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About
Locating Religion: Mapping World Christianities in the Early to Late Modern Periods
The geographical and cultural location of Christian belief and practice has been a recurring theme in scholarship on global Christianity. Christianity has a profound capacity for translation into local cultures through vernacular scriptures and the agency of its converts. But Christians also grasp that their faith has come from another time and place, and that their practice does not meet its ultimate normative standards. This gap between religion and society means that analysis of Christianity can never be purely contextual or functional.
This research network will respond to these tensions of ‘locating religion’ in a variety of ways. We will seek to identity methods of describing religious particularity without leaning upon reified notions of the ‘local’; to account for European and American influence in the production of religious knowledge without exaggerating Western agency; to attend to large-scale religious networks while taking note of specific commitments formed in and to particular regions. Finally, we aim to begin to construct a new topography of Christianity: to chart the multi-layered intersections and exchanges between Christian communities and individuals within and between Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania, thereby avoiding a stale dichotomy of Western metropole versus non-Western periphery, while simultaneously refocusing scholarly attention on the role of alternative hubs of religious activity and agency in these regions.
Limited places, to attend to the seminars please contact one of the conveners by email.
Conveners
Conveners
Dr Joel Cabrita (Lecturer in World Christianities, Faculty of Divinity)
Professor David Maxwell (Dixie Professor in Ecclesiastical History, FAculty of History)
Faculty Advisors
Professor John Lonsdale (Emeritus Professor of Modern African History, Faculty of History)
Professor Joel Robbins (Department of Social Anthropology)
Past events
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Definitions and Debates: Christianity 8 Oct 2013 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* Joel Cabrita (Cambridge), David Maxwell (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Revisiting Christianity and Individualism 22 Oct 2013 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* Prof Joel Robbins (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Moving Objects and Global Networks 19 Nov 2013 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* Chris Wingfield (Cambridge) at Locating religion |
End of Days Christianity 3 Dec 2013 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* Richard Werbner (Manchester) at Locating Religion |
Music, Place and the Poetics of Encounter in North American Charismatic Worship 14 Jan 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S3, 3rd floor Monique Ingalls (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Money and Religious Territory in Federal Ethiopia: Orthodoxy, Islam, and the Discourse of Secularism 28 Jan 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S3, 3rd floor Tom Boylston (LSE) at Locating Religion |
Dividualism and Individualism in Amazonian Christianity 11 Feb 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S3, 3rd floor Aparecida Vilaça (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro) at Locating Religion |
Bible Translation and the Politics of Place in Uganda and Congo, 1900-1930 25 Feb 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S3, 3rd floor Emma Wildwood (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Displacement and Disaster, Sudan’s Civil War and Religious Change Among the Dinka 11 Mar 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S3, 3rd floor Jesse Zink (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Not the Anthropology of Christianity 22 Apr 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S2, 2nd Floor Matthew Engelke (LSE) at Locating Religion |
Bodies in the Snow; Narrating Mormon Sacred Kinship 6 May 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S2, 2nd Floor Fennella Cannell (LSE) at Locating Religion |
Diaspora Assyrians and the Perception of Homeland 20 May 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S2, 2nd Floor Naures Atto (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Pentecostal Churches, NGOs, (Western Kenya) 3 Jun 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S2, 2nd Floor Ruth Prince (Oslo and Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Postponed:Missions, Gender and the Colonies 10 Jun 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S2, 2nd Floor Postponed to Michaelmas term 2014. Apologies for this inconvenience |
Interreligious Dialogue (Christian/Hindu) 20 Oct 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Ankur Barrua (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Issues in the Study of Spiritualism 3 Nov 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Tim Jenkins (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
The Invention of Lubaland: Katanga, Belgian Congo 17 Nov 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building David Maxwell (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Christian ‘Divine Healing’ and the British Empire-S.Africa 1 Dec 2014 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Joel Cabrita (Cambridge) at Locating Religion |
Locating Christian Missions in the German Colonial Project 26 Jan 2015 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room 204, 2nd Floor (Latin American Studies), Alison Richard Building Jörg Haustein (SOAS) -Locating Religion |
Locating Religion: Mapping World Christianities in the Late Modern Era 4 Feb 2015 - 5 Feb 2015 All day, Centre for Christianity Worldwide. Westminster College, Madingley Rd CB3 0AA Joel Cabrita, David Maxwell, Emma Wild-Wood (Cambridge)- Locating Religion |
Spiritual Temporalities and the New Pentecostal Churches in Rwanda 23 Feb 2015 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room 204, 2nd Floor (Latin American Studies), Alison Richard Building Andrea Grant (Cambridge) -Locating Religion |
Postponed-The Body in Words: Sacred Oratory in 17th c.Peru 9 Mar 2015 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room 204, 2nd Floor (Latin American Studies), Alison Richard Building Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge) -Locating Religion |
Current Trends in African Christian Scholarship 27 Apr 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room S1, 1st floor Alison Richard Building (NB different time) David Maxwell (Cambridge), John Peel (SOAS), Andrea Grant (Cambridge) -Locating Religion |
The Body in Words: Sacred Oratory in 17th century Peru 18 May 2015 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room 204, 2nd Floor (Latin American Studies), Alison Richard Building Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge) – Locating Religion |
Comparing American Women Missionaries’ Agendas in South Africa 1 Jun 2015 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Room 204, 2nd Floor (Latin American Studies), Alison Richard Building Miriam Levin (Case Western Reserve University) – Locating Religion |