Individuals and Institutions: Intersections of Gender, Culture and Historiography

Theme: Individuals and Institutions: Intersections of Gender, Culture and Historiography

Presiding: Geordan Hammond, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

1. Emily Nelms Chastain, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

“Institutional Gatekeeping and Gendered Agency: How American Methodist Women Navigated Ecclesial Patriarchy, 1880–1980.”

2. David Bundy, Manchester Wesley Research Centre.

“Gender and Institutional Development in a Holiness Church: The Case of Helen Isabel Root (1873-1945), Free Methodist.”

3. Michèle Sigg, Boston University.

“The Individual in the New Historiography of World Christianity: Methodological Reflections on the Use of Biography in African Christian History”

4. Stephen Wright, Manchester Wesley Research Centre, Nazarene Theological College

"Sometimes the Heart is Dry": Petitionary Prayer in Julian of Norwich and Origen of Alexandria”