Papers & Publications
Jean Luc Enyegue (’18) has published a new book – “Competing Catholicisms”
Alumnus Jean Luc Enyegue ('18) has published a new book - Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa. Dr. Enyegue is the director of The Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa. His recent interview on the book can be read here.
New Book Released by Faculty Associate Jon Bonk
New Book Released by Faculty Associate Jon Bonk
The Realities of Mission & Money: Global Challenges & Case Studies
The Realities of Money & Missions provides a unique level of credibility and transparency as it calls for evangelicals to reevaluate their relationship with money, both personally and corporately. Global case studies, workshops, and testimonials cover a broad range of topics such as:
- Misalignment between fiscal theology and practice
- Environmental stewardship, community development, and business as mission
- Mobilization, fundraising practices, and “faith financing”
- Short-term missions, patronage, and dependency
- Power dynamics and structural injustice
The Realities of Money & Missions was not written by experts in the fields of investment, money management, or fundraising, but by men and women whose calling as missionaries, pastors, and administrators has brought them face-to-face with the complex, real-life issues involving the intersection of money and ministry.
BU Alumna Named Associate Editor of Missiology: An International Review
Alumna Soojin Chung ('18), Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Azuza Pacific University, has been named the new Associate Editor of the journal Missiology: An International Review (SAGE Publishing).
Dr. Chung welcomes scholars and students of missiology and global Christianity to send along relevant articles and book reviews.
Congratulations Dr. Chung!
Alumnus Michel Chambon’s New Article
Michel Chambon's ('19) new article, "Catholicism's Overlooked Importance in Asia," was recently published online.
Be sure to check it out and learn about how Catholicism has influenced Asian identity.
Nourishing Mission: Theological Settings by Graham Kings Book Launch
On Wednesday 16th February, 4-5.30 pm (GMT), the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide will host a Book Launch with Graham Kings' Nourishing Mission: Theological Settings (Brill, 2022) https://brill.com/view/title/60820?language=en.
In collaboration with The Living Church Institute Dallas, the launch will be a blended event organized in Cambridge, with friends from other parts of the world joining online.
The following are the speakers at the book launch:
Rt Revd Prof Joseph Galgalo, Assistant Bishop All Saints Cathedral Diocese, Kenya and former Vice-Chancellor of St Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya.
Prof Kirsteen Kim, Professor of World Christianity, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA, and an Editor of the Brill series, ‘Theology and Mission in World Christianity’.
Prof David Ford, Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Revd Dr. Muthuraj Swamy, Director, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.
Rt Revd Dr. Graham Kings, Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely, and Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide founded the Centre in 1996.
Nourishing Mission book launch flyer - 16 Feb 2022
Below is the Zoom link for this seminar. If you plan to attend, please email centre@cccw.cam.ac.uk.
CCCW Zoom is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Lent and Easter 2022 Seminars
https://theofed-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93136508607?pwd=QnRRcG55TkNndVJZbFcvUGZPMEdHdz09
Meeting ID: 931 3650 8607
Passcode: 568920
To learn more about the CCCW events, please visit our website. https://www.cccw.cam.ac.uk/
Adopting for God
Soojin Chung ('18) recently published, Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption. The book explores the role missionaries played in the transnational adoption movement. Among other things, the book reveals how both evangelical and ecumenical Christians challenged Americans to redefine traditional familial values and rethink race matters. By questioning the perspective that equates missionary humanitarianism with unmitigated cultural imperialism, this book offers a more nuanced picture of the rise of an important twentieth-century movement: the evangelization of adoption and the awakening of a new type of Christian mission.
IMC Centenary Conference: Dana Robert’s Lecture and North American Panel
The IMC Centenary Conference concluded on Thursday, November 18th, after three days of virtual gatherings. The program included eight regional presentations on the history of missional collaboration and three public lectures.
Dana Robert delivered one of the three public lectures to the global, virtual conference attendees. Her lecture, "What happened in Lake Mohonk and its outcome," detailed the individuals, events, and movements that led to the founding of the IMC at Lake Mohonk, NY, in 1921. Dr. Robert highlighted innovative and forerunning mission themes and commitments evidenced in the work, relationships, and words of the early IMC. We will post the lecture for public viewing once it has been made available.
North American Regional Contribution
Following Dr. Robert's lecture, a panel of Executive Committee members from the North American Study Process on Missional Collaboration offered a regional presentation reporting on aspects of the history, research findings, and early observations. 
