Richard A. Bailey
Richard earned his Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Kentucky. In his dissertation, "A World of Contradiction: Race and Redemption in Puritan New England," he concentrated on the development of racial identities in colonial New England, paying specific attention to the influence of religion and religious convictions on the development of the construct of "race." He is the co-editor of The Salvation of Souls: Nine Previously Unpublished Sermons on the Call of the Ministry and the Gospel by Jonathan Edwards (Crossway Books, 2002). Additionally, Richard has spoken at numerous academic conferences and has contributed articles to several journals, books, and magazines, including "Devoted Disciplinarian" (Christian History, Winter 2003) and "Driven by Passion: Jonathan Edwards and the Art of Preaching," in The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition, eds., D. G. Hart, Sean Michael Lucas, Stephen J. Nichols (Baker Books, 2003). Both The Salvation of Souls and The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards may be purchased from Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com. Of course, you should feel free (even obligated) to ask your favorite local book stores to keep these books on their shelves.
Dissertation Title
A World of Contradiction: "Race" and Redemption in Puritan New England.
Selected Conferences
"Unruly Slaves, Uneasy Masters, and Unmerited Favor: Wielding Discipline, Wrestling with Conscience, and the Construction of Race in Puritan New England," New England Slavery and the Slave Trade, Boston, Massachusetts, 22 April 2004. ***Audio Web Cast ***
"Jonathan Edwards in Black and White and Red: Race and Redemption in the City on a Hill," Panel Discussion of the Jonathan Edwards Study Group on the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Church and the Academy, Evangelical Theological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 21 November 2003.
"From Goddess of Love to Unloved Wife: Naming Slaves and Redeeming Masters in Eighteenth-Century New England," Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Slavery/Antislavery in New England, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 22 June 2003.
"Heralding the Bad News: The Social Gospel, Reform, and Conservatism in the Progressive Era," American Society of Church History, Spring Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, 10 May 2003.
"Religion Considered as a Profane Movement: Peering into the Haze of History with Harry Stout," Annual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Huntington, Indiana, 12 October 2002 .
Recommended Sites
Etcetera Whatever (Richard's Blog)
Works of Jonathan Edwards Project, Yale University
Recommended Reads
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries on Slavery in North America (Harvard Press, 1998).
Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (UNC Press, 1998).
Joseph A. Conforti, Samuel Hopkins & the New Divinity Movement (Christian University Press, 1981).
Bruce Dain, A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (Harvard Press, 2002).
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Vintage, 1975).
Richard Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America (Johns Hopkins, 2002).
Barry Hankins, Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptists and American Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2002).
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (Knopf, 1997).
Kathi Kern, Mrs. Stanton's Bible (Cornell Press, 2001).
Frank Lambert, Inventing the "Great Awakening" (Princeton Press, 1999).
Gerald S. McDermott, Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (Oxford Press, 2000).
George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale University Press, 2004).
Joanne P. Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860 (Cornell Press, 1998 ).
Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (Norton, 1975).
Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (Knopf, 2002).
John Saillant, Black Puritan, Black Republic an: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 (Oxford Press, 2003).
Beth Barton Schweiger, The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia (Oxford Press, 2000).
Timothy L. Smith, Revivalism & Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War (Johns Hopkins, 1980).
Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau, In the Shadow of the Virgin: Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain (Princeton Press, 2003).
Harry S. Stout, The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Eerdmans, 1991).
Harry S. Stout, The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (Oxford Press, 1986).
Douglas A. Sweeney, Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford Press, 2003).
Peter J. Thuesen, In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible (Oxford Press, 1999).
E.P. Thompson, The making of the English working class (Vintage, 1966).
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (Vintage, 1991).
Gregory A. Wills, Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (Oxford Press, 1997).