The Conventicle: A Call to Aspiring Teachers, Lecturers, and Educators

Who were the Puritans?

"A loosely organized reform movement originating during the English Reformation of the sixteenth century. The name came from efforts to 'purify' the Church of England by those who felt that the Reformation had not yet been completed. Eventually the Puritans went on to attempt purification of the self and of society as well."

(Mark Noll, "Puritanism", Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 1984)

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

A Call to Aspiring Teachers, Lecturers, and Educators

Crawford Gribben has kindly brought to our attention a conference at Manchester on 10 November 2006 entitled Teaching Religion in Early Modern Studies. Here is a summary:

This event, a collaboration between three Subject Centres (English; History; Philosophy and Religious Studies) will explore interdisciplinary perspectives in the teaching of early modern religion. Charting the spectrum of student commitments, the workshop will feature discussion on such topics as 'Secularism, fundamentalism and the teaching of early modern religion', 'Teaching the reformation', 'Teaching religious literature', 'Teaching theology and religious ideas' and 'Teaching religious institutions and communities'.

Participants will include Michael Brown, Alan Ford, Jeremy Gregory, Crawford Gribben, Graeme Murdock, Gerald Hammond, Sandra Hynes, Peter Marshall and Lucy Wooding.

Thanks Dr Gribben for thinking of us. For more information, click here.

2 comments:

Ian Hugh Clary said...: Boy, you Brits get all the cool conferences. I'd love to see Alan Ford - I was just tracing through his Four Courts work on the Irish Reformation.
Maybe one of you guys could "live-blog" it at The Conventicle??; 5:59 PM
John W. Tweeddale said...: Ian,

Thanks. Appreciate your site. If one of us goes down, we will indeed post about it. But the feeling is mutual. Anyone planning on blogging about Carl Trueman at your one day conference at TBS at the end of the month?

JWT; 7:47 PM