Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
WSRP Research Associate 1998-1999
Research Project
Rational Measures: Gender, Race and Reason in the Eighteenth Century South
This project examines the way reason came to be prized (over revelation, emotion, and passion) as Enlightenment critics sought to discredit both enthusiastic sects and their principle southern adherents: white women and blacks.
Course
HDS 2385: Charisma, Enthusiasm, and Mysticism: Women and Religious Defiance in American History (Fall 1998)
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