Emma Wild-Wood has written a piece to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Studies in World Christianity.
Scottish Christianity and the World – Call for Papers
The Scottish Church History Society’s autumn conference will be on the theme of ‘Scottish Christianity and the World’ and will take place in the Edinburgh Theological Seminary on Saturday 2 November 2019. We are delighted to have secured keynote papers from two leading scholars in the field. Boston University’s Professor Dana Robert will speak on “Fulfilment Theory and Friendship: Scottish Missionary Engagement with India, c. 1910-”, while the University of Edinburgh’s Professor Brian Stanley’s paper is entitled “From James Legge to Evangeline Edwards: The Role of Scottish and Other Missionaries in the Formation of Sinology in Britain”.
Continue readingStudies in World Christianity, Issue 25.2
Scripture, prayer and worship are three key elements of the internal life of Christians across the world. Corporately or individually, Christians hear, read, enact and inhabit the bible. They pray alone, in twos and threes, and in large gatherings. They pray aloud or in silence. They pray spontaneously or following a common form of words. Christians sing songs and make music. They perform and recite liturgies. Such is the ubiquity of these elements that it seems surprising that it was not until 2018 that the Yale-Edinburgh Conference chose ‘Scripture, Prayer and Worship in the History of Missions and World Christianity’ as its theme. This special issue of Studies in World Christianity brings together six of the excellent papers that were presented at the conference. Together they offer a time frame of about two hundred years and an impressive global range – New Zealand, Argentina, India, USA and China. Although they only focus upon Protestant practice, the articles demonstrate how rich that practice has become.
Continue readingCentre Student Discusses Syrian Protestants with Scholar Deanna Womack
Emory University scholar Deanna Womack recently visited the University of Edinburgh. Centre student Lucy Schouten published some of Dr Womack’s comments on the Christian-Muslim Relations blog.
Interview with Dr Emma Wild-Wood
This is an interview conducted in 2018 with Dr Emma Wild-Wood, alumna and now Senior Lecturer in the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. In this video, Dr Wild-Wood discusses her research on the East African revival and recent edited volume Relocating World Christianity (Brill 2017).