Jesse Lee Prize Awarded to Doug Tzan
The General Commission on Archive and History (GCAH) of The United Methodist Church announced the 2015 winner of its highly sought-after Jesse Lee Prize: The Rev. Dr. Douglas Tzan (pictured), elder and full member of the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference. Tzan’s award winning manuscript is titled “The World His Circuit: The Methodist Odyssey of William Taylor.” This work […]
Mennonite Brethren Historical Study Project Awarded
Anicka Fast, a first-year student in Mission Studies at Boston University, received the Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission’s study grant for 2015. Before moving from Montreal to Boston, Anicka worked with the Mennonite Central Committee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for three years. Anicka’s research interests include intercultural reconciliation and power balancing in the […]
Evangelicals Around the World
In the newly released Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21st Century, Gina Zurlo explains how evangelicals are counted. In an age when statistics are despised as “saying anything you want,” Zurlo walks readers through the process of how the data is collected, analyzed, and interpreted so as to arrive at a reliable number […]
Handbook of Popular Spiritual Movements in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia
This new volume, edited by Michael Nai-Chiu Poon and John Roxborogh, will provide broad insight into Christianity in major parts of South East Asia. Not only was CGCM director Dana Robert involved in the planning of the volume, but also a number of BU alumni made contributions, including consulting editor Charles Farhadian (’00), Daryl Ireland (’15), Septemmy Lakawa […]
The Indian Presence in the Ecumenical Movement
CGCM visiting researcher Jesudas Athyal’s edited book A Light to the Nations: The Indian Presence in the Ecumenical Movement in the Twentieth Century is now available. There are a range of contributors in this volume, including Wesley Ariarajah (Former Director of WCC Interfaith department and Professor Emeritus of Ecumenical Theology at Drew University), Fr. K. M. George (Orthodox […]
Highlights of the “African Christian Biography” Conference
The CGCM hosted the conference on the theme of “African Christian Biography: Narratives, Beliefs, and Boundaries,” from Thursday, October 29 to Saturday, October 31. Approximately sixty scholars and graduate students converged on the School of Theology from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ghana, Great Britain, and various universities in the United States and Canada to present papers […]
Kongo: Power and Majesty
Review by Cathy Corman, CGCM Visiting Researcher Those interested in the history of African Christianity may want to consider making a trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art before January 3, 2016, to tour Kongo: Power & Majesty. The exhibit focuses on the material culture of Central African peoples after contact with Portuguese Catholics in the late […]
Upcoming Conference “African Christian Biography: Narratives, Beliefs, & Boundaries”
From October 29-31 the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, the African Studies Center and the African Studies Library at Boston University will be co-hosting the conference “African Christian Biography: Narratives, Beliefs, and Boundaries” in celebration of the 20th year anniversary of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.DACB.org). This working conference will bring together […]
Peace Mapping Programme, the Contributions of Interreligious Dialogue
The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) and the Pardee School invites all to an event Religions, Peace and Conflict: The Contributions of Interreligious Dialogue. The speakers are Patrice Brodeur, Director of Research at the KAICII Dialogue Center, and Karsten Lehmann, Head of Social Science and Statistics at KAICIID. It takes place on […]
School of Theology and the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Collaborate to Launch Digital Archive of motive Magazine
“The magazine, motive, challenged me beyond natural ability.” Jeanne Audrey Powers On September 16, Boston University School of Theology and the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry will celebrate the launch of a website that digitizes motive magazine and makes it accessible to a new generation of scholars and leaders. motive magazine shaped a generation of young, […]