Schedule
| Time | Event | Location |
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| 10:30a.m. – 12:00p.m. | Registration Lunch On Your Own | Stuart Hall |
| 11:00a.m. | Guided Tour of Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University | Departs from Stuart Hall |
| 12:30p.m. – 1:00p.m. | Opening Session The Conveners: Afe Adogame, Raimundo Barreto, Soojin Chung President, Princeton Theological Seminary: Jonathan Lee Walton Orientation: Conference Secretariat | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
| 1:00pm – 2:15pm | GERALD H. ANDERSON LECTURE I Kathryn Gin Lum Heartbroken History Chair: Soojin Chung | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
| 2:15pm – 2:45pm | Break Coffee and Tea Available | Mackay Dining Hall |
| 2:45pm – 4:00pm | PAPER SESSION 1 |
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| World Christianity and Ecological Theologies (Book Panel) Chair: Joel Carpenter Raimundo Barreto Wanderley Pereira Da Rosa* Graham McGeoch Ivone Gebara* Cynthia Moe-Lobeda* Yenny Delgado* Ruben Rosario-Rodriguez | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Grassroots Intercontinental Formation Experiences: The Case of Global Convene Chair: Kenneth Ofula Kyama Mugambi || Global Convene: Perspectives from World Christianity and Early African Christianity Christian Mungai || Global Convene: History and Contemporary aspects of the initiative Piero Gorriti-Corzo || Global Convene: Perspectives from an Inter-ethnic Diasporic Experience | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Women’s Impact in World Christianity Chair: Telesia Musili Christina Liu || Women’s Voice from the Sea of Islands; A Peau – Wave Travels from Insular to Global Alexander Gattogo || Global Evangelical Church and the Impact of Female Pastors Ndidi Justice Gbule* || Refiguring Global Christianity A Case Study of Women Intercessors for the Church and Nations (a.k.a Wailing Women Worldwide) Clare Polk || Sisters of the Spirit: Black American and African Women Shaping Transatlantic Religious and Political Landscapes | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Reverse Mission, Family, and Worship in World Christianity Chair: Stian Sørlie Eriksen Kwame Oppong-Konadu || Women Reshaping Reverse Mission in Europe: A Case Study of Gisella Van Brusselt and the Church of Pentecost in Belgium Fwangmun Oscar Danladi || Fatherhood from Proximity: An Auto-ethnography of the Social and Psychological Costs of Migration-Induced Distanciation on Fathers Yousaf Sadiq || Melodies of Faith: The Impact of the Punjabi Psalter on the South Asian Punjabi Christian Diaspora | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm | Break | |
| 4:30pm – 6:00pm | PAPER SESSION 2 | |
| Global and Regional Dynamics in the History of World Christianity Chair: David Chao Christian Silva || The New Mexico Baptist College (1901-1911): Colonial migration, Christian Education, and Anglo-progressivism Klaus Koschorke || Early South-South Links in the History of World Christianity Talant Aktanzhanov || Between the Global Church and Local Realities: The Dual Challenge of Central Asian Christianity | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Borders, Faith, and Public Theology in the Americas Chair: Joao Chaves Willy Mafuta || Border Crossings and the Politics of Othering: The Nexus of Trumpism, Mexican and Haitian immigrants in the US Rubén Rosario Rodríguez || Protestantism in the Public Square: John Calvin as a Model for Public Theology in Latin America and the Caribbean | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Sino-Christian Studies Chair: Stephanie Wong Zhemeng Xu || Prayers Across Borders: The Migration of Christian Devotion and the Role of Chinese Women Converts in Early Modern China Steven Hu || Returning to the Reformation: Crisis, Recovery of History, and Chinese Christians in Space-Time Easten Law || Migration & Sanctification across Chinese Theologies Gerhard Stuebben || The Cool Breeze Visits Mo Yan: A Translation and Analysis of the Jesus Story in Sutra on Hearing the Messiah from Seventh Century China | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Migration and Transnational Identities in Europe and North America Chair: Babatunde Adedibu Amos Chewachong* || Multiple Religious Belongings Among Presbyterian Church in Cameroon Christians in the United Kingdom and the United States of America Marina Ngursangzeli Behera || Transnationalism and the Mizo Diaspora: Identity, Belonging, and Mission in the UK Gavin Chase || Racial Affections: German Pietism, Coloniality, and Moravian Settlement in the Danish West Indies and Salem-Wachovia | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 6:00pm – 7:30pm | Dinner Break – On Your Own | |
