Dr John Maiden

I studied history as an undergraduate at the University of Manchester and then pursued doctoral research at the University of Stirling under the supervision of Professor D. W. Bebbington. I became a research assistant (later associate) in the Religious Studies department of the Open University in 2009. I was then appointed to a full lectureship in January 2012. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and currently a council member of the Church of England Record Society.

My research, teaching and supervision relates to the history of religion in Britain, and also the wider North Atlantic world, from the nineteenth century. I have been particularly interested in the nexus between religion and national identity, and my recent monograph, National Religion and the Prayer Book Controversy, 1927-27, examined this in the context of Anglican liturgical revision. My current and emerging research focuses are:

1. Anglican Evangelicalism in the twentieth century (I am co-editor of the forthcoming collection of essays Anglican Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century and co-director, with Dr Peter Webster, of a developing prosopography of Anglican Evangelical clergy).
2. The British churches, religious diversity and the emergence of multiculturalism.
3. Interwar English Anglo-Catholicism.
4. The relationship between English and Canadian Anglicanism, 1900-1955.

I am also presently Co-Investigator for the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Building on History: Religion in London. This innovative knowledge transfer project works alongside different faith groups in London, providing a catalyst for critical reflection on the history of religious diversity and its contemporary implications.

Download the project report on the earlier Building on History: Church in London project [PDF, 11.4 MB]

Publications

(Co-edited with Andrew Atherstone) Anglican Evangelicals in the Church of England in the Twentieth Century, Studies in Modern British Religious History (Woodbridge, forthcoming, 2013)

‘The Prayer Book Controversy’ in P. Nockles et al, The Oxford Handbook to the Oxford Movement (Oxford, forthcoming 2013).

‘Fundamentalism and Anti-Catholicism amongst British Evangelicals in the 1920s’ in David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones (eds.), Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: The Experience of the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century (Oxford, forthcoming 2012).

'Integrating Historical Research and Contemporary Religion: Building on History project' in Linda Woodhead (ed.), Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion: Research in Practice (Oxford, forthcoming 2012).

‘Parliament, the Church of England and the last gasp of political Protestantism, 1963-64’, Parliamentary History, forthcoming 2012.

'Confronting Rome: Martin Lloyd-Jones, British Evangelicalism and Catholicism' in David Ceri Jones and Andrew Atherstone (eds.), Martin Lloyd-Jones: Life and Legacy (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 2011).

National Religion and the Prayer Book Controversy, 1927-28 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2009).

‘English Evangelicals, Protestant National Identity and the Prayer Book Crisis, 1927-28’, Journal of Religious History, 34/4, 2010.

‘Discipline and Comprehensiveness: Anglican Prayer Book Revision in the 1920s’, Studies in Church History, Vol. 43 (2007), pp. 377-87.

See also Open Research Online for further details of John Maiden’s research publications.