Programme
Second International Conference on Lived Catholicism
Paradox and Prophecy: Why the Study of Lived Catholicism Matters
15th-16th November 2021
Monday 15th November
14:00-19:30 GMT
Session 1: 14:00-15:20
Welcome and Introduction from Avril Baigent (Chair of Conference Organising Team) and Dr Mathew Guest (Head of Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University)
Opening Plenary
Paradox and Prophecy: Why the Study of Lived Catholicism Matters
Speaker: Professor Massimo Faggioli
Chair: Dr Marcus Pound, Durham University
Concluding word: Professor Paul D. Murray, Dean-Director, Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University
Session 2: 15:35-16:45
Sites of Paradox and Prophecy: Short Papers Part One
Participants will be invited to select a stream to join on the day. Abstracts are available in the pdf above. Comments and responses can be submitted via chat.
Stream 1: Catholic Women and Sexuality
Chair: Dr Anna Niedźwiedź
Dr Sarah-Jane Page Aston University and Dr Pam Lowe
Aston University –A Qualitative Investigation into British Catholic Abortion Attitudes: Lived Religion, Nuance and Complexity
Mr Luis Bastidas Meneses University of Bayreuth and Ms Claudia Álvarez Hurtado Boston University – Catholicism without the Catholic Church. The case of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir movement in Colombia
Ms Eline Huygens Ghent University – Gender, relationships, and sexuality. An empirical study on the lived experiences of young Catholic women
Stream 2: Catholic Women Prophetic in Ordinary
Chair: Lisa Lickona
Dr Pat Jones Durham University – ‘Be proud to be a worker girl’: The impact of YCW on working class Catholic girls in the post-war era
Ms Evyn McGraw University of St Andrews – How the Stories of Flannery O’Connor Can Heal a Divided Church
Dr Terry Tastard Cadbury Centre for Public Understanding of Religion, Birmingham University – Florence Nightingale’s Love-Hate Relationship with the Catholic Church
Stream 3: Health
Chair: Dr Marcus Pound
Dr Peter Kevern Staffordshire University –Between suicide and adoration: reflections on online devotions during lockdown
Dr Luke Buhagiar DISCERN (www.discern.mt) and Dr Matthew Pulis University of Malta and Andre Zaffarese Archdiocese of Malta – Lived Catholicism and Covid-19: Perspectives of parish priests and parish workers in Malta
Prof. Daryl Higgins Australian Catholic University –Designing a new safeguarding system for Catholic Church entities in Australia
Stream 4: Education
Chair: Claire Jenkins
Dr Fiona Dineen Mary Immaculate College – Sites of Paradox and Prophecy: Educators, Ethos and the lived reality of the Catholic school
Drs Isaak Deman KU Leuven / Australian Catholic University – Lived Catholicism through Catholic Education? Pre-Conciliar Expectations among the European Bishops as reflected in the Vota
Dr Damian Costello NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community –Innovation from the Periphery: Lessons from Black Elk and the Indigenous Catechetical Tradition in the Context of Antique Ministerium
Session 3: 17:00-18:00
Lived Catholicism in Postsecular Society
Speaker: Dr Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire
Chair: Dr Pat Jones, Durham University
Followed by questions and responses submitted via chat.
Session 4: 18:30-19:30
Pop-Up Podium and Synodality Stream
Participants will be invited to select a stream to join on the day. Abstracts are available in the pdf above. Comments and responses can be submitted via chat.
Stream 1 – Pop-Up Podium
Chair: Avril Baigent
Dr. Kathryn Lamontagne Boston University – Gender, Faith, and Class: Lived Catholicism in Massachusetts, 1950-1955
Mrs Anne Marie O’Riordan Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology –Capturing Voices – A Theological Listening Ethic
Mr Jake Grefenstette University of Cambridge – Lived Catholicism and Catholic Poetry: A Case Study in Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ms Allison Guerrette Duquesne University – It is the Spirit Who gives Life: Living Catholicism Boldly and Dynamically
Mr Bartosz Arkuszewski Jagiellonian University, Museum of Krakow – The Material Medium of Healing. Case study of the oil in the worship of Saint Charbel in Krakow (Poland)
Mrs Ma. Adeinev (Nev) Reyes-Espiritu KU Leuven – Owning One’s Faith: An Inquiry into the Practice of (Catholic) Christian Faith by Philippine Transnational Mothers
Discussion
Stream 2 – Learning and Living Synodality
Chair: Prof Paul D. Murray
Prof Paul D. Murray Durham University – Introduction: Synodality and Lived Catholicism
Mr Raphael Yabut Boston College –Learning With One Another: Lived Pedagogies in Grassroots Church Communities
Dr Pat Jones Durham University – The Goad of the Promised Future: Reflections on 40 Years of Consulting the Baptised from the Liverpool 1980 Congress Onwards
Mr Christopher Lamb The Tablet and Durham University – Reshaping the Centre: A Synodal Rome?
