Latin America and Early Modern Christianity
The Latin American context played a central, although often neglected, role in the many Christian traditions emerging from the Early Modern era. This year, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, BuSTH professor and CGCM faculty affiliate, has explored this intersection between Latin America and European Christianity in the following works: C. Douglas Weaver and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Exploring Christian Heritage: […]
1619, African Migration, and the Beginning of the “American Evolution”
1619 marked the beginning of many firsts in English North America, including its first representative legislative assembly, the first official English Thanksgiving meal, and, important for the study of world Christianity, the first recorded arrival of Africans in Port Monroe, Virginia. The year also marked the arrival of the first significant wave of women to English […]
Rev. Dr. Yap Kim Hao, First Asian Bishop of Methodist Church, Passes Away
On November 16th, Rev. Dr. Yap Kim Hao, former bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore and Malaysia, passed away at 88 years of age. In 1968, Dr. Yap was elected as the first Asian bishop of the Methodist church. He was an active member of the BuSTH global Christianity community, and a recipient of […]
Call for Summer 2018 Research Fellowship Applications
The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco is accepting applications for summer 2018 research fellowships at both the doctoral and post-doctoral levels. For instructions on applying for these fellowships, see the following links: Doctoral Research Fellowship, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship.
Call for Papers: Global Perspectives on Peace, Conflict and Nineteenth-Century Christian Missions
Messengers of Peace? Global perspectives on peace, conflict and nineteenth-century Christian missions Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 12 July 2018 In a famous sermon launching the Missionary Society in 1795, Thomas Haweis proclaimed: ‘We meet under the conduct of the Prince of Peace; and unfurling the banner of his cross, desire to carry […]
17th Century African Christian Queen Njinga
European powers expanding into southwest Africa in the 17th century confronted a cunning and capable leader in Queen Njinga. Linda Heywood has been uncovering the story of this complex figure, teasing out how she ruled and what role her faith played in her kingdom. Most recently, she gave lectures on the subject in London and […]
Call for Papers: Mission and Evangelism in a Secularizing World
“Mission and Evangelism in a Secularizing World” 2018 Evangelical Missiological Society Theme Call for Papers Secularization has typically been described as that process by which a society attempts to separate and marginalize religious values and institutions from the broader culture and public sphere. Secularization has been largely discussed in the context of the Enlightenment and […]
Call for Papers: Religion and the 21st Century City: Openings and Closures
DEPARTMENT FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS In Collaboration With SCHOOL OF ARTS Call for Papers for an International Conference on RELIGION AND THE 21ST CENTURY CITY: OPENINGS AND CLOSURES University of Ghana, 20th-22nd June, 2018 Background Faith communities and religious institutions have been pivotal in the growth of cities and urban communities in the world, usually […]
Religion and Democratization
Over the last century, some Western scholars have argued that certain religious traditions–first Catholicism, and increasingly in the contemporary world, Islam–are inherently incompatible with democratic forms of government. In a recent essay published in The Immanent Frame, CGCM faculty associate Jeremy Menchik, remembered the work of political scientist Alfred Stepan. Stepan’s scholarship resisted moves to paint any […]
African Pentecostalism
The study of African Pentecostalism has blossomed in the last decade. In his recent essay for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, “Pentecostalism in Africa,” CGCM faculty associate Nimi Wariboko surveys the current state of historical scholarship on Pentecostalism in different African contexts. He highlights the priorities of such scholarship and points toward important trajectories for future work in the […]