Texas A&M professor discusses early American religions at Elizabethtown College Oct. 19

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Katherine Carte Engel

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (10/01/2010)(readMedia)-- Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies hosts "German Pietists in a British Atlantic World" with Katherine Carté Engel. Engel, an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, speaks at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the Young Center's Bucher Meetinghouse.

In the lecture, Engel will touch on the movement of Continental Germans to North America during the early modern era. At the time, German Pietists and other groups made the British colonies in America one of the most diverse places in the world. Engel also will discuss the difficulties these communities faced during the American Revolution and how their decisions affected the new "American" religious environment.

As a professor, Engel's concentration is early American religious history. Her current studies focus on the international Protestant community during the American Revolution. Engel also has published a number of articles and book reviews in scholarly books and journals including "Early American Studies" series and "1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries," and she received the 2010 Dale W. Brown Book Award, presented by the Young Center, for "Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America."

The Dale W. Brown Book Award, a national award that recognizes an outstanding book in Anabaptist and Pietist studies, was named for a long-time Brethren scholar and retired Bethany Seminary professor who previously served as a fellow at the Young Center. Nominations for the 2011 book award are due Dec.10. Visit HERE for details.

Following the lecture, which is free and open to the public, Engel is available to sign copies of the book, which will be for sale at the lecture.

Contact: Stephen Scott, 717-361-1470.

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