Prof. Peter McGrail Liverpool Hope University – Is Anything Off the Synodal Agenda?
Dr John O’Brien Durham University –Dialogue: Easy to Say; Difficult to Do!
Dr Gregory Ryan Durham University –Making Room and Making Sense in a Messy and Synodal Church
Discussion
Tuesday 16th November
11:00-19:00 GMT
Session 5: 11:00-12:30
Theology and Paradoxes: Discerning Prophetic Voices in an Honest Ecclesiology for the Whole-Church
Speaker: Dr Clare Watkins, Roehampton University
Chair: Gaël Pardoen, University of Durham
Followed by questions and responses submitted via chat, and breakout groups.
Session 6: 13:15-14:30
Sites of Paradox and Prophecy: Short Papers Part Two
Participants will be invited to select a stream to join on the day. Abstracts are available in the pdf above. Comments and responses can be submitted via chat.
Stream 5 –Paradox and Belonging
Chair: Mr Adrian Brooks
Mr Gaël Pardoën
Durham University – Disrupting Lived Catholicism: Lived Catholicism as apophatic practice
Dr Florian Klug Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg – The aesthetics of the Eucharist: A paradigm for coping with ambiguity
Dr Claire Jenkins Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology – Transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) young people’s experiences in schools: a social ecological analysis of the literature
Jeff Shawn Jose Tilburg University – Dwellers and Seekers
Stream 6 – Abuse
Chair: Dr. Marcus Pound
Dr Matthias Dickert Comenius University Bratislava – The case of the ` Duplessis Orphans`as one of the first and neglected cases of child abuse within the Catholic Church after World War Two
Prof Lisa Lickona Saint Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, New York – Noli me tangere: The Present Crisis and the Virgin’s Gaze
Dr Colt Anderson Fordham University – Old Models and New Methods: Economics as a Resource for Understanding the Sexual Abuse Crisis
Stream 7 – Cross Cultural Engagements
Chair: Damian Costello
Miss Tiffany Hunsinger University of Dayton – Pure Catholic Evangelicals: The Shaping of Modern Catholicism’s Purity Culture
Dr Michel Chambon National University of Singapore –Discussing Lived Catholicism in China: An Urgent Need for the World Church
Dr Bernardo Brown International Christian University (Tokyo) – A View of Vocation Crisis from South Asia
Stream 8 – Culture & Devotion
Chair: Prof. John Eade
Dr Héctor Varela Rios Villanova University – “Depicting heavenly reality”: works of art as documents of belief
Dr Richard Bernier Concordia University – Wine and Wineskins: Contextual Theology and Lived Catholicism
Dr Anna Niedzwiedz Jagiellonian University in Krakow – The Power of Money in Ghanaian Catholicism
Session 7: 14:50-16:10
Living Catholicism: Potentialities and Limitations from an Anthropological Perspective
Speaker: Professor Valentina Napolitano, University of Toronto
Chair: Professor Anna Rowlands, Durham University
Followed by questions and responses submitted via chat.
Session 8: 16:30-17:40
Doing Lived Catholicism; Exploring Radical Demands on Scholars in a Catholic Context
with Robert Orsi, Paul Murray and Alana Harris.
Session 9: 18:00-19:00
Closing Plenary
Paradox and Prophecy: Why the Study of Lived Catholicism Matters
Bringing together scholars from across the disciplines to unpack the possibilities of this emerging field. Chair: Avril Baigent
Followed by closing remarks.
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