Centre for the Study of World Christianity

Centre for the Study of World Christianity Leading scholarship in World Christianity since 1982.

The Centre for the Study of World Christianity (formerly, the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World) exists to advance high-quality scholarship in Christianity as a polycentric faith whose adherents are now far more numerous in the majority world than in Europe or North America. It has the primary post-graduate focus of the School of Divinity’s keen interest in the history and contemporary reality of Christianity as a world religion. We seek to make a distinctive contribution to scholarly knowledge in all areas of the study of world Christianity through interdisciplinary research, teaching and publication. More information on graduate study can be found on the University of Edinburgh website:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/postgraduate-study

These girls from a mission school in Jammu, India, demonstrate their embroidery skills. (CSWC47/LS10/50)
11/09/2026

These girls from a mission school in Jammu, India, demonstrate their embroidery skills. (CSWC47/LS10/50)

Jamaican boys learning to make string from sisal fibre. The image comes from a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Miss...
04/09/2026

Jamaican boys learning to make string from sisal fibre. The image comes from a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jamaica. (CSWC47/LS11/48)

This woman is grinding corn using a stone wheel, China, ca. 1905-1914. The courtyard appears to be decorated for the spr...
28/08/2026

This woman is grinding corn using a stone wheel, China, ca. 1905-1914. The courtyard appears to be decorated for the spring festival. (CSWC47/LS1/5)

Congratulations to Centre alumnus Dr Agana Agana for his upcoming post at Harvard Divinity School looking at AI and reli...
25/08/2026

Congratulations to Centre alumnus Dr Agana Agana for his upcoming post at Harvard Divinity School looking at AI and religion!

Missionaries from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union identified this child as a 'boy priest' in Siwan, India, around 19...
21/08/2026

Missionaries from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union identified this child as a 'boy priest' in Siwan, India, around 1906. (CSWC33/OS14/29)

Hezekiya Tweya and Walter Elmslie photographed after Tweya's ordination at Bandawe in present-day Malawi, 18 May 1914. (...
14/08/2026

Hezekiya Tweya and Walter Elmslie photographed after Tweya's ordination at Bandawe in present-day Malawi, 18 May 1914. (CSWC47/LS3/1/54)

These missionary nurses and toddler pose in Peru about 1947. The woman in the foreground may be Jessie L Norton. In the ...
07/08/2026

These missionary nurses and toddler pose in Peru about 1947. The woman in the foreground may be Jessie L Norton. In the background is Annie G Soper, who founded the Peruvian Indian Mission in 1930. (CSWC33/OS13)

Four men and a sedan chair, China, ca. 1905-1914. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and ...
31/07/2026

Four men and a sedan chair, China, ca. 1905-1914. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and was created by Charles Somerville, a medical missionary who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914. (CSWC47/LS1/52)

These boys are gathered in front of a school in Chanpatia, Bihar, India in 1914. The Regions Beyond Missionary Union ope...
24/07/2026

These boys are gathered in front of a school in Chanpatia, Bihar, India in 1914. The Regions Beyond Missionary Union opened Chanpatia as a mission district in 1905. (CSWC33/OS14/62)

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