George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)
Lincoln A. Mullen (Project Director: July 2018 to present)
John G. Turner (Co Project Director: May 2019 to present)
PW-264050-19
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products][Media coverage]
Totals:
$349,971 (approved)
$349,944 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2019 – 4/30/2023
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Mapping American Religious Ecologies
Digitization of 1926 United States
Census of Religious Bodies schedules, creation of a spatial dataset, selective
and crowdsourced transcription, and creation of maps and visualizations using
the records.
This project will transform the
1926 U.S. Census of Religious Bodies, which has individual schedules for
232,154 congregations, into a spatial dataset. That collection is the only
federal census with extant schedules, but it is unusable by researchers because
it is not digitized, searchable, or transcribed. We will digitize the
schedules, make those records freely searchable and browsable online, create an
Omeka module to transcribe them into a dataset, transcribe a representative
selection and open the remainder to crowdsourcing, and create maps and
visualizations that contextualize the records. The result will be the single
most detailed and comprehensive spatial dataset for American religion, useable
by scholars in history and religious studies, by local historians, and by the
public.
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