Yale-Edinburgh Call for Papers
This year’s conference on World Christianity will take place at New College, University of Edinburgh, UK from 25 – 27 June 2020 on the theme “Oral, Print, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the History of Mission.” Paper proposals with brief abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted via email by March 6, 2020 to the Conference […]
Human Rights, Nonviolence, and Conflict Transformation
In the summer of 2019, Colombia was a place of significant convergence for people of faith and people of conscience who are concerned about issues of human rights, nonviolence and conflict transformation. In early July, the Baptist Peace Fellowship held an international gathering in the Colombian city of Cali. In late July and early August, […]
The Future of Religion and Mission
March 30 – April 1, 2020 The Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary invites you to an exclusive conference to celebrate the launch of the third edition of our seminal work, the World Christian Encyclopedia (Edinburgh University Press). The conference will feature: Keynote addresses from leaders in mission and […]
The Past and Future of Evangelical Missions
Telescope and Microscope
One of the challenges of global history is to bridge the particularities of individual lives and trajectories with the macro-historical patterns that develop over space and time. Italian micro-history, particularly popular in the 1980s–1990s, has excavated the lives of small communities or individuals to test the findings of serial history and macro-historical approaches. Micro-history in […]
The Habit that Hides the Monk
Professor Eugenio Menegon has recently published an article on missionaries and clothing in China. “‘The Habit That Hides the Monk’: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society and Court Culture.” In Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization, edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, and Christian Windler. London: Routledge, 2019
Catholic Chinese Bishop Conference – Boston
On December 6, 2019, Professor Menegon coordinated a cordial and successful meeting with the leaders of the official and government-endorsed Catholic Chinese Bishop Conference at Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, where he is a Collaborative Scholar. The delegation consisted of six members: Bishop Ma Yinglin 马英林 President of Bishop’s Conference of Catholic Church […]
Quid pro Quo? Missionaries and Their ‘Skill Capital’ in Qing Beijing
In the eighteenth century around thirty European Catholic missionaries lived in Beijing, partly employed in technical and artistic services at the imperial palace and at the Directorate of Astronomy, and partly engaged in religious work. Starting in 1724, however, the Yongzheng Emperor forbade Christianity in the provinces. Yet the foreigners, with semi-official permission, continued missionizing […]
Call for Papers: Liberation & Reconciliation through Latin America
Engaging Liberation and Reconciliation through Latin America Duke Graduate Conference in Theology March 20–21, 2020 Duke University | Durham NC The sixth annual Duke Graduate Conference in Theology is pleased to invite proposals that engage the intersections of liberation, reconciliation, and Latin America. Proposals that engage these themes from a wide variety of disciplinary […]
Call for Papers: Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis
The October 2020 issue of Global Missiology – English will take up the urgent theme of “Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis.” Regional case studies are welcome, as are papers that take up any number of related topics, including: The rise of global populism and of political radicalism, plus the challenges both present to nation-states as […]