Ecclesiastical History Society
52nd Summer Conference
University of Chichester
17-20 July 2013
Christians and Religious Plurality
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 17 July
from 1.00 Registration – Main reception, LRC
[2.30
Committee meeting – Cloisters]
4.00
Tea – Gallery D (beside Cloisters)
4.30
Plenary Session 1, Presidential Address – Mitre Lecture Theatre: John Wolffe (Professor
of Religious History, The Open University): ‘Plurality in the Capital: The Christian Response
to London’s Religious Minorities’
6.00
Reception – Bazley Court Yard
6.45
Dinner – Otters Restaurant
8.00
Communications Session 1
1.1 Religious Pluralism in twentieth-century Britain (chair: Dr Martin Wellings) – Cloisters
Dr Peter Webster: ‘Race, Religion and National Identity in Sixties Britain: Michael Ramsey,
Archbishop of Canterbury, and his Encounter with other Faiths’
Dr Alister Chapman: ‘The Growth of Religious Plurality and its Impact on British
Christianity: The Case of Derby, 1945-70’
1.2 Interreligious Encounter in early modern Europe: Imagined and Real (chair: Prof. Alex
Walsham) – LO6
Dr Charlotte Methuen: ‘“And our Mohammed goes with the angel Gabriel to Choir”:
Accounts of the ‘Machomedische Glaube’ in sixteenth-century German Pamphlets’
Prof Frans Ciappara: ‘Christians and Muslims on Malta in the sixteenth to eighteenth
centuries’
9.30
Bar open – Staff Club
THURSDAY 18 July
7.30
Anglican and RC Eucharists
8.00
Breakfast – Otters Restaurant
9.15
Plenary Session 2 – Mitre Lecture Theatre: Guy Stroumsa (Professor of the Study of the
Abrahamic Religions, and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford): ‘From
Qumran to Qur’an: the Religious Worlds of Early Christianity’
10.45
Coffee/Tea – Gallery D (beside Cloisters)
11.15-12.45 Communications Session 2
2.1 Early modern Encounters between Christianity and Islam (chair: Prof. Nabil Matar) –
Cloisters
Dr Konstantinos Papastathis: ‘Christian-Muslim Encounters: George of Trebizond and the
“Inversion” of Eastern Orthodox Discourse towards Islam in the fifteenth century’
Dr Angeliki Ziaka: ‘Rearticulating a Christian-Muslim Understanding: Gennadius Scholarius
and George Amiroutzis on Islam’
Dr Carsten Walbiner: ‘The Attitude of Arab Christians towards Islam in the seventeenth
Century: A Case Study of Macarius Ibn al-Za’im’
2.2 Modern views of other religions (chair: tba) – LO6
Prof Angela Berlis: ‘Sympathy for Mussulmans, and Love for Jews: Emily Loyson-Meriman
(1833-1910) and Hyacinthe Loyson (1827-1912) and their Interest in Interreligious Encounter’
Dr Todd Thompson: ‘The Christian Critique of Orientalism in Britain after World War II’
Dr Martin Wellings: ‘”A much needed tract for the times” or “An extremely dangerous
book”? James Hope Moulton’s Religions and Religion (1913)’
2.3 Judaism in Theory and Practice (chair: Prof. John Wolffe) – Mitre Lecture Theatre
Dr Andrew Crome: ‘Eschatology in Practice: Native American Belief and the “Jewish Indian”
Theory in England and New England, 1600-1700’
Dr W. M. Jacob: ‘Christian Responses to Jewish Migration in late nineteenth-century London’
Prof Clyde Binfield: ‘Jerusalem’s Empire State? The Context and Symbolism of a twentiethcentury Building’
1.00
Lunch – Otters Restaurant
2.00
Communications Session 3
3.1 Medieval Christians and other religions (chair: Prof. Sarah Foot) – Cloisters
Dr Ariana Patey: ‘Asserting Difference in Plurality: The Case of the Martyrs of Córdoba’
Dr Christine Walsh: ‘Baptized but not Converted: The Vikings in tenth-century Francia’
Prof Bernard Hamilton: ‘Western Christian Contacts with Buddhism, c.1050-1350’
3.2 Religious Plurality in the Modern World (chair: Prof. Brian Stanley) – LO6
Dr Gareth Atkins: ‘William Jowett’s “Christian Researches”: British Protestants and Religious
Plurality in the Mediterranean, Syria and Palestine, 1810-24’
