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𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 leading research in #WorldChristianity since 1982 • @UoEDivinity, @EdinburghUni

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

✍🏼 Registration is open for #YaleEdin2026! Join us in Edinburgh, June 10th to 12th, to discuss “Popular, Folk, Grassroots and Pop Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission.” #WorldChristianity #MissionHistory @YaleDivSchool

https://t.co/p5xvsEduef

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

We look forward to welcoming Prof Jean Kidula (University of Georgia) to deliver the #DuffLecture2026 on June 10th on the topic “‘This time, I must sing’: African Missionizing and Christian Song.” https://t.co/PTcu1B761l

#WorldChristianity #Mission #Ethnomusicology

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Ngoni Warrior, Nyasaland (now Malawi). This image is part of a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to David Livingstone. (CSWC47/LS16/48) #PhotoFriday

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

This undated and hand-tinted lantern slide of men carrying a traditional sedan chair was included in a set relating to the Scottish medical missionary Dugald Christie, who worked in China between 1882 and 1923. (CSWC47/LS8/23) #PhotoFriday

[Alexander Chow @caorongjin]

Congratulations @AnarchoZihao! Another @cswcedinburgh student has successfully passing their PhD exam. Thanks to Dr Lars Laaman (SOAS) and Luke Li for serving as examiners.

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

This young boy was photographed around 1906 by missionaries of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal. (CSWC33/OS14/12) #PhotoFriday

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Keynote #DuffLecture will be delivered by Prof Jean Kidula (University of Georgia) on “‘This time, I must sing’: African Missionizing and Christian Song”? 💒🪘

Don’t forget to register! Deadline if you need accommodations is May 11, and final deadline is May 27. #YaleEdin2026

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

✍🏼 Registration is open for #YaleEdin2026! Join us in Edinburgh, June 10th to 12th, to discuss “Popular, Folk, Grassroots and Pop Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission.” #WorldChristianity #MissionHistory @YaleDivSchool

https://t.co/p5xvsEduef

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

This Kikuyu woman was photographed in Kenya sometime between 1905 and 1940. Church of Scotland missionaries established hospitals in Kikuyu in 1908, Tumutumu in 1909, and Chogoria in 1922. (CSWC47/LS7/11) #PhotoFriday

[School of Divinity @uoedivinity]

Dr Alexander Chow (@caorongjin) recently delivered the Dr Timothy Lin Memorial Lecture at China Evangelical Seminary 🧑‍🏫

You can watch all nine lectures from his series alongside the roundtable discussion and Q&A session on YouTube now 🎥👇
https://t.co/LXMFSWdNLN

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Northeast corner of the city wall and moat surrounding Mukden, Manchuria. (CSWC47/LS8/5) #PhotoFriday

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Books by two of our own—Professors Brian Stanley and Andrew Walls—are recognised as among the ten most outstanding books in the field! Congratulations!! #WorldChristianity #missionstudies

https://t.co/etpDuqTkO5

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

This class of Igbo women was photographed on a Church of Scotland mission station in Nigeria, ca. 1930-1940. (CSWC47/LS9/27) #PhotoFriday

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Our very own Emeritus Professor Brian Stanley will be awarded a Doctorate of Divinity from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge (@CamDivinity) in July 2026. What a wonderful recognition—congratulations!! 🎉

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Inside a Buddhist Temple, China. From a collection of slides relating to Dugald Christie, who went to Manchuria with his wife in 1882 to work as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He retired in 1923 and died in 1936. (CSWC47/LS8/36) #PhotoFriday

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Black and white lantern slide showing a road from the town of Motihari in Bihar, northeast India, to the Regions Beyond Missionary Union's mission station opened in 1900. (CSWC33/OS14/2) #PhotoFriday

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Our final seminar of the term will include two visiting scholars who have been researching Scottish #MissionHistory to India and China, John Carter (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA) and Liza Qiu (Trinity Theological College, Singapore). #WorldChristianity

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Four children, identified as Janie, Alice, Maggie, and Mary, photographed with Scottish missionary Mary Slessor, circa 1880. Slessor was known for her work in present-day Nigeria, adopting abandoned children, notably twins and the children of slaves. (CSWC47/LS2/36) #PhotoFriday

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

We look forward to welcoming Dr Diego Malara (University of Glasgow) to speak on the efficacy and ubiquity of holy water in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. We are pleased to co-host this seminar with Religious Studies. #WorldChristianity #AnthropologyofChristianity

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

Chao Ersun was the Han Chinese governor-general of Manchuria. He is pictured here in a collection of slides relating to Dugald Christie, a Scottish medical missionary in China. (CSWC47/LS8/40) #photofriday

[World Christianity @CSWCEdinburgh]

The latest issue of Studies in World Christianity has dropped! These are case studies from the history of Chinese Christian theologizing and social engagement to Christian women's contributions in Hong Kong and Zambia, and African Pentecostals in Belgium. https://t.co/Z7GY0LW22G