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Item Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2011-04-08) Goff, Philip; Farnsley II, Arthur E.; Wheeler, Rachel; Thuesen, Peter J.The NEH Summer Institute for Teachers will support the studies of twenty-five talented teachers from across the nation as they join with nationally renowned scholars to explore how religion has shaped, and been shaped by, the American experience. The institute directors, Philip Goff, Arthur Farnsley, and Rachel Wheeler, are all noted scholars in their field, whose work encompasses a wide range of subject matter and methodologies. The institute will enable participants from many different fields to develop new materials on American religion that can be incorporated into their current curricula. An English teacher introducing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, for instance, will be better prepared to discuss the nexus of religion and race in the context of nineteenth-century America. A civics teacher focusing on the origins of the American government will be able to incorporate discussion about the religion of the founders and the ways in which the First Amendment has shaped American society. The prime goal of The Bible in American Life project is to gain insight for clergy and scholars on Bible-reading as a religious practice. We are particularly interested in how people use the Bible in their personal lives, how religious communities and even the internet shape individuals’ comprehension of scripture, and how individual and communal understandings of scripture influence American public life. Employing both quantitative methods (the General Social Survey and a local survey) and qualitative research (focus-group interviews, historical analysis, and other means), we hope to provide an unprecedented perspective on the Bible’s role outside the context of worship, in the lived religion of a broad cross-section of Americans both now and in the past. Such data will be invaluable to clergy and seminar professors seeking more effective ways to teach and preach scripture in an age saturated with information and technology. The results of the project also will help scholars seeking to understand recent changes in American Christianity.Item Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture NEH Summer Institute for Teachers July 12-30, 2010(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2010-04-09) Goff, Philip; Farnsley II, Arthur E.; Wheeler, RachelThis institute will support the studies of twenty-five talented teachers from across the nation as they join with nationally renowned scholars to explore how religion has shaped, and been shaped by, the American experience. The institute directors, Philip Goff, Arthur Farnsley, and Rachel Wheeler, are all noted scholars in their field, whose work encompasses a wide range of subject matter and methodologies. The institute will enable participants from many different fields to develop new materials on American religion that can be incorporated into their current curricula. An English teacher introducing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, for instance, will be better prepared to discuss the nexus of religion and race in the context of nineteenth-century America. A civics teacher focusing on the origins of the American government will be able to incorporate discussion about the religion of the founders and the ways in which the First Amendment has shaped American society.Item Charlottesville, Exodus, and the Politics of Nostalgia(2017-08-22) Wheeler, RachelItem COVID CV: A System for Creating Holistic Academic CVs during a Global Pandemic(IEEE, 2021-05) Raja, Umesh; Chowdhury, Nahida Sultana; Raje, Rajeev R.; Wheeler, Rachel; Williams, Jane; Ganci, Aaron; Computer and Information Science, School of ScienceThe effects of the Covid pandemic have been, similar to the population at-large, unequal on academicians - some groups have been more susceptible than others. Traditional CVs are inadequate to highlight these imbalances. CovidCV is a framework for academicians that allows them to document their life in a holistic way during the pandemic. It creates a color-coded CV from the user's data entries documenting the work and home life and categorizing corresponding events as good or bad. It, thus, provides a visual representation of an academician's life during the current pandemic. The user can mark any event as major or minor indicating the impact of the event on their life. The CovidCV prototypical system is developed using a three tier architecture. The first tier, the front-end, is a user interface layer that is a web application. This prototype has a back-end layer consisting of two tiers which are responsible for handling the business logic and the data management respectively. The CovidCV system design is described in this paper. A preliminary experimentation with the prototype highlights the usefulness of CovidCV.Item Early American Music and the Construction of Race(University of California Press, 2021-12) Barnes, Rhae L.; Goodman, Glenda; Gordon, Bonnie; Ryan, Maria; Bailey, Candace; Garcia, David F.; Ramsey, Guthrie P., Jr.; Marshall, Caitlin; Eyerly, Sarah; Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal ArtsItem The left needs its own story of American greatness(Washington Post, 2018-10-17) Wheeler, RachelItem Lessons from Stockbridge: Jonathan Edwards and the Stockbridge Indians(University Press of America, 2005) Wheeler, RachelItem On an Eighteenth-Century Trail of Tears The Travel Diary of Johann Jacob Schmick of the Moravian Indian Congregation’s Journey to the Susquehanna, 1765(2015) Wheeler, Rachel; Hahn-Bruckart, Thomas; Department of Religious Studies, School of Liberal ArtsThis piece is a translation of a travel journal kept by missionary Johann Jacob Schmick as he traveled with the Moravian Indian congregation from Philadelphia to the Susquehanna in 1765. The community of mostly Delaware and Mohican Indians had been living under armed guard at the Philadelphia Barracks following the violence instigated by Pontiac’s Revolt and the Paxton Boys uprising. The community’s settlement on the Susquehanna marked a new model of Moravian mission and serves as an early example of Indian removal, particularly noteworthy in this instance because the community was composed of Christian Indians.Item Religious Dimensions of Pandemics(School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI, 2020) Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal ArtsItem Review of A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Nancy Shoemaker (New York, Oxford University Press, 2004) 211 pp.(MIT Press, 2005) Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal ArtsShoemaker’s A Strange Likeness is the latest contribution to a growing field of study devoted to tracing the development of racially oriented identities (in this case, “red” and “white” rather than “black” and “white”) in early America. This short and eminently readable book surveys the landscape of the British colonies during the eighteenth century, exploring how Lenape, Iroquois, Creek, and many others all came to be “red” and the English, Irish, German, etc., came to be “white.” Shoemaker’s main task is to demonstrate how cultural differences perceived by American native inhabitants and European newcomers gradually came to be understood as symbolic or representative of essential differences. By the end of the eighteenth century, “white” and “red” people were presumed to be shaped and motivated by essential characteristics of their “race.”