INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
New Perspectives on American Evangelicalism
and the 1960s: Revisiting the “Backlash”
APRIL 16-19, 2011
DAVID BRUCE CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
University of Keele
Convener:
Dr. Axel R. Schäfer
PROGRAMME
N.B.: All Colloquium Sessions take place in the Claus Moser Research Centre
SATURDAY, 16 APRIL
17:00
Meet in Keele Management Centre Lounge
17:30-18:30 Keynote Address
Paul Boyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“'Geared to the Times, Anchored to the Rock': The Rise of
American Evangelicalism, Its Cultural Context and Political
Implications”
18:30
Drinks Reception (Claus Moser Centre)
19:30
Dinner at The Hawthorns Restaurant, Keele
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SUNDAY, 17 APRIL
9:30-11:00
Session I: Evangelical Political Identities and Partisan Alignments
Chair: Ann Hughes (Keele)
Darren Dochuck (Purdue University)
“Prairie Fire: The New Evangelical Right and the Politics of Oil,
Money, and Moral Geography”
David R. Swartz (Asbury University)
“The New Evangelical Left and the Move from Personal to
Corporate Responsibility”
11:00-11.15
Refreshments
11:15-12:45
Session II: Formulating the Political
Chair: Helen Parr (Keele)
Neil J. Young (Princeton University)
“'A Saga of Sacrilege': Evangelicals Respond to the Second Vatican
Council”
Hans Krabbendam (Roosevelt Study Centre, Middelburg)
“‘The Harvest is Ripe’: American Evangelicals and the Changes in
Their International Mission Agenda in the 1970s”
13:00-14:00 Buffet Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session III: The Courts and Church-State Issues
Chair: Martin Crawford (Keele)
Kendrick Oliver (University of Southampton)
“Attica, Watergate, and the Origins of Evangelical Prison
Ministry, 1969-1975”
Emma Long (University of Kent)
“Making Lemonade from Lemon: Evangelicals, the Supreme
Court, and the Constitutionality of School Aid”
15:30-16:00 Refreshments
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16:00-17:30 Session IV: Social Movements and Social Policy in the 1960s
Chair: Tim Lustig (Keele)
Eileen Luhr (California State University, Long Beach)
“A Revolutionary Mission: Young Evangelicals and the Language
of the Sixties”
Axel R. Schäfer (Keele University)
“The Great Society, Evangelicals, and the Public Funding of
Religious Agencies”
19:00
Dinner (The Sneyd Arms, Keele)
MONDAY, 18 April
9:30-11:00
Session VI: Race and Gender
Chair: David Maxwell (Keele)
Daniel K. Williams (University of West Georgia)
“Sex and the Evangelicals: Gender Issues, the Sexual Revolution,
and Abortion in the 1960s”
Steven P. Miller (Webster University)
“The Persistence of Antiliberalism: Evangelicals and the Race
Problem”
11:00-11:15
Refreshments
11:15-12:30
Session VII: Feedback and Publication Plans
12:30-13:15
Buffet Lunch
13:45
Meet at Keele Management Centre for Excursion to Englesea
Brook Chapel and Museum and to Mow Cop
18:30
Meet at Keele Management Centre for Transfer to Onneley
19:00
Dinner (The Wheatsheaf Inn, Onneley)
TUESDAY, 19 April
Delegates depart (alternatively, visit to Gladstone Museum or Wedgwood)