Tuesdays, 4:10pm, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Pedro Feitoza: pfeitoza@ed.ac.ukSemester 2 – Spring 2025DateSpeakerTopicThursday 16 January Alysa Ghose, David Grummet, Upali Sraman, and Selina Stone. Religion and the Body Whole School seminar21 JanuaryDavid Lehmann (Cambridge)The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and the Reconfiguration of Religion3 FebruarySelina Stone (Edinburgh)Power in the Blood?: Theology and Christian AbuseJoint Seminar with Theology and EthicsThursday 13 February, 2pmCarol Kiarie, Julius Kithinji, Bethany Sollereder, and David LewisClimate Change: Theology, Practice, and Advocacy Online seminar with St Paul’s University, Kenya25 FebruaryFiona Tweedie and Sheila Akomiah (Brendan Research).Churches Without People, and People Without Churches: Further Developments11 MarchHeather Sharkey (Pennsylvania)When World Christianity Meets Global Microhistory: Two Lives between Egypt, India, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States1 AprilGeorge Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)Book talk, Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood Joint seminar with Christian-Muslim Studies NetworkSemester 1 – Autumn 2024DateSpeakerTopic10 September Welcome and Five-minute thesis with 2nd year PhD Students: Hannah Nation and Alison Zilversmit. Reception to meet new students. 19 September Whole School Seminar24 September Book Launch: Joint seminar with Church History.Propagandists of the Book examines the development of Brazilian Protestantism through an analysis of the production and circulation of evangelical texts and considers the broad impact of evangelicalism on literacy and culture in Brazil between 1860-1930.Propagandists of the Book examines the development of Brazilian Protestantism through an analysis of the production and circulation of evangelical texts and considers the broad impact of evangelicalism on literacy and culture in Brazil between 1860-1930.8 OctoberZihao He David LewisKilling for the Great Peace: Analysing the Role of Theology in the Violence of the Taiping Rebellion. Ecotheology and Disenchantment: Maathai, Chryssavgis, and Johnsen on Restoring Sacramentality.22 OctoberDr Ming Shun Chiang, Trinity Theological College, SingaporeThe Cross and the Whip: Christianity and Religious Violence in the 19th Century5 November Whole School seminar: Gunning Lecture Discussion for the Decolonised Transformation19 NovemberProf Adriaan van Klinken, Leeds UniversityContemporary Nigerian Literature as African Religion and World Christianity Joint seminar with Scottish Network of Religion and Literature.LinksCentre for the Study of World Christianity This article was published on 2024-03-19
