CANADIAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY/
LA SOCIETﾉ CANADIENNE D’HISTOIRE DE L’EGLISE
2020
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
LONDON, ONTARIO
2 – 4 JUNE
1. 8:30 – 10:00 – Church and Empire: Canadian Christian Responses to War
- Gordon Heath, McMaster Divinity College, “‘England had drawn the sword, and justice should be done to humanity’: The Rise of Imperialism among Canadian Protestant during the Sudan Expedition, 1884-1885”
- Melissa Davidson, Independent Scholar, “Opposition, Apathy, or Support? Re-evaluating Attitudes Toward the Great War Amongst French Canadian Catholic Clergy”
- Adam D. Rudy, McMaster Divinity College, “Canadian Denominational Newspapers and the Second World War”
10:00 – 10:15 – Break
2. 10:15 – 11:45 – Church and Society in Modern Canada
- Wendy Fletcher, Renison University College, “Race, Religion and the Contest for Public Space in 21st Century Canada”
- Laureen Harder-Gissing, Conrad Grebel University College, “‘White, Mennonite readers are asking questions about Indian people’: Indigenous peoples and issues in the pages of Mennonite Reporter, 1972-1997 and Canadian Mennonite, 1997-2020”
- Bruce L. Guenther, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, “Counting Christians: The Changing Landscapes of Canadian Christianity”
11:45 – 13:00 – lunch – Executive meeting
3. 13:00 – 14:30 – Indigenous Christianity in Canada
- Aaron M. Ross, Masters College and Seminary, “‘They Will Soar on Wings Like Eagles’: The History of Pentecostalism among Indigenous People in Canada”
- Micheline Hughes, University of Manitoba, “Confronting colonial myths through the study Mi’kmaw Catholicism and Oral History”
- Alan Hayes, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, “Public History Post-TRC: Developing a Website on Indigenous and Settler Christianities in Canada”
14:30 – 14:45 – Break
4. 14:45 – 16:15 – Churches and Indigenous Peoples in 19th Century
- Jonathan S. Lofft, Trinity College, University of Toronto, “‘Inoculated With The Ways of Anglicans’: Representing Indigenous Participation in the 1866 Electoral Synod of the Diocese of Toronto”
16:15 – 16:30 – Break
16:30 – 17:30 – First Business Meeting
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
5. 8:30 – 10:00 – Religion and Culture (High Culture and Pop Culture)
- Kyle Joudry, Queen’s University, “T.S. Eliot and The Great God Wux”
- Robert Revington, Knox College, University of Toronto, “From Humiliation to Honour: The Cross of Christ as a Symbol in the Modern Western World”
- Natasha Walsh, York University, “Chronicles and Connectedness of Canadian Church Music Composers”
10:00 – 10:15 – Break
6. 10:15 – 11:45 – Influential Individuals: Jean Vanier, Katharine Hockin, and Leslie Earl Maxwell
- Carolyn Whitney-Brown, St. Jerome’s University, “‘It’s a slow process becoming a bridge’: Jean Vanier, L’Arche and the United Church of Canada”
- Sheng Ping Guo, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, “Building an Intercultural United Church of Canada by Equal Partners: Katharine B. Hockin’s Missiology and Missional Practice Revisited”
- Brian Froese, Canadian Mennonite University, “’Born Crucified’: Exploring the Mystical Fundamentalism of Leslie Earl Maxwell”
11:45 – 12:30 – Lunch
12:30 – 13:30 – Second Business Meeting
13:30 – 13:45 – Break
7. 13:45 – 15:15 – Black and Christian in Canada
- Dudley A. Brown, McMaster Divinity College at McMaster University, “The Creation and Expansion of the African-Canadian Church”
- David Danner, University of Toronto/Toronto School of Theology, “A Critical Review of Archival Sources Relating to the Intersection of West Indian Immigrants and the Anglican Church in Toronto, 1960-1985”
- David Clements, Clarington Museum and Archives, “Equality, Education and Good Morals make Model Citizens: The roles of Canadian-born siblings Charles S. Smith and Lucy Smith Thurman in promoting middle-class values in the Black communities”
15:15 – 15:30 – Break
8. 15:30 – 17:00 – International Guest Speaker, Dr. Angela Dillard,
University of Michigan
“Preaching Reparations: Afro-Christianity and the Legacies of the Black Manifesto”
18:00 — CSCH Banquet
Thursday, 4 June 2020
9. 9:00 – 10:00 – Intersections between Gender Studies and Religious Studies
- Che-Wen Cindy Lin, York University, “Bridging Divides between Gender Studies and Theological Studies”
- Linda M. Ambrose, Laurentian University, “Religion, Feminism, and Canadian Pentecostals: Where Church History Meets Gender Theory”
10:00 – 10:15 – break
10. 10:15 – 11:45 – Pedagogy Session: Teaching Faith, Teaching Feminism
“Teaching Faith, Teaching Feminism: Shaping Approaches for Analysis of Gender in Religious History at Public University, Private University, and Seminary Environments”
Panel Members: Sandra Beardsall, St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon; Lucille Marr, McGill University; Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University
11:45 – 13:00 – Lunch
11. 13:00 – 14:30 – Women in the Church: Ministers, Missionaries, and Theological
College Faculty Members
- Melody Maxwell, Acadia Divinity College, “Called to Service: Ordained Baptist Women Ministers in Atlantic Canada, 1954-1987”
- Lucille Marr, McGill University, “Mysticism and Evangelical Protestantism: The Spiritual Awakening of H. Frances Davidson”
- Mary Louise Meadow, University of Victoria, “Anglican Women Responding to Clergy Sexual Misconduct: The Women of Trinity”
14:30 – 14:45 – break
12. 14:45 – 16:15 – Faith Communities in National and Transnational Contexts
- Clara A. B. Joseph, University of Calgary, “Bridging Divides or Dividing Bridges: Colonization and the First Schism of the Thomas Christians of India”
- Thomas P. Power, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, “The Apocalypse in Ireland: Trauma, Sectarianism, and the Creation of a Spiritual Diaspora”
- James Robertson, Tyndale University and Seminary, “The Decline and Fall of the Canadian Jerusalem: Exploring the Influence and Demise of an Independent Canadian Pentecostal Movement”
16:15 – 16:30 – break
13. 16:30 – 17:30
Presidential Address, Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University