The panel was introduced by Dana Robert and moderated by Rev. Dr. Casely Essamuah. Dr. Ben Hartley offered a short lecture on the history of John R. Mott. Dr. Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi, Dr. Ronald Wallace, Dr. Christopher James, Dr. Julie Ma, and Dr. David Scott presented unique aspects of the study's findings to date. Mr. Andy Mott, the grandson of the late John R. Mott, attended as a special guest and offered words of reflection and gratitude. Dr. Essamuah concluded the presentation with a summary of initial findings for ongoing reflection.
The North American panel was one of eight regional presentations that included reports from New Zealand, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. The Study Centers and their research are a part of the ongoing IMC Study Process on Missional Collaboration. Findings from the eight regions will be presented to the WCC General Assembly 2022 and published later for a broader readership. The CGCM will post details as they are available.
Rady Roldan-Figueroa Interviewed on His New Book, The Martyrs of Japan
Dr. Rady Roldan-Figueroa recently gave a video interview on the topic of his new book, The Martyrs of Japan.
In the interview, Dr. Roldan-Figueroa, Faculty Associate of the CGCM, shared some significant findings of his interdisciplinary research focusing on the missionary work of three religious orders in Japan.
The book contributes to undercurrents in seventeenth-century history characterized by the period's global Jesuit, Franciscan, and Descalsed mission work. Dr. Roldan-Figueroa analyzed 380 books printed during the period and thereby explores the histories of publishers and publishing houses in Italy and Spain. He also explores the global connections and spiritual influence of this corpus of "travel" literature. One of the book's contributions is the reclassification of the literature on Japanese Christian martyrdom and persecution to religious/spiritual literature. Dr. Roldan-Figuero argues that the proliferation and influence of such literature were held a spiritual and religious purpose for the communities who printed it, received it, and passed it on.
The introductory chapter offers an overview of sixteenth-century Christianity in Japan. The rest of the book focuses on the roles, uses, and receptions of the body of literature produced between 1591-1700 that detailed Japanese persecution, prosecution, and martyrdom. The bibliography will prove valuable for scholars and students of the history of Japanese Christianity. Dr. Roldan-Figueroa uses several approaches in his research: history of missions, history of publication, a new approach to institutional history, and questions of how to classify the literature under study.
For a more detailed summary of the book, view the interview and hear Dr. Roldan-Figueroa explain some of the research discoveries, main arguments, and scholarly contributions held together in The Martyrs of Japan.
To buy a copy of the book, visit the publisher's page here.
Anicka Fast (’20), Bruce Yoder (’16) and Unlikely Friends Mentioned by the Mennonite Mission Network
The Mennonite Mission Network's recent blog post mentions Anicka Fast ('20) and Bruce Yoder ('16), STH Alumni and former advisees of Dr. Dana Robert. Fast's research and Yoder's participation with the Congolese church and Mennonite mission are noted.
Through the post, blog author, Linda Hollinger-Janzen, reflects on Anicka's dissertation research, her current assignment in Burkina-Faso teaching African church history, and her chapter in Dana Robert's Festschrift, Unlikely Friends.
Hollinger-Janzen's reflections offer insight into historical Mennonite mission relationships in French-speaking Africa and present-day applications of friendship in mission through the lives of two STH alumni.
Read the blog post, "Expatriate women and house workers helped dismantle Mennonite segregation in Congo" by Linda Hollinger-Janzen, here.
Announcing the Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Dana L. Robert
The CGCM is pleased to announce the publication of a festschrift in honor of Dana L. Robert: Unlikely Friends: How God Uses Boundary-Crossing Friendships to Transform the World. The volume is co-edited by David W. Scott ('13), Daryl R. Ireland ('15), Grace Y. May ('00), and Casely B. Essamuah ('03).
The editors chose to honor Prof. Robert by using this book to develop an important theme in her scholarship: boundary-crossing friendships. They felt this was a significant theme that opens new vistas in the scholarship of the history of mission and world Christianity and also testifies to the possibility of connection despite all of the divisions in our contemporary world.
The volume, which includes twelve essays by Dr. Robert's students and colleagues, is divided into three thematic sections: the power of, problems with, and practice of friendship, along with a fourth section of material honoring Dana Robert. The first section looks at the ways in which boundary-crossing friendship has influenced the development of mission practice and theory in historical contexts around the world and across time. The second section explores ways race, gender, and other factors have complicated the historical formation of boundary-crossing friendships. The third section looks at how boundary-crossing friendships are being lived out in mission today, drawing on the authors' own experiences. The material honoring Prof. Robert includes testimonials from friends of Dr. Robert's scholarship and her own ability to from boundary-crossing friendships.
The editors are very proud of this book and hope it is both a fitting tribute to Dana L. Robert and a solid and important work of scholarship in its own right.