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Seth Perry

Assistant Professor of Religion in the Americas, Princeton University

Seth Perry joined the Princeton faculty in 2014, having taught previously at the University of Washington and Indiana University. He is interested in American religious history, with a particular focus on print culture and the creation of religious authority. Perry’s most recent work includes “The Many Bibles of Joseph Smith: Textual, Prophetic, and Scholarly Authority in Early-National Bible Culture,” in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Perry’s current book projects include "Abandoned Quarries: Bibles and Authority in Early-National America," which explores the performative, rhetorical, and material aspects of bible-based authority in early-national America, and a biography of Lorenzo Dow, the early-national period’s most famous itinerant preacher (his article on Dow appeared in early 2015). Perry’s work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Common-place, and the LA Review of Books. He very occasionally posts at The Junto (earlyamericanists.com). Perry was a Mellon Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early-American Studies in 2011-12.

January 27, 2017

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