“They say the Madonna is working miracles”: The power of stories in the creation of an image cult
October 2020
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Chapter
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L’Image miraculeuse dans le christianisme occidental. Moyen Age – Temps modernes
Newman and the power of conviction: Truth in complexity
March 2020
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Journal article
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International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church
Newman returned again and again to reflect on the nature of conviction. The very process of ongoing reflection was itself fundamental: the cultivation of a contemplative cast of mind open to complexity and diversity, and resistant to relativism. Attention to such a way of thinking was the safeguard of integrity and a check on solipsistic individualism. This was crucial for the interrelationship between thought and action, and the functioning of an engaged and responsible civil society. In an increasingly pluralistic religious culture, understanding well-considered difference could strengthen faith and underpin effective action in a way that appeals to bland consensus or to a generic natural theology could never do. Whilst Newman argued for the essential consistency of principle with which he approached these questions throughout his life, projected onto his conversion was a series of cultural and political anxieties, refracted through the lens of a gendered and sexualised anti-Catholicism, of which Kingsley was a prominent exponent. However, this language was part of a much wider – and developing – contemporary discourse, involving a range of thinkers (including Maurice, Ruskin and Matthew Arnold), who deployed gender to constructive critical effect, adding to the dynamic force of diversity, which Newman harnessed. Such ways of thinking retain their pertinence in confronting questions of value in a liberal society.
activism, Peel, Matthew Arnold, pluralism, wholeness, FFR, liberalism, Ruskin, Kingsley, diversity, Maurice
Shared Devotions: space, faith and community in East London
January 2020
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Book
The Ex Voto between Domestic and Public Space: From Personal Testimony to Collective Memory
November 2018
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Chapter
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Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy
SBTMR
Joseph Butler
October 2018
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Chapter
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Oxford Handbook to John Henry Newman
'Anglican Economic and Social Engagement’
December 2016
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Chapter
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Oxford History of Anglicanism, vol. 3.
This chapter demonstrates the centrality of debates about economic and social ethics to the construction of Anglican national and transnational identities. It teases out the cross-cultural character of these debates, and argues for the development of complex and sophisticated traditions of engagement across the theological spectrum, which probed the interrelationships between individual and social morality. Reflection on economic and social thought ran through sermons, tracts, lectures, biographies, periodical literature, and treatises on philosophy, theology, and history, as well as informing the work of a wide range of societies, organizations, and philanthropic agencies. Anglican critiques of political economy recognized the Church’s responsibility to identify and confront the growing challenges of capitalism, and to provide frameworks for thinking constructively about the quality of life.
Introduction: Religion and Belonging in Diaspora
September 2016
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Journal article
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Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
Introduction: Religion and Belonging in Diaspora
September 2016
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Edited book
4702 Cultural Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 3602 Creative and Professional Writing, 3604 Performing Arts
Re-Scripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis
April 2016
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Book
Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.
‘At Home in the Metropolis: Gender and Ideals of Social Service’
January 2016
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Chapter
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‘Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles’: Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society
This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime she was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of social problems. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. This book provides a nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women’s role in them, in particular....
Shifting markers of identity in East London's diasporic religious spaces
December 2015
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Journal article
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
This article discusses the historical and geographical contexts of diasporic religious buildings in East London, revealing – contrary both to conventional narratives of immigrant integration, mobility, and succession and to identitarian understandings of belonging – that in such spaces and in the concrete devotional practices enacted in them, markers and boundaries of identity (ritual, spatial, and political) are contested, renegotiated, erased, and rewritten. It draws on a series of case-studies: Fieldgate Street Synagogue in its interrelationship with the East London Mosque; St Antony's Catholic Church in Forest Gate where Hindus and Christians worship together; and the intertwined histories of Methodism and Anglicanism in Bow Road. Exploration of the intersections between ethnicity, religiosity, and class illuminates the ambiguity and instability of identity-formation and expression within East London's diasporic faith spaces.
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Citizenries and scholarship
September 2015
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Journal article
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Religion and Society
Debate: In Response to Charlie
January 2015
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Journal article
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Religion and Society
Doh Mix Meh Up: Diaspora and Identity in Art
January 2015
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Book
Religion in Diaspora
January 2015
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Book
‘Interrogating Diaspora? Beyond the ethnic mosaic: faith, space and time in London’s east end’
January 2014
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Chapter
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Collaboration and
Conflict in the Age of Globalization
Church without walls: Mapping the sacred in East London
December 2013
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Chapter
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Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis
Canvassing the faithful: Image, agency and the lived religiosity of devotion to the divine mercy
November 2013
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Chapter
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Prayer in Religion and Spirituality.
