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Professional and Personal Interests
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Dr. Blumhofer's research interests focus in the history
of Christianity in post-Civil War America. She is interested
in the lived religion of ordinary people and has recently
been exploring the history of Protestant hymnody.
Dr. Blumhofer enjoys cooking and working with children,
and most summers she combines these interests by cooking
at a camp for inner-city children at Brant Lake in New York's
Adirondack Mountains.
The Blumhofers are members of College Church in Wheaton.
Dr. Blumhofer is married to Edwin, and they have two sons
and a daughter.
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- Introduction to Historical Inquiry
- History of Christianity
- Reformation
- Topical seminars in American Religious History— Pentecostalism,
Puritanism, Hymnody
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- American Historical Association
- American Academy of Religion
- American Society of Church History
- Past President, Society for Pentecostal Studies
- Conference on Faith and History
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Dr. Blumhofer is writing, Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University Press and researching three nineteenth-century British hymn writers — Frances
Ridley Havergal, Cecil Frances Alexander, and Catherine Winkworth — for a book
under contract with Paulist Press.
In addition to teaching in the history department,
Dr. Blumhofer directs the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
(ISAE). Current ISAE projects include examining the changing face of American
evangelicalism (funded by the Henry Luce Foundation); exploring the ways in
which confessional traditions in the United States respond to the anti-confessionalism
that has characterized American religion (funded by the Lilly Endowment);
preparing a set of web-based resources to facilitate the teaching of Pentecostal
Studies (funded by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology
and Religion). For more information, visit the ISAE web-site at www.wheaton.edu/isae.
Dr. Blumhofer is working with the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life on the Future of American Religion Project. She is co-editor of a book on the future of American evangelicalism. She is a consulting editor for Christianity Today and The Christian
Century.
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- Blumhofer, Edith. "'Her Heart Can See': The Life and
Hymns of Fanny Crosby." Library of Religious
Biography, edited by Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, Alan
Guelzo. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2005.
- Blumhofer, Edith L. and Mark A. Noll, eds. "Singing
the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymns and Immigrant
Experience." Religion and American Culture Series,
edited by David Edwin Harrell, Wayne Flint, Edith Blumhofer.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
- Blumhofer, Edith L. "Women in Pentecostalism." Union
Seminary Quarterly Review 57 (2003): 101-122.
- Blumhofer, Edith L. "From India's Coral Strand: Pandita
Ramabai and U. S. Support for Foreign Missions" In The
Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in
North American Cultural History, edited by Daniel
H. Bays and Grant Wacker. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 2003.
- Blumhofer, Edith L., ed. Religion, Education and
the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and
American Public Life. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 2002.
- Blumhofer, Edith L., ed. Religion, Politics and the
American Experience: Reflections on Religion and American
Public Life. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
2002.
- Blumhofer, Edith L. "William H. Durham: Years of Creativity,
Years of Dissent" in Portraits of a Generation: Early
Pentecostal Leaders, edited by James R. Goff and Grant
Wacker. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002.
- Blumhofer, Edith L. The Assemblies of God Tradition:
Religious Beliefs and Healthcare Decisions. Religious
Traditions and Health Care Decisions Handbook Series,
Park Ridge, IL: Park Ridge Center, 2002.
- Blumhofer, Edith L. Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's
Sister. Library of Religious Biography, edited by
Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and Alan Guelzo. Grand Rapids:
Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1993.
- Blumhofer, Edith L. Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies
of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture. Champaign
and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
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