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.

Responses to Missions: Appropriations, Revisions, and Rejections – Call for Papers

Responses to Missions: Appropriations, Revisions, and Rejections

Annual Meeting of Yale-Edinburgh Group
on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity

University of Edinburgh, 23-25 June 2016
Deadline: 7 March 2016

For more information, see the official 2016 meeting page.

Recap of ‘James Legge and Scottish Missions to China’

Legge 2015 Group Photo

On 11–13 June 2015, the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, in collaboration with the Scottish Centre for Chinese Studies, organised a conference in honour of the Scottish missionary-scholar to China, James Legge, on the bicentennial of his birth (see conference page). The conference received generous financial support from the Confucius Institute and the New College Senate. Continue reading