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Catherine Brekus is Professor of Religions in America and the History of Christianity in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where she is also associate faculty in the History Department. Brekus' work is centered on American religious history, especially the religious history of women, focusing on the evangelical Protestant tradition.
Brekus' works have included a history of female preaching in America, entitled Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740 – 1845 and a history of early evangelicalism based on a woman's diaries, entitled Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise of Evangelicalism in Early America. She has also edited volumes on The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past and, with W. Clark Gilpin, American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity. She has been involved in efforts to reprise women's role within American religious history, organizing the first conference on the topic in America in 2003.
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