John Maiden

Check out this blog piece by my OU colleague Stefanie Sinclair on the future of #ReligiousEducation curriculum in England. This is an important moment and opportunity for the subject area.

www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi...

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Radiohead
Manic Street Preachers
Rush
Sigur Ros
Robert Plant

How religious groups support peacebuilding in the UK What contribution can religious groups make to community relations and peacebuilding?

Some films I was involved in making about religion and peacebuilding: on the #Corrymeela Community and the St Philip's Centre, #Leicester
www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

Thanks to Riaz Ravat and Alex Wimberly for their interviews.
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Charismatic Renewal and the Troubles on the island of Ireland

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I'll be talking about new research on charismatic Christianity and the Troubles at @ihrmodernrelighist.bsky.social on Weds 26 Nov (please note this talk is online only). Booking via the link.

@ihr.bsky.social
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Well this was an unexpected opportunity while visiting Notre Dame! This audio archive is going to be an incredible resource for research on liberation theology.

www.reonline.org.uk/2025/11/06/a...
"a once-in-a-generation opportunity"
"I urge the religion and worldviews community-educators, faith and belief groups and policymakers – to come together for the common good"
Very much endorse @kathrynfenlodge.bsky.social on this.
@culhamstgabriel.bsky.social

Thanks Josh Cass and @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social for this review of our book on teaching religious diversity, past and present.

www.reonline.org.uk/2025/11/03/t...

Digital Storytelling for Local History (London) Are you interested in local history? Do you have photographs, stories, archival material, memories about somewhere - perhaps a local pub, church, school, or area. In this workshop you will be taught h...

Have you researched a place’s history? Would you like support to turn your research material into a video? Check out these 2 free events in @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @ihr.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...

Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body This paper will explore the history of discourses around sexual health in Britain's Jewish community across the 20th century.

👋 Historians! The IHR Modern Religious History Seminar is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our 2025-6 programme. Up next:

Aleph Ross (Birmingham) on Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body.

🗓️ 15 OCT 2025 5:30pm
📍 @ihr.bsky.social and online

Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Rush reform for first time since drummer Neil Peart’s death Canadian prog-rockers will play seven concerts in summer 2026 in the US, Canada and Mexico, after hiring new drummer Anika Nilles

Move over #Oasis. This is the reunion tour that matters. And I’m a Manc.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
#rush

Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body This paper will explore the history of discourses around sexual health in Britain's Jewish community across the 20th century.

Our first @ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious History seminar of the year is 15 October at 17.30 UK time. Our speaker is @alephross.bsky.social .

To book:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Skystorians #history @hannahelias.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @graceheaton.bsky.social

Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.

"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...

Great first session of #Evangelical Studies Program conference with Bruce Hindmarsh, Kerrie Handasyde, Priscilla Pope-Levison & Thomas Kidd. Join us tomorrow for David Bebbington, Andrew Atherstone, Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, John Amalraj & Allison Kach-Yawnghwe. #ESP2025

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You can get 30% off the new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social paperback edition of Age of the Spirit using the promo code below. 😀

Just visit global.oup.com/academic and use code AUFLY30

Please help me spread the word! 👍 #skystorians #religiousstudies #religioushistory #pentecostalism

Supporting Manchester United is making me miserable.

Age of the Spirit by John G. Maiden | Waterstones Buy Age of the Spirit by John G. Maiden from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Excited to announce that the paperback edition of Age of the Spirt, a #history of #charismatic #Christianity, is out on 26 September (on my birthday no less!). Pre-order here or at your preferred retailer! Thanks to OUP for making this happen.
www.waterstones.com/book/age-of-...

Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust An opportunity for an academic position as a Contributing Editors is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

New #Skystorians job alert!

The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills.

Details in the link below. 1/2

Safeguarding Theology & Religious Studies in higher education: an open letter As students receive their A–Level results today, Theos have put together this open letter highlighting the importance of religious education in higher education. 14/08/2025

www.theosthinktank.co.uk/in-the-news/...

For those who missed this in August, an important open letter on the value of #Theology and #ReligiousStudies in UK #highereducation.

But I’m on my way to a conference…!?

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Still time to book for @baylor.bsky.social #Evangelical Studies Program online conference "Evangelicalism and the Holy Spirit', 1-3 October. Speakers inc @drleahpayne.bsky.social , Kerrie Handasyde, Bruce Hindmarsh, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Priscilla Pope Levison & Thomas Kidd

Time for the first panel session at #glopent25 . It looks like a great programme.

Our Summer Conference programme has just dropped! Come join the fun this 15-17 July in Edinburgh

Find a more detailed version on our website: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/25-26-summer... #skystorians #history

Announcing the 2025 #BaylorISR #Evangelical Studies Program conference: Evangelicalism & the Holy Spirit. Explores beliefs & practices in relation to the Holy Spirit across time & space, since the 18thc. Speakers include @drleahpayne.bsky.social and D. Bruce Hindmarsh. Booking: events.baylorisr.org

Pope Francis Made the Church More Global. What Does That Mean for the Conclave? Francis appointed most of the cardinals. But they may not choose another pope like him.

Glad to see my data from the World Christian Database cited in this @nytimes.com article! The Catholic Church is the most global it has ever been.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Watching the #GlobalFlourishingStudy launch. Exciting, transparent and potentially empowering global research on well-being.

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Religious Education people! Join us at the @openuniversity.bsky.social on 24 June for "Creative pedagogies for promoting religious tolerance and diversity in schools". We'll be talking about film-making and interplay approaches

www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi...

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@culhamstgabriel.bsky.social

On both these I’ll have a think and chat to a few people - will get back to you. As a Salfordian, joy division fan and an RS scholar, really excited about your research!!

I'm struggling to think of surveys of religion in Manchester. There are focussed histories, like the Jeremy Gregory volume on the collegiate church; Mark Smith on w-c Anglicanism in Oldham; and Patrick Joyce's Work, Society and Politics. Also some older studies of RCism in Salford...

Received our new #Baylor #Evangelical Studies Program book The Gospel in the Past, on historiographies of evangelicalism! Privileged to read these essays as prep for writing the intro ("Writing Evangelical History") & afterword. Authors inc Mark Noll, Kerrie Handasyde & Crawford Gribben
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The Quiet Revival: Gen Z leads rise in church attendance Gen Z leads an exciting turnaround in church attendance, as the decades-long decline in churchgoing in England and Wales is over.

Lots in this @biblesociety.bsky.social report of potential interest to scholars of religion: both the quantitative data suggesting some resurgence of churchgoing (and its relation to gender, ethnicity & affiliation) in England and Wales, and the discourse. www.biblesociety.org.uk/research/qui...