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Carol Matthews, Adjunct Faculty American Studies; Cultural History of Religion in America Email: cmatthew@usna.edu Education: Books and Manuscripts: New Religious Movements: Young Adult Reader, Chelsea House Publishing, March 2005. Taken for a Ride: Desire, Race and Colonial Expectations in American Alien Capture Stories This Comprehensive Light: The Quest for an American Revelation, a Cultural History of Sectarian Religious Texts in America
Journal Publications and Awards: Post Doctoral Fellowship at Kluge Institute through the Library of Congress: Constructions of Race and American Exceptionalism in American Sectarian Religious Texts: 1800-Present. Spring-Summer 2004. NEH Grant to participate in "Japan: Curriculum Development Integrating Eastern and Western Class Materials." Organized at Johnson Country Community College Adjunct Development Program with the Cooperation of the Asian Studies Development Program, Hawaii. Spring-Fall 2003. "Wovoka and Drew Noble Ali: Prophetic Revelation, Trans-Identities and Anti-nationalism." in W Burszta, T Kamusella, S Wojciechowski, eds. Nationalism Across the Globe. Pznan, Poland: Wyzsza Szkola Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikwarstwa. March 2005. "The Master Race and the Family of Light: Conflict Spiritual Purification and Bio-Political Agendas in Hurtak's 'Key of Knowledge.'" Cyberproceedings, July 2004. www.cesnur.org "The Plate in My Head is a Government Plot: Visions of the Eschaton in UFO Conspiracy Theory," published/archived online at Journal of Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University, February 2000. www.mille.org "Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism," in Alternative Religions in America. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995.
Papers/Presentations in Progress: "Cosmology, Esoteric Ascension and Temporal Alchemy in J.J. Hurtak's Pistis Sophia," AAR Conference, November 2006, Washington DC. "Marketplace Encounters: Tarot, Chart Casting and Identity Momenets at a New Age Bookstore," submitted Nova Religios. "From Theory to Copnversation: Notes of a Defector," submitted PCA journal Spring 2007.
Significant Conference Presentations: Association for the Study of Esotericism, "Esoteric Ascension and Temporal Alchemy in J.J. Hurtak's Pistis Sophia, Sacramento, CA, June 2006. Society for the Historical Study of Curriculum, "The 'Matter' with Kansas: Alternate Readings of the ID/Evolution Debate," San Francisco, CA, April 2006. Popular Culture in America (PCA), San Diego, CA./Western Folklore Society, Eugene, OR, Paper, "At the Marketplace of Identity: Tarot Choice and Value Fulfillment." March, April 2005. American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX. Paper "Between Two Worlds: Rituals of Mythic Identity and Crisis in a New Age Bookstore Community." November 2004. Society for Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City, MO. Paper, "Authenticity, Negotiation and Community: Toward a New Model of Revelation in American Sectarian Texts." October 2004. Cesnur Conference. Baylor University, Waco, TX. Paper, "The Master Race and the Family of Light: Conflict, Spiritual Purification and Bio-Political Agendas in Hurtak's 'Key of Knowledge.'" June 2004.
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