On November 29, 2023, the Centre held a book launch for Andrew Walls’s posthumously authored book, The Missionary Movement from the West, published in 2023 through Eerdmans. Panelists included the editor, Brian Stanley, and three respondents, Ray Burbank, Ken Ross, and Emma Wild-Wood.
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On November 1, 2022, our new Lecturer in Latin American Christianity, Dr Pedro Feitoza, deliver a paper entitled “Religion and Regionalism in Brazil: The Dynamics of Religious Change and the Making of Caipira Culture, 1860-1940.”
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On November 16, 2021, Dr Ruth Padilla DeBorst delivered the Alexander Duff Lecture as part of COP26, entitled “Fleeing the hot spots: Climate change, migration and mission.” Her lecture was followed by responses from two World Christianity PhD students, Nuam Hatzaw and Alec Simpson, and a time of discussion.
The Alexander Duff Lecture was sponsored by the Church of Scotland, and cohosted by the Centre for the Study of World Christianity and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues.
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On November 2, 2021, Professor Anthony Clark (Whitworth University) delivered a paper entitled “The Theatre of Conversion: Catholic Drama and the (Re)presentation of China,” speaking about the Jesuit mission to China during the late-Qing that employed the dramatization of Boxer era Christian martyrs to “canonize China” as an East Asian holy land.
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