Dana L. Robert Awarded the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professorship
Hearty congratulations to the Center for Global Christianity and Mission's Director, Dr. Dana L. Robert, on being awarded Boston University's William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professorship!
Lisa Bitel to deliver the Boston University Department of Religion Annual Lecture
The Department of Religion of Boston University is delighted to welcome Professor Lisa Bitel of the University of Southern California to give our annual Religion lecture. Her talk Converting the Religious Supernatural: A Fairy Tale will take place on Monday, February 6 th , 2023, at 6pm.
Professor Lisa Bitel will address the persistence of the Otherworld in ancient literature and modern folklore as well as in graphic and digital media. In Ireland and elsewhere believers continue to encounter the aos síthe (folk of the Otherworld) and similar "small gods" and to exploit them for both tourism and religion. These small gods, by way of Wales, also became French fairies (Fée); while the faeries of post-Norman England eventually became a lucrative modern business in fantasy literature, garden decor, and other popular media. Bitel examines this co-evolution of story and Otherworld over the long haul, asking: Why do some forms of the supernatural and their veneration survive major religious shifts while others disappear?
Alumni News: Anicka Fast joining Mennonite World Conference
Anicka Fast ('20) will be joining the Mennonite World Conference as the Secretary of the Faith & Life Commission in April.
More on the story here.
Prof. Karen Westerfield Tucker Presented with Berakah Award by North American Academy of Liturgy
In early January, Karen Westerfield Tucker, Professor of Worship and a CGCM faculty associate, officially received the Berakah Award in Toronto, Canada, presented by the North American Academy of Liturgy.
For more info, read here.
Center for Global Christianity and Mission Speakers Spring 2023
Schedule
“TRACING THE DIVINE WORD IN CHINA”
Zoom Lecture by the CHCD Project Team of the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin
Call for Articles: The Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Call For Articles
For
The Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies
for the August 2023 Edition
ASM Eastern Fellowship Meeting: Report

Frankfurt-Bad Homburg South-South Conference
The Frankfurt-Bad Homburg South-South Conference on “Early South-South Links in the History of World Christianity (16th – 19th Centuries)”
John Thornton (CGCM Faculty Associate) will be on of the presenters.