The Habit that Hides the Monk
Professor Eugenio Menegon has recently published an article on missionaries and clothing in China. “‘The Habit That Hides the Monk’: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Late Imperial Chinese Society and Court Culture.” In Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization, edited by Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, and Christian Windler. London: Routledge, 2019
Catholic Chinese Bishop Conference – Boston
On December 6, 2019, Professor Menegon coordinated a cordial and successful meeting with the leaders of the official and government-endorsed Catholic Chinese Bishop Conference at Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, where he is a Collaborative Scholar. The delegation consisted of six members: Bishop Ma Yinglin 马英林 President of Bishop’s Conference of Catholic Church […]
Quid pro Quo? Missionaries and Their ‘Skill Capital’ in Qing Beijing
In the eighteenth century around thirty European Catholic missionaries lived in Beijing, partly employed in technical and artistic services at the imperial palace and at the Directorate of Astronomy, and partly engaged in religious work. Starting in 1724, however, the Yongzheng Emperor forbade Christianity in the provinces. Yet the foreigners, with semi-official permission, continued missionizing […]
Maryknoll 2019
This year’s meeting of the Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission held at Maryknoll was attended by 57 people from a total of 16 institutions—a record number on both accounts. The theme of “Visualizing Mission” fired the imagination of presenters and participants alike. On Friday, Maryknoll Father Larry Lewis unveiled jewels of “God images” and […]
Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission
What do a Chinese élite lady in Shanghai, a Portuguese duchess in Madrid, an Austrian queen in Lisbon, and a Bavarian countess in Augsburg all have in common? These women, in spite of distance in time and space, all became revered patronesses of the Jesuit missions in China in the early modern period. Candida Xu […]
Missiological Conversations
In October, Anicka Fast published, “Sacred children, white privilege, and mission: the role of historical reflection in moving toward healthier relationships within the global church,” in Missiology: An International Review 47, no. 4 (October 2019): 435-448. The piece was a response to a rebuttal to her 2018 article “Sacred children and colonial subsidies” which also appeared in Missiology. […]
A Disruptive Ecclesial Economy
Anicka Fast has recently published, “Let us “also work with our hands, so that the Lord’s work may be furthered”: A disruptive ecclesial economy at Kafumba, 1922-1943,” in the Mennonite Quarterly Review 93, no. 4 (October 2019): 437-472. She describes how Aaron and Ernestina Janzen, American Mennonite Brethren missionaries, resigned from the Congo Inland Mission […]
Defining World Christianity
October 17-19, 2019, the Candler School of Theology at Emory University sponsored a workshop on World Christianity. As programs multiply across Europe and North America, it was an opportunity to bring people from almost 20 different institutions together to talk about such things as what we are teaching, which guilds support our work, how World […]
Coram Deo
Gina Zurlo (’17) Named as One of BBC’s 100 Women of 2019
Dr. Gina Zurlo, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, has been named one of the BBC’s 100 Women of 2019. She is recognized as a scholar of religion and an expert in religion statistics. As a part of the BBC’s 100 Women, Dr. Zurlo will be speaking in Delhi next week […]