![]() ![]() Each presenter had a distinctly different set of comments. As mentioned, there were five responses today to Raboteau's work. In all, it was a great day in Chicago, and we all have Phil Goff to thank for putting the session together.įor anyone's interest, I'm pasting in my commentary below. Professor Raboteau responded, characteristically thoughtfully and incisively, at the end, and the audience provided excellent questions and commentary. Younger, middle-aged (that would be me), and older scholars were represented. 5 panelists (including myself) were privileged to be able to reflect on the life and influence of Raboteau's classic work. Nonetheless, everyone present made it a great event, and I was thankful to be present and a participant. The Hilton Hotel provided us a malfunctioning microphone and a room about as unfriendly to dialogue as possible. I had the same warm feeling today at the session for the 30th anniversary of Albert Raboteau's Slave Religion: The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South.Of course, anyone who knows this field will recognize that this is one of the seminal works in all of American religious history, its influence reaching down through (by now) generations of scholars. My friend Lauren Winner and others organized this wonderful event. Some years ago, several folks helped to organize a tribute to Donald Mathews's classic work Religion in the Old South at the 2002 SHA, on the 25th anniversary of its publication. ![]()
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