Tuesdays, 4:10pm, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Alex Chow: alexander.chow@ed.ac.uk Semester 2 – Spring 2024 Date Speaker Topic Wednesday 17 January Dr Arkotong Longkumer, Professor Hannah Holtschneider, Dr Simeon Xu, and Dr Alexander Chow Whole School Seminar 'The Digital in Theology and Religious Studies' 23 January Rev’d Dr David Bagnall (St John’s Scottish Episcopal Church) 'A Metaphysics of Ubumwe: Sexuality, Reconciliation, and the Discursive Production of the Other in the Anglican Church of Rwanda' 6 February Dr Yinxuan Huang (British and Foreign Bible Society) 'The Chinese Christian Community in Britain: Spirituality, Dynamics, and Division' 27 February Panel Discussion ‘Global Christians in Edinburgh: The Changing Landscape of Scottish Christianity’, moderated by Nuam Hatzaw, with select Edinburgh church leaders 12 March Dr Romina Istratii (SOAS Centre of World Christianity) Topic TBC 26 March Ray Burbank (School of Divinity) Peter Rowe (School of Geosciences) PhD Student Papers ‘Conversion and Country: Evangelical Conversion Theology addressing Place and Culture in 19th-Century Western India’ ‘Christianity and Conservation Agriculture in Kenya’ Semester 1 - Autumn 2023 Date Speaker Topic 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" 17 October Leanne Williams Green (Trinity College, Cambridge) "Reasonable Suffering: Baptist Accounts of Sin and Responsibility in Postcolonial Harare" 31 October Harvey Kwiyani (Global Connections) "African Christian Identity in the Age of World Christianity: John Mbiti and Byang Kato, 50 Years Later" 21 November Robert Heimburger (Cardiff University) "Debating Forgiveness During Armed Conflict: Colombian Conflict Survivors’ Christian Ethic of Forgiveness and its Philosophical Critics" 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 Links Centre for the Study of World Christianity This article was published on 2024-03-19