| 7:30pm – 8:45pm | PLENARY SESSION 1 The Future of World Christianity Scholarship: Perspectives from Graduate Researchers l Chair: Stephen Di Trolio | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast | Mackay Student Center |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | PAPER SESSION 3 | |
| Diaspora Pastors, Megachurches, and Global Christian Networks Chair: Willy Mafuta John David || The African Immigrant Pastors in Non-Immigrant Churches: Challenges and Opportunities Moses Biney || Re-imagining Partnerships and Mission in an Era of Global Migration and Diasporas: The Case of the Ghana Mission Network (PCUSA) Paul Goh || Mapping Migration, Diaspora Churches and Transnationalism in South Australia: A Case of the Uniting Church in Australia Olusegun Exradallenum || Africanizing the West: The Role of Megachurches in Spreading Afrocentric Christianity and Culture | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Historical Examination of Chinese Christian Migrants Chair: Christina Liu Meng Liu || Vernacular Christian Movements Centered on the Holy Spirit: Revisiting Spiritual Heritage in Nigeria and China, c.1920s-1950s Shalon Park* || Building Faith, Building Seoul: Chinese Christian Contractors in Korea’s Colonial Era Hong Yi Joshua Tan || Towards a Nanyang (South Seas) Christianity: Missionaries, Chinese Migrants, and the Case of Malacca’s Anglo-Chinese College in History and Memory (1818-1970s) Zhixi (Jordan) Wang* || Chinese Revivalists on the Move During the Second World War and the Civil War | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Migration and Transnationalism in South Asian Christianity Chair: Ciprian Burlacioiu David Anil Kumar Jeldi || Migration, Diaspora, Transnationalism in World Christianity with Special Focus on Indian Telugu Christians Binu Varghese || Heathenism and Indian American Christianity: Revisiting W A Criswell Archives at Princeton Theological Seminary Shreya Ramachandran || A Malayalee-American Christian Tradition: New Discursive Practices in the Making | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| 200 years after the “Restauration”: Emigration from and Immigration to Norway and the Role of Religious Communities Transnational and Transloyal Perspectives Chair: James Kwateng-Yeboah Frieder Ludwig || Norwegian Lutherans in Minnesota: Early Transnational Interactions and Education, ca. 1860-1920 Retief Müller || Understanding the Role of the Norwegian Mission Within the Mid 19th Century Zulu Kingdom / Natal / Natalia – a Contested Context Involving Diverse Moments and Movements of in and out Migration Tomas Sundnes Drønen & Stian Sørlie Eriksen || Continuity of Discontinuity of Mission and Migration? Historical, Transnational, and Theological Reflections on the Redeemed Christian Church of God and World Christianity in Stavanger and Norway | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | GERALD H. ANDERSON LECTURE II Abel Ugba Faith vs Secularism: Pentecostal Africans and the Remaking of Divine Healing in ‘Secular’ Britain Chair: Afe Adogame | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
| 12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Group Picture | Chapel Steps |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch Break | Mackay Student Center |
| 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | PAPER SESSION 4 | |
