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.
Film Reveals Practice of “Quarantined Faith” in Rome, Italy
Dr. Jenn Lindsay has produced a film, Quarantined Faith: Rome, Religion and Coronavirus, documenting the story of quarantined Easter, Passover, and Ramadan this past spring. The film includes interviews with Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, and Jewish religious leaders who described how their communities kept their traditions in new ways during the pandemic. Lindsay's goal is to show how these people "maintain resilience and connectedness, and how the crisis has called them to draw more deeply on their spiritual resources." Lindsay received her PhD from Boston University's Graduate Division of Religious Studies. View her documentary here, and read her interview with Bostonia magazine here.
Peggy Bendroth’s Work on Mid-20th Century US Women
Dr. Peggy Bendroth, CGCM visiting researcher, is working on a project entitled "Not Feminists, But..." This research focuses on US mainline Protestant women from the 1920s and 1970s, between women's suffrage and the beginning of second-wave feminism. Watch her describe the surprises she has encountered along the way in this short video.
John Parker Awarded Franciscan History Fellowship
John Parker was recently awarded a dissertation fellowship by the Academy of American Franciscan History. Mr. Parker's dissertation is tentatively entitled, "Libertas est Bonum Ordinis Superioris Omnium Bonorum: Perfect Obedientia in Epifanio Moirans O.F.M. cap's Iusta Defensio." He also has a chapter in the forthcoming, The Dominicans as Participants, Witnesses, and Critics of the Colonization of Early Latin America (Routledge).
Expanded Bios
The History of Missiology Biographies Project is grateful to announce the addition of nearly 200 new mission biographies to our digital collection. This increase was made possible through collaboration with the Methodist Mission Bicentennial project. The new biographies feature women and men from the past two centuries whose lives and mission work emanate from and touch diverse cultures, communities and contexts in Global Methodism. The History of Missiology Project welcomes these additions, as they showcase the worldwide reach of Methodism, and can stimulate more scholarship on Christian mission for the future.
New Book: The Split Economy
In his new book, The Split Economy, Nimi Wariboko looks closely at the ethical challenge of capitalism. Others have named injustice, inequality, repression, exploitative empires, and capitalism’s psychic hold over all of us, as the central problem. Nimi Wariboko instead argues that the core ethical problem of capitalism lies in the split nature of the modern economy, an economy divided against itself. Production is set against finance, consumption against saving, and the future against the present. As the rich enjoy their lifestyle, their fellow citizens live in servitude. The economy mimics the structure of our human subjectivity as Saint Paul theorizes in... More