Research
The research agenda of the Center for Global Christianity is driven by the interests of the people who are part of its community. Reports about their ongoing work will be posted from time to time.
Recorded Lecture with Margaret Bendroth Now Available
In spring 2021, Dr. Margaret Bendroth gave a public lecture entitled "Liberating the Ladies' Aid: Mainline Protestants and Feminism in the 'Between Times.'" This lecture was hosted by Dr. Christopher Evans in his graduate-level course at the BU School of Theology. The event was sponsored by the Center for Global Christianity & Mission. Dr. Bendroth is a Visiting Researcher with the CGCM and the former longtime executive director of the Congregational Library in Boston. Watch the video on the Center's YouTube channel! https://youtu.be/8eEgnjaVVZc
China-Europe Relations in Late Imperial Times
Digital Humanities: Mapping Christianity in China
On November 19-21, 2020, the Center for Global Christianity and Mission convened a workshop on “Mapping Christianity in China, 1550-1950.” The Center launched the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) project in 2018 to map where every Christian church, school, hospital, monastery, orphanage, publishing house, and the like were located in China between 1550 and 1950. The project also seeks to identify who worked inside those buildings, both foreigners and Chinese. The goal is to build a tool that can create spatial maps of when and where Christians were located in China, and a resource that can generate social network maps... More
Mission Records as Method: Towards a Microhistory of Global China
A Virtual Workshop with Dr. Eugenio Menegon Thursday, July 30, 2020 Eastern Time (US and Canada) 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Reading: https://www.academia.edu/42008729/_Telescope_and_Microscope._A_micro-historical_approach_to_global_China_in_the_eighteenth_century_2019_ This event is part of the 2020 summer events hosted by the Humanities Unbounded MicroWorlds Lab at Duke University. The MicroWorlds Lab is a collaborative humanities research project with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We have two years' experience in organizing a wide range of workshops and other activities in support of researchers learning and developing their skills in microhistorical analysis. We support researchers at all levels—from undergraduate to mature scholars—and in a variety of disciplines. Please find more information about our lab at: https://sites.duke.edu/microworldslab/. This... More
Associate Director Daryl Ireland’s New Book on Chinese Revivalism
Dr. Daryl Ireland, Associate Director of the CGCM and Research Assistant Professor of Mission, has written a new book on revivalist Christianity in 20th-century China entitled John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man (Baylor University Press, 2020). This work is now available for pre-order, and will be available in August 2020. See Chloe Starr's praise of Ireland's work and learn of a discount code for purchasing the book here. Congratulations to Dr. Ireland for this great achievement!