Yale-Edinburgh Group Conference, 28-30 June 2022 World Christianity: Legacy and the State of the Field
The 2022 Yale-Edinburgh Group conference will offer a tribute to Andrew Walls and Lamin Sanneh, co-founders of the conference thirty years ago, as it engages with their legacy. This will be both retrospect and prospect. What have we learned from Walls, Sanneh, and their generation? In what ways has their legacy imposed limitations on the field, and in what ways do we need critically to consider new approaches to the study World Christianity? How have the approach, methods, and parameters of the study of World Christianity developed in recent years? For example, panels might consider the nature of translation as a predicate of the expansion of Christianity, as well as exploring new avenues of recent scholarship in World Christianity, such as the role of migration or theological evolution in mission, or the de-territorializing of Christian faith in the development of global Christianity.
In light of continuing uncertainty over the feasibility of international travel, the 2022 conference will be trialing a new format. This will combine in-person and online panels at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT, with “hub” panels in Edinburgh, Ghana, Kenya and Singapore. The conference timetable will allow participants to attend panels in multiple locations online. If travel conditions allow, a small number of bursaries will be available as usual for participants who wish to use Day Mission library resources and attend New Haven panels in person.
More details about the conference and where to submit your abstract will be available in the new year.
Chloe Starr, Emma Wild-Wood, Alex Chow
If you have any questions, please contact Martha Smalley here.