Dr Kyama Mugambi

Abstract:

Africa is now home to a wide variety of rapidly growing Christian expressions which are rooted in the social and cultural context. A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya offers a localized history highlighting remarkable trends which illustrate the diversity of pneumatic Christianity present on the continent.

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Abstract:

African literature, like African Christianity, is perhaps more vibrant than ever. Mid-twentieth century literary texts, written in the era of political decolonisation, often engage with Christianity in critical, if not negative ways, associating it with European colonialism.

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The team at CCCW wish you all a blessed and reflective Easter.

We shall be closed on the two public holidays (Good Friday and Easter Monday)

and look forward to seeing you after that.

“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.”  Mark 16: 6

*No 3*

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. 

Read post *No 1* here.

Read post *No 2* here.

Read post *No 4* here.

The Bible: Everywhere in Everyday Life

Would you like to meet fellow Christians from around the world?

Spend time in the stimulating and historic environment of Cambridge?

Why not consider applying to our Summer Institute today?

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Dates: 2-7 July 2023

Venue: Westminster College, Cambridge, UK

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Download an application form here

Last date to apply: Friday 14 April 2023

*No 2*

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. 

Read post *No 1* here.

Read post *No 3* here.

Read post *No 4* here.

*No 1*

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. 

She stayed for two and a half years in Uganda, teaching and working throughout the College with Ugandans and other nationals.  She worked simultaneously — through emails — with friends, family and church members (her ‘encouragers’) in the UK and USA — to describe her work and gain support for it.   

Here are some of her messages.  They reflect the joys and sorrows, insights and dilemmas of the outsider looking in — who is also the insider looking outward with explanations for others — through her confusion and concern, joy, anger, hard-won patience and new insights.  

They are, on the one hand, early reflections on a cross-cultural challenge.  They are also current reflections — through the lens of time and distance — on experiences that unfolded in that place in the southwest corner of Uganda.   

Read post *No 2* here.

Read post *No 3* here.

Read post *No 4* here.

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Dr Gina Zurlo

This seminar will discuss Dr Zurlo’s recent research from her Women in World Christianity Project, which was the first demographic assessment of Christianity down to the denominational level in every country of the world. World Christianity is a women’s movement because it was built and is sustained by women, and the majority of its members, participants, and affiliates are women. It is anticipated that women in the global South will take on increasingly visible leadership roles in the church, despite the barriers they face, grounded by their faith and in service to their present communities and the next generations.

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Dr Joanildo Burito

The last decade represented a marked shift in the profile of public religion in Brazil. After three decades of sustained minority engagement, Brazilian conservative evangelicals/pentecostals seized the opportunity to raise their profile and engaged in a majority bid under the double strategy of building a “Christian Majority” discourse and joining a far-right presidential campaign which led to the previous government. This presentation will discuss and analyse the process and its unfolding, including other voices from Christian churches and other religious and secular agents, reflecting on the possible implications for current forms of Christian politics in Brazil.

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