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Hay, Mamie (Sc 2721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hay, Mamie (Sc 2721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2721. Paper titled "Historical Sketch of First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, Kentucky, 1804-May 1936" compiled by Mamie Hay.
Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 1028), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 1028), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1028. Paper written by John Quincy Burnam titled "Some Reflections and Thoughts Connected with the Baptist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky," and a 1967 letter with information about Burnam.
Martin, Grace Lee 1883-1968 (Sc 2718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Grace Lee 1883-1968 (Sc 2718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2718. Paper titled “Brief History of David’s Fork Baptist Church,” dated 1876, and transcribed by Grace Lee Martin, historian of the Bryan Station Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Lexington, Kentucky.
"Lord Keep Us Safe This Night": Religious Imagery In Depression-Era Rural Quilts, Kelsey N. Mattingly
"Lord Keep Us Safe This Night": Religious Imagery In Depression-Era Rural Quilts, Kelsey N. Mattingly
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This thesis investigates specific quilts from rural areas during the Depression era in relation to their religious imagery. Databases from the Kentucky Historical Society, International Quilt Study Center and Museum and the Quilt Index provide records of assessment. This analysis focuses on religious imagery in quilts, but I will look at the religious communities that collectively created them with a specific attention to the roles that church groups and the practice of group quilting played in their productions. I will present the resulting analysis drawn from my written work to uncover why certain quilts exhibited religious imagery where others did …
Jesus, I Trust In You: St. Thomas Aquinas' Jubilee, John A. Sohl
Jesus, I Trust In You: St. Thomas Aquinas' Jubilee, John A. Sohl
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The concept of “Life Reporting” is a completely new idea, at least in terms of how I have experienced it. In today’s world of blogs and social networking, it is essential for broadcast journalists to embrace their own lives in the same world of professional and ethical reporting. As I describe my experience of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Jubilee, I have no choice but to provide the context and build-up of this intense passion toward my overarching point. Working through all the communities of which I have been a part, from attending St. Luke Catholic Church all the way to the …
An Interpretation Of Genesis 1:1-2:3 In Light Of Ancient Near Eastern Traditions And Modern-Day Science, Rebecca J. Morgan
An Interpretation Of Genesis 1:1-2:3 In Light Of Ancient Near Eastern Traditions And Modern-Day Science, Rebecca J. Morgan
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
In the fields of religion and science, people seek to comprehend the world in which they live. According to the Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the universe and all its elements were created by an omniscient, omnipotent God in accordance to his holy design and purpose. This explanation, articulated in the book of Genesis, has influenced several thousand years of human history. However, the literal 24-hour days-of-creation explanation and interpretation deduced from the Genesis 1:1-2:3 creation account is contested by recent scientific discoveries as an invalid explanation for the origins of the universe and mankind. To explore the “how” and “why” questions …
Mattathias' Other Son: The Story Of The Maccabean Revolt (A Novel), Ameliah E. Given
Mattathias' Other Son: The Story Of The Maccabean Revolt (A Novel), Ameliah E. Given
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
In Jewish primary and secondary literature regarding the Maccabean Revolt, Judas, the son of the man who began the revolt, is depicted as a warrior of epic proportions. Despite a Seleucid king’s attempt to squelch out Jewish practices, Judas propelled the people to religious freedom through his military strategy and might. After his untimely death in battle, his younger brother Jonathan finally succeeded in gaining political freedom for the Jewish people. Throughout his lifetime, Jonathan’s feats of valor rivaled, if not surpassed those of his brother Judas. Despite this, Jonathan’s story and life are not given the attention they deserve. …
Burns, Rowland Tiernan, 1794-1833 (Sc 1031), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burns, Rowland Tiernan, 1794-1833 (Sc 1031), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1031. Certificate, 3 June 1822, signed by the elders of the Christian Church affirming the ordination of Rowland Burns as an elder in the Church of Christ. Includes a note relating to the Burns family and the provenance of the 1822 document.
Hodge, Iris, B. 1947 (Sc 1027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodge, Iris, B. 1947 (Sc 1027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1027. Paper titled “A History of Longview Methodist Church in Hardin County, Kentucky,” written by Iris Hodge for a Western Kentucky University history class.
Star Spangled Saints: Ritual Practices That Legitimate War And Violence In The American Church, Terry Dewayne Shoemaker
Star Spangled Saints: Ritual Practices That Legitimate War And Violence In The American Church, Terry Dewayne Shoemaker
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The objective of this research is to analyze the ways in which the conservative,
American church has been ideologically and ritualistically shaped by an imperial culture enamored with war, the military, and violence; and how those positions and practices, in effect, legitimate war and the military. While many authors have surveyed historical Christian positions regarding war and the current nationalistic tendencies of conservative Christians, little research has been conducted to assess the effects of violence, nationalism, patriotism, and military enchantment on Christian rituals, practices, and ethos. Within this research, I argue that contemporary, conservative Christians have surpassed previously held nuanced …
Went Off To The Shakers: The First Converts Of South Union, William R. Black
Went Off To The Shakers: The First Converts Of South Union, William R. Black
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In 1807 the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Shakers)
established a society near the Gasper River in Logan County, Kentucky. The society was soon named South Union, and it lasted until 1922, the longest-lasting Shaker community west of the Appalachians. Most of the first Shaker converts in Logan County had only a few years beforehand participated in a series of evangelical Presbyterian camp meetings known collectively as the Kentucky Revival, the Revival of 1800, or the Great Revival.Though Presbyterian revivalism and Shakerism shared certain characteristics (particularl millennialism and enthusiastic forms of worship), there were many differences between …
When God Dies: Deconversion From Theism As Analogous To The Experience Of Death, William David Simpson
When God Dies: Deconversion From Theism As Analogous To The Experience Of Death, William David Simpson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In this thesis, I explore the psychological and experiential aspects of the shift from a supernatural theistic worldview (specifically born-again Christianity) to a
philosophically naturalistic and atheistic worldview in the context of the religious
landscape in the U.S. I posit that certain features of this transition, which is known as "deconversion,” can be thought of as potentially analogous, both psychologically and subjectively, to the experience of another's death as an objective environmental change. I provide anthropological and psychological evidence that believers often experience the God of born-again Christianity as an independently existing and active agent in the world. The similarities …
Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 942. Compilation of papers titled “History of the Churches of Bowling Green, KY.,” by Sallie Atkins McElroy, which includes data about Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Church of Christ, Church of God, Episcopal, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Seventh-Day Adventist churches.
