Consigned to jobs in sanitation and other hazardous fields, Christians, the largest religious minority group in Pakistan, face a difficult time in the country.
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Today’s short-term missionaries continue a long legacy, but in a very different way.
Missionaries and African translators working on local versions of the Bible divided South Africa’s ethnic groups by language.
Singing at King Charles III’s coronation tells a story of global histories coming full circle.
Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
White saviourism is simultaneously a state of mind and a concrete unequal power structure between the Global North and the Global South.
Millions of enslaved Africans were forcefully converted to the Christian faith. The Black church came about when African Americans began to establish their own congregations.
Pope Francis’ visit concerns all Canadians. It’s about our relationship to history and the construction of a state that marginalized Indigenous people and tried to assimilate them.
Magema Fuze’s book was a radical act of publishing. It contained histories of chiefdoms and kingdoms - from the Zulu to the Ngcobo.
The Irish government recently declared a national holiday for St. Brigid. A medieval historian explains her fascinating life and history.
I thought I had uncovered a feminist heroine, but for all her intrepid and gutsy behaviour, Lock held intensely socially conservative views in line with her religious conviction.
As missionaries expanded into Africa, they held a special grudge against polygamy. Here’s how that affected education.
The SBC is meeting amid divisions, controversy and dwindling numbers. But in pushing rhetoric over its theological mission, the denomination is tapping into a history of white supremacy.
Over the past 15 years there’s been a revival of young people - mostly Christians - participating in traditional masquerades, despite these being branded as pagan.
African evangelism is born from – and often funded by – American evangelism, and with it comes a damaging cocktail of rightwing ideologies, especially during the Donald Trump years.
The 2020 census will now count some groups differently than it has in the past. That could make a difference in the final count – affecting which states receive funding and congressional seats.
A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
Bishop Purity Malinga is the first woman to be appointed Presiding Bishop in the Methodist Church of Southern African in over 200 years.
Not everyone’s a fan of this fundraising approach. But it does bring the needs of children in developing communities to the attention of many Americans.
Pope Francis recently completed a tour of three African nations. His visit needs to be understood in the context of the church’s long history in Africa and its modern-day difficulties.
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Professor of History & Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Associate Rrofessor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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PhD student, Department of History, Concordia University
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PhD Student School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, New York University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies & Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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Professor of History, Saint Mary's College
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Lecturer, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Religion, Affiliated Associate Professor of Anthropology, Florida State University
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University of San Diego
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Director of Carolina Demography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Leeds
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Professeure adjointe, International Development and Global Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
