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URL:https://methodisthistoryireland.org/events/mhsi-annual-lecture-2023/
SUMMARY:MHSI Annual Lecture 2023
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Miller\n(Belfast School of Art—Ulster University)\nFrid
 ay\, 20 October 2023 at 7.30 pm\nAgape Centre\, Belfast South Methodist Ch
 urch and online\n\nUlster’s profound relationship with evangelical relig
 ion has resulted in a network of interdenominational and nondenominational
  religious halls. From picturesque ‘tin tabernacles’ to contemporary b
 ungalows these have become a characteristic component of the landscape. Ma
 ny will recall their local mission hall or gospel hall\, usually named for
  its townland or street.\n\nRather than entirely a lay-led movement\, the 
 practice of mission hall building has been an element in all of the region
 ’s Protestant denominations. Mission halls formed one of the principal r
 esponses to rapid population growth in Belfast during the city’s ninetee
 nth-century industrialisation. The halls have often been part of a vigorou
 s resistance to ‘high-church’ or ‘modernist’ values from within th
 e denominations. The lecture will investigate the denominational mission h
 all and its place in the development of Ulster’s culture of evangelical 
 halls.\n\nKevin Miller is a PhD candidate at the Belfast School of Art in 
 Ulster University. His research interests are on the material culture of r
 eligion\, and in vernacular design and every-day architecture. His PhD res
 earch concerns evangelical meeting halls in Ulster\, using visual methodol
 ogies to explore a ‘plain style’ in 20th-century evangelical material 
 culture.
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CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
LOCATION:Agape Centre\, 236-266 Lisburn Road\, Belfast\, Antrim\, BT9 6GF\,
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