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Heather Curtis |
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Assistant Professor
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Religion Department
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| Degrees: |
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ThD, Harvard University; MA, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; BA, University of Virginia |
| Expertise: |
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American Religious History
History of Christianity
Religion, Health and Healing
Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
Gender and Women’s Studies in Religion
Religion and Science in Western Culture
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| Major Awards: |
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Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History, 2008., Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellowship, Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project (John Templeton Foundation), 2005-2007., Science and the Spirit: Pentecostal Perspectives on the Science/Religion Dialogue Research Grant (John Templeton Foundation), 2006-2008., Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-2004., Center for the Study of World Religions Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard University, 2003-2004. |
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Heather.Curtis@tufts.edu
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| Other websites: |
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http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9365.html
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~etc/people/curtis.html
http://www.unc.edu/depts/practice/
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Books:
Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History, 2008.
Articles:
“Houses of Healing: Sacred Space, Spiritual Practice and the Transformation of Female Suffering in the Faith Cure Movement, 1870-1890,” Church History (September 2006): 598-611.
“‘Acting Faith’: Divine Healing as Devotional Practice in Late-Nineteenth-Century Protestantism,” in Practicing Protestants: Histories of the Christian Life in America, ed. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Leigh Schmidt, and Mark Valeri (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 137-158.
“Children of the Heavenly King: Hymns in the Religious and Social Experience of Children, 1780-1850,” in Sing Them Over Again To Me: Hymns and Hymn Books in America, ed. Edith L. Blumhofer and Mark A. Noll (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 214-234.
“Visions of Self, Success and Society among Young Men in Antebellum Boston,” Church History 73:3 (September 2004): 613-634.
“Religion and Community Structures (Race, Gender and Class) during the Period of American Empire (1803- 1898)” in Religion in America History, ed. John Corrigan and Amanda Porterfield (New York: Blackwel Press, forthcoming).
“Healing, Belief and Interpretation in 19th-Century Protestant America,” in Spiritual Healing: Science, Meaning, and Discernment, ed. Sarah Coakley (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, forthcoming).
“Theologies of Evolution and Cooperation in Late-Nineteenth-Century America,” in Evolution, Games and God: The Principle of Cooperation, eds. Sarah Coakley and Martin Nowak (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).
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