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About Ryan Shelton
Ryan David Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast. His research looks for the connections between the world of ideas and how they are lived out in communities of people. He is especially interested in books about the origins of British and American evangelicalism, the English Reformation, Christian eschatology, and public worship.Your host, Ryan Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ryan:
February 9, 2023
T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology
The T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology (T&T Clark, 2020) is a ground-breaking volume that gathers together the voices of veteran theologia…
February 8, 2023
America and the Making of an Independent Ireland
On Easter Day 1916, more than a thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the General Post Office building and reading the Proclamation fo…
November 25, 2022
Ringleaders of Redemption
In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages.…
November 16, 2022
Creationism USA
Who are America's creationists? What do they want? Why do they think Jesus rode around on a dinosaur? In Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teac…
November 11, 2022
New Light on the Old Colony
Jeremy Duperteis Bangs, a leading expert in the history of the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony, overturns stereotypes with exciting new analyses of co…
November 9, 2022
Sermons That Sing
Can concepts drawn from music theory help us to understand homiletics, the study of preaching? In Sermons that Sing: Music and the Practice of Preachi…
November 8, 2022
T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology
The T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology, edited by Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long (T&T Clark: 2020), provides a wide-ranging survey and analysis …
October 25, 2022
Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
Modern imagination of the Puritans typically casts them in a repressive, conservative light. But that wasn't always the case. Abolitionist activists i…
October 17, 2022
Accidental Pluralism
Origin stories of the United States often highlight religious freedom as a foundational pillar of the earliest English settlers. But Evan Haefeli tell…
September 14, 2022
Restless Devices
We're being formed by our devices. Unpacking the soft tyranny of the digital age, Felicia Wu Song combines insights from psychology, neuroscience, soc…
December 23, 2021
The Strange Genius of Mr. O.
The Strange Genius of Mr. O.: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and…
December 13, 2021
When Did Eve Sin?
There's a small discrepancy between the divine proscription against forbidden fruit in Genesis 2 and Eve's re-telling of that prohibition to the serpe…
December 7, 2021
The Library
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf a…
July 27, 2021
The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England
After over a decade of king-less government, civil war, and political and religious revolution, the restoration of the Stuart monarchy created a compl…
July 27, 2021
The Bookshop of the World
After a turbulent political revolt against the military superpower of the early modern world, the tiny Dutch Republic managed to situate itself as the…
July 23, 2021
Derry City
The city that sits on the River Foyle on the North side of the Irish isle in many ways has stood as a microcosm of the conflicts in Northern Ireland, …
June 14, 2021
The Trials of Thomas Morton
Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of char…
June 11, 2021
A History of American Puritan Literature
A new approach to puritan studies has been emerging in recent decades, but until now, no single volume has tried to gather in a comprehensive way the …
June 8, 2021
Shaping the Stranger Churches
During the mid-sixteenth century, English reformers invited a group of continental Protestant refugees to London and surrounding provinces. The eccles…
June 2, 2021
When Novels Were Books
For most of the eighteenth century, the format, size, and price of the earliest novels meant that they would have been sold and bought alongside Prote…
May 24, 2021
Hot Protestants
The English Reformation started in the middle of the sixteenth century, and right away there were more zealous reformers who were not satisfied with t…
May 21, 2021
Calvin and the Resignification of the World
John Calvin's 1559 Institutes takes the reader on a journey that ends not in the celestial city but rather an ordinary, terrestrial city with all the …
May 6, 2021
As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool that …
May 6, 2021
The Common School Awakening
The origins of American public schools can help shed light on continued contemporary discussions around religion and education in American discourse. …