Call for Proposals: China, Christianity, and the Dialogue of Civilizations
The US-China Catholic Association will host a conference on “China, Christianity, and the Dialogue of Civilizations” to take place March 13-15, 2020 on the campus of Santa Clara University. This conference will examine efforts to locate engagement between Christianity and Chinese civilization in the context of shared values and the common good. See conference homepage […]
Yale-Edinburgh 2020: Oral, Print, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the History of Mission
Studies in world Christianity and the history of mission have not been afraid to engage the topic of culture. However, they have mostly referred to the encounters of Western Christian cultures with another, whether that be Confucian and Hindu culture, or the indigenous cultures of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. This year’s theme uses the […]
Call for Papers: Pentecostal Strategies of Public Engagement
11th GloPent ConferenceBasel, February 14-15, 2020 The eleventh international and interdisciplinary conference of the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (GloPent.net) will be held on 14–15 February 2020 at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Conference Theme: Pentecostal Strategies of Public Engagement Convenor / contact: Andreas Heuser (andreas.heuser@unibas.ch) Call for Papers The growing evidence of Pentecostal […]
Call for Submissions: Religious Conversion in Africa
Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This is a call for essays for a special issue of the peer-reviewed international journal Religions on the topic of religious conversion in Africa. Over the past decade, scholarly attention has focused on the “explosive” expansion of Pentecostalism across the African continent and its narrative of discontinuity with the pre-Pentecostal […]
Chinese Theologies Conference
Call for Papers A series of three conferences will be held 2020-2022 at Yale Divinity School (New Haven, Connecticut) on Chinese Theologies: mainstream, non-mainstream and academic. The first conference will be held June 1-2 2020, and scholars are invited to submit abstracts for papers discussing any aspect of theological thought/ individual theologians from a range […]
Yale-Edinburgh 2019
This year, the Yale Edinburgh Group lamented the loss of one of its co-founders, Lamin Sanneh. Several sessions were built into the program to commemorate his insights and contributions to the field, and there was a special memorial held as well. In his absence, Dana Robert opened the meeting with a lecture on where the […]
Third International Congress on the History of the Order of the Preachers in the Americas
July 18-19, 2019 Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island USA The third international congress will focus on Dominicans in different scenarios and historical periods in the Americas: the Order’s establishment, diffusion, and organization; its actors, institutions, and ministries; its tradition as manifested in foundations, missions, parishes, colleges, and universities; its theological and philosophical thinking; its economic […]
Second International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas
July 15-16, 2016 Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island USA The second international conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas will focus on how his life, labor, and legacy offers a prism for the interpretation of the interaction, expansion, culture, and ancestry of Indigenous people, Africans, Europeans and Asians in the American Hemisphere. The organizers programmed this […]
Preserving History
“The global church works best when all her parts are engaged in sharing their stories,” said Patrick Obonde, director of missions at the Anabaptist Leadership Education Centre in Kenya. On 17–19 June 2019, historians, pastors and archivists did just that at “Power and Preservation: Enabling Access to the Sources Behind Our Stories,” at Goshen College, […]
World vs. Global; Christianity vs. Christianities
In a recent interview with Aaron Hollander of the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, Dana Robert unpacked what is behind some of the most loaded but under discussed terms in the study of World Christianity. The result is an excellent primer in the field. It is available in the June 2019 edition of Ecumenical Trends, or available […]