Life and Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia
Narratives of Faith and Martyrdom October 18-21, 2018 Midland, Ontario Canada Symposium Programme_Final Draft_8OCTOBER
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
A 17th-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College will host a presentation of the recently published book Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled (Columbia University Press, 2018), a strikingly original work and a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for […]
Colonialism, Christianity, and Personhood in Africa
“Africans labor under the weight of a crisis of personhood, self-identity, and a split self that is a legacy of Christianity and colonialism,” Nimi Wariboko argues. In his recent publication, “Colonialism, Christianity and Personhood,” which appears in the Blackwell Companion to African History, edited by William H. Worger, Charles Ambler and Nwando Achebe, Wariboko explores the dual nature […]
The Role of Missionaries in the Inception of Transnational Adoption, 1949-1960.
Soojin Chung successfully defended her dissertation on “The Role of Missionaries in the Inception of Transnational Adoption, 1949-1960.”
Business and Mission in 19th Century Africa
The “Impact of Business Practices and Ethos on Mission,” cannot be ignored, Nimi Wariboko argues in his recent publication on “Liverpool Merchants in 19th-century Niger Delta.” It is an extension of his ongoing work on the intersection between Christianity and economics.
Call for Papers: Christianity and Social Activism in Chinese Societies
February 24-26, 2019 (arriving on 23rd and departing on 27th) Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA The Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University invites papers that examine the relationship between Christianity and social activism in Chinese societies. We welcome both scholarly research papers of empirical or historical studies and personal reflection papers […]
Call for Papers: II International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas
July 15-16 (Monday-Tuesday), 2019 Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. The first International Conference, “Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion,” held in 2016, was a landmark event for Lascasian scholarship. In response to this success, Providence College is pleased to invite interested scholars to our next […]
Call for Papers: Christianity in India
Call for Papers for a Double-volume Special Issue of Nidān The bi-annual, peer-reviewed and open access Journal “Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies”, published from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban is pleased to announce a double-volume special issue on Christianity in India, to be published in July and December 2019 respectively. We elicit 8000 to […]
The Global Young Peoples’ Convocation
The Global Young Peoples’ Convocation of the United Methodist Church was held from July 18 to July 22 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This gathering sought to bring together youth, young adults, and those who work with youth from around the global United Methodist connection in order to develop relationships across geographic and language barriers, legislate […]
Mapping Chinese Christianity
In early June, Professor Eugenio Menegon (Chinese History), together with co-investigator Prof. Daryl Ireland (Associate Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission & Research Assistant Professor of Mission, BU’s School of Theology) received the exciting news that a Digital Humanities Project they are jointly sponsoring was awarded a seed grant for Summer 2018 by […]