Themes in the Modern History of Religion - Oxford Talks

Themes in the Modern History of Religion

This informal seminar will meet in the LSK Scholars Room A (first floor staircase 4) in Wadham College at 5pm on Tuesdays in Weeks 3-7 inclusive.

The first seminar in Week 2 will be in the Trapp Room (ground floor staircase 5).

All are most welcome. There will be drinks afterwards, and it is hoped that people will be able to stay and continue discussion.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Joshua Bennett (Christ Church College) , Jane Garnett (Wadham College) , Matthew Grimley (Merton College)
Timing: Tuesdays, 17:00; Weeks 2-7

Monday 24 April 2017

17:00 - 'A Great and Holy War": The Church of England and Women's Suffrage’
Robert Saunders (QMUL)

Monday 1 May 2017

17:00 - ‘Maritain and Rouault: Modernism and Catholicism’
Jennifer Johnson (Department of the History of Art)

Monday 8 May 2017

17:00 - ‘Miracles and Sainthood in Contemporary Indonesian Islam’
Kevin Fogg (Centre for Islamic Studies)

Monday 15 May 2017

17:00 - ‘A Spiritual Front: Catholic Theology and the Resistance to Nazism in France’
Sarah Shortall (University College)

Monday 22 May 2017

17:00 - ‘Prayer and Political Imagination: Fourteenth-Century Saints in Nineteenth-Century Perspective’
Sarah Williams (Regent College, Vancouver)

Monday 29 May 2017

17:00 - Rose Macaulay - Anglican Apologist?’
Judith Maltby (Corpus Christi College)

Monday 5 June 2017

17:00 - 'Confucian Religion and Western Science: the evolution of Kang Youwei's religious thought'
Zhaoyuan Wan (Linacre College)

Monday 23 April 2018

17:00 - ‘Notes towards a postsecular history of modern British secularization’
Sam Brewitt-Taylor (Lincoln)

Monday 30 April 2018

17:00 - ‘Through the looking glass: Bach and the nineteenth-century English church’ (paper followed by a short organ recital)
Katharine Pardee (CCC, Music Faculty and Wadham)

Monday 7 May 2018

17:00 - ‘“Give to the innocent that which is their due”: mania and religious language in the beginnings of the Aboriginal painting movement’
Kitty Hauser (Sydney)

Monday 14 May 2018

17:00 - ‘Athens, not Jerusalem: marginalizing Jewish history in nineteenth-century German classics’
Paul Michael Kurtz (Queens’ College, Cambridge)

Monday 21 May 2018

17:00 - ‘Reason and religion in Ottoman Syria: Protestantism, science, and unbelief in the conversions of a nineteenth-century notable’
Peter Hill (Christ Church)

Monday 28 May 2018

17:00 - ‘The religious imagination of the late German Enlightenment’
Paul Kerry (Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2019

14:00 - ‘From Henry Stubbe to Hafiz Shairani: Reading Histories of Early Islam as Political Theory’
Faridah Zaman (Somerville, Oxford)

Tuesday 14 May 2019

14:00 - ‘The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri Architecture’
Mehreen Chida-Razvi (SOAS)

Tuesday 21 May 2019

14:00 - ‘Devotion and Polemic in Eighteenth-century England: William Mason and the literature of lay evangelical Anglicanism’
Simon Lewis (Trinity College, Dublin)

Tuesday 28 May 2019

14:00 - ‘Contested boundaries or parallel universes? Recent accounts of the historical relations between science and religion’
Robert Iliffe (Oxford)

Tuesday 4 June 2019

14:00 - ‘Catholicism behind the Iron Curtain: Rethinking post-war Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary’
Mary Heimann (Cardiff)

Tuesday 11 June 2019

14:00 - ‘From the “civic improvement” of the Jews to the separation of state and church: Languages of reform in Prussia, 1781-1799’
Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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