Narrative Arcs and Scholarly Nerve

DAVID F. HOLLAND {dholland@hds.harvard.edu} is associate professor of North American religion history at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America (New York: Oxford University Pres, 2011) and has published a number of other articles and essays in such publications as Law and History Review and Gender and History. He is currently at work on a comparative study of Ellen Gould White (a founder of Seventh-day Adventism) and Mary Baker Eddy (the founder of Christian Science).