{"id":1915,"date":"2017-10-16T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2017-11-01T20:51:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:51:13","slug":"fall-lecture-religious-faith-and-seafaring-in-early-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/16\/fall-lecture-religious-faith-and-seafaring-in-early-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Lecture : Religious Faith and Seafaring in Early America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November 5, 2017<br \/>\nDobbs Ferry Public Library<br \/>\n2 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, Laura Chmielewski will explore intersections of religious faith and\u00a0maritime enterprise in early America. The religious habits of merchants, seafarers, and\u00a0traveling people of faith inflected their lives in a variety of ways that impacted trade\u00a0practices, shipboard relationships, and even pastimes and hobbies.<\/p>\n<p>We will explore the spaces and places of their religious activity and how ships and cities\u00a0became the most powerful engines of religious coexistence and diversity in early America.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Laura M. Chmielewski is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York at\u00a0Purchase. She is the author of \u201cThe Spice of Popery: Converging Christianities on an Early\u00a0American Frontier\u201d; \u201cThe Atlantic Experience: Peoples, Places, Ideas\u201d (with Catherine M.\u00a0Armstrong) and \u201cJacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet: Exploration, Encounter and the French\u00a0New World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free and all are welcome.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1937\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1937\" src=\"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert_Walter_Weir_-_Embarkation_of_the_Pilgrims-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert_Walter_Weir_-_Embarkation_of_the_Pilgrims-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert_Walter_Weir_-_Embarkation_of_the_Pilgrims-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert_Walter_Weir_-_Embarkation_of_the_Pilgrims-768x510.jpg 768w, http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert_Walter_Weir_-_Embarkation_of_the_Pilgrims-800x531.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Embarkation of the Pilgrims, by Robert Walter Weir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 5, 2017 Dobbs Ferry Public Library 2 p.m. In this presentation, Laura Chmielewski will explore intersections of religious faith and\u00a0maritime enterprise in early America. The religious habits of merchants, seafarers, and\u00a0traveling people of faith inflected their lives in a variety of ways that impacted trade\u00a0practices, shipboard relationships, and even pastimes and hobbies. We will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/16\/fall-lecture-religious-faith-and-seafaring-in-early-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall Lecture : Religious Faith and Seafaring in Early America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dobbsferryhistory.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}