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Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932) (2019)
Journal Article
Slatter, R. (2020). Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932). Journal of Design History, 33(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz032

This article uses archival references to maintenance and repair to approach nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Wesleyan chapels and their material contents as ‘becoming’ things. Reflecting on the material changes that made the maintenance or rep... Read More about Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932).

Materiality and the extended geographies of religion: the institutional design and everyday experiences of London's Wesleyan Methodist circuits, 1851–1932 (2019)
Journal Article
Slatter, R. (2019). Materiality and the extended geographies of religion: the institutional design and everyday experiences of London's Wesleyan Methodist circuits, 1851–1932. Journal of Historical Geography, 64, 60-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2019.01.001

Using and adapting the ideas of material religion, this paper considers Wesleyan Methodist circuits: the organisation of chapels within specific geographical areas into co-dependent communities. Interested in circuits as an example of the extension o... Read More about Materiality and the extended geographies of religion: the institutional design and everyday experiences of London's Wesleyan Methodist circuits, 1851–1932.