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Spring Workshop – Archives and Nobility: History and Arts in the Archives of the Great Noble Roman Families
Period: May 22 -26, 2023 Deadline for Application: March 31, 2023 DescriptionThe Sangalli Institute for the religious history and cultures of Florence is pleased to announce its first international workshop on the archives of the noble Roman families, which will be held in Rome from 22nd to 26th, May 2023. This workshop is addressed to…
Read MoreLecturer in American Religious History – University of Heidelberg
Application Deadline: April 15 Heidelberg University‘s Faculty of Theology and Heidelberg Center for American Studies seeks a lecturer for a joint appointment in American religious history. The three-year contract, with an option for renewal, begins October 1, 2023. The pay is in the range of an assistant professor in the United States, with an excellent benefits package. The lecturer…
Read MoreVisiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies – Claremont McKenna College
Application review begins March 14. The Department of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) invites applications for a one year Visiting Assistant Professorship in the History of Christianity, specializing in Renaissance/Reformation, Early Modern Europe and/or Global Christianity. The position will begin on July 1, 2023. The successful candidate is expected to hold a Ph.D.…
Read MoreEpiscopal Historical Society Seeks Grant Requests
Applications due May 1, 2023 The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites applications for grants to be awarded July 2023. Grants are awarded for pursuing the Historical Society’s objectives, especially promotion of the preservation of the particular heritage of the Episcopal Church and its antecedents. This includes any part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.…
Read MoreWestminster Confessions at 375: Historical Reflections and Contemporary Relevance (10/20/22)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 20223-5 pm (Boston) // 8-10 pm (London) Created upon the request of the English Parliament by “learned, godly, and judicious Divines” convened at Westminster Abbey, the Westminster Confession of Faith has had a remarkable influence within Protestantism over the 375 years since its adoption. In commemoration of this important anniversary, the Congregational…
Read MoreCall for Contributions – “Religions,” Special Issue on World Christianity
The journal, Religions, is seeking article submissions for a special issue on the topic of “World Christianity in History and in Culture.” Submission Deadline: September 30, 2022 Description Woven together like finely crafted fabric, world Christianity, history, and culture are always tightly interlaced. Historians realize that all Christians exist in a dynamic web of cultural and…
Read MoreInterview with Dr. Christopher Bonura – 2020 Mead Prize Recipient
In this interview, we sat down with Dr. Christopher Bonura (PhD, UC Berkley) to discuss his recent Church History article, “Eusebius of Caesarea, the Roman Empire, and the Fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy: Reassessing Byzantine Imperial Eschatology in the Age of Constantine.” For this paper, Dr. Bonura received ASCH’s 2020 Mead Prize, which is granted to…
Read MoreCall for Contributors: “Christians in the City” Book Series
Dyron Daughrity of Pepperdine University has announced a new 25-book series with Bloomsbury Academic titled Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity. This series is intended to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on world Christianity, lived religion, material religion, urban studies, and globalization as it engages people on the ground in…
Read MoreVirtual Issue (2020): “Looking Forward, Looking Back: Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean
In this inaugural virtual issue, Christina Davidson’s article “Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a Nation,” winner of the American Society of Church History’s annual Sidney E. Mead Prize and published in our March 2020 issue, offers an opportunity to revisit the journal’s scholarship on the Caribbean and Latin America.…
Read MoreInterview With Mead Prize Winner Christina Davidson
2019’s Sidney E. Mead prize for best unpublished article from dissertation research of advanced graduate student or recent PhD went to Christina Davidson. Now a postdoc at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, her “Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a Nation” is included in our latest…
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