Miscellaneous

Vanderbilt Distinguished Lecture Series: Peter Brown Panel

Vanderbilt University’s Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies hosted a panel to discuss Peter Brown’s intellectual memoir, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History. The panel consisted of four of Brown’s former students: Daniel Schwartz (Texas A&M), Ariel Lopez (Rhodes College), Elizabeth Moodey (Vanderbilt), and Jelena Bogdanovic (Vanderbilt), followed by some remarks by Brown … Read more

The Letters of Eunice Ott

Link to resource: Missionary Letters of Eunice Ott  Created by: Richard Ott This website is dedicated to the letters of Eunice Ott, a missionary who served in Africa between 1950 and 1956. These personal letters, which she wrote to her family in the United States, offer a unique window into the social, cultural, and religious … Read more

Christian Response to Disease and Pandemics

Link to resource: Christian Response to Disease and Pandemics Created by: Nathan Jérémie-Brink (New Brunswick Theological Seminary) This resource was created by Nathan Jérémie-Brink of New Brusnwick Theological Seminary and his graduate student research assistant Susan McGeown. It provides students and researchers with the opportunity to explore events, locations, and sources related to Christian responses to … Read more

Roundtable on John McGreevy’s “Catholicism: A Global History”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPUKxHs6BOg On November 17, 2023, the BU Center for Global Christianity and Mission and ASCH co-hosted a webinar on the book “Catholicism: A Global History: by John McGreevy, Provost of the University of Notre Dame. Participants included: – John McGreevy (Notre Dame ) – Jennifer Scheper Hughes (UC Riverside)- Jean Luc Enyegue S J (Jesuit … Read more

Roundtable on Mark Noll’s “America’s Book”

https://youtu.be/9Tx9FkyNmfo On April 17, 2023, ASCH hosted a roundtable discussion of Mark Noll’s new book, “America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911,” which examines the Bible in American History from the Revolutionary war to WWI. Discussion Participants: Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania) Grant Wacker (Duke University) Dennis Dickerson (Vanderbilt University) Gary … Read more

Christianity and the Orthodox Church in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe: A Conversation with Dr. Scott Kenworthy

  In this interview, Dr. Scott Kenworthy (Professor of Comparative Religions – Miami University) discusses the recent Church History Virtual Issue on “Christianity and the Orthodox Church in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe.” Dr. Kenworthy served as guest editior for the issue, selecting relevant articles from past issues of Church History and writing an introduction. … Read more

A Roundtable Discussion of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s “The Black Church”

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS documentary, The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, plus its accompanying Penguin Press book, reached an unprecedentedly large audience as it surveyed three-plus centuries of African American and American religious history across the whole of the nation. In this roundtable discussion, five distinguished scholars reflect on … Read more

British Crusade Sites

In this project, Corliss Slack documents sites in the British Isles with historical connections to the Crusades of the Middle Ages. Many of these sites are connected to objects brought home by crusaders and served as local devotional sites. Overall, this project collects examples of individual strategies for crusade remembrance in order to spark conversations about … Read more