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Vacancy for Academic Coordinator

A rare opportunity has arisen for the academic role of Academic Coordinator at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.

The role is due to start on or after 1st September 2022. Closing date for applications is Friday 27th May 2022. Download the information below for further information and see our vacancies page

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Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

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Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

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CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

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Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

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Welcome

A ‘SYNCRETISM OF PIETY’: IMAGINING GLOBAL PROTESTANTISM IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON, TRANQUEBAR, AND HALLE

PROF. JAN STIEVERMANN

WEDNESDAY 4TH MAY, 4.00-5:30PM BST

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

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Research & Study
Welcome

BOOK LAUNCH: FROM HENRY MARTYN TO WORLD CHRISTIANITY

WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2022, 4.00-5.30 PM (BST)

Please visit our Events page for more information.

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Webinar – networked social movements, networked public theology

Webinar

Networked social movements, networked public theology: the implications of the Hong Kong protests to World Christianity

Dr Calida Chu, Teaching Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

When?

Wednesday 2nd March, 4.00-5.30pm GMT

About

When talking about public theology in World Christianity, current trends tend to focus on one context, whether it is based on a geographical location or a platform (e.g. social media). The Hong Kong protests, as networked social movements, show that the flow of information is not as static as one may think, due to the highly decentralised and fluid nature of the movements.

Drawing theories from sociology and migration studies, this paper aims to problematise the concept of public theology as a contextual theology, and suggests that, due to increasing digital literacy and the high mobility of Hong Kongese migrants since 2020, the future of Hong Kong public theology should be seen as a ‘networked public theology’, which transcends geographical locations.

Taking examples of the Milk Tea Alliance in Asia and several pro-democratic Hong Kongese pastoral leaders in different continents, the paper elaborates the phenomenon of networked public theology and offers some preliminary observations of how this may assist World Christianity scholars to ponder the issues of social justice with the oppressed and marginalised groups.

Register

Please register to join: email Rachel Simonson, Coordinator: centre[at]cccw.cam.ac.uk

Tell others

Feel free to download the flyer and encourage others to tune in:

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Theological Education

A webinar brought by Theological Education in the Anglican Communion (TEAC) to be held on Thursday 10th February 9-11am GMT; 1400-1600 in Pakistan; 1430-1630 in India and Sri Lanka.

Image by D Mz from Pixabay

You are warmly invited to attend TEAC’s next webinar on ‘South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Theological Education.’

Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy, CCCW Director

Featuring:

Revd Professor Israel David, United Theological College, Bangalore, India

Miss Lubna Younas Dewan, Principal, St. Thomas’ Theological College, Karachi, Pakistan

Revd R T B Abeysinghe , Lecturer, Theological College of Lanka, Pilimatalawa, Sri Lanka

  • To register for the webinar, please send an email to Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy.

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Seminar – a gospel for the poor

Our first seminar of the Lent term is: A gospel for the poor: misión Integral and the Latin American evangelical left in the shadow of the Cold War

Dr David C. Kirkpatrick, Associate Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University, Virginia

2nd February 2022, 4-5.30pm GMT, online

Drawing upon bilingual interviews and archives and personal papers from three continents, Kirkpatrick adopts a transnational perspective to tell the story of how a Cold War generation of Latin American evangelicals developed, named, and exported their version of social Christianity to an evolving coalition of global Christians. Latin Americans drew upon their unique biographies as religious minorities and their fraught history of negotiation with US missionaries in the region. In turn, global conversations between Latin America and the Global North reshaped politics, widened theologies, and provoked an explosion of mission and relief organizations around the world. This story also provides a blueprint for an alternative scaffolding of the Evangelical Left, one not designed from centres of power but from the margins of the global Cold War.

To register and for Zoom link, please email Rachel Simonson, our Centre Coordinator.

For more information, download the flyer.

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all our Friends and Library Users

We are delighted to be open again. To facilitate social distancing in these virulent times, we are limiting the number of library users at any one time to three.

Thank you for your understanding and see you soon.

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Introducing the World Christianity Summer Institute

The CCCW is establishing a week-long annual residential Summer Institute on the theme ‘World Christianity and Global Challenges’ to take place in Cambridge every year.

The first Institute will be from 18-22 July 2022. It is a wonderful opportunity for Christians from the Global North and South to gather together and to learn about Christianity in the other parts of the world. It is also an opportunity to build relationships as World Christians together.

More details of these and of this Summer’s Institute 2022, as well as our new Series of Seminars for 2022 are below on our new Event Card:

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study
Welcome

Click & Collect inspirational Christmas reading!

In response to the recent guidance to work from home where possible and reduce contact indoors, we have closed our doors, but we are making Click & Collect available instead. Email the librarian a maximum of five books that you wish to borrow, and we will arrange a time for you to collect them from our front door. This week only, 13-17 December 21. Make your Christmas a time of inspirational reading about the church worldwide!

Please note that we will be closed over the holiday period from 20th December 2021 to 4th January 2022.

We all wish you a very joyful and blessed Christmas and New Year!

— Ruth MacLean, Librarian

“She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21

Encounter Other Cultures

Encounter Other Cultures

Do you have an interest in the world church? We provide funding and organisational support for intercultural placements.

Learn More
Research Degrees

Research Degrees

Study for an advanced research degree (PhD or DProf) in our Centre: low-residency, mission-focused, and tailored to your interests in one of the world's great academic centres.

Learn More
Sabbatical Study

Sabbatical Study

Spend a sabbatical in our Centre, taking advantage of our rich library and archive collections, as well as our connections with the broader Cambridge community.

Learn More
Keep up to date

Latest News & Events

Latest News

CCCW Blog, June 2026. Power and Influence in Responsible Leadership

Revd Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Faith in Business and CCCW Research Associate. Insights from the Faith in Business…

Latest News Protestant Women and the Making of Global Religious Worlds

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.

Upcoming Events


Details of the next Seminar coming very soon!

Intercultural Encounter
Discover new cultures

Intercultural Encounter

We believe that spending time in new cultures creates confident and creative Christian leaders. Learn more about our Intercultural Encounter programme and how you can spend time with Christians around the world

Learn More
Explore our rich academic resources

Research & Study

Our library, archive, and seminar programme creates a rich academic environment. Study for an advanced research degree with us, spend a sabbatical here, or simply come browse our shelves.

Learn More
Research & Study