Missionary Projects and Indigenous Responses in the Asia Pacific
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence of historical and anthropological interest in the reasons, practices, moralities and effects of indigenous conversion to Christianity. Rejecting conceptualizations of conversion that would restrict it a priori to a clearly demarcated ‘religious’ space, recent scholarship on conversion has highlighted the entanglements between Christian mission and modernity, imperial […]
Tolerance Without Liberalism
In his most recent book Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance Without Liberalism, Faculty Associate Jeremy Menchik explores the complexity of religion and politics, and how the two are configured in Southeast Asia’s most populace country. Recent reviews have appeared in Foreign Affairs and The Journal of Politics. The book shows the innovative sources of tolerance in Indonesia […]
Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics
Religious and ethnic minorities continue to seek ways to stake out a place in Indonesia’s charged political climate. Recent events pose new challenges for many people in Indonesia, which Faculty Associate Jeremy Menchik described in a recent interview in the Nikkei Asian Review.
Killing our Children’s Children
Surveying ecological disasters around the world, Visiting Researcher Kapya Kaoma delivered sharp warnings that an earth-theology must be developed, or we will be “killing our children’s children.” Dr. Kaoma delivered his message during the Gunther Wittenberg Lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Ujamaa Centre in South Africa. His entire lecture has been made through Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism […]
Transnational Missionary Movements
In the fall of 2017, Dr. Dana L. Robert will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. While there, she will also address the Roman Catholic and Protestant Missiological Societies on Transnational Misionary Movements. On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the two societies will meet together for the […]
West African Pentecostalism
In Global Renewal Christianity: Spirit-Empowered Movements, Past, Present, and Future, vol 3: Africa and Diaspora, Nimi Wariboko surveys the everyday theology of West African Pentecostals. It is an opportunity to explore what Pentecostal faith looks like in Africa at home, work, among the family, and church.
Eugene Carson Blake Scholarship
North American students wanting to study at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland, may apply for the Eugene Carson Blake Scholarship. The scholarship covers the costs of attendance. It does not cover travel expenses or personal spending. Priority will be given to students under 40 who have at least an undergraduate degree in theology or […]
Architecture and Faith in China
In his most recent article on “The Action of Christian Buildings on their Chinese Environment,” Michel Chambon describes how Christian church structures in Fujian shape the faith of those who gather inside, as well as what they communicate to those who only peer at the buildings from outside. He argues that buildings are actors which make the […]
Call for Papers: Currents, Perspectives, and Methodologies in World Christianity
Princeton Theological Seminary is organizing an international, interdisciplinary conference on the direction of World Christianity from January 18-20, 2018. The last few decades mark a significant watershed in the study of World Christianity as an emerging field, its development into an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary endeavor in particular. Most scholarship now characterizes World Christianity as a ‘polycentric’ […]
Yale-Edinburgh Meeting
June 29 – July 1, the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of Christian Mission and World Christianity met in New Haven, Connecticut. The topic addressed at this annual meeting was “Migration, Exile, and Pilgrimage in the History of Missions and World Christianity.” It was the largest gathering in the group’s history, which included a significant […]