World Christianity
Tuesdays, 4:10pm, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated
All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Pedro Feitoza: pfeitoza@ed.ac.uk
Semester 1 - Autumn 2023
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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3 October |
Agana-Nsiire Agana (University of Edinburgh)
Elilo Ezung (University of Edinburgh) |
"A Digital Theological Investigation of Identity Among Ghanaian Youth"
“Your Daughters Shall Prophecy”: Charismata and Women’s Influence in Naga Christianity" |
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17 October |
Leanne Williams Green (Trinity College, Cambridge) |
"Reasonable Suffering: Baptist Accounts of Sin and Responsibility in Postcolonial Harare" |
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31 October |
Harvey Kwiyani (Global Connections) |
"African Christian Identity in the Age of World Christianity: John Mbiti and Byang Kato, 50 Years Later" |
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21 November |
Robert Heimburger (Cardiff University) |
"Debating Forgiveness During Armed Conflict: Colombian Conflict Survivors’ Christian Ethic of Forgiveness and its Philosophical Critics" |
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28 November |
Brian Stanley (editor), Ingrid Walls, Kenneth Ross, Emma Wild-Wood, and Ray Burbank |
Book launch "The Missionary Movement from the West" by Andrew Walls with Brian Stanley (editor), Ingrid Walls, Kenneth Ross, Emma Wild-Wood, and Ray Burbank |
| Wednesday 29 November |
Professor Esther Mombo (St. Paul’s University, Kenya) |
Cunningham Lecture |
Semester 1 - Autumn 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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20 September |
Panel & student discussion on Renie Chow Choy Ancestral feeling: Postcolonial Thoughts on Western Christian Heritage. |
‘Western Christian Heritage: What does it mean for World Christianity’ |
| Thursday 22 September |
Professors Rachel Muers, Jolyon Mitchell & Emma Wild-Wood, and Drs Anja Klein & Salam Rassi, chaired by Dr Holtschneider. |
Inter-disciplinary panel event reflecting on Professor Rachel Muers’ article '"Justly Shall You Pursue Justice": Theological Approaches to Evaluative Injustice' CSWC students are strongly encouraged to attend. |
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Friday 30 September *Rainy Hall |
Elizabeth Marteijn |
PhD Alumna Lecture (Class of 2022): “Baraka without Boundaries: The Christian-Muslim Encounter in Shared Shrines in Palestine” |
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18 October |
Abel Ugba (University of Leeds) |
‘The Nurse and her Prayer of Defiance: religious globalization and divine healing experiences of Pentecostal Africans in Britain.’ |
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1 November |
Pedro Feitoza (Lecturer in Latin American Christianity) |
'Religion and Regionalism in Brazil: The Dynamics of Evangelical Conversion and the Making of Caipira culture, 1860-1940' Seminar held with History of Christianity |
| Monday 7 November |
John Coffey (University of Leicester) |
'Black Protestantism and the Demerara Slave Revolt (1823)' with History of Christianity. |
| 15 November |
Peniel Rajkumar (USPG, Ripon College Cuddeston) |
‘"No one can serve Christ and Caste": Indian Ecumenical Attempts to Combat Caste.’ |