TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church 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
Searchable database of women who entered the English convents on continental Europe from the foundation of the first new house in Brussels in 1598 until 1800.
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
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
Visualizing Countryside: Syriac Orthodox Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia is a digital archive of photographs of medieval churches and monasteries in the Tur Abdin region in northern Mesopotamia (modern day south-east Turkey). It includes images of buildings, decorations, architectural details, and landscapes. Although most of the buildings photographed were built in the medieval era (roughly from … Read more
The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) is a new digital tool for the study of Chinese Christianity from 1550 to 1950. The CHCD is hosted by the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. The CHCD quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China (1550-1950). It provides users the tools to … Read more
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
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
This roundtable discussion of Jon Butler’s God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan took place on January 13, 2021. The book forum was part of a series of virtual History Book Club gatherings co-hosted by the University of Minnesota History Department and the American Society of Church History. Check out the recorded … Read more
Visual presentation of photos showing the complex interaction or encounters between Basel Missionaries – usually Swiss or German – and West Africans, Indians, and Chinese between 1850 and 1950.