| Transnational Mortuary Rites and the Economies of Death Chair: Johan Hont Telesia Musili || Exploring the Economies of Transnational Death Rituals amongst Kenyan Immigrant Religious Communities Rose Mary Amenga-Etego || We are Sending the Funeral Home’: Migration and Funeral Rites in Ghana Byung Ho Choi || Returning Homeland: The Migration of Dead Bodies Elijah Baloyi || “Bring Him/Her Back Home!” – The Relevance of Burying People in Their Ancestral Homes- A South African Practical Theological Mourning Appraisal Alexander Salakpi || “Bury Me with My Fathers”: Migration and Burial Rites Among the Ewe of Ghana | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Migration and Interreligious Encounters Chair: Jennifer Aycock Patricia Akpene Tegbe-Agbo || Migration and Christian-Muslim Relations in Ghana Wing Yi Wong* || From Conversion to Conversation: Diaspora and the New Possibilities of Interfaith Dialogue Ihtsham Ravi || Comparative Theology, Commitment, and Openness: A Critical Perspective from Pakistani Christians in Southall | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Slavery, Migration, Diaspora, and Asymmetrical Dependencies in World Christianity Chair: David Brandon Smith & Matthew Robinson David Brandon Smith || Sinners on the Move: Normative Knowledge Transfer, Forced Migration and Exile in the Early Medieval Penitentials Matthew Robinson || The Pre-History of Intercultural Theology and Dynamics of Asymmetrical Dependency Joerg Rieger* || Distinguishing Privilege and Power in Global Christianities: Missionary Conquest, Colonization, and Alternatives Akinwumi Akindolie || Derobing of Western Christianity Through the Lens of African Indigenous Churches (AICs): Myths or Reality Fabiano Glaeser dos Santos || Theology, Racism and Modern Slavery in Brazil | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Migration, Ethnic Identity, and Christian Narratives in Africa Chair: Matthew Krabill Pamela Byakwaga Mbabazi* || Ekizino Ky’okwita Enanga Under Contexts of Christianity: Augmenting the Ethnic Identity Crisis of the Bakiga Immigrants in Rubirizi District, Western Uganda Edward Ohanga || Dala and Diaspora: Notions of Faith and Freedom in the Diaspora Migrations of the Luo Community of Kenya Olatunde Ogunbiyi || Aladura Indigenousity, Social Constructionism and the Diaspora: Interrogating Narratives Surrounding Spiritual Warfare Joseph Kwadwo Asuming* || Transnational Christian Networks as Peacebuilding Avenues in Africa: The African Youth Festival in Perspective | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 3:00pm – 3:15pm | Break | Coffee Available in Mackay |
| 3:15pm – 4:45pm | Plenary II Honoring Rev. Dr. David D. Daniels, III Chair: Dale Irvin Raimundo Barreto Keri Day* Eric Williams Janice McLean-Farrell Anthea Butler* Klaus Koschorke | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
| 4:45pm – 5:00pm | Break | |
| 5:00pm – 6:30pm | PAPER SESSION 5 | |
| World Christianity and LGBTQ Concerns Chair: Seunghyun Kim || Ukrainian Churches’ Response to the Russian Orthodox Church’s Holy War Claim : Perspectives on LGBT+ Issues Israel Gwatana || African Immigrant Clergy and LGBTQ Concerns: Square Pegs in Round Holes? Jonathan James Canete || Reclaiming Sacred Spaces: Understanding the Perception of God and Religion of Filipino Members of the LGBTQIA+ Drag Community Claudia Alvarez || The Latin American Queer-Pentecostal Ecclesial Movement: A Reading from World Christianity | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Mission and Migration in World Christianity Chair: Tomas Sundnes Drønen Stian Sørlie Eriksen || Beyond Reverse Mission? A Critical Appraisal of Mission Perspectives, Efforts, and Discourses from and among Pentecostal Diasporic Faith Communities in Norway (and beyond) Simon Herrmann || Crossing Borders: Factors Shaping the Missional Impact of Christians with Foreign Roots in Germany Gabriel Stephen || Conversations on Collaborative Migrational Mission: Power Negotiations, Agency, and Mission Leonardo Marcondes Alves* || Our Mission is Written: Migration and Pentecostal Identity in Latin Congregations of the Nordic Countries | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Migrant Protestants and Protesting Migrants: Revisiting the History of Protestants