125th Annual Meeting (January 6-9, 2011):

American Society of Church History

Thursday, January 6, 2011

12:00 PM-5:30 PM

Registration Desk
American Society of Church History

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Pope Pius XII (1939–58) between History and Polemic
American Society of Church History 1

The Material Imagination in Late Antique Christianity
American Society of Church History 2

Echoes of the Crusades in the West
American Society of Church History 3

Women’s Ritual and Religious Authority in Early Mormonism
American Society of Church History 4

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Executive Committee Meeting
American Society of Church History

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Editorial Board Meeting
American Society of Church History

7:30 PM-9:00 PM

Council Meeting
American Society of Church History

Friday, January 7, 2011

7:30 AM-9:00 AM

Breakfast for Women in Theology and Church History
American Society of Church History

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Registration/Information Desk
American Society of Church History

9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Sacred Politics: Rethinking the Rise of the Religious Right
AHA Session 66

Transmuting Christianity: Alchemical Speculation and Christian Doctrine in the Late Middle Ages
American Society of Church History 6

Protestants and the Sacrality of Marriage in the Early Modern World
American Society of Church History 7

Religion and the Reforming Spirit in America
American Society of Church History 8

The Philokalia: Reconsidering a Christian Spiritual Classic
American Society of Church History 9

Considering Carlos Eire’s A Very Brief History of Eternity
American Society of Church History 10

1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Tour of Religious Sites
American Society of Church History 11

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Registration/Information Desk
American Society of Church History

2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Center and Periphery in the Late Antique Religious Landscape of Italy
American Society of Church History 12

America’s First Bible Commentary: A Roundtable on the Edition of Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana
American Society of Church History 13

Rethinking American Slavery and the History of Christianity
American Society of Church History 14

Medieval Legacies: Female Sanctity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
American Society of Church History 15

Narratives of Contemporary Christian Expansion
American Society of Church History 16

6:30 PM-7:30 PM

Graduate students' reception
American Society of Church History

Saturday, January 8, 2011

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Registration/Information Desk
American Society of Church History

9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History
AHA Session 126

The Invention of Early Christian Monasticism
American Society of Church History 18

Rethinking the "Savage" in French Catholicism
American Society of Church History 19

Christian Hebraists, Biblical Archaeologists, and Hebrew Christians: American Protestants’ Encounters with Jews and the Holy Land in the Twentieth Century
American Society of Church History 20

Religion in the Great Depression: Global Collapse, Local Crises
American Society of Church History 21

Retelling the History of American Christianities
American Society of Church History 22

11:30 AM-1:30 PM

A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard L. Bushman
AHA Session 165

The Reception of Early Church Traditions through History
American Society of Church History 24

The Sermon as a (New) Tool for the Study of the History of Christianity
American Society of Church History 25

Methodist Media: Comparing Means of Communicating the Message
American Society of Church History 26

Christianity and Global Sociopolitical Action
American Society of Church History 27

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Registration/Information Desk
American Society of Church History

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman Reception
American Society of Church History

2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era
American Society of Church History 28

Faith in the City: Urban Religions and the Narratives of Modernity
American Society of Church History 29

Things True and Useful: Writing History in the Mormon Tradition
American Society of Church History 30

Religious Intolerance in American History
American Society of Church History 31

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Business meeting
American Society of Church History

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

President's address
American Society of Church History

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

Presidential reception
American Society of Church History

Sunday, January 9, 2011

8:00 AM-1:00 PM

Registration/Information Desk
American Society of Church History

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

Religious Experiences of Women in the Carolingian World
American Society of Church History 32

Huguenots in Seventeenth-Century France
American Society of Church History 33

Religious History’s Digital Future
American Society of Church History 34

Alternative Social Gospels: Unconventional Sources of Protestant Reform in a Transatlantic Context, 1877–1930
American Society of Church History 35

11:00 AM-1:00 PM

The Formation of Protestant Identities through Book Selling (and Burning)
American Society of Church History 36

Strangers in an Ever-Stranger Land: Evangelicals Confront New England, 1834–1937
American Society of Church History 37

Authors Meet Critics: Christian Nonviolence in the Twentieth Century
American Society of Church History 38