Canadian Society of Church History

2010 Annual Meeting

Fiftieth Anniversary Programme

Concordia University, May 29-31

 

Location: Room H-603-00, unless indicated otherwise
Programme coordinator: Ruth Compton Brouwer rbrouwer@uwo.ca
Local arrangements coordinator: Lucille Marr lucille.marr@gmail.com

SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010
12:30 pm     Welcome and Announcements

12:45 – 2:15  SESSION ONE:  COFFEHOUSES, CHINA-WATCHERS, AND COOKBOOKS: NEW EXPRESSIONS OF CHRISTIAN OUTREACH AND IDENTITY, ENGLISH-PROTESTANT CANADA FROM THE 1960S
Chair:   Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University
Bruce Douville, York University, “’We’re Pushers of Christ’: Yorkville as a Mission Field, 1966-1971”
Chris Miller, Concordia University, “’We are Christians and we are citizens’: Negotiating the Boundaries of Religious Identity within the United Church of Canada’s China Campaign, 1968-1969”
Marlene Epp, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, “Recipes for Religion: Foodways, Cookbooks and Mennonite Identity”

2:15 - 2:30   Break
                                            
12:30 – 4:00   SESSION TWO: “THAT SILLY, OUTMODED PROFESSION”: THE CLERIC IN RECENT FICTION, panel discussion featuring three recent novels   (Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop’s Man, 2009; Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2005; Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me, 2006)
Chair:  Ruth Compton Brouwer, Professor Emerita, King’s Univ. College, Univ. of Western Ontario
Andrew P. Atkinson, Wilfrid Laurier University
Bill James, Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University
Sandra Beardsall, University of Saskatchewan

4:00 – 4:15           BREAK
4:15 – 5:30           CSCH BUSINESS MEETING (PART ONE)

SUNDAY, MAY 30, 2010

12:45 – 1:45  SESSION THREE, GUEST LECTURE:  Jackie Duffin, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Queen’s University,  “Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Health in the Modern World”                                  

Joint Session with Canadian Society for the History of Medicine; location TBA                                                                        
Introduction: Marguerite Van Die, Queen's University
Chair for Question Period:  Jayne Elliott, University of Ottawa

1:45 – 2:00  BREAK

2:00 - 3:00  SESSION FOUR: NEW APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING SCOTLAND’S REFORMATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT AT HOME AND IN NOVA SCOTIA
Chair:  Sandra Beardsall, University of Saskatchewan
Stuart Macdonald, Knox College, University of Toronto, “Creating a Godly Society: Witch-hunts, Discipline and Reformation in Scotland”
Barbara Murison, University of Western Ontario, “’Shaped by their Scottish education’: Enlightenment, Evangelicalism and the Ministers of Early Nova Scotia”  

3:00 – 3:15   BREAK

3:15 – 4:15   SESSION FIVE: RELIGION AND THE LEFT IN ENGLISH-CANADA, 1920s-1950s
Chair: Stuart Macdonald, Knox College, University of Toronto
Robert Dennis, Queen’s University, “Faith on the Prairies: Roman Catholic Engagement with the CCF during the 1930s and 1940s”
Richard Allen, Professor Emeritus, McMaster University, “’God’s truth comes to us in fragments’: Salem Bland and the Stormy Passage of a Liberating Mind, 1903-1950”  

4:15 – 4:30           BREAK
4:30 – 5:30           PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, Marguerite Van Die, Queen’s University
7:00 – 9:30           CSCH BANQUET  at Crêperie Chez Suzette

MONDAY, MAY 31, 2010
8:30 – 10:00  SESSION SIX: ASPECTS OF MISSIONARY ACTIVITY AND EDUCATION IN THE BRITISH WORLD
Chair:  Lucille Marr, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill
Andrew Eason, Booth College, Winnipeg, “A Cradle of Empire? The Salvation Army and Imperialism, 1878-1914”
Richard Enns, University of Calgary, “’Then shall the wilderness be glad and blossom as the rose’: Presbyterian Hopes for Indian Education at Regina, 1891-1910”
Rhonda Semple, St. Francis Xavier University, “Connecting Through Disconnections: Cultural and Religious Meanings in London Missionary Society Work in Almora, UP, India”

10:00 – 10:15 BREAK

10:15 – 11:45  SESSION SEVEN: QUAKERS AND METHODISTS IN TRANSATLANTIC AND CROSS-BORDER CONTEXTS
Chair:  Marilyn Whiteley, Private Scholar
Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University, “’I am getting a considerable of a Canadian they tell me’:  Connected Understandings in the Nineteenth-Century Quaker Atlantic”
Todd Webb, Laurentian University, “’The Madness of His Method’: Methodism, Discipline and the British World”
James Tyler Robertson, McMaster University, “Band of Brothers: Connection and Tension within Methodism during the War of 1812” 

11:45 – 12:45  LUNCH BREAK
  [Meeting of Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, 11:30 – 1:30; Room GM 407-01]

12:45 – 1:45 SESSION EIGHT:  LOCAL AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHURCH UNION IN THE 1920S
Chair:  John Young, Queen’s Theological College, Queen’s University
William Haughton, United Church of Canada, Port Rowan, ON, “Church Union and the Presbyterians of Galt, Ontario”
David McFarland, Private Scholar, “’An Enterprise Calculated to Knit the Union’: Evangelical Hymnody and Church Union in Canada, 1925-1931”

1:45 – 2:00  BREAK

2:00 – 3:30  SESSION NINE: BROTHERS, SISTERS AND SECULAR COUSINS: MISSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND AFRICA                                               
Joint Session with Canadian Historical Association, H-420 (funding support from CFH, Aid for Interdisciplinary Sessions)

Chair/Facilitator:   Rhonda Semple, St. Francis Xavier University
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, California State University, Northridge, “Cross-Cultural Catholic Cooperative Development: From AntIgonish to Guatemala”
Catherine LeGrand, McGill University, “Development, Liberation Theology and the Peasant Movement for Agrarian Reform: Quebec Catholic Missionaries in Honduras, 1955-1975”
Ruth Compton Brouwer, Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Univ. of Western Ontario, “’Reason over Passion’: CUSO’s Divided Response to the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970”

3:30 -3:45  BREAK

3:45 – 4:45 SESSION TEN: RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND  
Chair:  Todd Webb
Donna Kerfoot, Toronto School of Theology, “Caroline Fry: A Practical Theology of the Sacraments”
Ian Hesketh, Queen’s University, “The Remains of the Freeman-Froude Controversy: The Religious Dimension”

4:45 - 5:30  BUSINESS MEETING (PART TWO)

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7:30 – 9:00  JOINT CSSR LECTURE, ORGANIZED BY CANADIAN THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Justo L. González Retired Professor, Historical Theology, and Founder, Hispanic Theological Initiative, “Beyond Christendom: New Maps”  Location: MB 1-210; Reception to follow  

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OTHER CONGRESS CONFERENCE SESSIONS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST TO CSCH MEMBERS:                                                                                    
Canadian Catholic Historical Association, June 1, 9:00-10:15, featuring Gregory Baum; 1:15-2:45, featuring Jackie Duffin and Allan Greer (for details of these and other sessions see CCHA website).
ALSO, SESSIONS OF Canadian Historical Association (May 30, 31, June 1); Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (May 31, June 1, 2); Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (June 1-4).  See websites of these associations for programme details.