Call for Papers
We here at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission sometimes get calls for papers that might be of interest to some of our viewers. They will be posted on this page as we get them. If YOU get a Call for Papers that you do not see appear here but that you think people in this community might be interested in, please email it to cgcm@bu.edu for posting.
Migration, Exile, and Pilgrimage in the History of Missions and World Christianity
Paper proposals should be submitted to me (martha.smalley@yale.edu) via email attachment by March 5, 2017 and should include your name, institutional affiliation and status, the title of your proposed paper, and a one paragraph summary. Papers should relate in some way to the conference theme: Migration, Exile, and Pilgrimage in the History of Missions and World Christianity. Notification of successful proposals will be made by March 15, 2017. See more information about the meeting and a link to the pre-registration and accommodations request form at http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/Yale-Edinburgh/2017y-einfo.htm. Some rooms are available at the Yale Divinity School, the Overseas Ministries Study Center, and two... More
History of Christianity in East Asia at the University of Oxford
Call for Applications for an International Workshop on the History of Christianity in East Asia at the University of Oxford The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco in collaboration with the China Centre at the University of Oxford will hold a four-day international workshop at Oxford from September 20 through September 23, 2017. We are inviting post-doctoral level scholars and junior faculty members with their research focus on Christianity in East Asia who are currently preparing a book manuscript for publication to apply. This workshop is part of a four-year project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation in... More
Call for Papers: Christianity in Modern China
CHRISTIANITY IN MODERN CHINA Series, Palgrave Macmillan Editor: Cindy Yik-yi Chu, Professor of History, Hong Kong Baptist University About this series This series addresses Christianity in China from the time of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties to the present. It includes a number of disciplines—history, political science, theology, religious studies, gender studies and sociology. Not only is the series inter-disciplinary, it also encourages inter-religious dialogue. It covers the Presence of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Churches and the Orthodox Church in China. While Chinese Protestant Churches have attracted much scholarly and journalistic attention, there is much unknown about the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in... More
Call for Papers: Migration, Exile, and Pilgrimage in World Christianity
This is the official call for papers for the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity conference, which will be held at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut on June 29 – July 1, 2017. Offers of short papers are welcome on any aspect of the conference theme: Migration, Exile, and Pilgrimage in the History of Missions and World Christianity. Please submit your paper proposal as an email attachment to Martha Smalley (martha.smalley@yale.edu) by March 5. Your proposal should include your name, academic affiliation/status, and a one paragraph summary of the proposed topic. If your proposal is accepted, you... More
Call for Papers: Converting Spaces: Re-Directing Missions Through Global Encounters
The department of religious studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, with support from the Cordano Endowment in Catholic Studies, will host an interdisciplinary conference from May 4-6, 2017, entitled “Converting Spaces: Re-Directing Missions Through Global Encounters.” The keynote speaker for the event is Dr. Liam Brockey of the history department at Michigan State University. Proposals addressing the relation of space to conversion in the context of European global and colonial expansion from the sixteenth century onwards are welcome from established scholars, graduate students, and independent researchers. The deadline for submissions is February 17, 2017. We seek papers addressing the relation of... More
Andrew Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity International Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS The year 2017 sees the 500th anniversary of events often seen as initiating the Protestant Reformation. The years that followed saw a series of spiritual movements, some among Catholics, and some among Protestants that brought renewal to the Western Church. In the course of their long histories, African and Asian Christianity have also experienced movements that sought reform and renewal in the Church. In the early centuries, the young Coptic layman Antony, seeking to be a perfect disciple of Christ, inaugurated a new era of Christian spirituality, and the early Syriac church hosted the movement of consecrated young... More
Call for Chapters: American Society of Missiology
Call for Chapter Proposals One of the outcomes of the last ASM meetings was the development of a book project that will allow the introduction of new scholars in missiology. We have meet with the acquisitions editor for Baker Academic and he is very interested in our book proposal and now we are seeking contributors to this volume. The following is a description of the book: Practicing Mission: From Theory to Practice and Back Again. The book is intended to demonstrate how theories from various disciplines can inform and improve the practice of mission and how the practice of theory in mission serves... More
Call for Papers: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
The year 2019 will mark the centenary of the Mandarin Union Version (Heheben 和合本) of the Chinese Bible, which remains the most widely used biblical translation in the Chinese-speaking world, even though it was produced by western Protestant missionaries with the help of Chinese Protestants during the last two decades of the Qing dynasty and the early years of Republican China. To celebrate this occasion, it is proposed that a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society be prepared, so as to offer an opportunity to explore the history and legacy of the Mandarin Union Version, to... More
Call for Papers: EMS Northeast Regional Conference
On March 18, 2017 the northeast regional EMS conference will be held at First Baptist Church of Flushing in Flushing, NY. Our main theme will be Engaging Theology, Theologians, and Theological Education in (or from) Majority World Contexts. While missiology pioneered early discussions of theology in cultural context, and of self-theologizing as a core value, missiology must remain current in its engagements with theology and theological education if it is to build on missiological strengths and remain central to such conversations. We would like to explore aspects of what it means for missiology, theology, and theological education in North America... More
Association of Professors of Mission: Call for Papers
Deadline: February 15, 2017 Teaching Mission in the Complex Public Arena: Developing Missiologically Informed Models of Engagement 2017 Annual Meeting Wheaton College - Wheaton, IL June 15-16, 2017 The Association of Professors of Mission extends an open call for paper presentation proposals for its annual meeting. Anyone interested in presenting at APM should submit a proposal title with a 150-200 word abstract and a 30 word biography to Larry W. Caldwell, APM President, at lcaldwell@sfseminary.edu by February 15, 2017. Theme: Our North American context immerses us every day in complex contemporary issues that arise from the public arena: issues of racial justice, immigration, gender and sexuality, ecology and environment, More