THEMES IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF
RELIGION
This informal seminar will meet in the LSK Seminar Room A (staircase 4) in
Wadham College at 5pm on Mondays in weeks 1-6. All are most welcome. There
will be drinks afterwards, and it is hoped that people will be able to stay and
continue discussion.
1st week (27 April), Edward Hicks (St Anne’s) and Megan Kearney (Keble), ‘Christianity
Personified? Perceval, Disraeli, and writing religious history’
2nd week (4 May), Ruth Mason (UCL), ‘A “More-than-architectural” approach to faith:
Wesleyan Methodist spaces in London, 1851-1932’
3rd week (11 May), Joel Cabrita (University of Cambridge), ‘“Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth
her Hands unto God”: American faith-healing and African claims-making in earlycolonial South Africa’
4th week (18 May), Daniel Renshaw (University of Reading), ‘“I should not be true to my
own faith if I did not venerate yours”: relationships and interactions between the
Catholic and Jewish religious leaderships in turn-of-the-century London’
5th week (25 May), Justin Jones (Pembroke), ‘Seven years in Kabul: journeys and jihad of
an Indian Muslim scholar, 1915-22’
6th week (1 June), Philip Lockley (Trinity), The Church of England and early Socialism’
Jane Garnett (Wadham)
Matthew Grimley (Merton)