in Latin America 19th and 20th Century Chair: Raimundo Barreto Stephen Di Trolio Joao Chaves Joseph Florez* Pedro Feitoza* | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Theologies of Identity and Mission in Asian American Christianity Chair: Easten Law Christy Chia || Perpetual Foreigner Theologies: An Asian American Theology of Identity, Belonging, and Mission David Moe || The Paradox of Burmese American Christians: Understanding Their Hidden Stories and Imagination of Identities David Chao || Dislocation and Belonging: First-Generation, Asian Immigrant Churches in North America as Counterpublics of Sacred Value Joy Clarisse Saavedra || The Aftermath of Migration: Filipino American Identity Development | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 6:30pm – 7:45pm | Dinner Break – On Your Own | |
| 7:45pm – 9:00pm | Documentary Screening Chair: James Ault Andrew Walls’ Life and Legacy | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30am – 9:00am | Breakfast | Mackay Student Center |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | PAPER SESSION 6 | |
| Diaspora and Evangelism in Global Missions Chair: Therese Lautua Mwita James || Evangelism Reimagined: African Immigrants Shaping Global Christianity in the 21st Century Dongjun Seo* || Diaspora Experience and Christian Mission: Kyung-Chik Han’s Forced Migration, Missional Approach, and Transnational Collaborations, 1945-1953 Abhishek Prabhakar John || J. Elwin Wright’s Global Vision of a Transnational Evangelical Coalition Rotimi Oti* || The Role of Diaspora Churches in Global Missions and Evangelism | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Adoption, Migration, and the Shaping of Christian Identities Chair: Fides del Castillo Pum Mang || Chin Christian Migration and Burmese Military Tyranny Soojin Chung || Adoption Evangelists: Transnational Adoption and Missionary Cosmopolitanism Griffin Oakley || Faith and Identity: Unpacking the Journey of Chinese-American Adoptees in a Global World Jacinta Fatunsin || A Switch in Space: Digitality, Community and Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| African Diaspora Congregations in North America Chair: Janice McLean-Farrell Ruth Amwe || Engendering African Congregational Identity and Belonging in New York (Afia) Sun Kim || Iron Sharpens Iron: How African Christian Diaspora are Building Transnational Networks Ojo Rapheal || African Christianity in Transition among African Immigrant Congregations in Maryland Patricia Afrifa* and Charles Prempeh || Ghanaian Community Churches: An Avenue for Spiritual and Social Capital for Immigrants | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Demographic Trends and Theological Reflections on Migration and the Marginalized Chair: Andrey Shirin Jenny McGill* || Theology on the Move: International Students and Christian Identity in Migration Gina Zurlo || Changes in Middle Eastern Christianity, 1900-2075 Nicole Ashwood || Migration and Human Dignity in light of Daniel 1 | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Break | |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | PAPER SESSION 7 | |
| Migrant God, Migrant Faith: A Panel Conversation (Book Panel) Chair: Jennifer Aycock Matthew Krabill Allison Norton* Moses Biney Daniel Montanez* | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Christianities in Southeast Asia Chair: David Moe Charissa Lee || Malaysian-Christian Identity and Nation Building Clarence Darro del Castillo & Fides del Castillo || Boracay Ináti: Voices in the Land of the Promised Piece of Paradise Christopher Sabanal* || When God Abandoned Humanity: Reimagining Christianity through the Unconventional Christ in Mario O’Hara’s War Film Yohan Hong || Power, Poverty, and Missional Agency of U.S. Based Filipino Protestants | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Migration, Mission, and the Shaping of Christian Identities in Latin America Chair: Margarita Perdido Lyndon Santos* || The Insertion of Fundamentalism in Brazil: Synesio Lyra and the Fight Against the Dissolving Modernism Eloy Alfaro || Churches and Migration of Colombians and North