American Religious History in My Backyard

Acknowledging that religious history is often personal, local, community-based, and ubiquitous, we initiated a pilot project call ARHIMBY (American Religious History In My Backyard), best described as crowdsourced and proximate religious history in the United States.

The picture above is of our first post, documenting a stone marker in Lincoln, Virginia where in the 1700s a Quaker named Hannah Janney “worshiped twice weekly on a log in the unbroken forest.” Thus began a religious community that still exists today.

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We invite people from every walk of life and in every part of the nation to take their own videos of some proximate religious history, which can include personal religious history, and send to us at [email protected]. We will then archive and post it. The videos must be 40s or less and be accompanied by a short description and the location.

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