Canadian Society of Church History
Annual Meeting 2018 | May 30 – June 1
University of Regina | Regina, Saskatchewan
Conference Program
Main meeting room: ED 114
Wednesday 30 June 2018
8:30 – 10:00 Session 1 – Classroom – CL 130
Canadian Catholic Historical Association Keynote Address and Joint Session with the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) and Canadian Society of Church History (CSCH)
“Rome and Early North America: A Transatlantic Relationship of Love and Hate, 1783-1830”
Dr. Luca Codignola-Bo, Saint Mary’s University (Halifax) and University of Notre Dame,
Moderator: Peter Baltutis, St. Mary’s University (Calgary)
Financial support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Aid for Interdisciplinary Sessions Fund
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 10:45 Welcome to Annual Meeting of the CSCH
Room ED 114
Welcome and opening remarks from the CSCH President
- Program notes from Program Chair
- Notes about facilities and local considerations from Local Arrangements Coordinator
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2: Denominational Experiences in Modern Canada
Room ED 114 | Session Chair: Bruce Douville
Jonathan S. Lofft, ThD | University of Toronto / Toronto School of Theology.
‘To My Dear “St. Chad”’: Anglican devotion to an Anglo-Saxon saint in late Edwardian Toronto
Patricia Janzen Loewen | Providence College University
As an immigrant one must make allowances:” Church, Denomination and the Female Experience of Immigration to Canada in the 1920s
Mark McGowan | University of Toronto
The Churches and the Famine Orphans: Catholic and Protestants and the Irish Famine Orphans in British North America, 1847-1848
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch (1:00 – 1:30 Executive Meeting)
1: 30 – 3:00 Session 3: Connections in Canadian and Asian Religious Developments
Room ED 114 | Session Chair: Tolly Bradford
Sheng-Ping Guo | PhD Candidate – University of Toronto
Identity Negotiating in Cultural Accommodation and Spiritual Practice: A Case Study of the Chinese Diasporic Christians in Four Toronto-based Ling Liang Churches
Cindy Lin | University of Toronto
First Christian Missionaries in the Sixteenth Century in Japan
David Kim-Cragg | University of Saskatchewan
Korean Democracy and the Saskatchewan Mosaic: Missionary Involvement in East Asian Modern History and Repercussions of Saskatchewan Settler Society
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:00 Session 4 – Plenary Speaker
Room EA 106.2
Professor John Fea – Messiah College
“Fear, Power, and Nostalgia: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump”
Financial support for this session has been provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ International Keynote Speaker Support Fund
Thursday 31 May 2018
8:30 – 10:00 Session 5: Indigenous Expressions of Christianity in Canada
Room ED 114 | Session Chair: William J. Pratt
Bronwyn Evans | MA Student – University of Toronto
Ojibwe Responses to Christianity on Walpole Islands in the 1840s
Carling Beninger | University of Saskatchewan, Department of History
“The Development of Indigenous Leadership in the Anglican, Presbyterian, and United Churches of Canada, 1970-1990”
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 – First Business Meeting
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 – Session 6: Religion, Missionaries and the Numbered Treaties
Room ED 114 | Session Chair: Ted Binnema
Will J. Pratt | University of Calgary
War and Peace: missionary ideas in Treaty 7 Territory, 1877-1918
Tolly Bradford | Concordia University of Edmonton
Denominational Divergence in Missionary Visions of Treaty Six
Amanda Fehr | University of Saskatchewan
Remembering Willow Heart: Negotiating Catholicism and Indigeneity in Treaty Ten
3:00 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 4:30 Session 7 – Presidential Address
Room ED 114
Dr. James T. Robertson – Tyndale University College & Seminary
For Whom the Bard Tells: The Role of the Society in the Shaping of Historiography
6:00 pm – Evening Banquet
Greko’s, 4424 Albert Street
Details about menu and RSVP to come.
Friday June 01 2018
8:30 – 10:00 – Session 8: Church Policy and Leadership in the Twentieth Century
Room ED 114 | Session Chair: Todd Webb
Bruce Guenther | Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary
Navigating Tradition: The Life and Leadership of Ältester Herman D.W. Friesen
Sandra Beardsall | St. Andrew’s College
“‘Getting their Story into the South:’ Project North and The United Church of Canada, 1975-1988”
Bruce Douville | Algoma University
From “The Destruction of a Human Life” to a “A Private Matter”: The United Church of Canada and the Debate over Abortion Law Reform, 1960-1980
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:45 Session 9: Anglo-American Expressions of Christian Faith
Room ED 114 | Session Chair: Sandra Beardsall
Warren James Johnston | Algoma University
‘Promising Tidings of a happy Project … to become one People’: Thanksgivings, Britons and others in the long eighteenth century
Todd Webb | Laurentian University
Mabel Loomis Todd and the Will of God: Three Crises of Faith in Late-Nineteenth Century America
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 pm Walking Tour
First Nations University | Located on the uRegina campus
