Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University. She received her PhD in history of Christianity from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her research and teaching interests include religion and gender, American religious history, and popular cultural studies.
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Nineteenth-century America was rife with Protestant-fueled anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez reveals how Protestants nevertheless became surprisingly and deeply fascinated with the Virgin Mary, even as her role as a devotional figure who united Ca... SEE MORE