This chapter explores the controversial history and contemporary practice of an immensely popular devotion, sketching the charismatic role of its originator, Saint Faustina, and the various artistic representations of the Divine Mercy that have been created and circulated. It interrogates a highly influential contemporary form of Catholic spirituality as a socio-cultural as well as subjective, material and experiential form of belief and practice. Focused on an image arising out of a visionary experience by a simple girl, the framing narratives make explicit the association between this simplicity and the spirit of trust which lies at the heart of the devotion. The Divine Mercy images and prayers have achieved a striking global resonance through their scope for personal individuation and agency, whether clerical or lay. This very vitality has proved challenging and ultimately uncontainable.
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Canvassing the Faithful: Image, Agency and the Lived Religiosity of Devotion to the Divine Mercy
November 2013
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Chapter
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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Volume 4: Prayer in Religion and Spirituality
Prayer is a phenomenon which seems to be characteristic not only of participants in every religion, but also men and women who do not identify with traditional religions. It can be practised even by those who do not believe either in a God or transcendent force. In this sense, therefore, we may assert that the prayer is a typically human activity that has accompanied the development of different civilizations over the course of the centuries. Both the material issues of concrete daily life as well as more symbolic elements expressed through words, gestures, body positions, and community celebration are brought together in the act of praying.
Wounding and Healing: Dealing with Difference in Christian Narratives of Migrant Women in East London since the 1980s
April 2013
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Journal article
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Women's History Review
Wounding and Healing: Dealing with Difference in Christian Narratives of Migrant Women in East London since the 1980s.
April 2013
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Journal article
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Women's History Review
Canvassing the Faithful: Image, Agency and the Lived Religiosity of Devotion to the Divine Mercy
January 2013
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Journal article
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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
In 1931 a young and poorly-‐educated Polish nun, Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska had a series of visions of Christ. Appearing as the Divine Mercy, with two rays radiating from His heart, the vision instructed Faustina to have painted a devotional image. The visions also led to the institution of a series of prayers. This article explores the controversial history of the Divine Mercy devotion (and the various images associated with it), centred around the charismatic role of Faustina herself (canonised in 2000) and the efficacy of her Divine Mercy Chaplet in providing lay access to the remission of sins. It explores the lived religious experiences and discursive subjectivities of a number of devotees to the Divine Mercy and maps the ways in which this meditative and materially-‐expressed form of prayer offers them strategies for mediating challenging personal and social difficulties. Through exploring the visual and material practices surrounding this form of prayer and the gendered and embodied forms of solace it offers, this article will enable greater appreciation of this evolving form of Catholic spirituality as a socio-‐ cultural as well as individual, subjective practice.
Conclusion
January 2013
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Chapter
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Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis
Rome
January 2013
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Chapter
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Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Britain
Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy, 1500-2010
January 2013
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Book
‘Church without walls: mapping the sacred in East London’
January 2013
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Chapter
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Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious
Identity in the Modern Metropolis
Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.
‘Migration, Modernity and Religious Identity in Global London’
January 2013
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Chapter
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L’Europe des Religions
Notes from the Field: Miraculous Images
March 2012
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Journal article
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Art Bulletin
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January 2012
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Journal article
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ART BULLETIN
Faith in the home catholic spirituality and devotional materiality in east london
July 2011
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Journal article
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Material Religion: the journal of objects, art and belief
A self-consciously old-fashioned greengrocer’s shop on Prince Regent Lane in East London might seem a surprising place for reflections on faith and the implications of a material spirituality. Yet this is what a conversation with Eileen, an 84-year-old, half-Irish, half-Swedish lifelong resident of the East End reveals. The encounter we had in her sitting room, behind a storefront displaying fruit and vegetables, religious statues, and a flag of St George over a set of scales which still measure in Imperial...
Faith in the Home: Catholic Spirituality and Devotional Materiality in East London
January 2011
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Journal article
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Material Religion: the journal of objects, art and belief
Since 1970
December 2009
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Chapter
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Wadham College 1610-2010
This new edition of Wadham College has been prepared to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the College's foundation in 1610. All the original chapters have been revised, and a new chapter on the period since 1970 has been added, discussing the many and often controversial developments. The last fifteen years have seen a good deal of work done on various aspects of the college's history, and the text is thoroughly revised. The opportunity has been taken to include many more illustrations, which help to bring the College to life. This book provides a vivid insight into the historical development of the College as it embarks on the challenges of its next century.
