Research Profile

American history of religion and culture, American protestantism in the 18th and19th centuries, evangelicalism and radical liberalism (esp. transcendentalism), the relationship between religion and literature, religion in the market place, Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana

Selected Publications

Der Sündenfall der Nachahmung: Zum Problem der Mittelbarkeit im Werk Ralph Waldo Emersons

Cotton Mather and Biblia Americana—America’s First Bible Commentary” (ed. with R. Smolinski).

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