Selected Events 2007

May 31, 2007.
“Religion in the United States” was the topic of this year’s conference of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) which opened at Bochum University on May 31. Speaking at the opening, U.S. Cultural Attaché for NRW Constance Colding Jones noted that religion has always been a central, identity-shaping force in the American colonies and the United States. Professor Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, delivered the keynote lecture in which he reviewed America's post-1970 religious revival and its public-policy implications.

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Professor Ruediger Kunow, President of the German Association for American Studies


Professor Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison delivering the keynote lecture


Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies in Bochum