News of the extended network of faculty, alumni, students, visiting researchers, and mission partners is regularly updated, and some of the big ideas or major events in Global Christianity are covered in the CGCM News.
Call for Papers: Controversies in Mission
The regional meeting of the Evangelical Mission Society will meet in Flushing, New York on March 28, 2015. The topic will be "Controversies in Mission." Some papers will be selected to be read at the national meeting in Dallas in September 2015.
Call for Papers: Engaging Particularities
On March 26-27, 2015, Boston College will host "Engaging Particularities XIII: New Directions in Comparative Theology, Interreligious Dialogue, Theology of Religions, and Missiology."
Evaluating the East African Revival
Daewon Moon, who is currently studying the East African revival in Burundi, reviewed Kevin Ward and Emma Wild Wood's The East African revival: History and Legacies in the journal Mission Studies.
Call for Papers: Paul Hiebert’s Missiology and Beyond
The Hiebert Global Center at TEDS is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for master’s and doctoral students to present at the Hiebert Track at the 2015 EMS North Central Region conference, which will be held on April 4th 2015 at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois.
The aim of the Hiebert Track is to engage with various aspects of Paul Hiebert’s missiology (contextualization, spiritual warfare, epistemology, missional theology, etc) in order to bring his ideas to bear upon contemporary issues in global Christianity, as well as to build upon Hiebert’s ideas to contribute to the further development of the future of intercultural ministries.
Proposal
Students should submit a 200-300 word proposal by December 10, 2014. Those whose proposals are accepted will need to submit the full-length paper by Feb 10, 2015. Five papers will be chosen for the Hiebert Scholarship award (Further instructions will be provided on acceptance).
Hiebert Scholarships
1st Place - $2,000 (1 award), 2nd Place - $1,000 (2 awards), 3rd Place - $ 500 (2 awards)
Scholarship recipients will have the opportunity to present their papers at the 2015 annual EMS North Central Region missiology conference. Their papers will also be published in a compendium of the Hiebert Track (publisher TBD).
Contact & Submit your proposal to hiebertproject@tiu.edu or danbaeq@gmail.com
For further information visit http://www.hiebertglobalcenter.org
Religious Vibrancy: A Look at the Numbers
Gina Zurlo co-edited the Yearbook of International Religious Demography, the first in an annual series that gives a snapshot of the world's religious landscape, coupled with social scientific articles on specific countries and trends in religion around the world.
Immigrant Indian Christianity
The American Academy of Religion has sponsored research into how the social composition and identity of Christians in India differs from that in the diaspora. The project is ongoing, but the second workshop convened on September 20th at Boston University to review and consider what has been learned thus far. Scholars from India and the United States, as well as a number of delegates from Greater Boston's various Indian churches met together to hear and interact with the findings.
Thomas Thangaraj, from Boston University, offered the keynote address. In addition, Jesudas Athyal, a visiting researcher at the Center for Global Christianity & Mission, and Joshua Kalapati of Madras Christian College presented the project and led the conversation.
Alumni connect in Korea through Ministry and Teaching
There was a BU alumni meeting at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Seong Jung Joo (Th.D in Liturgics and Mission from BUSTH), Dr. Soo-Young Kwon (M.Div from BUSTH, Ph.D in Religion and Pychology from GTU, Berkeley) and Dr. Charles Farhadian (Ph.D in Anthropology and Mission from BU Religious Studies) gathered after Dr. Joo preached at Yonsei chapel last week. Joo is the senior pastor of Juan Presbyterian Church, which is one of the largest congregations (so-called Mega-churches) in South Korea, having 30,000 member and 70 associate pastors. Dr. Kwon is professor of pastoral theology at United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University and director of Yonsei University Center for Counseling and Coaching Services. Dr. Farhadian is professor of world religions and Christian mission of Westmont College and teaching at Yonsei University for this semester, while taking his sabbatical year. They had a wonderful time together, sharing their lives and work.
By Duse Lee
Mission and the Challenge of Engaging Difference
What are the three greatest challenges facing us in the next decade? This important question was the topic of the School of Theology's 2014 Distinguished Alumni panel. The panel, “The Three Greatest Challenges Facing Us in the Next Decade,” was composed of the recipients of this year's Distinguished Alumni Awards. among this years winners was Rev. Canon Titus Presler (Th.D), mission activist with experience in Africa and Asia, and current Principal of Edwardes College in Pakistan, chose to respond to the question by thinking about how differences across and within communities are all too often associated with danger. Read Rev. Presler's compelling presentation online at Engaging Difference: A Major Challenge of Our Time.
Now available: the CGCM Fall 2014 newsletter
The CGCM's Fall 2014 newsletter is now available. You can pick up a free hard copy at the School of Theology or read it in PDF form online at CGCM Newsletter 2014 Fall. Get your copy today!
World Christianity: A Global Network
In a recent visit to Boston, Bishop Abraham Mar Paulos of the Mar Thomas Church in Delhi reinforced the idea that world Christianity is, at least in part, a network of relationships. Bishop Abraham Mar Paulos, formerly known as Dr. K. U. Abraham, is an alumnus of the Boston University School of Theology, and friend of Dana Robert. With them in the photo is Jesudas Athyal, a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, and Inus Daneel, the former co-director of the Center, and now professor emeritus from BU.