Background
Catherine Anne Brekus was born on November 11, 1963 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. She is a daughter of Gordon and Trudy Brekus.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
In 1985 Catherine Anne Brekus received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
In 1993 Catherine Anne Brekus obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
In 1985 Catherine Anne Brekus received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
In 1993 Catherine Anne Brekus obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University.
(Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus exam...)
Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers - both white and African American - who crisscrossed the country between 1740 and 1845. Outspoken, visionary, and sometimes contentious, these women stepped into the pulpit long before twentieth-century battles over female ordination began. They were charismatic, popular preachers, who spoke to hundreds and even thousands of people at camp and revival meetings, and yet with but a few notable exceptions - such as Sojourner Truth - these women have essentially vanished from our history. Recovering their stories, Brekus shows, forces us to rethink many of our common assumptions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Pilgrims-Preaching-1740-1845-American/dp/0807847453/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Strangers+and+Pilgrims%3A+Female+Preaching+in+America%2C+1740-1845&qid=1575985849&s=books&sr=1-1
1998
(In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contribu...)
In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how considering the religious history of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. Covering a variety of topics - including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, everyday religious life, Puritanism, African American women's activism, and the Enlightenment - the volume enhances our understanding of both religious history and women's history. Taken together, these essays sound the call for a new, more inclusive history.
https://www.amazon.com/Religious-History-American-Women-Reimagining/dp/0807858005/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Religious+History+of+American+Women%3A+Reimagining+the+Past&qid=1575985944&s=books&sr=1-1
2007
(From the founding of the first colonies until the present...)
From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended far beyond church pews into the wider culture. Yet, at the same time, Christians in the United States have disagreed sharply about the meaning of their shared tradition, and, divided by denominational affiliation, race, and ethnicity, they have taken stances on every side of contested public issues from slavery to women's rights. This volume of twenty-two original essays, contributed by a group of prominent thinkers in American religious studies, provides a sophisticated understanding of both the diversity and the alliances among Christianities in the United States and the influences that have shaped churches and the nation in reciprocal ways. American Christianities explores this paradoxical dynamic of dominance and diversity that are the true marks of a faith too often perceived as homogeneous and monolithic.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Christianities-History-Dominance-Diversity-ebook/dp/B00LPMJB3O/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=American+Christianities%3A+A+History+of+Dominance+and+Diversity&qid=1575986050&s=books&sr=1-1
2011
(In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn p...)
In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution of her family. Remarkably, the memoir she created that year survives today, as do more than two thousand additional pages she composed over the following three decades. Sarah Osborn's World is the first book to mine this remarkable woman’s prolific personal and spiritual record. Catherine Brekus recovers the largely forgotten story of Sarah Osborn's life as one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time, while also connecting her captivating story to the rising evangelical movement in eighteenth-century America.
https://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Osborns-World-Evangelical-Christianity/dp/0300182902/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Sarah+Osborn%E2%80%99s+World%3A+The+Rise+of+Evangelical+Christianity+in+Early+America&qid=1575986104&s=books&sr=1-2
2013
Catherine Anne Brekus was born on November 11, 1963 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. She is a daughter of Gordon and Trudy Brekus.
In 1985 Catherine Anne Brekus received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University. In 1993 she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University.
Catherine Anne Brekus taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where she was a professor of the history of christianity and religions in America. She was also an associate member of the University of Chicago's Department of History and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Her research focuses on the relationship between religion and American culture, with particular emphasis on the history of women, gender, Christianity, and the evangelical movement. Her current interests include the religious history of American exceptionalism and the relationship of Christianity, capitalism, and consumerism in the United States.
She is the author of many articles and books, including Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845, which explores the rise of female preaching during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelicalism in Early America, which argues that the evangelical movement emerged in dialogue with the Enlightenment. A companion volume, Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings, is a critical edition of some of Osborn’s eighteenth-century manuscripts.
Brekus is also the editor of The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, a collection of essays that asks how women's history changes our understanding of American religion, and the co-editor (with W. Clark Gilpin) of American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity, an introduction to the multiple forms of Christian expression in the United States.
(Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus exam...)
1998(From the founding of the first colonies until the present...)
2011(In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn p...)
2013(In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contribu...)
2007Catherine Anne Brekus is a member of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, American Academy of Religion.
On August 26, 1989 Catherine Anne Brekus married Erik Joseph Sontheimer. They have two children: Claire Brennan Sontheimer, Rachel Ellen Sontheimer.