South Union Messenger (Spring 2013), Kentucky Library Research Collections
South Union Messenger (Spring 2013), Kentucky Library Research Collections
South Union Messenger
No abstract provided.
Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 982. Affectionate letters from her sons to Evelyn Page of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1905, 1913; letter regarding son Foster Page’s religious conversion; letter discussing rural life; and invitation to an egg fair, 1895.
Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 981. Receipts, marriage records, and notes collected by William C. Skaggs of Edmonson County, Kentucky.
Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 700. Minutes of the 18th annual meeting of the Gasper River Bible Society of the Baptist Church, held at Salem meeting house, Butler County, Kentucky in August 1856.
Burke, Harry Taylor, 1909-2011 (Sc 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burke, Harry Taylor, 1909-2011 (Sc 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 992. Presentation by Harry Taylor Burke, at Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to the devastation of the Philippines by the Japanese during World War II, and especially to the Episcopal church building. Burke had preciously been minister at the Bowling Green church. Includes letter about the paper, 1995.
Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan representative of material in the collection (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 670. Correspondence of Miss Estella T. Weeks of Washington, D.C., with Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to Weeks’s research on the Shakers and the holdings of Shaker material in the Kentucky Library.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Compiler (Sc 898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 898. Research notes from journals of the South Union, Kentucky, Shakers concerning entries about trees and plants, compiled by Shaker historian Mary Julia Neal.
Baptists - Hart & Larue Counties, Kentucky (Sc 907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baptists - Hart & Larue Counties, Kentucky (Sc 907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 907. Church papers consisting of 1825 constitution of the Boiling Springs United Baptist Church, Hart County, listing founding members; a history of the Boiling Springs church,1825-1865; request of Bethabara (?) Baptist Church, Hart County, for ordination assistance, 1877; letter of dismissal given by Oak Hill Baptist Church, Larue County, Kentucky, to James Brooks, 1886.
Davis, Andrew Pickens, 1797-1881 (Sc 878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Andrew Pickens, 1797-1881 (Sc 878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 878. Recommendation letter for Andrew P. Davis, 1872; biographical sketch and letters, 1930, (2) about Davis and his work as a Church of Christ minister, especially in Butler County, Kentucky.
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”
Adairville Methodist Episcopal Sunday School - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 823), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Adairville Methodist Episcopal Sunday School - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 823), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 823. Record book of the Adairville Methodist Episcopal Sunday School, Logan County, Kentucky, 1886-1888. Volume includes Adairville Lodge Number 301 of the Independent Order of the Good Templar minutes, November 1884 to September 1885 and related records.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 816. Photocopies of letters, 1849-1881 (12); agreement to place children with the Shakers, 1812; school merit awards, n.d. (4); and business receipts, etc., 1810-1879 (15). Also, letters regarding collection, 1984, n.d. (2).
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscriprs Small Collection 725. Original and photocopies of diary detailing an eastern trip taken to visit Shaker societies in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts by Elder John Rankin, Brother Urban Johns, Eldress Betsy Smith and Sister Nancy E. Moore of South Union, Kentucky. Probably written by Eldress Betsy Smith.
Shannon, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1895 (Sc 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shannon, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1895 (Sc 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 561. Journal of a voyage from South Union, Kentucky to New Orleans, Louisiana, which was kept by Thomas Jefferson Shannon, a selling agent for and a member of the South Union Colony of Shakers. The pagination refers to the typed copy of the journal which is also indexed mainly by names and places.
Grace Episcopal Church - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grace Episcopal Church - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 813. Parochial report submitted to the 61st Annual Council by John W. Venable, minister. Membership statistics, contributions, and remarks are noted on the report.
Sloan, Melissa Jean, B. 1965? (Sc 791), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sloan, Melissa Jean, B. 1965? (Sc 791), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 791. Paper entitled “The Amish Way of Life,” written by Melissa Jean Sloan for a Kentucky History class at Western Kentucky University, 31 March 1986.
Dean, Sophia Leona, 1855-1948 (Sc 788), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dean, Sophia Leona, 1855-1948 (Sc 788), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 788. Letters, 1934-1941 (7), cards (2), and photos (5), chiefly from Mormon missionaries to Sophia Leona Dean, Bowling Green, Kentucky.