Beyond Secular Democracy: Religion, Politics, and Modernity
The presumed relationship between secularism and democracy is precisely that, presumed, argues Jeremy Menchik, CGCM faculty associate, in a recent journal article challenging common convention. Menchik’s article, entitled “Beyond Secular Democracy: Religion, Politics, and Modernity,” was published in the July 2018 edition of International Studies Review. From the abstract of the article: This review essay synthesizes fifteen years of […]
Soft Separation Democracy
Many countries have created a “soft separation” between church and state rather than a wall as in the U.S. Jeremy Menchik, CGCM faculty associate, published a recent journal article examining the phenomenon. The article focused on states where there is religious education in state schools, significant financial support for religious traditions, limitations on the freedom of nontraditional […]
Business and Mission in 19th Century Africa
The “Impact of Business Practices and Ethos on Mission,” cannot be ignored, Nimi Wariboko argues in his recent publication on “Liverpool Merchants in 19th-century Niger Delta.” It is an extension of his ongoing work on the intersection between Christianity and economics.
The Global Young Peoples’ Convocation
The Global Young Peoples’ Convocation of the United Methodist Church was held from July 18 to July 22 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This gathering sought to bring together youth, young adults, and those who work with youth from around the global United Methodist connection in order to develop relationships across geographic and language barriers, legislate […]
Mapping Chinese Christianity
In early June, Professor Eugenio Menegon (Chinese History), together with co-investigator Prof. Daryl Ireland (Associate Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission & Research Assistant Professor of Mission, BU’s School of Theology) received the exciting news that a Digital Humanities Project they are jointly sponsoring was awarded a seed grant for Summer 2018 by […]
Testimony and Fellowship
The East African Revival emphasized the so-called conversion experience, including an individual’s conviction of sin and experience of forgiveness. The revivalists asserted that evidence of one’s conversion would be – and had to be – discernable at both the personal level and the communal level. Daewon Moon (projected ’18) argues in his latest article that […]
Christianity amidst Hindutva
Recently, the Archbishop of New Delhi wrote calling for a year of prayer before the 2019 general elections in India. Jesudas Athyal comments on the fear and threat experienced by the minorities in India especially as a Hindu nationalist government is in power in an article in the National Catholic Reporter.
Expanded Spelling of “Koinonia”
In a recent post for the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, Visiting Researcher Jesudas Athyal wrote about an Indian debate about the meaning of koinonia that has new implications for Christians around the world.
The Bartolomé de Las Casas Conference
“Las Casas in Hemispheric American Perspective: II International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas.” July 15-16 (Monday-Tuesday), 2019 Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. The first International Conference, “Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion,” held in 2016, was a landmark event for Lascasian scholarship. In response […]
American Society of Missiology
Friendship was the theme of this year’s meeting of the American Society of Missiology. Boston University was well-represented at the conference. Twelve alumni gave papers, Amos Yong was a keynote speaker, and Anicka Fast won the award for the best paper by a graduate student.