Relocating World Christianity

Wild‐Wood, Emma; Cabrita, Joel; Maxwell, David

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“…A more connected, comparative approach that attended to links within Christian movements and a consciousness of homogenization of global organizational structures by examining global connections or ecumenical fellowship was proposed, which would examine how far "local appropriation" was an integral element in processes of globalization and indispensable for multidirectional impact (Cabrita and Maxwell 2017). For example, Christian literature not only influenced local or national social reform, as Sanneh proposed, but the transnational circulation among emerging reading publics helped to develop a globalized sense of Christian community (Feitoza 2017).…”

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Studying World Christianity

Wild‐Wood

2024

Religious Studies Review

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Studying World Christianity

Wild‐Wood

2024

Religious Studies Review

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“…17 This has also opened the door to less plausible or problematic claims, such as the view that the field has focused on "particular territories" and "local Christianities" (presumably in the non-Western world) at the expense of the coverage of Christianity "as an international community of Christians." 18 Or the assertion that research and writing are primarily concerned with recent developments marked by a fascination with "more exotic expressions" emerging in the non-Western world at the expense of attention to other parts of the world, such as Europe, where the church is struggling. 19 It is undoubtedly true that the phenomenal growth of Christianity in the Southern continents, ending centuries of demographic concentration in the Northern hemisphere, helped to galvanize the study of "World Christianity" and accounts for "a greater degree of attention being paid to Asian, African, and Latin American experiences."…”

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Seeing the World Through African Eyes: A Tribute to Andrew Walls

Hanciles

2023

International Bulletin of Mission Research

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This is an autobiographical essay describing the seminal impact that eminent World Christianity scholar Andrew Walls (1928–2021) had on my intellectual life and scholarship from the time I became a student at the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World (at Edinburgh University) up to his passing in 2021. What is presented here is not an account of Walls’s illustrious career and extraordinary legacy; but rather a chronicle of my intellectual journey over a period of more than thirty years, during which Walls shaped my scholarship and academic commitments more profoundly than any other person. The story pulls back the curtain on what was, for me, a life-transforming relationship. It reveals in close detail how Walls’s tutelage, scholarly vision, and winsome brilliance molded and fashioned both my emergence as an African scholar and my evolution into a scholar of World Christianity (including the approaches, perspectives, and core interests that have characterized my work in the last two decades). The tale is told strictly through the lens of personal experience, with all the inherent biases and blind spots that this implies; not to mention the limitations of human memory that every historian knows all too well. Inevitably, however, the narrative arc engenders some coverage of Walls’s pioneering and immense contribution to World Christianity scholarship. It has been said that Walls “may be the most important person you don’t know.” It is my fond hope that this article goes some way to filling this knowledge gap. But, ultimately, this is a story of how a young African from Sierra Leone became a Walls-ian.

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“…Joel Cabrita and David Maxwell argue that "'World Christianity' might not best be termed a new discipline nor a new field of study, but rather a mode of doing research that complements existing disciplines' methodologies and concepts." 26 In a similar direction, Martha Frederiks and Dorottya Nagy define World Christianity as a particular multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach of studying Christianity/ies in past and present, an approach that is sensitive to the multiple perspectives, manifestations, contexts and actors of Christianity/ies as well as to the translocal connectivities, and integrative forces that conjoin these local Christianities. 27…”

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Teaching Ecumenism in the Context of World Christianity

Sinn¹

2022

The Ecumenical Review

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The conference “Teaching Ecumenism in the Context of World Christianity,” held in June 2021, was an initiative of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey together with related programme units in the World Council of Churches. This article offers background to this initiative by sketching historical developments in the field of teaching ecumenism and by outlining creative synergies and tensions that have emerged in relation to academic scholarship in the area of World Christianity. By bringing together colleagues teaching in the areas of ecumenical studies, World Christianity, and related fields, the conference aimed to enter more deeply into conversations around epistemologies and methodologies, where participatory approaches engage discourses like global‐versus‐local and unity‐versus‐diversity in a critical and constructive way.

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Relocating World Christianity

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Studying World Christianity

Seeing the World Through African Eyes: A Tribute to Andrew Walls

Teaching Ecumenism in the Context of World Christianity

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