American Society of Church History

Friday, January 2, 2015

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Border Crossings: World Christianities and the West from the Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
American Society of Church History 1

Raising a Righteous Generation: Educating Christians in the Transatlantic World
American Society of Church History 2

Reinterpreting the American Religious Narrative through the Lens of the Primitive and the Pragmatic
American Society of Church History 3

2:30 PM-5:30 PM


Tour 11: American Society of Church History Tour of Harlem Religious Sites
American Society of Church History

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


ASCH Executive Committee Meeting
American Society of Church History

Spiritual Midwifery: The Role of Religion in Midwifery Training and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
American Society of Church History 4

Doing History
American Society of Church History 5

Counsellor, Critic, Comforter, Colleague: Preaching at Court in Early Modern Europe
American Society of Church History 6

7:30 PM-10:00 PM


ASCH Council Meeting
American Society of Church History

Saturday, January 3, 2015

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


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

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Evange’lico, Injiliyya, Evangelical: World Christianity and Histories of Evangelicalism
American Society of Church History 7

Religious Cultures and Agriculture: Farming, Faith, and American Identity
American Society of Church History 8

Emotions and Passions in Early Christianity
American Society of Church History 9

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Revelation, Retrospection, and Representation: The Challenge of Christian Science History
American Society of Church History 10

Futures of the American Religious Past: A Conversation about Mark Noll’s America’s God and John Lardas Modern’s Secularism in Antebellum America
American Society of Church History 11

Far from Heaven: Perspectives on Hell through the Ages
American Society of Church History 12

12:15 PM-1:45 PM


Lunch Celebrating the Career of Grant Wacker
American Society of Church History

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Ecumenism in the Global South: Three Case Studies from India, Africa, and Latin America
American Society of Church History 13

Medieval History and Liturgy: Problems and Methods
American Society of Church History 14

Believing History: In Celebration of Grant Wacker’s Contributions to American Religious History
American Society of Church History 15

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


ASCH Graduate Student Reception
American Society of Church History

Sunday, January 4, 2015

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


Medieval Exemplarity and Its Afterlife
American Society of Church History 16

American Religion Online: How Digital Projects Can Change How We Teach, Research, and Interpret Religious History
American Society of Church History 17

Contemporary Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights
American Society of Church History 18

11:30 AM-1:30 PM


On the Discourses of Secularism and Pluralism
AHA Session 203

Evangelicalism and Economy: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Anglo-American and Central European Theology, Economic Theory, and Social Activism from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
American Society of Church History 20

Catholicism, Knowledge, and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Germany
American Society of Church History 21

Religion in Public Schools: Church History, Law, Education, and Ethics
American Society of Church History 22

Psalms Across the Empire: The Reform and Revival of Psalmody in the British Imperial Age
American Society of Church History 23

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


American Evangelicals Looking Abroad
AHA Session 219

Studying American Religion, Politics, and Foreign Policy All at the Same Time: Where Do We Go from Here?
American Society of Church History 25

The Digital Humanities and the Study of Christianity in Late Antiquity: Reflections on a Disciplinary Intersection
American Society of Church History 26

Confessional Boundaries in the Reformation Era
American Society of Church History 27

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


ASCH Business Meeting
American Society of Church History

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


ASCH President's Address
American Society of Church History

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


ASCH Presidential Reception
American Society of Church History

Monday, January 5, 2015

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Francis of Assisi: (A)historical Legacies
American Society of Church History 28

Journeying into Evangelicalism: Twenty-Five Years of Traveling with Randall Balmer’s Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
American Society of Church History 29

Protestants and Catholics in Colonial New England
American Society of Church History 30

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


Sixty Years of Religious Decline? An Interdisciplinary Conversation
American Society of Church History 31

Mapping Religious Space: Four American Cities from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century
American Society of Church History 32

Silences in Protestant Autobiography: Exploring Sickness, Sexuality, and Race in American Religion
American Society of Church History 33