Conference proposal

							Religion, Gender, Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a
                          Local Setting
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          University of Wolverhampton, Telford (Priorslee) Campus

                                16-18 June 2009

                        Manchester Wesley Research Centre
               The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History
                    in co-operation with the Ironbridge Institute

                            Prospective programme

Tuesday 16 June

11am-2pm       Registration

12.30-1.45pm   Lunch [optional]

2.00-2.10pm    Welcome – Prof William Gibson, Dr Herbert McGonigle

2.10-3.30pm    Opening Keynote

               Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century: Models and
               Approaches
               Dr Jeremy Gregory, University of Manchester

3.30 pm        Tea/coffee

4.00-6.00pm    Session 1

               Was the Anglican Response to Early Methodism Effective?
               Prof Jonathan C D Clark, University of Kansas

               Fletcher’s Bishop: Orthodoxy and Unorthodoxy in the Life of Bishop
               James Beauclerk of Hereford
               Prof William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University

               Church and Chapel: Methodism as Church Extension 1760-1815
               David R. Wilson, University of Manchester

6.30 pm        Dinner


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7.30-9.30pm    Session 2

               The Doctrine of Accommodation Manifested Principally in the Pulpit
               Ministry of John Fletcher
               Russell Frazier, Nazarene Theological College, Manchester

               John Fletcher’s Links with Radical and Mystical Methodists
               Prof Peter Lineham, Massey University, New Zealand

               ‘A Passion for Missions’: Melvill Horne’s Contribution to Debate on
               the Qualities and Qualifications of Overseas Missionaries
               Dr Suzanne Schwarz, Liverpool Hope University

Wednesday 17 June

7.30-8.30am    Breakfast

9.00-10.20am   Keynote 2 (St Michael’s Parish Church, Madeley)

               Varieties of Women’s Religious Experience: Methodists and Quakers in
               Eighteenth-Century Shropshire
               Prof Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, New Jersey

10.20 am       Coffee/tea

10.50-12.50pm Session 3

               ‘She constantly ran from one part of the town to another’: Faith, Space
               and Gender in Madeley, 1780-1840
               Dr Joanna Cruickshank, Deakin University, Australia

               ‘Oh That the Mantle May Rest on Me!’: The Ministry of Mary Tooth
               Dr Carol Blessing, Point Loma Nazarene University, California

               Holding Tightly to ‘the Promise of the Father’: Phoebe Palmer and the
               Legacy of Fletcher of Madeley in Mid-Nineteenth Century Methodism
               Prof Harold E. Raser, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas
               City

1.00 pm        Lunch – (Priorslee campus or Fletcher Memorial Methodist
               Church)

2.00-3.20pm    Keynote 3 (Ironbridge Institute, Coalbrookdale)


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               Industrial Revolution and Evangelical Revival in the Severn Gorge:
               Some Re-considerations
               Dr Barrie Trinder, Industrial Historian and Author

3.20 pm        Coffee/tea, visit to 1709 forge

4.15-6.15pm    Session 4

               ‘I had rather be obscure. But I dare not’: Women and Methodism in the
               Eighteenth Century
               Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University, Utah

               Women, Worship, and Work in the Trefeca Family 1752-1773
               Dr Eryn White, University of Aberystwyth

               Support Groups for Methodist Women Preachers 1803-43
               John Lenton, Wesley Historical Society Librarian

6.15–7.30pm    Free time to visit to Ironbridge/Coalbrookdale & ‘sabbath
               walk’

8.00 pm        Dinner [Priorslee campus]

Thursday 18 June

7.30-8.45am    Breakfast

9.00-11.00am   Session 5

               John Fletcher: Theological Spokesman for John Wesley
               Dr Herbert McGonigle, Manchester Wesley Research Centre

               ‘Adoring the Holy Trinity in Unity’: John Fletcher’s Doxological
               Trinitarianism
               Kenneth M. Loyer, Southern Methodist University, Texas

               John Fletcher as the Theologian of American Methodism and Mary
               Bosanquet/Fletcher as Its Devotional Writer
               Prof Laurence W. Wood, Asbury Theological Seminary,
               Kentucky

11.00 am       Coffee/tea



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11.20-12pm      Closing Keynote

                The Long Fletcher Incumbency: Context and Continuity
                Dr Peter Forsaith, Oxford Brookes University

12.00-1pm       Panel discussion – forward directions

1.00 pm         Lunch, depart

Any revisions to the schedule will be posted on the conference website:
http://www.mwrc.ac.uk/madeley-conference-june-2009/

The Venue
The conference will be located at the University of Wolverhampton’s Telford
(Priorslee) campus [TF2 9NT], although main sessions will be held nearby in
Madeley parish church and at the Ironbridge Institute in Coalbrookdale, the
historic heart of the industrial revolution. Coach transfer will be provided to
conference sessions in Madeley and Coalbrookdale.

For a map of the region, see:
http://www.mwrc.ac.uk/storage/uow_area_map.pdf

For a map of Telford (including the train station) and the University of
Wolverhampton's Telford (Priorslee) campus, see:
http://www.mwrc.ac.uk/storage/uow_telford_campus.pdf

Directions will be sent to conference members prior to the conference.

Contacts:
      Manchester Wesley Research Centre
      Geordan Hammond [ghammond@nazarene.ac.uk tel – 0161 445 3063]

      Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History
      Peter Forsaith [pforsaith@brookes.ac.uk tel – 01865 488319]




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