Missionary Backstories The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Missionary Backstories: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States Lecture by Professor Owen Miller Thursday, March 2nd at 12:00 pm Congregational Library & Archives 14 Beacon St. Boston MA, 02108 William Goodell (the abolitionist) was a distant relative of William Goodell (the missionary to the Ottoman Empire) and Lucy Goodale. Like his relatives, William […]
History of Christianity in East Asia at the University of Oxford
Call for Applications for an International Workshop on the History of Christianity in East Asia at the University of Oxford The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco in collaboration with the China Centre at the University of Oxford will hold a four-day international workshop at Oxford from September 20 through […]
National U.S. Catholic China Bureau National Conference
Experience of the China Church in the 21st Century — The 27th National U.S. Catholic China Bureau National Conference St. John’s University, Jamaica, Queens, New York City. August 11-13, 2017, Scheduled Keynote Speakers: Father Joseph Jiang, S.J., Boston College Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti Archbishop Eugene Nugent: From 2001 until 2010 he directed the Holy See Study Mission in […]
David B. Barrett and the Quantification of World Christianity
Join Ph.D. candidate Gina Zurlo in a lunch forum discussing Barrett’s achievement and her process of researching and writing a dissertation. Lunch Provided.
“Spatial Spirituality and Latino Ethnic Identity: How Religious Affiliation Facilitates Diverging Forms of Local Ethnic Belonging”
“Spatial Spirituality and Latino Ethnic Identity: How Religious Affiliation Facilitates Diverging Forms of Local Ethnic Belonging” School of Theology, Rm 325 (note the new location) Food – Wine – Ideas – Connections Join us for this exciting “Works In Progress” presentation by Professor Jonathan Calvillo. In this paper, Professor Calvillo argues that for Latino immigrants living in […]
Research Fellowship
The David M. Stowe Fund for Mission Research is intended to support visiting researchers who come to the Yale Divinity Library to use its missions and world Christianity-related collections. This year we are happy to announce that $5,000 is available to subsidize the travel and accommodation expenses of individuals whose research would benefit from using the […]
Missionary Backstories
ABCFM Missionaries and their role in the Ottoman Empire, Hawai’i and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States will be explored through a series of lectures. Owen Miller will speak on January 19th, February 16th, and March 16th. More details are available from the Congregational Library and Archives.
Migration, Human Dislocation, and Mission Accountability
The theme of the Korean Global Mission Leadership Forum this year is “Migration, Human Dislocation, and Mission Accountability.” Research Professor Jon Bonk will chair the executive meeting in New Haven on February 20th in preparation for the fourth meeting of the Korean Global Mission Leadership Forum, scheduled for Sokcho in South Korea, November 7-10. The papers […]
A Documentary History of Shona Religion
Old and New in Shona Religion is an interactive website that allows scholars to explore the Shona religion in the middle of the 20th century. Based on over 1,200 annotated photographs taken by M.L. Daneel between 1960 and the mid-1990s, this website provides a visual history of African Initiated Churches and African Traditional Religion. At the […]
Churches in Change
Dr. Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, CGCM faculty associate, will be giving the keynote address at the Stockholm School of Theology (TEOLOGISKA HÖGSKOLAN STOCKHOLM) on February 3. This is address is part of a one-day research conference on “Churches in Change” as part of the school’s collaboration with the Uniting Church (Equmeniakyrkan) in Sweden, a merger between the […]