Internationaal wetenschappelijk congres
Religious Revivals and their Effects: Perceptions, Media and Networks in the Modern World
31 May – 2 June 2018
Amsterdam Centre for Religious History
Vrije Universiteit (main building), De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam
Programme 31 May
| 8.45 | Registration |
| 9.15 | Opening, welcome, introduction |
| Moderator: Fred van Lieburg | |
| 9.30 | Keynote I: Klaus Koschorke: Pietism of 18th century, Revival movements of 19th century and the program of a polycentric history of World Christianity |
| 10.00 | Discussion |
| 10.15 | Wolfgang Breul: The Moravian Diaspora network in the southwest of Germany in the early 19th century |
| 10.45 | Benjamin Pietrenka: Providing for Pietist Awakenings: Johann Jänicke and Moravian Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century |
| 11.15 | Break |
| Moderator: Wolfgang Breul | |
| 11.45 | Keynote II: Joachim Schiedermair: Rezeption historischer Stoffe in der Literatur im Allgemeinen und in der Skandinavischen Literatur am Beispiel der Erweckung |
| 12.15 | Discussion |
| 12.30 | Sabine Wolsink: A novel or an ideological statement? The historical and autobiographical context of Adriaan de Mérival (1866) by Allard Pierson (1831-1896) |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| Moderator: Stefan Gelfgren | |
| 14.00 | Daniel Lindmark: Religious Tract Societies, Transnational Networks and Reading Experience, 1800-1850 |
| 14.30 | Svein Ivar Langhelle: Religion between tradition and modernity in South-western Norway in the early 19th century |
| 15.00 | Therese Tamm Selander: Bringing the World to Swedish Girls in the 1850s |
| 15.30 | Break |
| Moderator: Jan Stievermann | |
| 15.45 | Ingvar & Jakob Dahlbacka: The revelations of a ‘conversion narrative’: the case of Finnish revivalist leader Fredrik Gabriel Hedberg |
| 16.15 | Kim Stefan Groop: Livingstone and Stanley – Two Transnational Folk Heroes and the Swedish and Finnish Foreign Mission |
| 16.45 | Break |
| 17.15 | Ingunn Folkestad Breistein: Media and the Mangs’ revival in Norway in the 1930s: How did the press refer from the revivals, and how did the revival leaders use media to spread their message?” |
| 17.45 | Jakob Dahlbacka: The pietistic revival as a promotor of general education and democratization – the case of Anders Svedberg (1832–1889) |
| 18.15 | General discussion |
| 19.00 | Conference dinner |
Programme 1 June
Moderator: Ruth Albrecht | |||
| 9.00 | Péter Trechet: Italian-speaking Catholic Revival in Habsburg Trieste - A Case Study On Religious Identity and Imperial Loyalty, 1890-1914 | ||
| 9.30 | Jan Stievermann: American Evangelicalism and the Prussian Erweckungsbewegung, ca. 1800-1850 | ||
| 10.00 | Thomas Hahn-Bruckart: The evangelization of Germany as a transnational endeavor int he 1880s | ||
| 10.30 | Break | ||
| Moderator: Thomas Hahn-Bruckart | |||
| 11.15 | Ábrahám Kovács: Trying to comprehend the other Calvinist’s piety: The Thrill, Dismay and Fascination in the media caused by the Anglo-Saxon evangelistic preaching A.N. Sommerville’s | ||
| 11.45 | Jan Carsten Schnurr: The International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne 1974 and its Impact on Global Evangelicalism | ||
| 12.15 | Discussion | ||
| 12.30 | Lunch | ||
| Moderator: Veronika Albrecht-Birkner | |||
| 13.30 | Wolfgang Reinhardt: The local and international effects of the last revival in Wales (1904-05) – seen by German travel reports and journals | ||
| 14.00 | Mirjam Hofman: The controversial career of Henri Jacques Couvée (1867-1946), or how the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905 marked the life of a Dutch Reformed minister | ||
| 14.30 | Arjen Stellingwerf: When the Breaker calls. The revival of August 1881 in Weerdingermond | ||
| 15.00 | Break | ||
| Moderator: Jakob Dahlbacka | |||
| 15.15 | Jouko Talonen: International research into Laestadianism from 1975 | ||
| 15.45 | Anssi Ollilainen: The Laestadianism and the Sacraments: a Temporary Schism with Historical Roots | ||
| 16.15 | Break | ||
| Moderator: Jan Carsten Schnurr | |||
| 16.30 | Stefan Gelfgren: Revivalism and secularization: Why 19th century revivalism promoted the process of secularization | ||
| 17.00 | Keynote III: Yan Suarsana, Inventing Global Revivalism: The Pentecostal Movement and Historiography | ||
| 17.30 | Discussion | ||
| 18.00 | Conclusion of the conference - Moderator: Fred van Lieburg | ||
Saturday 2 June 2018 (Zeist)
Optional: excursion to museum Evangelische Broedergemeente Zeist
Intercity Amsterdam-Zuid – Driebergen/Zeist (38 minutes) + additional services of luggage transport
Free access.
Please announce your visit by sending an e-mail message to info@acrh.eu.
A pdf with this programma can be downloaded with this link.