From Rerum Novarum to
Faith in the City:
Catholicism in Canning Town
Dr Alana Harris
Lincoln College
University of Oxford
Overview
• Rerum Novarum (1891); Faith in the City (1985)
and twenty-first century Catholicism in Canning
Town;
• Research base: pilot project (funded by the
British Academy) focused on St Bartholomew’s
Anglican Church, East Ham and St Margaret’s
Catholic Church, Canning Town;
• Extended through the Oxford Diaspora
Programme:
http://www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/religionseparation-exclusion.shtml
• Two case studies: devotional life and
communitarian politics.
Diasporic Devotions
Carved wooden statue and shrine
church of St Antony, ’the miracle
saint’ in Uvari, Tamil Nadu.
London Citizens multi-faith choir at a UK Election leaders rally in Methodist
Central Hall, Westminster, 3 May, 2010 (with Monsignor John co-presiding)