The Lived Catholicism Conference 2020 was held on 23rd and 24th November 2020 on the programme below. Selected papers and recordings of the conference will be available in due course and linked via this website.
Thanks to all our keynote speakers, panelists, presenters, technical hosts, chat moderators and organisers for making Lived Catholicism 2020 possible
Day 1: Monday 23rd November 2-7pm GMT
Session 1: 2-3:20pm Opening plenary
Where Catholicism lives
Speaker: Associate Professor Tricia Bruce, University of Notre Dame / University of Texas at San Antonio, Chair: Dr Clare Watkins, University of Roehampton
Session 2: 3:35-4.45 Short Papers
Stream 1: Broken Worlds
Dr. Eric Hoenes del Pinal University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Can Lived Religion be Live on Facebook? Some Reflections on Lived Religion, Social Media, and Catholic Practice Under a Pandemic
Stream 2: Representation
Dr. Florian Klug
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
The irony of believing in resurrection within a global pandemic.
Stream 3: Identity
Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner, Linda Hennig, Lilo Ruther
University of Münster
“Lived Catholicism” – A case study of a religiously vital catholic family in Germany
Dr Prof Mariéle Wulf
Tilburg University, NL
Embarrassing Shame. Untold Stories of Guilt and Redemption
Prof Richard Necesito, Dr. Joven O. Sepino and Rev. Fr. Rodel Magin, OSA
University of San Agustin, Philippines
Revisiting Fr. Wostyn’s Ecclesiology in the midst of war on drugs in the Philippines.
Monica McArdle
Roehampton University
‘Would Moses have won the battle if he had only been raising his heart and mind?’ The developing understanding of the role of the body in prayer
Drs. Wilson Angelo Espiritu
KU Leuven and Ateneo de Manila University
Mystical-Political Pledge: Rethinking the Devotion to Jesus Nazareno with Edward Schillebeeckx
Katherine Ajibade
London School of Economics
Attending to the social: Exploring Catholic spiritual relationality on-line.
Dr Aiveen Mullally and Dr Patricia Kieran
Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Irish Institute for Catholic Studies (IICS)
Belief Fluidity: Research on the Lived Reality of Catholicism among Pre-Service Postgraduate Student Teachers in Catholic Colleges in the Republic of Ireland.
Session 3: 5-6pm Plenary 2
Period Piece? Humanae Vitae and the Memory of the Catholic Sixties
Speaker: Dr Alana Harris, King’s College, London Chair: Professor Pete Ward, Durham University
Session 4: 6.10-7pm Pop-up Podium
Stream 1: Places and Practices
Mr Josep Almudever Chanza University of Edinburgh
“Confession: a Sacrament with many names”
Stream 2: Identity and Time
Miss Bernadette Durcan
St Mary’s University, Twickenham
The University Chaplaincy: Lived Catholicism through the Student Lens
Dr. Adrienne Ambrose
University of the Incarnate Word
“The Lourdes Grotto & Guadalupe Tepeyac Shrine: A Two-Faced Devotional Site in Texas”
Bartosz Arkuszewski
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University
Religious experience of hopeless matters. Case study of the cult of Saint Rita in Krakow (Poland)
Mrs Ausra Cane
The Open University, Liverpool Hope University & Maryvale Institute
A phenomenological investigation into experiences of a Chapel of Disclosure in relation to the deep transformational learning.
Dr. Fides del Castillo
De La Salle University
Religious Expressions Re-Imagined: A Response to the Pandemic
Dr Namita Manohar
Brooklyn College – City University of New York
“Living Religion, Embodying ‘Interfaith’: Catholic Interfaith Wedding Ceremonies in Mumbai, India”
Dr Astrid Krabbe Trolle
The Research Center for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
Catholic Mission in Intimate Relations
Ms Carleigh Garcia
Mary Immaculate College, Irish Institute for Catholic Studies
The Country Girls’ Shame: Affect theory, shame, and the Catholic Church in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy & Epilogue’
Dr Gerard Madden
National University of Ireland Galway
Lived Catholicism on the factory floor: devotional Catholicism and labour cultures in 1950s Ireland
Mrs Fernanda Mee
St Mary’s University
The domestic church from Familiaris Consortio to Amoris Laetitia: a case study in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton
Gooitske Nijboer
University of Groningen
The Inner Sanctum on Display: Catholic Spiritual Biographies in Counter-Reformation France and the Netherlands
Mrs Anne Marie O’Riordan
Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge
Who are you, God? And who am I? Spiritual Growth and self-understanding of Catholic women within ministerial practice.
Dr Kate Sotejeff-Wilson
KSW Translations
The friendly foreigner? Lived Catholicism in Finland
Dr. Jakob Egeris Thorsen
Aarhus University
Lived Catholicisms and the ”Tiempos Mixtos” of Latin America: First Attempt of a Model.
Day 2: Tuesday 24th November 2-7pm GMT
Session 5: 2-3.15pm Plenary 3
English and Welsh Catholicism since 1914
Speaker: Professor Stephen Bullivant, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK
Session 6: 3.30-4.45 Short Papers
Stream 1: Places and Practices
Associate Professor Nasir Butrous
Australian Catholic University
The Catholicity of Business Curriculum
Stream 2: Gender and Sexuality
Dr. Kathryn Lamontagne
Boston University
“Angel in the House?:” Conversion, Class, and Lived Catholicism in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Stream 3: Formation and community
Dr. Clarence Batan, Isabelle de Vergara, and Assoc. Prof. Florence C. Navidad
University of Santo Tomas (Manila, Philippines)
Studying “Catechetical Ministry” (CM) in the Philippine Catholic Church: Stories, Discoveries, and Promising Discourses
Drs. Rinald D’Souza
KU Leuven
What does it mean to be an Adivasi Catholic today?
Prof John Eade
Roehampton University
The Emergence of Pilgrimage Studies and the Changing Character of Pilgrimage to and at Roman Catholic Shrines
Dr Vincent Manning
Alumnus, St Mary’s University
A Catholic voice for people living with HIV; ‘Positive Faith’ as pastoral outreach & practical theological pedagogy
Dr Wojciech Sadlon and Marcin Jewdokimow
Cardinal Stefan Wyszysnski University in Warsaw / Institute for Catholic Church Statistics
Living Out Sexuality Within Consecrated Community In Poland
Dr Anna Szwed, Katarzyna Leszczyńska and Agata Rejowska
Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Catholic women, religion and marriage. Maintaining and undermining patriarchal relations
Dr. Anna Niedźwiedź
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Lived Catholicism in Contemporary Ghana (women in the church)
Avril Baigent
Durham University
“You can’t be holy all the time”: Mass going practices among Catholic teenagers in the UK
Rev. Paul Rooney and Rev Dr Peter McGrail
Liverpool Hope University
Mapping the boundaries of Catholic life (literally): researching ministries in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.
Dr. Isaias R. Marcano
Saint Mary College of California Call to Family, Community, and Participation.
Session 7: 5-6pm Plenary 4
Give Us Boys: Lived Catholicism in the Wake of the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis
Speaker: Professor Robert Orsi, Northwestern University, Illinois, Chair, Kathryn Abijade, London School of Economics
Session 8: Plenary panel 6.10-7pm
Where do we need to go next in building the field of study and research into Lived Catholicism?
Chair: Professor Karen Kilby, Bede Professor of Catholic Theology and Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University
Panelists: Associate Professor Tricia Bruce, Dr Alana Harris, Professor Stephen Bullivant, Professor Robert Orsi, Dr Marcus Pound
The Lived Catholicism Conference is a project of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, in partnership with the London School for Economics.
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