Americans (Expats) to Ecuador and the Global South Stephen Di Trolio || Reconceptualizing Categories: Immigration, Ethnicity, Mission in 19th and Early 20th Century Argentine Protestantism Ícaro Novais* || Make Up God’s Government | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Migrating through Place and Time: Collaboration and Connections in the Study of World Christianity Chair: Frieder Ludwig Anna Wells || The Translatability of Saints: Representations of Women in Medieval Ethiopian and European Hagiographies Nadia Andrilenas || Expanding the Narrative: Women’s Lived Religion in Early Twentieth-century Vietnam David Chrisna || The Father of Love: Transnational Interreligious Correspondence and Its Impact on a Javanese Muslim Princess’s Critiques of Christian Missions Ryan Ramsey || Limits of Sanctity: Teresa Urrea and the Problem of Interreligiosity | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch Break | Mackay Student Center |
| 1:30pm – 5:30pm | Field Trip to Swaminarayan Akshardham | |
| Dinner – On Your Own |
| Time | Event | Location |
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| 7:30am – 9:00am | Breakfast | Mackay Student Center |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | PAPER SESSION 8 | |
| Propagandists of the Book Protestant: Missions, Christian Literacy, and the Making of Brazilian Evangelicalism (Book Panel) Stephen Di Trolio Pedro Feitoza* Joao Chaves Wanderley Pereira da Rosa* Lyndon de Araújo* Santos Morgan Crago Melkonian* | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Missions, Ministry, and Reconciliation in the Korean Context Chair: Simon Hermann Rachel Crilley* || To Teach or Preach the Gospel in English; The Changing Landscape of English Ministry within the Korean Context Taeha An || Politics of Naming and Post-Trauma Reconciliation: A Study of Postcolonial Korea and Its Encounter with Islam in Daegu | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Missiological Perspectives on Migration and Identity Formation Chair: Kirk Sandvi Oluyemi Fayomi || Intra-African Migration Dynamics: Interrogating the Missiological and Theological Activities of the Nigerian Diasporas in the Benin Republic Joel Hartmann* || Transnational Ecclesial Identity Formation among Christian Converts from Islam: Missiological Reflections on Emerging Religious Network in Muslim-Majority Regions | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Music, Worship, and Diaspora in World Christianity Chair: Paul Goh Eric Sarwar || The Practices of Psalmody and Punjabi Diaspora in North America Toyin Ajose || “Their Sound is Gone Out into all Lands”: Hearing Nigerian Migrant Churches in Germany Omolara Loko || Musical Performances in Olutunu Cherubim and Seraphim Movement, Rockaway, Brooklyn, New York, USA Kyama Mugambi || Praise Him in an African Way: Transnational Exchanges through Urban Worship Music | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Break | |
| 11:00am – 12:15pm | Gerald H. Anderson Lecture III Deanna Womack Middle Eastern Christian Diaspora: Survival Strategies, “South-South” Relations, and Missions in the World’s Oldest Churches Chair: Raimundo Barreto | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
| 12:15pm – 1:15pm | Lunch Break | Mackay Student Center |
| 1:15pm – 2:45pm | PAPER SESSION 9 | |
| Chinese Christian Diaspora and Transnational Faith Communities Chair: Ryan Ramsey B Laboy || Asian Diaspora in Mexico: Chinese Mexicans Febrianto || From Adaptation to Cooptation: Andrew Gih and the Making of Chinese Diasporic Christianity in Indonesia | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Migration and Diaspora Chair: Fabiano Glaeser dos Santos Kirk Sandvig || Food, Faith, and Cultural Resilience: Vietnamese Catholic Immigrant Communities in New Orleans Joe Evans & Ngoc Nguyen || Marian Images as a Connection between Asian Catholics and Diaspora Communities Osaisonor Godfrey Ekhator-Obogie || On Migration and Religious Conflicts in Nigeria, A Historical Discourse on the Anglican and Catholic Dioceses in Benin since 1897 Ciprian Burlacioiu || Migration and Diaspora in the Eastern Orthodox