{"id":3606,"date":"2009-06-07T22:53:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T03:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2009-06-08T07:23:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T12:23:34","slug":"published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=3606","title":{"rendered":"Published (almost)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The preliminary edition of Liberal Pilgrims: Varieties of Liberal Religious Experience in New Bedford<\/em> is now up on lulu.com. I call it a “preliminary edition” because I’ve never worked with lulu.com before, and I want to see a physical copy of the book before I decide it’s really OK. I’ll let you know when it’s really ready for release<\/p>\n

The back cover copy reads: <\/p>\n

Here are the stories of real-life religious liberals from New Bedford, Massachusetts. These liberal pilgrims have seen the world from different perspectives, using different symbols, language, and actions to express their religion, as they move onwards in their pilgrimages through life. Some of these liberal pilgrims often got lost or confused in their pilgrimages, but they also sometimes found new and exciting paths to follow. These stories from the past challenge those of us who are liberal pilgrims in the present day to seek out our own new and exciting paths to follow.<\/p>\n

Some of the stories in this book have never been told before. There’s the story of Rev. William Jackson, the first African American minister to declare himself a Unitarian, who addressed a meeting of the American Unitarian Association in New Bedford. There’s the story of North Unitarian Church, a church of immigrants, and there’s the story of Centre Church, which had been almost completely forgotten. There’s the story of Rev. John Murray Spear, Universalist and abolitionist, minister of an interracial church in the 1830s, who was driven out of New Bedford when he helped free a slave. And there’s the story of Mary Rotch, perhaps the most original Unitarian theologian to come out of New Bedford, a confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller.<\/p>\n

By hearing how these people and religious communities of the past lived out their religious ideals in their times, we learn more about our own liberal religion in the present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The preliminary edition of Liberal Pilgrims: Varieties of Liberal Religious Experience in New Bedford is now up on lulu.com. I call it a “preliminary edition” because I’ve never worked with lulu.com before, and I want to see a physical copy of the book before I decide it’s really OK. I’ll let you know when it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}