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KEMENY PRESENTS PAPER AT LONDON CONFERENCE |
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July 21, 2011
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Dr. Paul C. Kemeny, professor of biblical and religious studies and humanities at Grove City College, presented a paper at “The Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion & Literature,” a conference held at London Notre Dame Centre in the United Kingdom on July 14-16. The conference brought together a wide variety of scholars to explore and discuss religion and literature.
Kemeny’s paper, “The New England Society for the Suppression of Vice and the 1882 Banning of Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’: Defining the Terms of Protestant Toleration in Late Nineteenth-Century New England,” draws upon historical, literary and theological studies to discover how and why Protestant anti-vice activists possessed the cultural power to enforce their attitudes toward sexuality, marriage and literature.
Kemeny participated in seminar five of the conference, which aimed to dissect religion, pluralism and secularism in American literature.
To learn more about “The Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion & Literature” conference, visit www.hospitabletext.org.
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