Christianity of the 20th ct. Two Case Studies: the Patriarchate in Constantinople and the Russian Church | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Diaspora, Syncretism, and Intercultural Theology Chair: Stephen Cherry Shivpriya Sridhar || Syncretism as Decolonial Metaphor and World-Making Discourse Matthias Ehmann || Intercultural Theology as Theology for a Post-Migrant Society Heekyung Jeong || Diaspora in Art: In-Beyond Marginality | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Ethiopianism Refracted (1890-1963): New Directions in the Study of a Transnational Christian Movement in the African Diaspora Chair: Rose Mary Amenga-Etego Jennifer Aycock || “Africa” as The Suffering Mother and Womb of Return: Lewis G. Jordan’s Missionary Thought and Practice (1890-1930) Tshepo Masango Chéry || Of God and Revolution: Kikuyu Christians, Ethiopianism and the Mau Mau Revolution Kai Parker || Pilgrims of Pan-Africanism: Ethiopianism, Nigerian Independence, and the US Civil Rights Movement | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 2:45pm – 3:00pm | Break | Coffee Available in Mackay |
| 3:00pm – 4:30pm | Plenary III Honoring Klaus Koschorke Chair: Afe Adogame Frieder Ludwig Mira Sonntag Ciprian Burlacioiu Deanna Ferree Womack Andrew Barnes Briana Wong | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
| 4:30pm – 4:45pm | Break | |
| 4:45pm – 6:15pm | PAPER SESSION 10 | |
| Religion, Migration and Mission Chair: Byung Ho Choi Fides del Castillo || Lived Religion of Filipino Christian Migrant Workers in Inter-religious Contexts in Asia Stephen Cherry || Imported Care, Faithful Service Filipino and Indian American Nurses at an American Veterans Hospital Rebecca Cacho, Jose Eric Lacsa || Bridging Faith Across Borders: Becoming a Cyber Church for Migrant Filipino Workers Jonathan James Canete, Leslie Anne L. Liwanag || When Religion Enslaves: A Weberian Reflection on The Weaponization of Religion | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Christianity, Politics, and Ideological Conflicts in Africa Chair: Matthew Robinson Abosede Omowumi Babatunde || Contentious Intra-religious Ideologies and the Gospel of Prosperity in Nigeria’s Rebranded Christianity Kipleting Eliud Seurei* || Colonization and Monolingual Christianization as Imperial Mess in Africa. Case of Kenya Durojaiye Owoeye* || The Christian Involvement in the Transnationalist Construction of Necropolitics: The Nigerian Presidency of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a Case Study | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Faith, Identity, and Belonging in African Diaspora Chair: Kai Parker Sara Wegman || Beyond Evangelicalism: Contextualizing Transnational Influence on the Politics of Homosexuality in Uganda Degla Komi Fahin || The Mystery of the Diaspora: From Identity Crisis in the Country of Origin to Identity Regained in the Foreign Land Chigozie Nwaka* || Negotiating Faith, Culture, and Identity among Nigerian Sabbatharians in the Diaspora | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| African Pentecostalism and Transnational Identities Chair: Kyama Mugambi Tomas Sundnes Drønen || Migration, Pentecostalism and Islam in Northern Cameroon Henrietta Nyamnjoh || Spiritual Self-Sufficiency: Transnational Mobilities of Ethiopian Pentecostal Pastors within the Ethiopian Diaspora Communities in South Africa James Kwateng-Yeboah || Spirited Mobilities: Migration Desires and the Embodiment of Migrant Identities in Ghana | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 6:15pm – 6:30pm | Break | |
| 6:30pm – 8:00pm | Conference Banquet | Mackay Student Center |
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30am – 9:00am | Breakfast | Mackay Student Center |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | PAPER SESSION 11 | |
