Religion in the American West at the AHA

For anyone who is going to be in Boston at the AHA/ASCH next weekend, there are quite a few sessions on religion (some of them listed here and here over at Religion and American History). The list also includes this one, featuring several members of our seminar:

Why Study Religion in the American West?

AHA Session 218, Saturday, January 8, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, Room 311 (Hynes Convention Center)

A Western Theme to American Religious History?, David W. Wills, Amherst College

Taking the West Seriously in American Religious History, Quincy D. Newell, University of Wyoming

Borderlands Religion and the American West, Roberto Lint Sagarena, Middlebury College

Sacred but Not Religious: Finding Religion in the West and the West in Religion, James B. Bennett, Santa Clara University

Getting Religion: New Themes for the Study of the American West, Tisa J. Wenger, Yale University