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DR. KEVIN FLATT

 
Assistant Professor of History
Phone: 905.648.2139 Ext 4435
Fax: 905.648.2134
Office: 208C
Email: kflatt@redeemer.ca

Courses taught 2011/2012:
HIS105  Development of Western Civilization
HIS221  Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
HIS/REL411   Christianity in the Modern World
HIS222   Canadian History: Post-Confederation
HIS344   Modern Germany: 1740-1990
HIS357   History of the Modern Middle East

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (2009), McMaster University
Dissertation: "The Survival and Decline of the Evangelical Identity of the United Church of Canada, 1930-1971."

M.A. (2004), History, University of Western Ontario

B.A. (2003), Economics, University of Waterloo


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Protestantism in Canada
  • Secularization and religious change in Western societies
  • Social and cultural change in Canada since 1945

CURRENT RESEARCH

Dr. Flatt is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Dropping Evangelicalism: The Sixties and the Remaking of the United Church of Canada. Together with a colleague from Wilfrid Laurier University, he is also conducting a study of Christian youth rallies in southern Ontario.


RESEARCH FUNDING

"A Mainline Minority: Evangelical Renewal Groups within the United Church of Canada, 1966-2009", funded by Centre for Research on Canadian Evangelicalism, 2009-2010

Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-2008


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Flatt, Kevin. "Theological Innovation from Spiritual Experience: Henry Alline's Anti-Calvinism in Late Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia and New England." Journal of Religious History 33:3 (September 2009).

Flatt, Kevin. "Cross-Border Evangelicals: Americans and Canadians." Comment, April 21, 2011.
 
 
Flatt, Kevin. "A Mainline Minority: Assessing the Present State of the United Church Renewal Movement." Church & Faith Trends 3 no. 3 (December 2010).
 
Flatt, K. "Blame Our History for School Bible Debate." Waterloo Region Record, December 22, 2010, p. A10.
 
Flatt, Kevin. "The Liberalization of the United Church." Theological Digest and Outlook 26 no. 2 (September 2010): 6-10.
 
Flatt, Kevin. "Mainline Decline: Lessons from Church History." Christian Courier, August 23, 2010.
 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

Conference on Faith and History

Canadian Society of Church History

 

 
 
 
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