At Home in Exile

Russell Jeung, a leading sociologist of race and religion among Asian Americans, will be sharing from his spiritual memoir At Home in Exile. His story contextualizes the gospel from an Asian American perspective.

Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo

This lecture will focus on two separate yet related instances in which embodiment related to spirituality was at the center of struggles for political and social power. In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the […]

Migration, Exile, and Pilgrimage in Missions

“Migration, Exile, and Pilgrimage in the History of Missions and World Christianity” Yale-Edinburgh Conference will be held from June 29-July 1, 2017 at Yale Divinity School. Our theme for 2017 brings together three themes that are deeply rooted in Christian tradition but whose inter-relationship is perhaps insufficiently studied.  Migration on a large scale is an inescapable feature […]