NEWS AND REPORTS

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 20; pp. 153 - 157
• Main Author: Townend, Jenna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2016
• Subjects: Authorship; Bible; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Literary devices; Literary influences; Narrative techniques; Public speaking; Religion; Researchers; Theme; Tolerance; Voicing; Writers; Canada; United Kingdom > UK; England; France
• ISSN: 0954-0970

The chosen theme was 'Voicing Dissent in the Long Reformation', and in seeking to explore the ways in which Protestant Dissent, Nonconformity, and Puritanism were represented between about 1500 and 1800, the conference placed a particular emphasis on probing the interaction between written and oral cultures in the formation and expression of Dissent. [...]Alec Ryrie's lecture on 'Scripture, the Spirit and "Scripturianism" in Revolutionary England' took up the question of how the Bible became a site of contestation in Revolutionary England. [...]was the frequency with which arguments, problems, or practices were revisited, rearticulated, and re-imagined by Dissenters in the long period from the Reformation to the Restoration, producing dialogues within and between generations of Dissenters. Subjects discussed by speakers included the circulation of Dissenting voices in both domestic and international contexts; the presence of silences in Dissenting texts; the relationship between manuscript and print in the formation of moderate Dissent; explorations of the relationship between tolerance and intolerance; the roles played by singing and the preaching voice in godly Dissent; the uses of literary models by Dissenting writers; and the development of Dissent in the Restoration leading up to the Act of Toleration in 1689.