ASCH registration desk will be located in the Seventh Floor Lobby of
the Palmer House Hilton. Hours: Thursday, January 2, 1: 00–4:30
p.m. Friday and Saturday, January 3 and 4, 9:30a.m.–12 p.m and 1:00–5:00p.m.
Thursday, January 2
12:00–1:30 p.m. Palmer House, Private Dining Room 9. ASCH Executive
Committee meeting
2:00–4:00 p.m. Palmer House, Private Dining Room 9. Church History Editorial
Board meeting
4:15–6:15 p.m. Palmer House, Private Dining Room 9. ASCH Council
Meeting
Friday, January 3
7:30–9:00 a.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 1. Breakfast for Women
in Theology and Church History
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 7.
Session 1. Christians as Romans: Issues of Identity in a Christian Empire
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 1.
Session 2. Theology within the Context of the Science of Religion
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 2.
Session 3. The Reception of the Church Fathers in the Reformation Period
9:30–11:30 a.m. Parc 55, Cervantes Room. Palmer House, Burnham
Room 4.
Session 4. Religion in/and the Windy City
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 5.
Session 5. American Women Religious Leaders: Claiming and Maintaining
Authority
12:15–1:45 p.m. Palmer House, Wabash Parlor. Luncheon.
Reservations required—contact Henry W. Bowden, ASCH Executive
Secretary, P.O. Box 8517, Red Bank, NJ 07701; aschnoff@aol.com.
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 7.
Session 6. Religion, Networks, and the Irish in Britain, c. 1800–Present
2:30–4:30 p.m. Parc 55, Da Vinci I. Palmer House, Burnham Room
1.
Session 7. Walking Tour of Chicago Religious Sites
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 2.
Session 8. Admissions Policies: Why Religious Institutions Let Women
In, 1100–1600
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 4.
Session 9. Rituals in North African Christianity
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 5.
Session 10. Writing Global Histories of Christianity
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 3.
Session 11. Recent Trends in Edwards Studies
5:00–6:45 p.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 1.
Session 12. Teaching the One-Semester History of Christianity Course
5:00–6:45 p.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 1. Palmer House, Burnham
Room 4.
Session 13. Mark Noll's America's God:
From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Saturday, January 5
Palmer House, Montrose Room 7.
Session 14. Religion and National Cultures in an Age of Cultural Revolution
9:30–11:30 a.m.Palmer House, Burnham Room 1.
Session 15. Religion and Violence in American History
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 2.
Session 16. Psychological Approaches to Medieval Religious Experience
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 4.
Session 17. Ascetics and Aesthetics
9:30–11:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 5.
Session 18. The Impact of American Evangelical Protestantism on Modern
Japan, 1868–1934
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 7.
Session 19. Centennial Reflections on The Souls of Black Folk
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 1.
Session 20. Russian Orthodoxy at Home and Abroad in the Soviet Period
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 2.
Session 21. Texts and Reception in Early Christianity
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 4.
Session 22. Monastic and Scholastic Theology in the Late Middle Ages
2:30–4:30 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 5.
Session 23. Religion and the Uses of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century
Britain and America
2:30–4:30 p.m. Parc 55, Da Vinci II. Palmer House, Montrose Room
1.
Session 24. North/South Relationships and the Beginnings of Latin American
Protestantism
4:45–5:45 p.m. Palmer House, Monroe Ballroom. Business meeting
5:45–6:45 p.m. Palmer House, Monroe Ballroom. Presidential address
Presiding: Dale A. Johnson, Vanderbilt University
Address: Teaching the History of Christianity:
Traditions and Presuppositions
E. Brooks Holifield, Emory University
6:45–7:45 p.m. Palmer House, Adams Ballroom. Reception
Sunday, January 5
8:30–10:30 a.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 7.
Session 25. Conversions: Literature and Propaganda
8:30–10:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 1.
Session 26. Recent Patterns of Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement
in Asia
8:30–10:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 2.
Session 27. Celtic Identity and Religion from the Eighteenth to the
Twentieth Centuries (supported by a grant from The British Academy)
8:30–10:30 a.m. almer House, Burnham Room 4.
Session 28. Familiae, Monastic and Secular
8:30–10:30 a.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 5.
Session 29. Death and Afterlife in American Religious Culture
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Palmer House, Montrose Room 7.
Session 30, joint with the Pietism Studies Group. Radical Pietism: A
Trans-National Phenomenon
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 1.
Session 31. Welfare and Philanthropy in Late Antiquity
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 2.
Session 32. Lay Hands on the Sick, and They Will Recover
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Palmer House, Burnham Room 4.
Session 33. Interior and Exterior Conflicts in Old and New World Calvinisms
