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Episodes tagged "Religion": 1 through 10 of 18

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  1. The New England Illuminati and late 18th Century Conspiracy Theory
    date 1799map Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniatags Religion, illuminati, secret society, Conspiracy Theory

    In Reverend John Ogden’s pamphlet, he described the Bavarian Illuminati as secret organization obsessed with destroying and undermining religion and government in the United States prior to the nineteenth century. Throughout the course of the late eighteenth century the very powerful and rich, who were extensions of the individuals in Europe, met monthly as members of “the secret Clergy.” According...

  2. The quality of life in the community of the Union Bleachery Mill in Greenville will never be achievable again for former villagers.
    date 1915 to 1940map Greenville, South Carolinatags Union Bleachery, Greenville, Religion, Community, Mill Village

    Life in the village was dictated by the back-and-forth pangs of church bell and mill whistle. The mill village of Union Bleachery was home to workers and their families and known for an abounding sense of community.  The Bleachery began with 125 workers who would spin up to 100,000 yards of cloth a day. Imperative to the survival of the community, a tight routine was established and maintained. Monday...

  3. Planter William Brisbane Becomes an Abolitionist
    date 1840map HAMILTON, Ohiotags Slavery, Religion

    W.H. Brisbane was a respected planter living outside of Charleston, South Carolina.  Upon inheritance of the family plantation and slaves, he reaped the benefits of great land and free labor.  Much like any other South Carolinian at the time, W.H. Brisbane bought into the beliefs of slavery being supported by the Bible.  He even wrote his own articles in the local newspaper about how slavery was...

  4. Impact of Religion in New England Education
    date December 2, 1851 to January 2, 1852map PLYMOUTH, Massachusettstags Educational System, Religion, Puritan Education

    In New England, the Puritans required every town to establish public schools supported by all families. After settling in the United States, the first buildings they constructed were a house of worship and a school. This exemplifies that education and religion were the two most important beliefs that the Puritans held. According to New England First Fruits, “After God… reared convenient places...

  5. Angelina Grimke and Her Secular Language of Rights
    date October 2, 1837map WORCESTER, Massachusettstags Angelina Grimke, Secularism, Anti-slavery, Religion, Women, women's rights

    In 1837, Angelina Grimke authored a series of letters to Catharine Beecher on the topic of the cultural roles of women as they relate to their social, economic, and political rights. One was reprinted in Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870 by Kathryn Sklar. In the letter retitled by Sklar as, “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex,” Grimke argues that humans have rights...

  6. Leary, Metzner, and Alpert Instruct LSD Initiates on How to Achieve a Successful “Psychedelic Session”
    date 1964map New York, New Yorktags Psychology, Counterculture, Drug Culture, Religion

    In 1964, psychologists Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert published The Psychedelic Experience, a manual intended to prepare the users of psychedelic drugs for sessions. The authors had researched the therapeutic aspects of psychedelic substances, as well as their religious possibilities. The book is heavily influenced by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, (also known as Bardo Thodol) a funerary...

  7. Teaching our Slaves to Read
    date October 8, 1862map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Education for blacks, Religion, Slavery

    “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Newspaper supports illiteracy!” This confusing fictional phrase would have been the perfect attention grabber for The Confederate Baptist, a southern newspaper that did just that.  In its second ever publication, The Confederate Baptist included a column on its front page entitled “Teaching our Slaves to Read.”  The newspaper largely served as a religious...

  8. A Former Slaveholder Finds Justification Through Religion
    date February 12, 1840map HAMILTON, Ohiotags Religion, Slavery, Abolition

    In the 1830s a young South Carolina preacher and slaveholder delivered a sermon that justified the institution of slavery in America within the realms of Christianity.  Years later, a reverend in Cincinnati gave a sermon about his endeavor to find proof of the injustices of slavery and the rightful backing of abolitionism through Christianity.  Both of these preachers were able to find justification...

  9. Singin' Billy Walker
    date 1835map SPARTANBURG, South Carolinatags Religion, music

    In a time of intense religious revival and a relatively low literacy rate, the need for easily learned music was quickly becoming necessary. Shape note singing is a type of musical notation that was used commonly throughout the rural south during the nineteenth century as a way to assist with congregational and revival hymn singing to help with just that. Ministers were becoming increasingly uneasy...

  10. An Experience of Mutual Criticism
    date 1875map MADISON, New Yorktags Religion, Utopian Societies

    Beginning in 1846 John Humphrey Noyes began to gather around him a group of “perfectionists” which would soon become the Oneida Community. This communistic, utopian society was based in the idea that true holiness came from communal living and the termination of monogamy with a focus on studying the Bible and becoming better individuals. The Oneidas believed that the second coming of Christ had...

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