Books by Susan Juster

From the staged debates over religious enthusiasm to the earnest offerings of ordinary men and women to speak to and for God, Doomsayers shows that the contest between prophets and their critics for the allegiance of the reading public was part of a broader recalibration of the norms and values of civic discourse in the age of revolution.

Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violence-blood sacrifice, holy war, malediction, and iconoclasm-to uncover how European traditions of ritual violence developed during the Reformation were introduced and ultimately transformed in the New World.

Juster shows how a common view of masculinity and femininity shaped both radical religious and revolutionary politics in post-revolutionary America.