| Reimagining Mission and World Christianity Chair: Briana Wong Perdian Tumanan || Rethinking Translatability: Christian Mission and the Challenge of Moral Imposition Hanna Hyun || World Christiantiy from the Perspective of Global South Transnational Michael Perry N. O. Tettey || Revisiting the Mission Philosophy of Henry Venn: Challenges and Opportunities for Diasporan African Pentecostalism Andrey Shirin || Will Immigrants “Rechristianize” America? | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Ecological Practices, Climate Crisis, and Sustainability Efforts Chair: Graham McGeoch Chijioke Agbaeze || Eco-Theology and Immigration: Sustaining Ecological Practices and Faith in Transnational Communities Orivaldo Lopes Jr || Evangelical Churches and the New Climate Regime: The Case of Felipe Camarão, Natal/RN Therese Lautua || Diaspora Indigenous Pacific ‘Everyday’ Theological Perspectives on the Climate Crisis Margarita Perdido || Faith in Action: Integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Lived Theology | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| East Asian Christianity in Global Contexts Chair: Soojin Chung Ken Miyagi || Beyond the Dichotomy of Local Agency Between Obedience Versus Resistance: The History of Japanese Immigrants Christians in the North American West Sangeon Kim || Again 1907: How Korean Christianity Reproduces the Imperial Expansionism of American Evangelicalism through a Revivalistic Context in Korean Christianity Jinju Lee || New Transpacific Evangelical Relationships: The Religious and Political Influence of Kyung-Chik Han During and After the Korean War Naomi Thurston* || Theological Reception History: The Case of Moltmann Studies in China | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Examining Reverse Mission and Transnational Christianity Chair: Gina Zurlo Ayodele Adeyeye || Re-examining Reverse Mission in the Lived Experiences of African Diasporan Christians in Northern America: A Phenomenological Survey J Pau Lian || An Empirical Study of the Reverse Mission from the Global South to Global North: Exploring a Significant Shift of Myanmar’s Transnational Christianity and its Impact on Gospel in North America Songzan Xu* || Reverse Mission and Transpacific Migration: A Case Study on Witness Lee and the Local Church Movement between Taipei and Los Angeles (1952-1997) | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Break | |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | PAPER SESSION 12 | |
| Language, Music, and Performances in World Christianity Chair: John David Lillian Mbabazi* || Christianity and Storytelling of the Bakiga of Southwestern Uganda: Contradictions and Intersections Sonal V Manoj || Syriac Language in South India: An Imposition, Accommodation, or Adoption? Manpreet Kaur || Hymnody and indigenous Music of Punjab: Purpose, Content and Tradition | Stuart Hall Room 6 | |
| Faith and Migrant Identities in Ghana Chair: Elijah Baloyi Gabriel Appiah* || Neo-Prophetic Healers, Health-Seeking Behaviour of Patients and Migration in Ghana Haruna Yussif Mogtari || The Impact of Migration on the Socio-Political Landscape of Wa in the Northwest of Ghana James Kwateng-Yeboah || Spirited Mobilities: Migration Desires and the Embodiment of Migrant Identities in Ghana | Stuart Hall Room 5 | |
| Women and Migration Chair: Tshepo Masango Chéry Grace Sintim Adasi* || Women, Migration and Mission: The Case of Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education Favour Eke-uwubanmwen || The Feminization of Migration and Women ‘s Religious Life in Diaspora Christianity Yenny Delgado* || Beyond Borders: Migration and Identity among Native Women of Abya Yala | Stuart Hall Room 2 | |
| Pentecostal Leadership, Mission, and Cross-Cultural Engagement Chair: Gerhard Stuebben Stian Sørlie Eriksen || The Spirit Calls and Equips: Gender, Leadership and Mission among International/Migrant Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches in Norway Mookgo Solomon Kgatle || Cross-cultural Mission amongst the Second Generation of African Pentecostals in the Apostolic Faith Mission International Ministry, United Kingdom Tyler Lenocker || Spiritualizing the City: Migration and the Pentecostalization of Evangelicalism in Postwar Boston | Stuart Hall Room 1 | |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:00pm | Closing Session | Stuart Hall Room 6 |
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