at National Camp - Meeting
                                  Association for the Promotion of Holiness Camp – Meetings, 1867-1880
 
                             Chair: Brent Aucoin, Southeastern College
                                
               Panel 2  – TBD
 
 
 
12:00 – 1:30  Lunch (Mountain View Room)
 
 
 1:45 – 3:15  Paper Session Four
 
               Panel 1 – Blurring Socio-Economic and Cultural Boundaries in the First Great
                            Awakening
 
                             Janice Wood, Eastern Kentucky University
                                 Invading Itinerants
 
                             Marie Basile-McDaniel, University of California, Davis
                                  Immigrants, Community, and Faith: Philadelphia’s Great
                                  Awakening
 
                            Chair: Steven Longenecker, Bridgewater College
 
                Panel 2 – American Awakenings in an International Context
 
                              Andrew Warne, Northwestern University
                                   A Judeo-Christian Awakening: Evangelical Conservatives and the
                                   Embrace of Jews and Israel, 1966-1986
 
                              Phillip Cantrell, Longwood University
                                   Paying It Back: The African Roots of the Contemporary Anglican
                                   Revival
 
                              Chair: TBA
               
3:45 – 5:15  Paper Session Five
                               
                 Panel 1 – Awakenings on Social and Geographical Margins
 
                              Rachel Cope, Syracuse University
                                  ‘Make Me What I Ought to be:’ Catherine Livingston Garrettson’s
                                   Conversion Memories
 
                              Scott Culpepper, Louisiana College
                                   Joseph Willis and the Influence of the Second Great Awakening in
                                   Louisiana
 
                              Ed Smither, Liberty University
                                    From Williamstown, MA to Rio de Janeiro: Nineteenth Century
       Awakenings in North America and Their Effect on Evangelical Missions
       in Brazil
                               
                              Chair: Carolyn Lawes, Old Dominion University
 
 
                  Panel 2 – The Second Great Awakening: Interpretation, Meanings, and the
                               Shaping of Antebellum Religious Culture
 
                               Richard Lee Rogers, Southern Wesleyan University
                                    The Urban Threshold and the Second Great Awakening:
                                    Revivalism in New York State, 1825 – 1835
 
                               Russ Patrick Reeves, Providence Christian College
                                     The Immediacy of Salvation in the Second Great Awakening: How
                                     Revivalism Redefined Evangelicalism
 
                                Matt McCook, Oklahoma Christian University
                                      The Second Great Awakening and the Denominational Process
 
                                Chair: TBA          
 
5:30 – 7:00 Dinner (Mountain View Room)
 
7:30 – 8:45 Keynote Address – Dr. Thomas Kidd, Baylor University
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Saturday April 18, 2009
 
8:30 – 10:00  Paper Session Six
 
                  Panel 1 – Legacies of the First Great Awakening
                               
                                 Fred Witzig, Franklin College
                                      Polite Anti-Revivalism and the Origins of Slaveholder Paternalism
                                      in Colonial South Carolina
 
                                 Ross Beales Jr., College of the Holy Cross
                                       ‘The Present Torrent of Liberty is Irresistible:’ From Revival to
                                       Revolution in Westborough Massachusetts
 
                                 Robert Caldwell, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
                                        Joseph Bellamy Against the World: Bellamy’s Theological
                                        Polemics and the Rise of a New Revivalistic Calvinism in Late
                                        Eighteenth Century America
 
                                 Chair: Peter Moore, University of Texas, Corpus Christi
 
                  Panel 2 – Moral Revival and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Second Great
                               Awakening
 
                                  Daniel Spanjer, Lancaster Bible College
Lyman Beecher’s Moral Revivalism
 
                                 Deborah Allen, Independent Scholar
                                       Accommodating Conscience and Culture: Mary Lyon’s
                                       Appropriation of Jonathan Edwards in Personal Devotion and
                                       Public Evangelism
 
                                  H. Paul Thompson, Jr., North Greenville University
                                        ‘Our Enterprise Flows from the Gospel of Christ:’ Revivalism and
                                        The Nineteenth Century Temperance Movement
 
                                 Chair: Kate Chavigny, Sweet Briar College
 
10:00 – 10:30  Break
 
10:30 – 12:00  Plenary Session III – Dr. John Fea, Messiah College
 
12:00 –   1:15  Lunch (Mountain View Room)
 1:30 –   3:00  Roundtable Discussion of The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical               
                                                        Christianity in Colonial America by Dr. Thomas Kidd
                     Dr. John Fea, Messiah College
           Dr. Timothy Hall, Central Michigan University
                     Response by Dr. Thomas Kidd, Baylor University
 
 3:00 –   3:30  Closing Remarks