# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AUTHOR LYDIA WILLSKY-CIOLLO TO READ
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 11:00 am (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us on May 16th, 2026, at 11 am as author Lydia Willsky-Ciollo reads from her new book, "Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology". Willsky-Ciollo articulates how Thoreau was enmeshed in a decades-spanning project of crafting a theology of wildness. During Thoreau’s post-college years and his time at Walden Pond, he evolved from hopeful writer to observant theologian, whose primary work as a surveyor enabled his theological vocation.

In and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild.

Willsky-Ciollo skillfully guides readers through Thoreau’s writings and life as his theology emerges and evolves. The focus of Thoreau’s theology―wildness itself―centers on the divinity extant in every person and in every molecule of creation. Definitively American in its ethos, Thoreau’s theology reflects a distinctly American set of tensions: progress and tradition, wilderness and civilization, the destructive and the generative nature of work, the individual and the society, the local and the universal, and the Christian and the pluralist. While remaining critical of dogmatism and institutional rigidity, he formed his theological vision in conversation with the Christianity of his own time and place.

Ultimately, theology is an active process, and interpreting the wild experience of divine revelation is the purview of all. Thoreau left the door open to his readers, who he hoped would pick up the pen where he left off and write their own theologies of wildness.

Lydia Willsky-Ciollo is the associate professor of Religious Studies and Director of American Studies at Fairfield University. She specializes in 19th century American religious thought, especially that of New England; new religious movements; and liberal Protestant women and social reform.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/peterborough/author-lydia-willsky-ciollo-to-read/200029978371609
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 15

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Peterborough
- **state**: NH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 12 Depot Sq, Peterborough, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03458
- **lat**: 42.87631
- **long**: -71.94919
- **full address**: 12 Depot Sq, Peterborough, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03458

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- **Q**: When and where is AUTHOR LYDIA WILLSKY-CIOLLO TO READ being held?
  - **A:** AUTHOR LYDIA WILLSKY-CIOLLO TO READ takes place on Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 11:00 am to Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 11:00 am at 12 Depot Sq, Peterborough, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03458.
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  - **A:** AUTHOR LYDIA WILLSKY-CIOLLO TO READ is organized by The Toadstool Bookshop, Peterborough.
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  - **A:** AUTHOR LYDIA WILLSKY-CIOLLO TO READ is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Peterborough, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If AUTHOR LYDIA WILLSKY-CIOLLO TO READ sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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