Tuesdays from 4.10pm to 5.30pm in the Althaus-Reid Room, unless otherwise noted All welcome. If you have any queries please contact Dr Alexander Chow Semester 2 - Spring 2019 Date Speaker Topic 15 January 2019 Prof Brian Stanley Edinburgh ‘The Crisis of Mission Education in Republican China, 1922-9: The Case of Harold Henry Rowley’ ** Meeting in the Martin Hall; co-sponsored with History of Christianity Seminar ** 22 January 2019 Calida Chu Edinburgh ‘Hong Kong Public Theology in the Anglican Tradition: A Case Study of Archbishop Paul Kwong’ 29 January 2019 Dr Muthuraj Swamy Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide ‘Understanding the Oppositions to Christianity in Contemporary India’ 5 February 2019 Prof Roderick Hewitt KwaZulu-Natal ‘The Influences of Conservative Christianity, Rastafari and Dance Hall Music within Jamaica on Homophobia and Stigma against People Living with HIV and AIDS’ 12 February 2019 Dr Erica Hunter SOAS, London ‘Mission of Love: Assessing the Christian and Muslim communities in Syria’ ** Co-sponsored with Christian-Muslim Studies Network ** 19 February 2019 No seminar – Flexible Learning Week No seminar – Flexible Learning Week 26 February 2019 Rev Dr Amos Chewachong Newport-On-Tay Church ‘On the appropriation of “soft power” in Intra-African Pentecostalism: The Winners Chapel, Nigeria in Cameroon’ 5 March 2019 Adrian Deese Cambridge ‘The Anglican Yoruba Bishopric and the Modernity Debates in West Africa, 1861-1891’ 12 March 2019 Prof Martha Frederiks Utrecht ‘Indigenous Ministry in 18th century Gold Coast: The Cases of Christian Protten and Jacobus Capitein Revisited’ 19 March 2019 No seminar No seminar 26 March 2019 Dr Kwok Wai Luen Hong Kong Baptist University ‘Be Pious and Patriotic: A comparison of Chinese Christian and Muslim teaching on just war in the Republican period’ Semester 1 - Autumn 2018 Date Speaker Topic 18 September 2018 Panel Snapshots of current research in the Centre 25 September 2018 Mr Tore Johnsen University of Edinburgh Pagan religion or pious Christianity? Contestations between Northern Sami popular Christianity and Scandinavian Lutheranism 2 October 2018 Dr Sarang Kim All Nations Christian College Korean responses to Western music education in the early 20th century 9 October 2018 Dr Stewart Gillan St John’s Church, Renfield, Glasgow Towards a theological understanding of words in the wake of terror: soundings with faith leaders in Britain, Pakistan and the Middle East 16 October 2018 Mr Jeffrey Cannon University of Edinburgh “Contrary to the Teaching and Tenets of the Christian Faith”: Images of Apartheid in Church of Scotland Publications, 1945–1965 23 October 2018 Panel Informal opportunity to meet Prof. Peter Phan, whose Cunningham Lectures ‘Migration of Christianity, Christianity of migration’ will take place at 5pm on Monday 22, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 October 13 November 2018 Dr Sara Fretheim University of Edinburgh “I leave you the fire and the song” – Identity, poetry, and theology: an exploration of Kwame Bediako’s life and legacy as an African Christian scholar 20 November 2018 Dr Elijah Obinna St John’s Parish Church, Carluke Building the nation: dimensions and implications of ethnicity and ethnocentrism in Nigeria 27 November 2018 Professor Andrew Walls University of Edinburgh Set in stone: the Christian significance of 19th-century Sierra Leone as reflected in memorial inscriptions ** In the Martin Hall** Links Centre for the Study of World Christianity This article was published on 2024-03-19
