Tuesdays, 4:10pm, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Professor Emma Wild-Wood: emma.wildwood@ed.ac.uk Semester 2 – Spring 2026 DateDetails13 JanuaryMiJa Wi, ‘Where to Go?’: A Korean Relational Reading [or broadly An Asian Dialogical Reading] of John 7:53–8:11” Nazarene Theological College, Manchester.27 JanuaryRaj Bharath Patta, ‘Subaltern Public Theology: Dalits and the Indian Public Sphere’, United Stockport Methodist Circuit.10 February‘Christianity and Empire Revisited’, a panel discussion on the book edited by Prof Brian Stanley (Brill 2025) with Kpanie Addy S.J. (PhD student) Kyama Mugambi (Yale Divinity School), Michael Snape (Durham University), Victoria Turner (Scottish Episcopal Institute).3 MarchKate Tilson. ‘The ocean as a gateway of mission: evangelical and maritime culture in the early nineteenth-century Pacific and Britain.’ Cambridge University.17 MarchJohn Carter, ‘The Disruption and the Renaissance: How Scottish Ecclesiology met Indian Reform in the 19th century’. Trinity Evangelical Divinity Seminary, USA,Liza Qui, ‘Scottish and Irish Missions in Manchuria during the late 19th Century and the early 20th Century,’ Trinity Theological College, Singapore. Beyond CSWC... The Gifford Lectures will be given this year by Prof Professor Paula Fredriksen on ‘The Conversions of Christianity’ on 4, 5, 7, 11, 12 and 14 May 2026.Tickets and online access will be available nearer the time from the Gifford Lectures website. Previous Seminars Semester 1 – Autumn 2025DateDetails9 SeptemberWelcome (back) and five-minute thesis with 2nd year PhD Students: Jerusha Liouw and Sashi ImsongFollowed by reception to meet new students.Thursday 18 SeptemberSchool of Divinity Seminar TBC CSCW students are expected to attend30 SeptemberReading group discussion of Alex Chow’s article, "The Edinburgh School of World Christianity?” to be circulated in advance, and also "Klaus Koschorke and the “Munich School” Perspective on the History of World Christianity” Herman.& Burlacioiu, Journal of World Chrsitianity,6.1. 2016.Thursday 2 OctoberOnlineWhole School seminar with St Paul’s University Kenya, Mental Health and Religion, with Dr Kevin M Ndereba, Dr Alysa Ghose and Josie Gwin (PGR)14 OctoberAlison Zilversmit, ‘Navigating “Tight Corners” of Christian Mission in Colonial Zimbabwe: Charles Mzingeli and the 1945 Land Apportionment Amendment’ and Fr Kevin Douglas, ‘Herbert McCabe (1926-2001), Language and the Eucharist'. Joint seminar with History of Christianity.Thursday 23 OctoberSenate RoomReading group, text tbc28 OctoberAlumni publishing: Amos Chewachong, Intra-African Pentecostalism and the Dynamics of Power: The Nigerian Winners Chapel in Cameroon (2024); Elijah Obinna, General editor, Encyclopaedia of Presbyterian and Reformed Witness in Nigeria (2023)11 NovemberCelebrating The Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity, with Kenneth Ross, Todd Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Chammah Kaunda, Mariz Tadros, Nicola Ramsey. Followed by a reception by Edinburgh University Press.Also lunch time PG seminar 1pm. Oldham Room. Religious demographers, Johnson and Zurlo.25 NovemberSenate RoomSenate Room Reading group, text tbc. Links Centre for the Study of World Christianity This article was published on 2024-03-19
