January 2025 at the Academe
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
This class will look at the religious landscape of the Georgian and Regency periods (an over of the 18th and early 19th centuries) and the multitude of ways in which religion formed a part of every day life. This course will focus on Christianity as the state religion and will give an overview of Church History in the period. It will present not only an overview of the Church of England but of the various Dissenting groups and theologies which came to prominence in the period, including Methodism, Unitarianism and Millenarian Apocalyptic theology.
The course will also look at the ways in which religion inflected on every day life with sessions on religion and education, the role of women in religious organizations and the way that sex and theology were intertwined with a focus on queer theology for those writing or interested in writing queer romance and understanding the ideological conditions of the time.
The course will offer a rich picture of the diverse religious tapestry of the period, uncovering some of the strange, wonderful and influential factors that are often lost to history: from women giving birth to rabbits to abolitionary movements. The course will also use examples from contemporary fiction and writings to show how these realities were reflected in books written at the time.
Registration closes January 13, 2025
If you’re curious about self-publishing but are not sure where to start, this is the course for you. It will also be valuable to those who traditionally publish as very successful authors now frequently mix and match publishing routes and indie (self-published) authors are often very good at marketing, so this course will give you with important questions you can ask of your publisher, so you can continue to traditionally publish but with an ‘indie mindset’.
Registration closes January 21, 2025