ISAAC
Report: ISAAC-Nagel Reception at the 2006 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting
Over a hundred guests celebrated the work of the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity and the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College on November 17, 2006 at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature annual meetings. Prof. Diane Obenchain shared about Nagels’ current projects. More at ISAAC Blog »
SANACS
ISAAC is delighted to announce the formation of the Society of Asian North American Christian Studies. SANACS seeks to provide a community for scholars who are interested in Asian North American Christianity. We are a part of a growing interest in the study of religion in Asian and Pacific North America.
SANACS is currently administered by Dr. Russell Yee of ISAAC, who also serves as the Managing Editor for the SANACS journal.
The annual membership fee is $45 ($25 for graduate students). Members will receive a copy of the SANACS Annual journal upon publication in the Fall.
Visit SANACS online: http://sanacs.wordpress.com/
The Immanent Frame
The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce the launch of The Immanent Frame (http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/about/), a
new SSRC blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere.
The blog is opening with a series of posts on Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, including recent contributions from Robert Bellah, Wendy Brown, Jose Casanova, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, and Colin Jager. Robert Bellah has called A Secular Age "one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime," and there will be more to come on Taylor's major work in the weeks ahead, with posts by Rajeev Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Hent de Vries, Amy Hollywood, Tomoko Masuzawa, Joan Scott, and others. Meanwhile, Charles Taylor himself has just made his own contribution to the already ongoing conversations.
But The Immanent Frame won’t be limited to discussions of A Secular Age. Later this fall we'll also host a series of posts responding to Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West. And there will be posts on a variety of other topics too-from pluralism and the "post-secular" to international relations theory, religious freedom, and the future of shari'a.
This new SSRC blog will draw on, and is closely linked to, the Council’s expanding work on religion and the public sphere.
We invite
readers to email us with comments or questions at religion@ssrc.org
World Christianity at The Billy Graham Center Archives of Wheaton College
The Billy Graham Center Archives of Wheaton College (in Wheaton, Illinois, USA) collects material about modern North American Protestant evangelism. But its collections inevitably contain materials on the church around the world. Oral history interviews (including interviews with BGC Scholarship students, many of whom are church leaders in the global south), reports and records from international conferences, papers of individuals and records of organizations help document, among other themes, the growing predominance and leadership of Southern Christianity (the Christians of Asia, Africa and Latin America) in global church.
You can use our online database at http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/Search/ to find out what information the Archives has on particular topics: regions, countries, people, organizations, events, subjects
An introduction to our holdings on Southern Christianity can be found at http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/Papers/Feast/feast.htm "Sitting Down at the Feast of the Kingdom of God" Glimpses from the Archives of the Flowering of Southern Christianity.
Our website is at: www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives
You can send messages to the Archives at bgcarc@wheaton.edu
Digital Mapping of the Spread of Christianity
Project on Religion and Economic Change receives grant from the John T. Templeton Foundation to create digital maps of the spread of Protestant and Catholic mission activity from the early 19th century to the mid-20th century.
Boston University Digital Research Archive
The Boston University Digital Research Archive "Christian Mission" collection currently contains 210 digitized books.