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World Christianity Summer Institute 2024 Public Lecture by Mr Richard Lewney
Like many important issues in social and economic policy, the causes of and remedies for poverty are highly contested. Ideas from economics permeate wider society and are taken up or opposed according to how well they accord with our worldview, particularly the worldview of our ‘tribe’. This applies to...
World Christianity Summer Institute 2024 “Poverty and the Church” Inaugural Address by Prof Esther Momba (joining online)
This presentation seeks to investigate how the church addresses the female face of poverty and the elevation of it, how does the church address the reality that women are providers, although their work is often not acknowledged nor valued.
CCCW Talk “South Asia’s Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim” by Prof Chandra Mallampalli (joining online)
South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the earliest days of the faith.
CCCW Talk “Migration, Pentecostalism, and Islam in Northern Cameroon” by Prof Tomas Sundnes Drønen
Cameroon has until recently been an island of political stability in a Central-African region that has experienced civil wars, coup d’états, and violent Muslim extremism. In the last ten years this has changed. Cameroon now hosts more than 2.2 million forcibly displaced persons in addition to almost 500,000 refugees.
KINGSTON TO CAMBRIDGE WITHOUT A CAMEL
By Graham Kings On Sunday morning 30 June, as the first event in the 2024 Summer Institute of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity...
CCCW Talk “From Sacred Canopy to Ethnic Umbrellas: Re-Thinking the Future of Christianity in Ethiopian Politics” by Dr Girma Mohammed
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Girma Mohammed on the future of Christianity in Ethiopian politics.
CCCW Talk “Christ in Islamic Clothes: Evangelicals and the Saga of Muslim Contextualization” by Christian J. Anderson
Christian J. Anderson, PhD candidate in Cambridge’s Divinity Faculty, presents groundbreaking research on the theology and history of evangelical encounters with Islam.
Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South
Applications are invited from scholars whose research is connected to the theme of inter-religious relations, with a particular focus on religious boundary-making.