On 31 May and 1 and 2 June 2018, the Amsterdam Centre for Religious History will organise the conference ‘Religious Revivals and their Effects: Perceptions, Media and Networks in the Modern World’.
Location
Vrije Universiteit (main building)
De Boelelaan 1105
Programme on Thursday 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 on Friday 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
Excursion on Saturday 2 June (Zeist)
Optional: excursion to Museum Het Hernhutter Huis in Zeist. Free access. Intercity Amsterdam-Zuid – Driebergen/Zeist (38 minutes) + additional services of luggage transport. Please announce your visit by sending an email message to
A pdf with the programme can be downloaded using [this link].