Wadham College 1610-2010
December 2009
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Book
This new edition of Wadham College has been prepared to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the College's foundation in 1610. All the original chapters have been revised, and a new chapter on the period since 1970 has been added, discussing the many and often controversial developments. The last fifteen years have seen a good deal of work done on various aspects of the college's history, and the text is thoroughly revised. The opportunity has been taken to include many more illustrations, which help to bring the College to life. This book provides a vivid insight into the historical development of the College as it embarks on the challenges of its next century.
“A liberal place”: 1900-1939
December 2009
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Chapter
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Wadham College 1610-2010
This new edition of Wadham College has been prepared to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the College's foundation in 1610. All the original chapters have been revised, and a new chapter on the period since 1970 has been added, discussing the many and often controversial developments. The last fifteen years have seen a good deal of work done on various aspects of the college's history, and the text is thoroughly revised. The opportunity has been taken to include many more illustrations, which help to bring the College to life. This book provides a vivid insight into the historical development of the College as it embarks on the challenges of its next century.
Internet Generation: Computer-Mediated Communication & Christianity
June 2007
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Chapter
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Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
This book is organised around the themes of authenticity, generation and virtue. It looks at the impact of Christianity over a range of areas of national life.
History
Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
June 2007
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Book
"Redefining Christian Britain" brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This book seeks to do something different, by looking at the impact of Christianity over a wide range of areas of national life - religion and the media, religious art, religion in literature, religion in schools, religion and economics and so on. The book has been born out of a frustration at existing writing on religious change in Britain, which has tended to over-concentrate on church attendance figures, rather than look at the more diffuse and dynamic influence of religion on public and private life. "Redefining Christian Britain" will open up new areas of inquiry including religious architecture, church music, debates on sexuality and women's ordination, public rituals like royal weddings, the 'sacred' memory of World War II, multicultural education, and the role of Christian narrative in children's literature. Many of these topics are areas of current debate in the media. Some have been the subject of specific academic studies. But no book, until now, has attempted to bring them all together. The book is organised around three themes: authenticity, generation and virtue. These themes offer a distinct and original conceptual framework within which to address the study of modern Christianity.
History
Representing Spectacular Miracles
January 2007
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Journal article
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Forum for Anthropology and Culture
Miraculous Images and the Sanctification of Urban Neighborhood in Post-Medieval Italy
July 2006
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Journal article
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Journal of Urban History
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
11 Protestant Histories: James Anthony Froude, Partisanship and National Identity
March 2006
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Chapter
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Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
January 2006
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Scholarly edition
Women and religion in the Oxford DNB
September 2004
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Internet publication
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Women artists in Ruskin's circle (act. 1850s–1900s)
September 2004
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The Virgin Mary and the People of Liguria: Image and Cult
January 2004
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Chapter
5004 Religious Studies, 4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Translations of the Miraculous. Cult Images and their Representation in Early Modern Liguria
January 2004
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Journal article
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Analecta Romana Instituti Danici: Supplementum
The Gospel of Work and the Virgin Mary: Catholics, Protestants and Work in 19th-century Europe
August 2002
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Chapter
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The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History
For the Christian Church and its members, time is always pressing, both for this life and for the anticipated afterlife. In this life it is precious, to be valued and used; but in reality also misused and abused. The twenty-seven essays in this volume reflect Christian attitudes to time from the period of the early church through to the twentieth century, considering differing views on labour, the role and importance of recreation, the use of time for devotional purposes and preparation for the afterlife, and reactions to its wasting or sinful exploitation.
Whose logic? Reflections on gender in the history of ideas
January 2002
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Journal article
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History of European Ideas
5003 Philosophy, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 44 Human Society
The Nineteenth Century
June 2001
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Chapter
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Christianity: Two Thousand Years
Church history
Gender and the Ideology of Capitalism
December 2000
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Chapter
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Work and the Image
Art
Religious and Intellectual Life
August 2000
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Chapter
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The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles 1815-1901
This collection of works by eminent historians brilliantly depicts the nations of the British Isles at the height of Britain's world power.
Political and Domestic Economy in Victorian Britain: Ruskin and Xenophon
May 2000
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Chapter
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Economy, Polity, and Society British Intellectual History 1750-1950
Two volumes containing essays by leading scholars in modern British intellectual history.
History
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General introduction to 'The English Parish Church through the centuries: daily life and spirituality, art and architecture, literature and music [Sections 5 & 6: 1689-1945, and 1945-present]'
Media
‘Architectural Associations: memory, modernity and the construction of community in East London’
Chapter
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Diasporas Reimagined: spaces, practices and belonging
‘Challenges to Faith and Christian Responses 1689-1945’; ‘Philanthropy and Social Ethics 1689-1945’ and ‘St Bartholomew’s, East Ham’
Media
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