Kristian Girling: ‘“To live within Islam”: Social, Political and Religious Contributions of the
Chaldean Catholic Community to Iraqi Society, 1947-2003’
Michael Horswell: ‘Gospel Crusaders: Christian Missionary Engagement with the Crusades’
3.30
Tea – Gallery D (beside Cloisters)
[4.30
Evensong in the cathedral sung by the choristers and lay clerks of Winchester Cathedral]
6.00
EHS AGM – Mitre Lecture Theatre
7.00
Dinner – Otters Restaurant
8.15
Plenary Session 3 – Mitre Lecture Theatre: Jonathan Phillips (Professor of the History of the
Crusades, Royal Holloway University of London): ‘Rhetoric and Reality: Christian – Muslim
Relations at the Time of the Third Crusade’
9.45
Bar open – Staff Club
FRIDAY 19 July
7.30
Anglican and RC Eucharists
8.00
Breakfast – Otters Restaurant
9.15-10.45 Plenary Session 4 – Mitre Lecture Theatre: Nabil Matar (Professor of English, University
of Minnesota): ‘Islam in Britain: John Gregory, Henry Stubbe and Charles Hornby, 16711705’
10.45
Coffee/Tea – Gallery D (beside Cloisters)
11.15-12.45 Communications Session 4
4.1 Living with Religious Plurality in Modern England (chair: Prof. Clyde Binfield) –
Cloisters
Dr John Maiden: ‘Redundant Buildings and Religious Diversity: The Case of St Leonard’s,
Bedford, in the late 1970s’
Dr Stuart Mews: ‘Rama or ahimsa? Terror or Passive Resistance? Alternative Revolutionary
Methods adopted by Hindu Students from London University and the Christian Response,
1909-18’
Dr Marion Bowman: ‘A Sign of Times to Come? Christianity and Pluralism in Glastonbury in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’
4.2 Religious Plurality in the Early Church (chair: Prof. Guy Stroumsa) – LO6
Andrew Hayes: ‘Who do we say we are?’
Minas Monier: ‘Christians and Jews in the Temple: Friends or Foes?’
Aaron Manby: ‘When in Rome: The Pax Deorum and the Roman Persecution of the
Christians’
1.00
Lunch – Otters Restaurant
2.00
It is hoped to arrange tours of Chichester Cathedral in the afternoon
3.45-4.15 Coffee/Tea – Gallery D (beside Cloisters)
4.15-5.45 Plenary Session 5 – Mitre Lecture Theatre: Brian Stanley (Professor of World Christianity,
University of Edinburgh): ‘Christians, Muslims and the State in Twentieth-Century Egypt and
Indonesia’
5.45-6.30 Summing up and Planning for Publication – Mitre Lecture Theatre: The President and
Editors
[NB: it is important that those submitting their papers for publication attend this session if
possible; if you cannot do so, please notify one of the editorial team so that we can keep you
informed]
7.00
Drinks – Staff Club
7.30
Conference Dinner – Otters Restaurant
SATURDAY 20 July
8.00
Breakfast – Otters Restaurant
9.00
Optional Excursion: We plan to visit four of the Octagon churches, Stoughton, Racton,
Forestside and Stansted Chapel, to illustrate a wide span of history and architecture from Saxon to
Victorian. We will start at Stoughton at about 9.30 or 10.00 (depending on departure time from
Chichester) where we hope Betty Killick will talk about the history, then retrace our route to Racton to
look especially at the memorials and Ruth Chavasse will say something about Easter Sepulchres in
this area. At Forestside the church, school, teacher and sexton houses will be considered in their
context of Victorian philanthropy. Lunch has been booked at the Pavilion Tearoom, Stansted for 12.00
and the chapel will be visited immediately after lunch, at 1.00, a visit most relevant for the theme of
the Conference, where Jennie Dolman will talk about Lewis Way and his vision for Judaism with
special reference to the East Window and its symbolism. The afternoon programme will be a visit to
Arundel Cathedral and the Church of St Nicholas, divided at the Reformation from the adjoining
Fitzalan Chapel with its Norfolk tombs visible through the glass screen, returning to Chichester via
Boxgrove if time permits. Arrival should be by 5 p.m.