American Society of Church History

Thursday, January 2, 2014

12:00 PM-5:30 PM


ASCH Registration Desk
American Society of Church History

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


The Christian Law of Marriage: Debate and Discussion of A.G. Roeber’s Hopes for Better Spouses: Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America
American Society of Church History 1

Debates and Controversies in Early Modern Germany and England
American Society of Church History 2

Sacred Objects, Mundane Origins
American Society of Church History 3

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Considering Lamin Sanneh’s Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African
American Society of Church History 4

The Protestant Reception of Medieval Mysticism: Lutherans, Puritans, and Evangelicals
American Society of Church History 5

Representing Death and the Dead in Early Christian Communities
American Society of Church History 6

Executive Committee Meeting
American Society of Church History

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


Council Meeting
American Society of Church History

Friday, January 3, 2014

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


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

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


ASCH Registration Desk
American Society of Church History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Printing Evangelicalisms: Evangelical Book Culture across Three Centuries
American Society of Church History 7

Liturgy and/as History: New Perspectives on Narrative and the Medieval Past
American Society of Church History 8

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Texts and the Origins of Liberal Religion in America, 1880–1950
American Society of Church History 9

Fracturing a Global Empire: Religion and Place in the American Revolution
American Society of Church History 10

Evangelicalism in Modern Britain Turns Twenty-Five: Re-Examining David Bebbington’s “Quadrilateral” Thesis
American Society of Church History 11

Shadow Cloister: Scandal, Subversion, and Theological Debate in Carolingian Monasticism
American Society of Church History 12

12:30 PM-1:45 PM


Luncheon: Celebrating the Career of Elizabeth Clark
American Society of Church History

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Exporting la Croix, Importing le Monde: French Catholic Missionaries Take on the Globe
American Society of Church History 13

Tour of Washington, D.C., Religious Sites
American Society of Church History 14

America’s Wars: Revealing Divisions and Transforming Beliefs
American Society of Church History 15

Doubting the Democratization Thesis: A Roundtable Discussion of Amanda Porterfield’s Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
American Society of Church History 16

Community and Identity in Early and Late Medieval England
American Society of Church History 17

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


Graduate Student Reception
American Society of Church History

Saturday, January 4, 2014

8:30 AM-5:00 PM


ASCH Registration Desk
American Society of Church History

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


I Have Become All Things to All People: Pentecostals’ Interactions with American Culture
American Society of Church History 18

The Message is the Medium: Missions to Indians as Central to the Early American Republic
American Society of Church History 19

Re-Imagining the “Missionary”: Definitions, Debate, and Voices of Disagreement from the American Margins to World Christianity
American Society of Church History 20

Adopt, Adapt, Improve: Worrying about Heterodoxy in the Early Middle Ages
American Society of Church History 21

11:30 AM-1:30 PM


Religion and the American Civil War: History and Historiography
AHA Session 169

Faith, Power, and Resistance: New Directions in Latina/o Religious History
American Society of Church History 23

Faith in War: Religious Difference among U.S. Military Personnel
American Society of Church History 24

Science, Religion, and Popular Culture in Modern Europe and America, 1890–1950
American Society of Church History 25

Placing Faith in American Global Policy
American Society of Church History 26

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Re-Structuring, Still: Twenty-Five Years with Robert Wuthnow’s The Restructuring of American Religion
American Society of Church History 27

Devising a New Lexicon of Race Relations: African Americans, the International Missionary Council, and the British Missionary Discourse on Civilizing Africa, 1920–40
American Society of Church History 28

Reflections on John O’Malley’s Trent: What Happened at the Council
American Society of Church History 29

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


Business Meeting
American Society of Church History

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


President's Address
American Society of Church History

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


President’s Reception
American Society of Church History

Sunday, January 5, 2014

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


The Politics of Enthusiasm in the Early Modern Anglo-Protestant World
AHA Session 229

Christianity and Controversy in the Enlightenment
American Society of Church History 31

Pious Subjects, Practice Subjects: Religious Practices between Conflict and Self-Making
American Society of Church History 32

Disagreement, Debate, and Discussion in Reconstruction-Era Religion
American Society of Church History 33

Monks and Mission, Processions and Crowds: Reassessing Christianization in the Late Antique East
American Society of Church History 34

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


Christians Debating Yoga: Exercise, Non-Christian Religion, or Christian Devotion?
American Society of Church History 35

Highways of Providence: American Seekers in a New World, 1870–1990
American Society of Church History 36

American Catholic Responses to the Politics of Life and Human Rights
American Society of Church History 37