{"id":51820,"date":"2023-02-28T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=51820"},"modified":"2023-03-02T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:18:17","slug":"prof-daryl-ireland-featured-in-bu-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/prof-daryl-ireland-featured-in-bu-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Daryl Ireland featured in BU Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Brink<\/a>\u2019s<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/why-is-christianity-growing-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What\u2019s Behind Boom of Christianity in China?<\/a>\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/author\/marc-chalufour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Chalufour<\/a>, featuring Research Assistant Professor of Mission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/daryl-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daryl Ireland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/wesley-j-wildman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/why-is-christianity-growing-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"deck\"><span>Theology scholars and a global network of researchers are using big data to map religion\u2019s history in China and explain its rapid growth<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Over the past four decades, Christianity has grown faster in China than anywhere else in the world.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/daryl-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daryl Ireland<\/a>, a Boston University School of Theology research assistant professor of mission, estimates that the Christian community there has grown from 1 million to 100 million. What led to that explosion, centuries after the first Christian missionaries arrived in China? The BU scholars behind the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chcdatabase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China Historical Christian Database<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>aim to find out.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which allows researchers to visualize the history of Christianity in modern China, links web-based visualization tools with a database packed with the names and locations of missionaries, churches, schools, hospitals, and publications. Hosted by<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BU\u2019s Center for Global Christianity &amp; Mission<\/a>, the project launched in 2018 and version 2.0 of the database is scheduled for release in 2023. The new version will double the amount of data previously available, providing approximately four million data points\u2014names, occupations, locations, dates, and more\u2014spanning four centuries (1550\u20131950).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"button btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/why-is-christianity-growing-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from The Brink\u2019s\u00a0article \u201cWhat\u2019s Behind Boom of Christianity in China?\u201d by Marc Chalufour, featuring Research Assistant Professor of Mission Daryl Ireland. Click here to read the full article. Theology scholars and a global network of researchers are using big data to map religion\u2019s history in China and explain its rapid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,203],"tags":[267,194,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51835,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51820\/revisions\/51835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}