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.
American Society of Missiology
2017 Annual Meeting June 16 - 18 Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois Missiology's Dialogue Partners: Practitioners and Scholars Conversing about the Future of Mission The study of Christian mission has been undertaken from numerous perspectives, and increasingly engages disciplines that have long avoided the topic. At the same time, some missionaries and mission administrators also feel distant from academic missiology. This year’s conference will bring together for our plenary sessions scholars and practitioners who, though perhaps not formally missiologists or theologians of mission, consider Christian mission—in practice or theory, past or present—from their particular academic homes or vocational settings. Scholars with similar disciplinary orientations and from... More
Engaging Theology, Theologians, and Theological Education in (or from) Majority World Contexts
The Evangelical Missiological Society extends a call for papers around the theme of Engaging Theology, Theologians, and Theological Education in (or from) Majority World Contexts for the EMS 2017 Spring Regional Conferences and the 2017 September 15-17 National Conference in Dallas, and will result in a published volume to be edited by Dr. Tite Tiénou and Dr. Allen Yeh. 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. For... More
ASM Graduate Student Paper Award
The deadline for submission is September 1, 2017. Submitted paper should be sent to arun.w.jone@emory.edu and participants should expect an email reply confirming their submission. The prize will be awarded at the 2018 annual meeting and it is anticipated that the recipient be present to receive the award at this time.
Call for Proposals: Religion Fellows Program
Call for Papers: Dynamics of Missionary Knowledge
Mapping Entanglements Dynamics of Missionary Knowledge and “Materialities” across Space and Time (16th - 20th centuries) February 9-11, 2017 Workshop at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC Conveners: Sabina Brevaglieri, Elisabeth Engel in collaboration with the History of Knowledge Research Group at the GHI Washington and the German Historical Institute in Rome In recent years missionary knowledge has emerged as an experimental category for scholarship, residing at the intersection of different historical and scholarly fields and shaped by all of them, such as the social and cultural history of missions, imperial history, history of science, and intellectual history. This new analytical focus fosters better understanding... More
Call for Papers: Protest, Public Religion, & Social Change
Boston University Graduate Conference on Religious Studies 2016
Call for Papers: American Society of Missiology
Missiology and Public Life: Mission's Engagement with Societies, Change, and Conflict 2016 Annual Meeting June 17 – 19 University of Northwestern–St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota For a full statement of the conference theme, visit the ASM website. Registration for the annual meeting will open in January 2016. Plenary Speakers Sebastian Kim – Chair, Theology and Public Life, York St. John University, UK Emmanuel Katongole – Department of Theology/Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame Ruth Padilla DeBorst – Coordinator, International Fellowship of Mission as Transformation (INFEMIT), Costa Rica Mario Vega – General Director, Misión Cristiana Elim, El Salvador Gregory Leffel – 2016 ASM President Call for Papers and Panels Social change creates... More
Call for Papers: New England Historical Association
New England-Maritimes Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion Call for Papers
NEMAAR Regional Coordinator James T. Bretzke, S.J. sent out the following announcement about the upcoming meeting: We have posted our Call For Papers on the AAR/NEMAAR Web-site at https://www.aarweb.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Membership/Regions/NEMAAR/NEMAAR2016CallForPapers.pdf and we want to encourage as broad a participation as possible. Panel Proposals and/or 2 or more papers on a common theme are especially welcome. There is no set overall theme for theApril 2, 2016 Conference so we welcome papers in all areas of Theology and Religious Studies. By January 19, 2016 please e-mail send your one-page, double-spaced Paper Proposal in an electronic file (doc, docx, or pdf) named with your own surname to NEMAAR Regional Coordinator James Bretzke... More
Shifting Global Systems?
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies will be hosting a graduate student conference on shifting global systems. We encourage students to submit papers!