Canadian Society of Church History
Conference Program 2017
Ryerson University
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Wednesday May 31
8:30 – 10:00 Session 1 – CSCH/CCHA/CHA combined address ILLC Room A/B
Prof. John T. McGreevy (University of Notre Dame): “American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global”
– a joint session with the Canadian Catholic Historical Association
and the Canadian Historical Association
10:00 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome from the President Room: Jorgensen 1402
Announcements.
11:00 – 12:00 – Session 2 – The Lion, A Switch and the Black Robe: Colonialism, Imperialism & Evangelization in the Nineteenth Century
Chair: James Tyler Robertson (Tyndale Seminary)
Jonathan Lofft (Trinity College):“X Marks the Spot: Hagiotoponymy and the translocal spread of the British Imperialist cult of St. Alban the Martyr in Canadian Anglicanism, 1856-1921”
Keith Hyde (University College of the North):“Rescue the Parishing: Henry Budd— Constructive Transformer or Colonial Tool?”
Emily Turner (University of Edinburgh): “Evangelism and the Land: Mission Networks and the Growth of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Activity in the Canadian North”
12:00 –12:45 – Lunch
12:45 – 2:15 – Session 3 – Empire from the Margins: Religious Minorities in Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902 (forthcoming book)
Chair: Gordon L. Heath (McMaster Divinity College)
Carman Miller (McGill University): “Writing Religious Minorities Into Canada’s South African War”
Mark McGowan (St. Michael’s): “Canada’s Non-Francophone Catholics and the South African War”
Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University): “Canadian Quakers and the South African War”
Evan Habkirk (Western University): “Canada’s First Nations in the Anglo-Boer War”
2:15-2:45 – Break
2:45- 4:15 – Session 4 – Nevertheless, They Persisted: Women in Ordination, Immigration and Policies
Chair: Julia Rady-Shaw (University of Toronto)
Betsy Anderson (Emmanuel College): “The Farmers of London Conference will make up their own minds”: The United Church and the Ordination of Women
Cindy Lin (Emmanuel College): “A History of the Oriental Home (1888-1942)”
Mary Louise Meadow (University of Victoria):“Confronting Sexual Abuse in Anglican Canada: Second Wave Feminists”
4:15 – 5:00 EXECUTIVE MEETING
Thursday June 1
8:30 – 10:00 Session 5 – Captained Kirks: Leadership Issues & Struggles in Presbyterianism
Chair: Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University)
Carling Beninger (University of Saskatchewan): “The Presbyterian and United Churches of Canada Indigenous Urban Outreach Initiatives, 1959-1969”
Osanna Deelstra (Trinity Western University):“Plympton-Wyoming’s Presbyterians: A Lost Heritage.”
Stuart Macdonald (Knox College): “Forty Shades of Blue: Why Presbyterians say negative things about themselves (especially when they’re not true?)”
10:00 – 10:15 BREAK
10:15 – 11:45 Session 6 – Peripheries, Centres, and Religion in the Atlantic World
Chair: Todd Webb (Laurentian University)
Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University):“Quakers on the Margins:
Migration and Minorities in Late-eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Quakerism”
Sydney Harker (Trinity Western University): “The Ties that Bind:
Cross-border Marriage Strategies Among the Quakers and Methodists of Upper Canada, 1790-1820”
Amanda Slater (Trinity Western University):“Christianity, Gender, and Racism in the Fur-Trade: Exploring How Women in Fur-Trade Society reshaped Atlantic World Ideas”
11:45-12:30 FIRST BUSINESS MEETING
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30-3:00 – Session 7: The Family Circus: Tracing a Path to Connection Through Ecumenism, Immigration & Theology
Chair: TBD
Jim Honeyford (Academic Learning Centre, University of Manitoba):“A Case for Continuity: Religious Societies from Puritanism to Methodism”
Phyllis Airhart (Emmanuel College & University of Toronto): “The Eclipse of Civic Ecumenism and the Crisis of Faith in Fellowship”
Aaron Mix-Ross (Wycliffe College): “Ethnicity and Pentecostalism in Canada”
3:00 – 3:30 – Break
3:30-4:30 – Session 8 – “Have we not heard enough on this subject?” Revisiting the Life and Career of Egerton Ryerson in Transcontinental and Transatlantic Perspectives
Chair: James Tyler Robertson (Tyndale Seminary)
Scott McLaren (York University), “His style was diffuse and feeble”: American Methodist responses to Egerton Ryerson
Todd Webb (Laurentian University), “His teachings are in want of faith”: British Wesleyan responses to Egerton Ryerson
4:30 – 4:45 – Break
4:45 – 5:45 Session 9 – “I see a red door and I want to paint it…”: Communism and Canadian Christianity in the Cold War Period
Chair: Scott McLaren (York University)
Julia Rady-Shaw (University of Toronto):“Why Can’t We Just Get Along? Ecumenism and the Early Cold War in Canada”
Gordon L. Heath (McMaster Divinity College):“Watson Kirkconnell’s Covert War against Communism”
7:00 – Banquet – Donatello on Elm Street
Menu details will be confirmed closer to the date
Friday June 2
8:30-10:00 – Session 10 – The Church and (Counter) Culture in the 1960s & 1970s: Reaching Out, Dropping In, and Shaping Policy
Chair: Bruce Douville (Algoma University)
Linda M. Ambrose (Laurentian University): “Seeking the Transcendent: The Radio and Media Ministry of Vancouver’s Bernice Gerard”
Ben Bradley (University of Alberta): “I was to ban the bare feet, sandals, and long hair crowd”: Transient Youth and Banff’s Unsquare Cellar Drop-In Centre, 1965-1971”
Michael Wilkinson (Trinity Western University): “Social Concerns Among Canadian Pentecostals: Responding to the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69.”
10:00-10:30 – Break
10:30-12:00 – Presidential Address
Lucille Marr, President
James Robertson, Program Chair
Julia Rady-Shaw, Local Arrangements
12:00-12:30-Second Business Meeting
12:30-1:15 – Lunch
1:30-2:30 Session 11- Birds and Bards in the Sixteenth Century
Chair: TBD
Donald Hogarth (University of Ottawa)-“The First Protestant Thanksgiving in North America”
Wendy Porter (McMaster Divinity College): “From Polyphony to Hymns to Worship Songs:
A Byrd’s Perspective on English Reformation Church Music and Its Influence on Worship Music Today”
2:30-3:30pm – Walking Tour of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery