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Review of Hancock's Convulsed States

Earlier this year, I reviewed Jonathan Todd Hancock’s fascinating new book on the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811, Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021). A great read—essential scholarship for historians of religion in the early American republic. Here’s my review in the Journal of Church and State 64 (2022): 354–356.