Participant Info
- First Name
- Cynthia
- Last Name
- Aalders
- Country
- Canada
- State
- caalders@regent-college.edu
- Affiliation
- Regent College
- Website URL
- https://www.regent-college.edu/faculty/full-time/cindy-aalders
- Keywords
- eighteenth-century religious history, women's and gender history, letters and diaries, children and religion
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Cindy Aalders is Director of the John Richard Allison Library and Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity. She recently completed doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where her research focused on the spiritual lives and manuscript cultures of eighteenth-century British women. Her doctoral thesis is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. In additional to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the author of To Express the Ineffable: The Hymns and Spirituality of Anne Steele. Her current research explores the religious lives of eighteenth-century children.
- Recent Publications
“‘Serious Books’ and ‘Excellent Meditations’: Recovering Religion in the Reading of Catherine Talbot,”Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 41, no. 2 (2018), 211—23.
“Faith, Family, and Memory in the Diaries of Jane Attwater, 1766—1834,” in Pelagia Goulimari (ed.), Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future (Routledge, 2017), 153—62.
“And a Little Child Shall Lead Them: Children as Spiritual Guides in Eighteenth-Century England,” Crux 52, no. 2 (2016): 23—34.
“Your journal, my love’: Constructing Personal and Religious Bonds in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Diaries,” Journal of Religious History 39, no.3 (2015): 386—98.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Britain
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, England, North America, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Children & Youth, Family, Gender, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Religion, Women
