UNCF/Mellon Programs International Faculty Seminar
The 2018 UNCF/Mellon Programs International Faculty Seminar in Portugal and Spain, July 2-12, 2018 will be facilitated by Linda Heywood, Professor of African American Studies and History at Boston University.
How do nonsecular democracies govern religion?
“Soft separation” is a term that Professor Jeremy Menchik uses to describe the ways some governments handle the dividing line between church and state. He insists that such democracies are not inadequate or underdeveloped, just less understood.
China Connection
Professor Eugenio Menegon (Chinese History) is spending a month in China (May 22-June 23) as an invited Visiting Scholar at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (Institute of European Studies), Sichuan Normal University (Department of History), and Shanghai University (Department of History). While in China, he is lecturing undergraduate and graduate students and giving public presentations about […]
New Perspectives on the Historiography of Christianity
In light of the global reality of Christianity, how might historians “provincialize Europe”? Humboldt University in Berlin sponsored an international workshop to consider the historiography of Christianity, especially in the West, and how it has not yet kept up with the development of world Christianity. How can historians do justice to the global nature of Christianity? Convened […]
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium
Korean Global Mission Leaders Forum
Dr. Jon Bonk, CGCM faculty associate, has been serving as the president of the Korean Global Mission Leaders Forum (KGMLF). KGMLF demonstrated a model of vigorous cross-cultural interaction and produced multilingual publications that address complex but overlooked issues bedeviling missions regardless of the sending or receiving country, mission society, or denomination involved. In February 10-14, […]
Cross-Cultural Friendship, Spiritual Practices, and Witness to World Christian Community
Duke Divinity School will sponsor the 2018 David C. and Virginia Steinmetz lecture featuring Dr. Dana L. Robert, Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission and also the director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. Her lecture will be titled “Cross-Cultural Friendship, Spiritual Practices, and Witness to World Christian Community: […]
The Procurators of the Propaganda Fide Papal Congregation in Canton and Macao
Dr. Eugenio Menegon, CGCM faculty associate, recently published an article entitled “Interlopers at the Fringes of Empire: The Procurators of the Propaganda Fide Papal Congregation in Canton and Macao, 1700-1823” in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. The article can be found here. Abstract: The office of the procurator of the papal Sacred Congregation […]
Tolerance Without Liberalism
In his most recent book Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance Without Liberalism, Faculty Associate Jeremy Menchik explores the complexity of religion and politics, and how the two are configured in Southeast Asia’s most populace country. Recent reviews have appeared in Foreign Affairs and The Journal of Politics. The book shows the innovative sources of tolerance in Indonesia […]
Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics
Religious and ethnic minorities continue to seek ways to stake out a place in Indonesia’s charged political climate. Recent events pose new challenges for many people in Indonesia, which Faculty Associate Jeremy Menchik described in a recent interview in the Nikkei Asian Review.