from rerum novarum to faith in the city: catholicism in canning town dr alana harris
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From Rerum Novarum to Faith in the City: Catholicism in Canning Town Dr Alana Harris Lincoln College University of Oxford. §. Overview. Rerum Novarum (1891); Faith in the City (1985) and twenty -first century Catholicism in Canning Town; - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
From Rerum Novarum to Faith in the City:
Catholicism in Canning Town
Dr Alana HarrisLincoln College
University of Oxford
Overview• Rerum Novarum (1891); Faith in the City (1985)
and twenty-first century Catholicism in Canning Town;• Research base: pilot project (funded by the
British Academy) focused on St Bartholomew’s Anglican Church, East Ham and St Margaret’s Catholic Church, Canning Town;• Extended through the Oxford Diaspora
Programme: http://www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/religion-separation-exclusion.shtml• Two case studies: devotional life and
communitarian politics.
Carved wooden statue and shrine church of St Antony, ’the miracle
saint’ in Uvari, Tamil Nadu.
Diasporic Devotions
London Citizens multi-faith choir at a UK Election leaders rally in Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, 3 May, 2010 (with Monsignor John co-presiding)