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 1 – Autumn 2025 DateDetails9 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. Beyond CSWC... On alternate Tuesdays the Religious Studies seminars are held, particularly look out for:21 October – Smytta Yadav, an anthropologist of religion, esp, heritage pilgrimages, charity and philanthropy.18 November – Johsua Ralston, speaking on sports and God.Also… a Gifford Lecture: 30th October 5-6.30pm, Playfair library. Links Centre for the Study of World Christianity This article was published on 2024-03-19
