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.
Call for Papers: Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism in Global Perspective
The journal Religions is issuing a call for papers for a special issue entitled "Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective." Proposals are due to the co-editors, Tim Grass and Brad Nassif, by August 31, 2020. See further information below. --- --- --- Since the 1990s, the Eastern Orthodox and Protestant Evangelical communities have had more direct contacts with each other than at any other time. This special issue of Religions will focus on current developments and issues relating to this encounter in specific regions of the world. With the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, Western missionaries began flooding the former Soviet... More
Nationalism and Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement
Dana L. Robert of Boston University and Judith Becker of Humboldt University are sponsoring "Nationalism and Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement, 1985-1920s," a virtual conference taking place on October 8-10, 2020. The conference program features several presenters affiliated with the Center for Global Christianity and Mission--Ada Focer, Yeongseung Lee, David W. Scott, and Benjamin Hartley. Registration is limited and must be completed by September 10.
Call for Papers: Christianity in China, 1300-1700
On behalf of the China Christianity Studies Group (中國基督宗教研究學會), an affiliated society of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) and of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Eugenio Menegon offers a call for scholars to organize one panel on Christianity in China in the period 1300-1700 for the 2021 RSA Meeting in Dublin, Ireland. As an affiliated society, it is the responsibility of the CCSG to approve the panel (no individual papers), and communicate the decision to the RSA. Please check the call for papers at this link for criteria, and get in touch with Prof. Eugenio Menegon (emenegon@bu.edu), the CCSG’s representative with the RSA, More
Ecclesiastical History Society: The Church in Sickness and in Health
Following the postponement of its 2020 summer conference due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ecclesiastical History Society invites articles for a peer-reviewed volume of Studies in Church History on the Church in Sickness and in Health. From the earliest times, the Church has cared for the sick and the health of society both in a physical and spiritual sense. Anointing and praying for the sick was combined with medical care for the afflicted. The intercession of the Virgin Mary, St. Roch, and St. Sebastian, for example, was sought to protect the faithful from plague, while further saints offered hope against other diseases. Religious... More
Call for Papers Reminder: Special Issue of the Journal RELIGIONS
This Call for Papers is on behalf of the journal RELIGIONS, which is preparing a special issue entitled “Broadening Themes and Methodologies in the Research and Writing of History and Christian Mission Theologies.” We are looking for proposals that will address the following description: This special issue seeks to explore the intersection between history, mission, and theology in the worldwide Christian movement. Essays are invited that identify and investigate new themes or methodologies in the research and writing of the history of Christianity and Christian mission theology. While recent scholarship has begun to diffuse the separation between the history of Christianity... More
Call for Papers: British Protestant Missionaries to Formosa
Sharing Spaces: British Protestant Missionaries to Formosa In honor of missionary contributions to Taiwan, Changhua Christian Hospital Historical Museum collaborates with Asia Pacific Studies, University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), Department of History, Tung Hai University, Department of History, National Chung Shing University, and Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) to host the 2020 International Conference on the History of Christian Protestant Missionaries. The conference is due to take place on the 24th – 25th September 2020, in the Changhua Christian Hospital International Education and Training Center (Changhua, Taiwan). Subthemes include: Translating God: Missionary Linguistics Social Development and Missionary Values Medical Mission History and the... More
Call for Contributors: World Christianity and COVID-19
WORLD CHRISTIANITY AND COVID-19: THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON SUFFERING Editors: Chammah J. Kaunda, Atola Longkumer, Kenneth R. Ross Jooseup Keum, and Roderick Hewitt The United Nations (U.N) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented, "We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering and upending people's lives. But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a human crisis. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is attacking societies at their core." It was in March 2020 when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as a global pandemic. More
Call for Papers: Broadening Themes and Methodologies in Research and Writing of History and Christian Mission Theologies
This is a “Call for Papers” on behalf of the journal RELIGIONS, which is preparing a special issue entitled “Broadening Themes and Methodologies in the Research and Writing of History and Christian Mission Theologies.” We are looking for proposals that will address the following description: This special issue seeks to explore the intersection between history, mission, and theology in the worldwide Christian movement. Essays are invited that identify and investigate new themes or methodologies in the research and writing of the history of Christianity and Christian mission theology. While recent scholarship has begun to diffuse the separation between the history of... More
Call for Papers: Religion and Communal Interaction
Boston University’s Institute for Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) invites BU faculty and graduate students to apply to become fellows in the interdisciplinary Colloquium on Religion and World Affairs run in cooperation with the BU School of Theology. The CURA Colloquium involves bimonthly meetings throughout the academic year to discuss working papers on a chosen theme. The papers are prepared by both the BU fellows and invited scholars from outside BU. The colloquium sessions are open to the general public, with the expectation that all attendees read the papers in advance and that the sessions focus on providing feedback... More
Call for Papers: COVID-19, Disease, and the World Church
In the midst of a pandemic that is shaking the globe we call for papers for a special issue of Studies in World Christianity that analyse immediate responses to COVID-19 and that give some historical perspective on pandemics or epidemics. We do this in order to resource further response to pandemic whose effects will be with us for some years to come. The papers may interrogate worldwide Christian responses to the outbreak of COVID-19 around the world by examining how churches have responded theologically and practically as the disease continues to spread. How have Christians responded by offering hope, calling for lament, or proclaiming God’s judgment? What ethical questions about planetary health, palliative... More