Transformations: Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures

A conference at the Clark Library, September 30 - October 1 , 2005
Arranged by Lorna Clymer, California State University, Bakersfield

Friday, September 30
9:30 A.M.	Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Welcome Lorna Clymer, California State University, Bakersfield Session One Isabel Rivers, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London William Law and Religious Revival Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University Calvinism for Dummies: How-to Books and the Arts of Theology J. Paul Hunter, University of Chicago / University of Virginia From Intention to Rhetoric and Back: How Do You Spell Belief
1:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Session Two Chris Mounsey, University College, Winchester Indifferent Ceremonies: Anglican and Dissenting Religious Services Susan Staves, Brandeis University Jephtha’s Vow Reconsidered: Biblical Scholars, Theologians, Musicians, and Other Intellectuals
4:30 P.M.	Reception

Saturday, October 1
9:30 A.M	Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Session Three Lowell Gallagher, UCLA Looking for Lot’s Wife: The Structure of Testimony in the Painted Life of Mary Ward Heather James, University of Southern California Metamorphoses of Faith in the Renaissance Ovid Peter McCullough, Lincoln College, Oxford University Lancelot Andrewes’s Transforming Passions
1:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Session Four Debora Shuger, UCLA Identity over Time: Narrative, Penance, and the Law John Sitter, University of Notre Dame Marian Musings: Blessed Virgins in Eighteenth-Century Poetry