Call for Papers
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Currents, Perspectives, and Ethnographic Methodologies for World Christianity
2019 World Christianity Conference March 15–18, 2019 | Princeton Theological Seminary "CURRENTS, PERSPECTIVES, AND ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODOLOGIES FOR WORLD CHRISTIANITY” Call for Papers An International, Interdisciplinary Conference organized by The World Christianity & History of Religions Program (Dept. of History & Ecumenics) Princeton, New Jersey, USA Recent decades mark a watershed in World Christianity as an emerging academic field, its development into an interdisciplinary endeavor in particular. Reflection on the complexity of Christianity as a pluricultural, global phenomenon has been robust. As was highlighted by our 2018 conference, World Christianity as a field has been shaped in large part by its distinctive historiography and diverse methodologies. In... More
Call for Papers: Historical Monuments and Modern Society in China
Attached please find the call for papers for an international conference, "Historical Monuments and Modern Society," to be held in Shanghai on December 1-2, 2018. This conference certainly bears relevance to missions and Christianity in the modern recovery of ancient sites around the world. Dong WANG, Ph.D., Ph.D. Director of Wellington Koo Institute for Modern China in World History Distinguished University Professor of History College of Liberal Arts Shanghai University; Research Associate (since 2002) Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard University Call for papers historical monuments and modern society May 13, 2018
Call for Papers: International Orthodox Theological Association
Call for Papers: Prison and Religion in the Global South
The journal Social Sciences and Missions is now planning a special issue on Prison and Religion in the Global South. Prisons build an important interface of social and religious concern. They are communities operating with limited connection to the outside world and with their own resilient communal life. Penal communities are often dominated by prison gangs. Yet there are aspects to communal life in prison that are outside of gangs’ control, among them an occasionally vibrant religious life independent of outside initiative. At the same time, religious groups of Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, or other provenience, and, to a smaller extent, non-religious... More
American Society of Church History Winter Meeting 2019 Call for Paper
The Program Committee of the American Society of Church History, chaired by President-Elect Paul C. H. Lim, is pleased to announce its Call For Papers for the upcoming Winter Meeting. The annual Winter Meeting of the American Society of Church History (ASCH) will be held Thursday to Sunday, January 3-6, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois, as a concurrent event to the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA). All ASCH sessions will be held at the historic Blackstone Hotel, next door to the main AHA conference hotel. Conference Theme: “Race and the Other: Whose Church, Which Histories?” When the term “church history” is... More
Call for Papers: The Annual Orlando E. Costas Consultation on World Missions & Ecumenism
Call for Papers for the 2018 Yale-Edinburgh Meeting
Call for Papers for the 2018 Yale-Edinburgh Meeting on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity Date: June 28 to June 30, 2018 Location: New College, University of Edinburgh Paper proposals with brief abstracts should be submitted via email by March 12, 2018 to the Conference Administrator, Jessie Furbara-Manuel at cswc-events@ed.ac.uk. Please include your name, the name of your institution, and the title of your proposed paper at the top of the document. Papers should relate in some way to the conference theme, “Scripture, Prayer and Worship in the History of Missions and World Christianity” available at: http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/Yale-Edinburgh/2018theme.htm. Registration is a two-step process, which needs to be completed... More
Call for Papers: Chinese Christianities
For the AAR 2018 meeting in Denver, CO, the call for papers has gone out, with a deadline of March 1. You can see the full listing of program units on their website: https://papers.aarweb.org/program_units. Certain program units may be of interest, such as the World Christianity Unit. In particular, I would like to draw your attention to the Chinese Christianities Seminar, which I chair: Statement of Purpose: This seminar provides a collaborative forum for scholars of different disciplines to engage in an academic discourse about the field of Chinese Christianities. Christianity is the fastest growing religion in mainland China today, and arguably the religion of choice for... More
Call for Papers: Medical Missions and Health
Call for Papers Journal of Social History of Medicine and Health Special Issue on Medical Missions and Health The term “Medical Missions” is most strongly associated with nineteenth and twentieth century Christian missionaries from Europe and the United States traveling to countries in Asia, Africa, or Latin America and practicing medicine, providing education leading to careers in medicine (physicians, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, etc.) and, especially as the twentieth century progressed, conducting work in public health. Both at the time and later, supporters of missions cited medical missions as tangible evidence of the value of missionary work, and even those critical of... More
Missionary Projects and Indigenous Responses in the Asia Pacific
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence of historical and anthropological interest in the reasons, practices, moralities and effects of indigenous conversion to Christianity. Rejecting conceptualizations of conversion that would restrict it a priori to a clearly demarcated ‘religious’ space, recent scholarship on conversion has highlighted the entanglements between Christian mission and modernity, imperial networks and/or state projects of nation-building. While some investigations into conversion have perceived it as a great rupture with the past, others have argued that a focus on apparent breaks with the past tends to conceal the ways in which earlier identities and beliefs were... More