Canadian Society of Church History
Program 2012, University of Waterloo
Room 4040, Mathematics and Computer Science Building, South Campus
On Site Conference Co-ordinator: Donna Kerfoot (University of Trinity College)
Program Chair: Mark McGowan (St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto)
Sunday, May 27
12:30 Welcome from the President, Announcements
12:45-2:15 Session 1 Religion and Conflict in a Modern Age
Chair: Donna Kerfoot (University of Trinity College)
Ian Hesketh (Queen’s University) “Frederick Temple and the Essays and Reviews Controversy”
Geoff Read (Huron University College) “Echoes of 1905—Catholic-Secular Conflict in Interwar France, 1919-1940”
Todd Webb (Laurentian University) “’Calm Determination and Cool Brains’: Mary Chesnut’s God in Peace and War.”
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-4:00 Session 2 Profiles in Christian Life and Spirituality
Chair: Ruth C Brouwer (Kings University, Western University, London)
Donna Kerfoot, (Trinity College, TST) “Florence Nightengale: Mystic or Moralist?
Marilyn Fardig Whiteley (Guelph, Ontario) “The Life of Isabel Crawford: More Than I Asked For.”
Douglas Shantz, (University of Calgary) “ Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741-1792): Pietism, Enlightenment, and the Sense of Self in Early Modern Germany”
4:15-5:00 First Business Meeting
5:00 Presidential Reception, University of Waterloo Physical Activities Centre
Monday, May 28th
8:45- 10:30 Session 3: Aspects of Christianity, Education and Youth
Chair: Marguerite Van Die (Queens University, Kingston)
Patricia Kmiec, (OISE, UT) “Parading the Children: The Interdenominational leisure Activities of Ontario’s Protestant Sunday Schools,1811-1871.”
Jessica Vanderheide (Trinity Western University) “College Has been the Means of My Conversion: The Empowering Role of Evangelicalism in Southern Women’s Colleges, 1800-1865”
Amy Von Heyking (University of Lethbridge) “‘It is a privilege to have a Christian Government’: William Aberhart and the Place of Religion in Alberta’s Public Schools.”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Session 4: Presidential Address: Darren W. Schmidt (Kings University College, Edmonton)
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00- 2:45 Session 5 Special Panel in anticipation of Canadian Churches and the First World War
Chair: Phyllis Airhart (Emmanuel College, Victoria University)
Stuart MacDonald (Knox College, TST) “Myth Meets Reality: Canadian Presbyterians and the Great War.”
Lucille Marr (McGill University), “Church Women, the Home Front, and the Great War.”
Gordon Heath (McMaster Divinity College) “Whatever Happened to the British Empire? A Canadian Baptist Case Study”
Melissa Davidson (McGill University) “Enduing the Cause with Righteousness: Canadian Anglican Views of the Great War, 1914-1918”
2:45-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Session 6: Joint Session CHA: Lions, Eagles and Christians—Oh My! Competing British and American Influences on Upper Canadian Churches in the Era of the War of 1812 (Mathematics & Computer Building, Room 2034)
Chair: Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University)
James T Robertson (McMaster Divinity College) “Anglican and Presbyterian Churches and a Loyalist Theology During the War of 1812.”
Scott McLaren (York University) “Rekindling the Canadian Fire: Print Culture and the Reconstruction of Upper Canadian Methodism After the War of 1812.”
Denis McKim (University of Toronto) “Contesting Christian Loyalty: Religion and Meanings of Britishness in Upper Canada.”
Commentator: Mark G McGowan (University of Toronto)
Tour at St. Jacobs and Annual Banquet (7pm)
Tuesday, May 29th
8:30-10:00 Session 7: Churches and Twentieth Century Social Realities
Chair: Stuart MacDonald (Knox College)
Robert Burkinshaw (Trinity Western University), “Crossroads for a Mission in BC: Esperanza General Hospital and Esperanza Ministry Centre, 1937-2012”
Sheila Redmond, (Algoma University) “Fear and Denial at the Crossroads: Where is the History of the “child abuse scandal” within the Roman Catholic Church?”
Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University) “Reconciling Approaches to Non-Violence and Apartheid: Pacifist Conflict among Friends in the 1970s and 1980s.”
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Session 8: Joint Session CCHA—Churches, and Reform in the Interwar Period (Room 5158 of Math & Computer Building)
Chair: Peter Meehan (Seneca College)
Megan Baxter (Western University), “Know God, Serve Others: Religion in the Canadian Girls in Training in the Interwar Years.”
Indre Cuplinskas (St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta), “Doing it Rite: Catholic Action and Liturgical Renewal in Quebec”
Christo Aivalis (Queen’s University), “In Service of the Lowly Nazarene: The Canadian Labour Press and a Case for Radical Christianity, 1926-1939.”
11:45-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Session 9: Aspects of 19th Century Protestantism
Chair: Sandra Beardsall (St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon Theological Union)
Andrew M. Eason, (Booth University College) “Missions, Race and Representation: The Salvation Army’s Portrayal of Africa and India in Victorian Britain”
Bruce Douville (Algoma University) “The Via Media and the Evangelical Road: The Attitudes of Anglican Church Newspapers in Canada West Towards American Slavery and Related Issues, 1837-65.”
Norman Knowles (St. Mary’s University College) “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Life of Henry Bird Steinhauer.”
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 Session 10: Christianity, World War II & Its Aftermath
Chair: John Young (Queen’s University)
Nathan Dirks (Niagara-On-The Lake, Ont) “A Unknown legacy: Canadian Mennonite Enlistments During the Second World War.”
James Enns (Prairie Bible College) “From Heartland of the Reformation to Post-Christian Mission Field: North American Conservative Protestants and the Mission to West Germany, 1945-1974”
3:45-4:45 Second Business Meeting