Race and religion create powerful and intertwined systems of othering, and attending to the experiences of Asian Americans and Asians…
No one’s model minority
missions
Secular Christian power and the spiritual invention of nations
In the Americas, missionary colonialism prospered on the sharp edge of secular Christian power. Cutting up land with a blade…
From Christ to Confucius
In his exciting and beautifully written book, From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity,…
CFP | Converting Spaces: Re-Directing Missions Through Global Encounters
The department of religious studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, with support from the Cordano Endowment in Catholic Studies,…
Missions and church-planting in Europe
Last month, Eurochurch.net published a report on the state of missional church-planting activities in Europe authored by Darrell Jackson and…
Shrinking no more
Two recent studies conducted by the Christian organization LifeWay Research and supervised by missiological thought leader Ed Stetzer provide an…
Sexual abuse across faith lines
At Ahead of the Trend, the blog of the Association of Religion Data Archives, religion writer David Briggs reports that…
Idaho missionaries replay colonial legacy, imperial hubris
Anthea Butler analyzes the case of Idaho missionaries arrested in Haiti, comparing it to the long history of colonialism and…
God was on everybody’s side: A conversation with Jean Comaroff
It is my pleasure to inaugurate Rites and Responsibilities, a new dialogue series for The Immanent Frame and the Social…
Giving up the Holy Ghost
Keane’s account is convincing, but it is important to contextualize the semiotic ideology he defines. I could be misreading Keane…