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“Health in World Christianity: Towards a History of Healing in African Christianity in the 20th Century”

2024 CCCW Day Lecture

Join us for an enlightening lecture on “Health in World Christianity: Towards a History of Healing in African Christianity in the 20th Century” by Professor Emma Wild-Wood.

🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 25, 2024

🕓 Time: 4:00-5:30 pm GMT

📍 Venue: Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity

For more information, go at 2024 CCCW Day Lecture.

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Religion and Commonwealth Values: a panel discussion 

Date: Friday, January 12, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM
Venue: Westminster College, Cambridge

Join us for a captivating exploration into the intersection of religion and Commonwealth values at our upcoming event, hosted by The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and The Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Relations.

More info here: Religion and Commonwealth Values: a panel discussion – Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide

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Thinking about Missionaries’ Children in the History of Christian Missions

By Dr Hugh Morrison

CCCW-DIVFAC SEMINARS 2023-2024

28 November 2023, 4-5.30pm, Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

This paper marks a reflective end point for a project focused on the historical lives of British-world Protestant missionaries’ children, from the 1870s to the 1950s. While large in number, their voices were seldom heard and their lives until recently largely untold. This current study takes a more broadly comparative approach (using Scottish and New Zealand Presbyterianism as examples), focusing particularly on the early twentieth century. As such it utilises a range of published and unpublished sources, including oral history and written memoirs.

More information here.

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Welcome

SLAVERY AND THE MORAVIAN MISSION

By Dr Heike Raphael-Hernandez

CCCW-DIVFAC SEMINARS 2023-2024

21 November 2023, 4-5.30pm, Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

The talk will focus on the complex and, at times, contradictory encounters of Moravian missionaries, a Protestant group from Saxony, with enslaved Africans. The early period of Moravian missionary presence—between the 1730s and 1760s—differed from subsequent periods because later periods lost the original attempts to establish spiritual equality. A close reading of the various documents allows one to detect forms of active protest and creative agency on the part of enslaved people that were fostered, wittingly or unwittingly, by the Moravian missionaries.

More information here.

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Welcome

Chinese Christianity: Why Posters Can Change Our Understanding of the Chinese Christian Past

by Dr Daryl Ireland

CCCW-DIVFAC SEMINARS 2023-2024

31 October 2023, 4-5.30pm, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

For the past seven years, the Center for Global Christianity and Mission (CGCM) has embarked on a remarkable journey to recover and preserve a significant aspect of China’s religious history. They have successfully tracked down and digitized more than 700 Chinese Christian posters carried out of China by missionaries and refugees. This invaluable digital archive is poised to revolutionize our understanding of Chinese Christianity during the first half of the 20th century.

The CGCM, under the leadership of Daryl Ireland, has taken a pivotal step in unearthing a rich visual history that was previously lost to time. On Tuesday, 31 October 2023, Dr Daryl Ireland, the director of the Chinese Christian Posters project, will present a selection of these extraordinary prints. During the presentation, he will delve into why these posters are rewriting the narrative of Chinese Christianity in the early 20th century.

More information here.

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Welcome

Henry Martyn Day Lecture 2023

Prof. David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling, will be speaking on ‘Evangelical Theology in the English-Speaking World during the Nineteenth Century.’

Register at centre@cccw.cam.ac.uk.

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Crossing Cultures in Uganda 5

*No 5*

Janet Parsons’ background includes many years in Southern Africa but also teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages in Asia and the UK.  In 2009-2011, she trained in South Africa and the U.K. for cross-cultural work in mission.  In 2013, she joined CMS as a self-supporting worker and moved to Africa to teach at Bishop Barham, constituent college of Uganda Christian University. 

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August Opening Hours

Please note that during August the Library will be open from 9.00am – 1.00pm only.

In September, our regular operating hours will resume.

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“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

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Welcome

The Unchanging Bible for an Ever-changing Readership: Biblical Translation in Global Culture

Public Lecture by The Revd Prof. John Barton

How far translations of the Bible should adjust the original text to the culture it’s being read in, and how far they should challenge that culture by refusing to adjust it? This is the dilemma familiar to all translators of any text: formal equivalence or functional equivalence. But biblical translators have discussed it more than most, because the stakes are so high. Good translations of the Bible are after all a tool for evangelism (thus Eugene Nida, the father of modern Bible translations), and must therefore be very accurate, yet also read very idiomatically – an almost impossible goal to achieve.

Register to join, please email: centre@cccw.cam.ac.uk

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Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

“Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds” will bring together scholars to reconsider the category of a ‘Protestant Woman’. The event will explore how Protestant women have shaped religious worlds across the Global North to the Global South and Eastern Europe. Focusing on questions of gender, scripture, and religious identities, the event will open with a panel discussion followed by a networking session. It offers an opportunity to connect across disciplines and rethink the study of Protestant women across different time periods and cultural contexts.

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