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PUBLICATION : Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (Routledge, 2019), edited by Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones
Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (Routledge, 2019), edited by Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones. Book description: This volume makes a significant contribution to the ‘history of ecclesiastical histories’, with a fresh analysis of historians of evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present. It explores the ways in which their scholarly methods and theological agendas shaped their writings. Each chapter presents a case study in evangelical historiography. Some of the historians and...
read moreCALL FOR PAPERS : RHA/AHA Annual Conference 2019
RHA Stream/Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2019 The Religious History Association is affiliated to the Australian Historical Association, which is holding it’s Annual Conference in 2019 on 8-12 July at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba. The conference theme is ‘Local Communities, Global Networks’. This is of great relevance to those working in aspects of religious history. The keynote speaker for the RHA stream will be Professor Sylvester A. Johnson, author of African-American Religions,...
read moreCALL FOR PAPERS : Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies
Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies CALL FOR PAPERS This is a unique conferencing experience that will run from September 18-21, 2019. Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies is a flightless, multi-site conference that invites interdisciplinary attention to confluences between environmental and religious perspectives and practices in the long Anglophone nineteenth century (1780-1900). The conference will be broadcast online from four participating sites: Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University (Texas) Lancaster...
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