From Rerum Novarum to

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• From Rerum Novarum to
• Faith in the City
• Catholicism in Canning Town
• Dr Alana Harris
• Lincoln College
• University of Oxford

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Overview

• Rerum Novarum (1891) Faith in the City (1985)
  and twenty-first century Catholicism in Canning
  Town
• Research base pilot project (funded by the
  British Academy) focused on St Bartholomews
  Anglican Church, East Ham and St Margarets
  Catholic Church, Canning Town
• Extended through the Oxford Diaspora Programme
  http//www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/religion-separat
  ion-exclusion.shtml
• Two case studies devotional life and
  communitarian politics.

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Diasporic Devotions
Carved wooden statue and shrine church of St
Antony, the miracle saint in Uvari, Tamil Nadu.
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London Citizens multi-faith choir at a UK
Election leaders rally in Methodist Central Hall,
Westminster, 3 May, 2010 (with Monsignor John
co-presiding)