As we begin to welcome new students, we also have a great lineup for our research seminar this semester. Please download it from the attached PDF.
Research Seminars (2016-2017, Semester 1)
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Prof. Andrew Walls: What is World Christianity?
This is an interview with Prof. Andrew F. Walls, founder and honorary professor of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, conducted in August 2016. Prof. Walls discusses his understanding of the field of study which is now known as ‘world Christianity’ – a field which he helped to create.
Studies in World Christianity 22.2
Beyond the Binary of East and West
However hard it tries, scholarship in world Christianity does not find it easy to escape the grip of the long-standing historical binary of East and West. The Christianities of Asia, Africa, and even Latin America are still often labelled as ‘non-Western’, as if their multiple identities consist primarily in their shared departure from the implicit default setting of European or North American Christianity. The four articles in this issue of Studies in World Christianity analyse aspects of Asian Christianity Continue reading
Yale-Edinburgh Group 2016 Programme
In a few weeks’ time (23-25 June 2016), the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity will be holding its 2016 annual meeting in the University of Edinburgh. The theme, ‘Responses to Missions: Appropriations, Revisions, and Rejections’, has drawn a strong number of excellent papers covering an impressive number of topics:
Papers from our 2015 meeting have recently been published in Studies in World Christianity 22.1, and a selection of this year’s papers will likewise be published in a future issue of the journal.