Centre for World Christianity

05/08/2024

What's the power of Friendship in a divided society? That's the question Pascal and Hume seek to answer in my latest comic blog. Check it out at

Want some resources on the power of friendship? • I like John Perkins, He Calls Me Friend: The Healing Power of Friendship in a Lonely World (Moody, 2019). Perkins builds a model of friendship around God's friendship with Abraham, who is called God's friend in Genesis. "I believe that Abraham disc...

14/09/2021

Here is a review of Kyama Mugambi's book, "A Spirit of Revitalization"

Kyama M. Mugambi. A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2020. 348 pp. $54.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4813-1355-1.

14/05/2021

ATNP invites you to a Book Chat with Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Katongole. May 20th 7:30pm EAT. Come hear Prof Katongole talk about his book "The Sacrifice of Africa" The conversation brings out the motivation behind the book, its arguments, and its contributions to scholarship in Africa. Register on this link: https://forms.gle/h1iXS319bbJcSm5p8

23/01/2021

A big week for the Centre for World Christianity at Africa International University.

25/01/2020

Welcome to the Global Missiology Journal, the January 2020 Issue.

Gloria Tseng, Associate Professor of Sociology at Hope College has written a very poignant guest editorial. She reflects on the issue's theme of Amazed and Perplexed through the lens of the difficult situation faced by Pastor Wa Ying of Early Rain House Church in Chengdu City in China. Click below to read this and the other articles featured in this issue.

Please note the call for papers for our October issue, titled "Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis". Details on the link: http://ojs.globalmissiology.org/index.php/english/article/view/2310

http://ojs.globalmissiology.org/index.php/english

Call for Papers for October 2020 Special Issue: "Socio-Political Disruptions and Missions Praxis"

12/09/2019

Here is a "class" in World Christianity, Church History, African Christianity all at once, in response to the endemic "hermeneutic of suspicion" leveled against the so-called "whiteness" of Christianity in Africa. Good writing, sustained argument, relevant to the end.
Authored by CWC's Kyama Mugambi.

"The arguments citing violence, and colonialism are no longer sufficient to sustain mature intellectual engagement with the role of Christianity on the continent. African classroom and public intellectuals must to get out of that cage and start finding the bananas for themselves, on their own terms."

In case you haven’t heard about the caged monkey experiment, it goes something like this. A researcher put five (or some say eight) monkeys in a cage containing a bunch of bananas hanging from a st…

07/08/2019

At the last Yale-Edinburgh Group meeting, Professor Dana Roberts (https://www.bu.edu/sth/profile/dana-l-robert/) gave a landmark address titled, "Naming World Christianity: The Yale-Edinburgh Conference in Historical Perspective".

This is a great listen, a good historical perspective on the growth of the field of World Christianity, including the importance of the Yale-Edinburgh Group, its conferences and the research centers represented by scholars in the group. Prof Roberts also raises some good questions for the future of this field of research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSYWkuEATs&fbclid=IwAR3GB127I1cw-H_IwfBwLEmF1FiwesBXbI_-coJQbfPOdEF1wu3MhH8WW1E

Presented by Prof. Dana Robert of Boston University Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission 2019 meeting at Yale Divinity Schoo...

06/08/2019

From our partners at Center for the Study of World Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh:

The link leads to the Journal of Studies in World Christianity, where they are offering 25 free articles that "demonstrate the breadth of the field of World Christianity and the depth of inter-disciplinary study into rich variety of Christianity around the globe."

With this issue, the journal Studies in World Christianity completes twenty-five years of existence. Launched at the beginning of 1995 to be an ‘international forum for a dialogue of…

22/06/2019

Re: upcoming Group meeting at Yale Divinity School, New Haven. Plenary sessions will be livestreamed.

Watch Yale Divinity School's Yale-Edinburgh Conference on Livestream.com. Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity June 27 - Opening Plenary - 1:00 pm EDT June 28 - Plenary - 5:30 pm EDT

16/06/2019

Congratulations to Prof Brian Stanley, recipient of the 2019 ASM Book Award for Excellence in Missiology for his book "Christianity in the Twentieth Century".

Prof Stanley is a mentor to our scholars through the research partnership between Center for World Christianity and New College at University of Edinburgh.

Delighted that the American Society of Missiology has given Prof Brian Stanley the Book Award for Excellence in Missiology for his Christianity in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press)

08/06/2019

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/may/churches-outnumber-pubs-in-uk-london-attendance-pentecostal.html

While the big denominations continue their downfall, certain Pentecostal movements, from black churches to Hillsong, see a surge in attendance.