TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPUKxHs6BOg On November 17, 2023, the BU Center for Global Christianity and Mission and ASCH co-hosted a webinar on the book “Catholicism: A Global History: by John McGreevy, Provost of the University of Notre Dame. Participants included: – John McGreevy (Notre Dame ) – Jennifer Scheper Hughes (UC Riverside)- Jean Luc Enyegue S J (Jesuit … Read more
Searchable database of women who entered the English convents on continental Europe from the foundation of the first new house in Brussels in 1598 until 1800.
https://youtu.be/9Tx9FkyNmfo On April 17, 2023, ASCH hosted a roundtable discussion of Mark Noll’s new book, “America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911,” which examines the Bible in American History from the Revolutionary war to WWI. Discussion Participants: Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania) Grant Wacker (Duke University) Dennis Dickerson (Vanderbilt University) Gary … Read more
Visualizing Countryside: Syriac Orthodox Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia is a digital archive of photographs of medieval churches and monasteries in the Tur Abdin region in northern Mesopotamia (modern day south-east Turkey). It includes images of buildings, decorations, architectural details, and landscapes. Although most of the buildings photographed were built in the medieval era (roughly from … Read more
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS documentary, The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, plus its accompanying Penguin Press book, reached an unprecedentedly large audience as it surveyed three-plus centuries of African American and American religious history across the whole of the nation. In this roundtable discussion, five distinguished scholars reflect on … Read more
This roundtable discussion of Jon Butler’s God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan took place on January 13, 2021. The book forum was part of a series of virtual History Book Club gatherings co-hosted by the University of Minnesota History Department and the American Society of Church History. Check out the recorded … Read more
African American Catholics of the United States contains over 200 images of African American clergy, religious, and laity, plus others in ministry to them, in parishes and schools, religious communities, and lay organizations since 1900. Archives staff selected the images from the records of the Black and Indian Mission Collection, the Catholic Negro-American Mission Board, and … Read more
Collection of digitized photographs from four smaller collections, taken by Catholic missionaries to Native groups, searchable together or individually.