WORLD CHRISTIANITY SUMMER INSTITUTE
WORLD CHRISTIANITY SUMMER INSTITUTE Connecting Christians from the Global North and South, East and West Theme: Poverty and the Church 30 June to 5 July 2024 (Sunday to Friday) WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK CCCW runs an annual residential Summer Institute on ‘World Christianity and Global Challenges’ in Cambridge. It is a wonderful opportunity for Christians […]
World Christianity Conference in Ghana: Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS 2024 REVISITING WOMEN AND GENDER IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY Fifth International, Interdisciplinary Conference co-organized by the World Christianity and History of Religions Program (Dept. of History and Ecumenics), Overseas Ministries Study Center, Princeton Theological Seminary; and the Department for the Study of Religions, School of Arts, College of Humanities, University of Ghana Venue: […]
Global Mission in the Age of World Christianity
In May 2023, Yonsei University and the Saemoonan Church combined to host Dana Robert as she gave the special Underwood Lectures on Global Mission in the Age of World Christianity. The lectures included, “Frontiers, or ‘to the Ends of the Earth'”, “Friendship in the Kingdom,” and “Fellowship: Living ‘As If.'” Reporting on the lecture on […]
Pentecostalism and Gender
We are happy to share with you the Call for Papers for the upcoming 14th GloPent conference on “Pentecostalism and Gender”, at Heidelberg on February 9-10, 2024. We invite contributions to our parallel panels, with a particular interest in papers that address the conference theme. Papers may present case studies or comparative analyses of gendered […]
IAMS 2026
In June, the new executive committee of the International Association for Mission Studies met in Seoul, Korea to plan for the next quadrennium. In addition to setting the location for the 2026 meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, Michele Sigg, the North American representative, and the other delegates selected the theme “Walking Together in Mission: Facing […]
Upcoming Events: Christianity in Korea
This summer, the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College will host two workshops on Catholicism in Korea. These lectures are free and open to the public.
Russian Methodism
During the early twentieth century until the Japanese invasion of 1931, Harbin, Manchuria, was a crossroads for migrants, including Koreans, mixed-race North Asian populations, and Russians fleeing the Russian Revolution. In that challenging context, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, opened missions to the different refugee populations in Harbin. In 1927 the mission to Russian refugees […]
Between Hindu and Christian
Kerry P. C. San Chirico, who intersected with the Center for Global Christianity and Mission when he was a PhD student at Boston College, recently published, Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras (OUP, 2023). Among others, he specifically thanks Dana L. Robert for her role in writing […]
“Christian Posters in Early 20th Century China” on YouTube
Dr. Daryl Ireland’s lecture on “Spreading the Gospel: Christian Posters in Early 20th Century China” is now available on YouTube.
New Book Release: Portraits of Global Christianity
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book, Portraits of Global Christianity, which we contributed to in honor of Dr. Todd Johnson! It was released on 29 March 2023.