NAGEL LECTURES
Presenters: Levi Obonyo, Mitchell Terpstra, and Mark Fackler
"Should Media Bend Public Debate Toward Peace? A Case Study in Kenya's Post-Election Violence, 2007-2008"
Monday, November 16, 2009
3:30 pm
Alumni Association Board Room
Refreshments Provided
Ben Quarshie
"Shaping the Future of Christianity: A Collective Responsibility"
October 29, 2009 3:30 pm
Meeter Center Lecture Hall
Mark Noll
"God and Race in American Politics"
September 17, 2009
Prince Conference Center
"World Christianity, American Christianity, & the Future"
September 18, 2009 @ 3:30 PM
Prince Conference Center
JOB POSTINGS:
The Department of Religion at Carelton College seeks to hire a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Global Christianity to begin September 1, 2010. They seek candidates whose specialization engages the Christian tradition in diasporic, transnational, colonial, or post-colonial contexts, with particular interest in African, African-American, Asian, Caribbean, and/or Latin American, contexts. Fields of disciplinary training may include history of Christianity, Catholic studies, history of biblical interpretation, sociology, anthropology, theology/Christian thought, or ethics.
Please send cover letter, c.v., graduate school transcripts, brief statement of teaching philosophy, and three letters of reference to:
Michael McNally, Chair
Department of Religion
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Christian Unity in Mission and
Service
Andrew F. Walls Centre
Third Annual Conference on World Christianity
Liverpool Hope University
June 11 - June 13, 2010
Paper submissions due Friday, December 18, 2009.
The Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian
Christianity at Liverpool Hope University are pleased to announce their
third annual conference on World Christianity from 11th June to 13th
June 2010 and invite paper and panel proposals on a specific topic
related to the theme of the conference “Christian Unity in Mission and
Service.”
Full Panel Proposals are due on or before Friday 18th December 2009: The
leader of a panel should send a 500-word abstract of the panel theme
plus a 200-word abstract for each paper presenter in your panel.
Individual Paper Proposals are due on or before Friday 18th December
2009: Please send a 200-word abstract and a two-page CV including your
name, institutional position or affiliation, postal address, telephone
number(s), and email address.
The organizers will inform the prospective paper presenters and
panelists whether or not their proposals can be accommodated on or
before Friday, January 29, 2010.
For further details about
the conference, its context, and significance please click here.
For registration, please click here.
We look forward to hearing from you. If any additional details are
needed, kindly contact the Conference Coordinator Ms Ursula Leahy
(leahyu@hope.ac.uk, Tel. + 44 151 291 3375).
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
Professor Daniel Jeyaraj
Director of the Centre and Professor of World
Christianity
Professor Andrew Walls
Professor of History of Missions
SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES & MEETINGS:
The Changing Face of Christianity in the 21st Century
University of Edinburgh
April 6 - April 8, 2010
Christianity in the 21st century is characterised by rapid change, by
both steep decline in membership in some areas, but resurgence in
other contexts. At the same time, contemporary Christianity
incorporates (sometimes uncomfortably) new forms and hybridisations.
The lived experience and performance of Christianity in the West
appears to be shifting according to influences from late-modern
consumer and media cultures. World Christianities are increasingly
influential and migration and diaspora Christianities are (re) shaping
Christianity in the West. Meanwhile, far from disappearing from the
agendas and language of the public arena, Christianity continues to
excite debates around the place and importance of religion in the
public arena, as well as discourses of citizenship, equality and
well-being.
SOCREL is the British Sociological Association's study group on
religion (www.socrel.org.uk). The conference for 2010 is co-hosted by
the University of Edinburgh Institute of Geography and the School of
Divinity (Religious Studies/the Centre for the Study of World
Christianity). The academic organising committee are:
Giselle Vincett (gvincett@ed.ac.uk)
Afe Adogame (a.adogame@ed.ac.uk)
Betsy Olson (eolson@ed.ac.uk)
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Templeton Grant
Calvin College received a $2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project called "Science, Philosophy and Belief: A Program for Chinese Scholars." This effort will include a three-year partnership between the Philosohpy Department at Calvin and the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP). It is being managed by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin. More about "Science, Philosophy, & Belief »