News of the extended network of faculty, alumni, students, visiting researchers, and mission partners is regularly updated, and some of the big ideas or major events in Global Christianity are covered in the CGCM News.

Methodist Mission Bicentennial

By Tyler Lenocker September 19th, 2017 in Announcements, Call for Papers, Dana L. Robert, People, World Christianity

welcome_crossOver the next two years a series of celebrations will recognize Methodism’s bicentennial of mission, which will occur in 2019 in accord with the 1819 founding of the Missionary Society by the Methodist Episcopal Church, a forerunner to The United Methodist Church. It is exciting that the year 2019 will also recognize the 150th anniversary of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, also of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The events are sponsored by Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, and CGCM director Dana L. Robert serves on the bicentennial planning committee. 
More information about the bicentennial can be found at www.methodistmission200.org.
The bicentennial will also include a world conference of mission leaders and scholars. Sponsored by Global Ministries, in collaboration with Candler School of Theology of Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA, the conference will be called “Answering the Call: Hearing God's Voice in Methodist Mission Past, Present, and Future.” It will be held in Atlanta, GA, USA, at the Emory University Conference Center Hotel, April 8-10, 2019. The conference will celebrate Methodism’s mission heritage and look to the future of mission. A call for papers is available at http://bit.ly/2rAMEQw

Religion and Health

By Tyler Lenocker September 19th, 2017

Ellen Idler"Going Viral: Religion and Health" will be the theme for the third annual Graduate Student Conference on Religion at Boston University. Dr. Ellen Idler from Emory College will serve as the keynote speaker for the event, which will also feature health professionals and graduate students. The conference will be held from 9:00am-6:00pm, October 14th, 2017. Register at: bureligionandhealth.eventbrite.com.

Augustinian Monks in the Qing Imperial Court

By Tyler Lenocker September 14th, 2017 in People, World Christianity

City-Hall-Druento-636x477Cultural and religious exchange between China and the West is not something unique to recent history. This summer, CGCM faculty associate Eugenio Menegon visited Druento, Italy, home of Discalced Augustinian Sigismondo Meinardi da San Nicola (1713-1767). Sigismondo spent 30 years in the Qing Imperial Court in Beijing. Menegon has found hundreds of Sigismondo's letters, many of them sent to his brother Francesco, a lawyer and priest living in his native Druento. Menegon is using these letters for his current book project on Europeans in Beijing during the 18th century. 

Inter-University Council for East Africa

By Tyler Lenocker September 5th, 2017 in Africa, People, World Christianity

DaewonRepresenting the private universities in Burundi, Daewon Moon attended the recent meeting of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) which was held in Kampala, Uganda. Established in 1970, the IUCEA has strived for improvement of higher education and promotion of academic research among its 115 member universities. Academic cooperation among them has initiated and facilitated practices such as student exchange, collaborative research, credit transfer, and standardization of fee structures. Daewon Moon has been working since 2014 at International Leadership University Burundi, where he supervises the bachelor's and master's programs in theology.

Biography in Latin American Pentecostalism

By Tyler Lenocker September 5th, 2017 in Latin America, People, Publications, Research, World Christianity

angel_santiago_vendrellIn his recent book, Tales of Mutual Influence: Biography as Missiology in Latin American Pentecostalism,  Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell (BuSTH alumnus and professor of evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary) explores the role of biography in the Pentecostal missionary endeavor in Latin America. Following the movement across the 20th century, Santiago-Vendrell describes its journey beginning with early American missionaries, its transmission in Latin America, and then its return to the United States through Latino/a migrant communities.

Transnational Missionary Movements

By dri August 4th, 2017 in Announcements, Dana L. Robert, Dana L. Robert, People, Research, World Christianity

logoIn the fall of 2017, Dr. Dana L. Robert will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. While there, she will also address the Roman Catholic and Protestant Missiological Societies on Transnational Misionary Movements. On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the two societies will meet together for the first time.

Eugene Carson Blake Scholarship

By dri August 4th, 2017 in Announcements, Opportunities

North American students wanting to study at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland, may apply for the Eugene Carson Blake Scholarship. The scholarship covers the costs of attendance. It does not cover travel expenses or personal spending.

Priority will be given to students under 40 who have at least an undergraduate degree in theology or two years of a Master of Divinity/Theology.

For more information contact Melissa.davis@pcusa.org.

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