Remembering India’s Pioneering Missionary to Nepal
March 15, 2020 was Rev. C. K. Athialy’s birth centenary day. He was the pioneering Indian missionary in Nepal. To honor his life, a thanksgiving meeting was planned in Nepal, but has been postponed due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Rev. C. K. Athialy’s son, Jesudas Athyal, has been a Visiting Researcher at […]
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 […]
Maryknoll 2019
This year’s meeting of the Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission held at Maryknoll was attended by 57 people from a total of 16 institutions—a record number on both accounts. The theme of “Visualizing Mission” fired the imagination of presenters and participants alike. On Friday, Maryknoll Father Larry Lewis unveiled jewels of “God images” and […]
Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission
What do a Chinese élite lady in Shanghai, a Portuguese duchess in Madrid, an Austrian queen in Lisbon, and a Bavarian countess in Augsburg all have in common? These women, in spite of distance in time and space, all became revered patronesses of the Jesuit missions in China in the early modern period. Candida Xu […]