Call for Papers
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Yale-Edinburgh Call for Papers
This year’s conference on World Christianity will take place at New College, University of Edinburgh, UK from 25 – 27 June 2020 on the theme “Oral, Print, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the History of Mission.” Paper proposals with brief abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted via email by March 6, 2020 to the Conference Administrator, Jessie Fubara-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. Description for the conference theme is available at http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/Yale-Edinburgh/2020theme.htmand papers should focus on the theme. Registration for the conference and payment of... More
The Past and Future of Evangelical Missions
Call for Papers: Liberation & Reconciliation through Latin America
Engaging Liberation and Reconciliation through Latin America Duke Graduate Conference in Theology March 20–21, 2020 Duke University | Durham NC The sixth annual Duke Graduate Conference in Theology is pleased to invite proposals that engage the intersections of liberation, reconciliation, and Latin America. Proposals that engage these themes from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives are welcomed including (but not limited to): systematic theology, liturgical studies, ethics, historical theology, world Christianity, political theology, and biblical studies. Strong proposals will also engage with experiences and voices from Latin American culture, people, and/or history. Submission Guidelines Please submit paper proposals of no more than 300 words by December... More
Call for Papers: Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis
The October 2020 issue of Global Missiology - English will take up the urgent theme of “Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis.” Regional case studies are welcome, as are papers that take up any number of related topics, including: The rise of global populism and of political radicalism, plus the challenges both present to nation-states as well as to Christians’ unified witness Accelerating phases of technology: the digitalization of the world, the turn to social media and big data (facebook, twitter, instagram), and resulting opportunities and challenges for missions praxis. (One example among many topics worth pursuing is how cross-cultural workers... More
Call for Papers: Christian Revival and Renewal Movements
Christian Revival and Renewal Movements in 20th and 21st Centuries DATES: 28 to 30 June 2020 VENUE: Hope Park Campus, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool L16 9JD, England Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ requires Christians to change their customary ways of thinking and living in their specific contexts. In this process, they seek to orient their heritages, contemporary situations and future aspirations towards the Lord Jesus Christ as well. They want to cultivate in themselves the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ and to adjust their priorities accordingly. In due course, small changes begin to occur; gradually, they grow into sizable movements of... More
Call for Papers: The Past and Future of Evangelical Missions
“The Past and Future of Evangelical Missions” 2020 Evangelical Missiological Society Call for Papers Every few years, missiologists innovate or adopt models to address the missionary task amidst changing global realities. Some models have enjoyed a long “tail life” and endure for decades. Others are quickly abandoned. Unfortunately, we often move on to the next approach without adequately evaluating the usefulness of earlier theories, or the ramifications for those theories on future missionary work. How did those models actually advance the Great Commission in specific fields? How should those models be adjusted or abandoned as we make disciples across cultures into the... More
Call for Papers: The Family in Chinese Christianity
Generational Legacies: The Family in Chinese Christianity May 3-4, 2020 (arriving May 2, departing May 5) Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA This conference seeks to examine Chinese Christianity through the lens of the family. Chinese culture has a strong emphases on the family and expressions of Christianity in China are often family-centered. Therefore, understanding the role of the family in Chinese Christianity is critical for understanding Chinese Christianity. The Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University invites presentation proposals that look at various aspects of the family in Chinese Christianity. Topics may include: Commemoration of family history by Chinese Christian families ... More
Call for Proposals: China, Christianity, and the Dialogue of Civilizations
The US-China Catholic Association will host a conference on “China, Christianity, and the Dialogue of Civilizations” to take place March 13-15, 2020 on the campus of Santa Clara University. This conference will examine efforts to locate engagement between Christianity and Chinese civilization in the context of shared values and the common good. See conference homepage for more information: www.uscatholicchina.org/conference-2020. Conference organizers seek proposals for panels from potential panel conveners. Panels will address a given topic from several mutually illuminating perspectives, taking into account Catholic and other Christian experience. Panels that have already been proposed include: The Sino-Vatican accord in historical and... More
Yale-Edinburgh 2020: Oral, Print, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the History of Mission
Studies in world Christianity and the history of mission have not been afraid to engage the topic of culture. However, they have mostly referred to the encounters of Western Christian cultures with another, whether that be Confucian and Hindu culture, or the indigenous cultures of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. This year's theme uses the language of culture to speak about three different mediums in which the Christian message is communicated and the Christian life is practiced. These cultures have developed somewhat chronologically, but they also simultaneously coexist in the contemporary world. Oral culture is a vivid dimension of Christian expression, More
Call for Papers: Pentecostal Strategies of Public Engagement
11th GloPent ConferenceBasel, February 14-15, 2020 The eleventh international and interdisciplinary conference of the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (GloPent.net) will be held on 14–15 February 2020 at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Conference Theme: Pentecostal Strategies of Public Engagement Convenor / contact: Andreas Heuser (andreas.heuser@unibas.ch) Call for Papers The growing evidence of Pentecostal public engagement has attracted academic attention, espe- cially, but not exclusively in arenas of the Global South. Recent explorations of the global ‘Charis - matic city’, the notion of an African ‘Pentecostal republic’, or assertions about ‘property Christianity’ in China point to peculiar Pentecostal taxonomies in the public realm. Pentecostal... More