Meetings and Activities of AHA Affiliated Societies

American Society of Church History

The ASCH information desk will be located at the Front Terrace Registration Counter on the Hilton Washington’s Terrace Level. Hours: Thursday, January 8, 1:00–4:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, January 9 and 10, 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1:00–5:00 p.m.

Thursday, January 8

12:00–1:30 p.m. Hilton, Bancroft Room.
Executive Committee Meeting

2:00–4:00 p.m. Hilton, Bancroft Room.
Church History Editorial Board meeting

4:15–6:15 p.m. Hilton, Bancroft Room.
ASCH Council Meeting. Open to all members of the society.

Friday, January 9

7:30–9:00 a.m. Hilton, Caucus Room.
Breakfast for Women in Theology and Church History

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Grant Room.
Session 1. From New Testament to Church History: Early Christian Studies and Disciplinary Boundaries

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Hamilton Room.
Session 2. Law, Religion, and Politics in the Ninth Century

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Independence Room.
Session 3. Religious Minorities and Confessional Identity in Reformation Europe

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Jackson Room.
Session 4. Religion, Race, and Reform in Antebellum America

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Kalorama Room.
Session 5. The Politics of Economics in East German Church-State Relations

12:15–1:45 p.m. Hilton, Monroe Ballroom.
Luncheon. Reservations required—contact Henry W. Bowden, ASCH Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 8517, Red Bank, NJ 07701; aschnoff@aol.com.

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Grant Room.
Session 6. Power and Conflict in Early Christianity

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Hamilton Room.
Session 7. Robert Lerner’s The Feast of Saint Abraham: Medieval Millenarians and the Jews: A Roundtable Discussion

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Independence Room.
Session 8, joint with the Pietism Study Group. Definitions and Boundaries in the History of Pietism

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Jackson Room.
Session 9, joint with the American Catholic Historical Association. Back to the “Christian Middle Ages”: The Historiography of Medieval Religion, 1984–2004

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Kalorama Room.
Session 10. Christian Heritage in Jerusalem

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, State Room.
Session 11. Suffering, Healing, and Theologies of Sanctification

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Front Terrace Registration Counter.
Walking Tour of Washington, D.C., Religious Sites

Leader: Peter W. Williams, Miami University
A tour of significant sites in Washington, D.C. Pick up information at ASCH registration counter.

Saturday, January 10

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Grant Room.
Session 13. Religious Borderlands in Late Antiquity

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Hamilton Room.
Session 14. Superceding Schaff: The New Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition by Jaroslav Pelikan and Valerie Hotchkiss

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Independence Room.
Session 15. Protestant Piety in Stuart England

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Jackson Room.
Session 16. African Christianity in Independent Churches and among Indigenous Peoples

9:30–11:30 a.m. Hilton, Kalorama Room.
Session 17. Women and Religion in Twentieth-Century America

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Grant Room.
Session 18. Heresy, Authority, and Interpretations in Early Christianity

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Hamilton Room.  
Session 19. Preaching, Reading, and Balancing the Books: The Reformation in English and Welsh Parishes

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Independence Room.
Session 20. The Career of Bernard McGinn: Retrospective and Prospective

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Jackson Room.
Session 21. Bridging the Divide: Church History’s Relationship to History and Theology

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, State Room.  
Session 22. History of American Religious Practice

4:45–5:45 p.m. Hilton, Monroe Ballroom. Business meeting

5:45–6:45 p.m. Hilton, Monroe Ballroom.
Presidential address

Presiding: Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University
Address: Gender and the Construction of Models of “Christian” Activity: A Case Study
Dale A. Johnson, Vanderbilt University

6:45–7:45 p.m. Hilton, Military Room.
Reception

Sunday, January 11

8:30–10:30 a.m. Hilton, Grant Room.
Session 23. Christian Transformations of the Greco-Roman Landscape

8:30–10:30 a.m. Hilton, Hamilton Room.
Session 24. Helmut W. Smith’s The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

8:30–10:30 a.m. Hilton, Independence Room.
Session 25. The Rhetoric of Gender and the (Im)Possibilities of Reform

8:30–10:30 a.m. Hilton, Jackson Room.
Session 26. American Religious Outsiders

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Hilton, Grant Room.
Session 27. Pastoral Strategies: Augustine of Hippo

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Hilton, Hamilton Room.
Session 28. Strategies of Survival: The Culture of Nonconformity in Late Stuart England

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Hilton, Independence Room.
Session 29. Ernest Troeltsch and Doing Church History Today

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Suite 473.
Session 30. Women in the American Society of Church History