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Do you want to participate in a live lecture by an important interpreter of the history of America's religious history? Are you many miles away? The Religious Studies Program at the University of Wyoming can make your participation possible. We provide Web Lectures that will allow people around the state, but also across the nation and, indeed, anywhere in the world, to listen to a live broadcast of a talk by Amanda Porterfield and to join in the discussion.
The third lecture is:
by
Indiana University-Purdue at Indianapolis
being given at
4:00 p.m., Mountain Daylight Time
Friday, May 1
| To watch the lecture, click on: | Watch |
| To email a question, send it to: | Pflesher@uwyo.edu |
| After listening, please fill out this form: | Lecture Survey |
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(between 3:50 pm and 5:30 pm, Mountain Standard Time on May 1st,
1998)
Anne Hutchinson was an unlikely revolutionary for her own day as well as ours. But this middle-aged woman believed she had a personal call from the Holy Spirit, one which pitted her against the Puritan establishment. At her trial, she made it clear that she followed a higher duty than that laid down by the religious authorities. Professor Porterfield argues that this claim of the individual against the group laid the foundation for America's ongoing opposition of the individual against society, one in which the individual can make equal claim to religious authority as the group.
Professor Porterfield's work is well-known to scholars of American Religion. From her insightful books on Christianity in New England to her investigations of the early Puritans, Native American Religion, foreign missionary work, and women's religious activities and beliefs, her work is often sought out and always reliable. Her recent books include Female Piety in New England: The Beginnings of Religious Humanism (Oxford, 1997), and The Power of Religion: A Comparative Introduction (Oxford, 1997). Her essays range over a wide number of topics in American Religion: "The Great Awakening," "Native American Shamans and the Mind-Cure Movement," "Feminist Theology as a Revitalization Movement," and "Nineteenth-Century American Protestant Missionaries and their Impact on Women in Zulu Culture" to name just a few.
Professor Porterfield's lecture will be available as a downloadable module within a few days after the talk.
For those who would like to the attend the lecture in person, it is being held in the Classroom Building, Room 210, on the campus of the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY.
1. Between 3:50 and 4:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time (5:50-6:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time) on Friday, May 1st, connect to this page.
3. The above link for Professor Porterfield's lecture will "go live" between 3:45 and 3:55. Once it is live, click on it, and the sound will begin. The link will remain live through the lecture up to the end the question period, which will finish up sometime between 5:00 and 5:30 pm Mountain Daylight Time. It may be accessed at anytime during that period. Note: If the lecture is not yet live, then a page will appear indicating that information. Click "Back" to return to this page. After a minute, click "Reload" or "Refresh," and then attempt to follow the link to the live feed. Repeat this procedure until the lecture becomes live.
4. Questions for Professor Porterfield, to be answered during the question period following the lecture, may be submitted via e-mail to: PFLESHER@UWYO.edu
Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements: A personal computer running a web browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer) with a RealAudio RealPlayer plug-in. PCs must have a sound card installed. To listen to the audio portion requires at least a 14.4 modem, to watch the live video requires a 28.8 modem. If your browser lacks the RealAudio plug-in, or you do not have the necessary browser, they may be downloaded here prior to the talk via the Lecture's web page.
The Wyoming Web Lectures on Religion provide an opportunity for the University of Wyoming to share its guest speakers with the people of the state of Wyoming, the United States and the world. Sponsored by UW's Religious Studies Program, with assistance from the Information Technology Division, these talks bring internationally recognized scholars to the campus to discuss topics in the study of world religions. Here they engage an audience from the University, the city of Laramie, and, via the World Wide Web, the state and the world beyond. The audio and the video of each lecture will be broadcast live on the WWW and any interested party may listen in. At any time during the lecture, listeners may e-mail questions to the proceedings and, circumstances permitting, their questions will be asked during the discussion period following the talk. Within afew days after the lecture, the recorded talk will be available as a downloadable module which can be heard at any time. Further information may be obtained by contacting Professor Paul Flesher, Director of the Religious Studies Program, at (307) 766-2616, or by e-mail at: PFlesher@uwyo.edu
The Wyoming Web Lecture on Religion is sponsored by
the Religious
Studies Program at the University of Wyoming, with the
assistance of the Information Technology Division. The Religious
Studies Program would like in particular to thank Robert Morrison
of Information Technology, David Vastine of UW Library Computer
Services, and Greg Delzer of the Religious Studies Program.
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