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Douglas Winiarski

A discussion of early New England church records

John Fea   |  February 27, 2021

This is a really interesting conversation between historians Francis Bremer, Jeff Cooper, Richard Boles, and Doug Winiarski. The Congregational Library and the New England Hidden History program sponsored this discussion. Watch:...

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A History of the Jerks

John Fea   |  January 27, 2020

No, this is not a political post. Over at The Panorama, University of Richmond religion professor Douglas Winiarski writes about the jerks, a “fascinating spirit possession phenomenon” often associated with certain forms of evangelical Christianity.  It looks like this short...

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Doug Winiarski on Teaching the Jerks

John Fea   |  August 9, 2019

Doug Winiarski, the Bancroft Prize-winning historian and author of Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England, teaches the jerks. He explains at the Uncommon Sense: The Blog: Most of these texts eventually found their way into...

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Bancroft Prize-Winner Douglas Wisnarski Talks About His Latest Project

John Fea   |  July 22, 2019

Douglas Winiarski won the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his masterful interpretation of evangelical religion in New England titled Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England. (See our interview with Winiarski here).   His latest...

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Should Evangelicals Be Defined By Their Spiritual Commitments or Something Else?

John Fea   |  December 20, 2018

(This is the second post in a series on the word “evangelical” in the eighteenth-century and today). In my first post in this three-post series, I made the case that there was a religious movement in the eighteenth-century that can...

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Yes, There Was an “Evangelical” Movement in the Eighteenth Century and it Should Be Defined Theologically

John Fea   |  December 19, 2018

(This is the first post in a series on the word “evangelical” in the eighteenth-century and today). If the Jonathan Merritt dust-up had a positive result, it was that it got historians thinking again about the meaning of the word...

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