Call for Papers
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Call for Papers: PTS 2023 World Christianity Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS 2023 WAR, PANDEMIC, AND CLIMATE CHANGE: GLOBAL CRISES—PAST AND PRESENT—AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY SCHOLARSHIP Fourth International Interdisciplinary Conference co-organized by the World Christianity and History of Religions Program (History & Ecumenics Dept.) and the Overseas Ministries Study Center, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. March 14 (Tuesday) - March 17th (Friday) 2023 In the last two decades, the study of world Christianity has significantly expanded its horizons. A testament to that is the growth of academic programs, chairs, conferences, and publications devoted to studies of Christianity's kaleidoscopic local and global manifestations. Privileging lived experiences, world Christianity scholarship nowadays... More
Call for Papers: Loyalties and Transloyalties in the History of Medical Missions
CALL FOR PAPERS LOYALTIES AND TRANSLOYALTIES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL MISSIONS 20-22 October 2022 VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway This workshop explores new approaches to examine the history of medical missions from the perspectives of loyalties and transloyalties. Throughout the history of medical missions and World Christianity, tension persisted, for example between medicine and evangelism, between scientific development and ethical reflections, and between medical intervention and divine healing. Interplay of interests, values, and loyalties was found striking between various agents, such as between mission boards, missionaries, and colonial powers, and between mission hospitals, churches, and local communities. Research focusing on multi-layered identities and loyalties, as well... More
Call for Papers: “Slavery, Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period”, UCLouvain, March 8-9, 2023
Call for Papers UCLouvain will host a workshop on "Slavery, Law, and Religion in the Early Modern Period" on March 8-9, 2023. See the full flyer here for more details and registration information. Colonial slavery and the global slave trade recently have received much attention in the historical disciplines. This interdisciplinary workshop seeks to bring together junior researchers - Ph.D. candidates and early-stage postdocs – working on early modern colonial and Christian slavery in the fields of cultural, intellectual, religious, and legal history. Particularly regarding the 18th century, scholars have compared the transatlantic with the Indian Ocean world. Researchers have also identified shifting... More
Call for Papers from The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (The Circle)
Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (The Circle), U.S Chapter Circle and Womanist Theologians Sankofa Research Project Co-editors: Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar, Ph.D., and Yoknyam Dabale, Ph.D. Candidate Introduction: Musa W. Dube, Ph.D. The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians was founded in Ghana, West Africa in 1989 with the purpose of amplifying Pan-African and inter-religious theological perspectives of African women. As a means of embodying Sankofa, our next conference in 2024 will be a pilgrimage back to Ghana. In preparation for our return, we are engaged in several research projects that analyze and expand the work of the Circle theological matriarchs, that is, the... More
Call for Papers on “Colonial Violence: Secular and Ecclesiastical Perspectives (1919-1975)”
VID Specialized University, Stavanger (Norway) Centre of Mission and Global Studies International Conference - Call for Papers Colonial Violence: Secular and Ecclesiastical Perspectives (1919-1975) Praia, Cape Verde, 7-9 November 2022 The history of violence in the colonial contexts in the twentieth century has received considerable scholarly attention in recent years. With regard to some colonial spaces, the topic of colonial violence has, in fact, flourished as scholars have deployed new theories and methodologies to explore the mechanisms and typologies of violence across a range of colonial spaces/societies. Despite all this, inter-and transdisciplinary and empirically grounded approaches to colonial violence remain rare and considerably underexplored. Colonial Violence: Secular... More
Call for Papers on the Theme of Majority World Epistemologies
Practical Theology extends its Call for Papers for its 2023 special issue 'Majority World Epistemologies.' This issue intends to broaden the conversation of practical theology and welcome scholars from/doing theology for the majority world to reflect what majority world epistemologies may look like. Please find the CfP here for details. For those interested, please submit a 200-word abstract to Practical Theology’s Associate Editor, Dustin Benac, at dustin_benac@baylor.edu by May 15, 2022. For informal inquiries about the CfP, please feel free to contact guest editor, Calida Chu at v1cchu3@exseed.ed.ac.uk.
Chinese Theologies : Call for Papers Due March 7
Chinese Theology: Call for Papers 中国神学研讨会论文征集通告 The final conference in a series of three conferences on Chinese Theologies will be held at Yale Divinity School (New Haven, Connecticut) 1-3 June 2022 with the theme of “Academic and Diasporic theologies.” The conference is hybrid: paper-givers are welcome to come in person, but may also present online if travel is difficult. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for papers discussing: 1) any aspect of theological thought or thinkers in “academic theology” or the “Sino-Christian theology” movement in mainland China 2) or to explore theological thought or thinkers among diasporic Chinese theologians (including Malaysia, North America, Singapore, and... More
International Orthodox Theological Association – 2023 Call for Papers
The International Orthodox Theological Association is accepting paper proposals for their January 2023. This second mega-conference of the IOTA will take place in Volos, Greece on January 10-15, 2023. The format of the conference is in-person only (no papers will be delivered virtually or remotely). Follow this link to the IOTA website where you can find further details and submit your paper proposal. The IOTA Missiology Group will be accepting proposals for three panels: 1) Orthodoxy and Inculturation 2) Orthodox mission and diaspora 3) Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Discipleship and Spiritual Formation (held jointly with the Lausanne Orthodox Initiative) The overall theme of... More
Association of Professors of Mission : Call for Papers
Association of Professors of Mission Call for Paper Proposals Deadline: March 11, 2022 2022 Annual Meeting St. Mary's College - University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN & Online vie ZOOM and WHOVA June 16, 2022 Issues of Power and Mission/Missiology The Association of Professors of Mission extends an open call for paper presentation proposals for its annual meeting Theme: The concern about issues of power has become increasingly prominent in recent years. Issues of political, social, and economic power as natural processes as well as the abuse of various types of power have been prominently and repeatedly noted. Less obvious in current discussions of missions is the understanding and awareness... More
Call for Abstracts: Women as Agents of Change
The Women's Institue at William Carey International University is offering a call for abstracts with the aim of awarding an Excellence in Research Prize for papers that demonstrate the highest research standards on the following topics pertaining to Women as Agents of Change. Church Leadership Health Marketplace Education/Training Development Intercultural Studies Abstracts are due before January 31st, 2022, and can be forwarded to tony.pina@wciu.edu. For the official entry details, click here.