Due to current circumstances, the VPFA Religion Study Day that was to have been held in Sheffield on 9 May 2020 has been postponed until spring 2021 (details TBC closer to the time).
In the meantime, we are running a Twitter taster linked to the study day on Saturday 30 May between 11:00 and 17:00 BST. Over the course of the day, participants will present snapshot threads on various facets of religion in the long nineteenth century and then participate in a Q&A – see below for the programme. The threads will be archived on the VPFA website. We encourage interested BAVS members to participate on the day by following #VPFAReligion and getting involved in the discussion.
Naomi Hetherington and Clare Stainthorp, vpfareligion@gmail.com
11:00 Anne-Marie Beller (@amb1860) and Kerry Featherstone (@KerryOrange)
“No greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism”: Women Travellers’ Encounters with Islam in the Nineteenth Century
11:20 Helena Goodwyn (@HelenaGoodwyn)
Sex Religion Sells! The Preacher, the Journalist and the Novel
11:40 Mary Going (@MazGoing)
“Tarry thou, till I come”: Salathiel, Supersessionism, and George Croly’s Wandering Jew
12:00 John Morton (@Drjmorton)
Encountering Catholicism and Catholic Europe in Popular Fiction and Periodicals of 1850
12:20 Flore Janssen (@FemLitCake)
‘Life’s a Misery, and I’m Such a Big Sinner!’: Reforming People and Society through the Salvation Army Press
12:40 Jen Baker (@Jendeavour)
Revisiting limbus infantium and inflicting Purgatorial Punishments: Navigating the Sacro-Secular Afterlife of the Victorian Child
13:00 Betty Hagglund (@BettyHagglund)
Innocent children as instruments of religious conversion in Silas Hocking’s waif novels
13:20 Monika Mazurke (@MonikaMaz1)
Roman Catholicism in the Tractarian and Anti-Tractarian Victorian Popular Novel
13:40 Break, with announcements from our funders VPFA & BAVS
14:00 Cath H. Kennedy (@carefulkaty)
Where are the Bible Heroines?: Women and Narrative in an example of the Child Temperance Press
14:20 Jessica Albrecht (@flumminism)
Eugenics and esotericism in Victorian feminist writing (Florence Farr and Frances Swiney)
14:40 Naomi Hetherington (@DrNHetherington)
Biblical interpretation and the popular women’s movement: the Bible Readings column of the Women’s Penny Paper
15:00 Clare Stainthorp (@ClareGS87)
Chatterton’s Commune; the Atheistic Communistic Scorcher and the expression of radical freethought
15:20 Scott Thompson (@scottcthompson_)
Braddon’s critique of religion, psychology, and determinism and freewill in Joshua Haggard’s Daughter
15:40 Matthew Crofts (@MattRCrofts)
‘God will aid us up to the end’: Religious Protection in Victorian Vampire Fiction
16:00 Alicia Barnes (@aliciarbarnes)
God of Steam: The Railway as a Religious Icon
16:20 Aren Roukema (@aren_b_r)
Early Science Fiction and the Occult Future
16:40 Closing remarks
This post has been re-published by permission from the BAVS Postgraduates Blog. Please see the original post at https://victorianist.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/religion-and-victorian-popular-literature-and-culture-twitter-taster-day/