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 to be published by Boydell and Brewer).
2. The British churches, religious diversity and sacred spaces since 1945.
3. The relationship between English and Canadian Anglicanism in the early twentieth century.
4. Anglican charismaticism in global contexts.

I am also engaged in knowledge transfer/public engagement work with religious groups in London. Between 2009 and 2011 I was RA for the AHRC-funded Building on History: the Church in London project (in partnership with the Anglican Diocese of London), and then from 2011-2012 I was Co-Investigator for Building on History: Religion in London (with selected Jewish, Muslim, Black Majority Church, Baptist, Methodist and Roman Catholic groups).

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

I am currently course chair for AA307 Religion in History: Conflict, Conversion and Co-existence, and a member of the course team for A332 Why is Religion Controversial? Since 2012 I have been Director of Teaching for Religious Studies.

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).

‘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).

‘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.