Negotiating the Good Life in Times of Crisis
This international conference** on the good life will be held in Amsterdam, and it is organized by the Protestant Theological University. The event seeks to create a platform for reflecting together on the good life in the face of the interrelated crises of today’s world. It aims to explore what constitutes a ‘good life’ and in […]
Toleration in Comparative Perspective
The Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion is pleased to work in conjunction with Reset Dialogues on Civilizations to host the conference“Toleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices, Documents” from January 19-23, 2021, over Zoom. The conference gathers scholars to talk about the ways in which religious toleration has been articulated and practiced in places and […]
China-Europe Relations in Late Imperial Times
Digital Humanities: Mapping Christianity in China
On November 19-21, 2020, the Center for Global Christianity and Mission convened a workshop on “Mapping Christianity in China, 1550-1950.” The Center launched the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) project in 2018 to map where every Christian church, school, hospital, monastery, orphanage, publishing house, and the like were located in China between 1550 and 1950. […]
Mission Records as Method: Towards a Microhistory of Global China
A Virtual Workshop with Dr. Eugenio Menegon Thursday, July 30, 2020 Eastern Time (US and Canada) 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Reading: https://www.academia.edu/42008729/_Telescope_and_Microscope._A_micro-historical_approach_to_global_China_in_the_eighteenth_century_2019_ This event is part of the 2020 summer events hosted by the Humanities Unbounded MicroWorlds Lab at Duke University. The MicroWorlds Lab is a collaborative humanities research project with support from the Andrew […]
John Parker Awarded Franciscan History Fellowship
John Parker was recently awarded a dissertation fellowship by the Academy of American Franciscan History. Mr. Parker’s dissertation is tentatively entitled, “Libertas est Bonum Ordinis Superioris Omnium Bonorum: Perfect Obedientia in Epifanio Moirans O.F.M. cap’s Iusta Defensio.” He also has a chapter in the forthcoming, The Dominicans as Participants, Witnesses, and Critics of the Colonization of […]
Online Communion?
The United Methodist Church, like so many others, is searching for a way to be faithful to the marks of the Church: the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments. But how can that be done during social distancing? “Both Green Light, Red Light for Online Communion,” explores how different people are […]
Missional Responses to COVID-19
Tuesday April 28 | 12:00 to 1:30pm LAST CHANCE TO RSVP! The coronavirus has presented a unique missional opportunity to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbors. UniteBoston has been reaching out to Christian leaders in Boston to see how they are doing and to listen for the “good news stories” that are […]
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects Two More CGCM Faculty
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected seven historians to become members in 2020. Two of them, Linda Heywood and John Thornton, are faculty associates at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. They join Dana Robert, as the second and third professors in the CGCM given this high honor.
Call for Contributors: World Christianity and COVID-19
WORLD CHRISTIANITY AND COVID-19: THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON SUFFERING Editors: Chammah J. Kaunda, Atola Longkumer, Kenneth R. Ross Jooseup Keum, and Roderick Hewitt The United Nations (U.N) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented, “We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering […]