The Field: A Korean Mission in Panama

July 8, 2012 Author: rmadmin Posted in The Field No Comments

by Haemin Lee (Ph.D. Candidate, Emory University) Global mission is definitely something special for many Korean Christians. There are currently about 20,000 overseas Korean missionaries working in 170 different countries. They engage in a wide spectrum of mission work that ranges from church planting to aid and development operation. Recently, my field research related to Christian mission took me to…

In the Shadow of Empire: Exploring Ethnic Violence and the Disciplines on the Bosporus

June 28, 2012 Author: rmadmin Posted in Reviews & Events, The Field No Comments

By Joe Wiinikka-Lydon (Ph.D. Student, Emory University) In May I attended an international interdisciplinary symposium focused on ethnic conflict, sponsored by Sabanci University. Sabanci is a new university in Turkey, and though located outside Istanbul, the attendees were hosted in a small center owned by Sabanci in the Karakoy section of the city. The symposium’s location was well chosen on…

Turn and Turn Again: The Study of Religious Practices

June 7, 2012 Author: rmadmin Posted in The Field No Comments

Elizabeth M. Bounds Several recent academic works suggest that there is currently a “turn” to practices in religious and theological scholarship. “Turns” are usually (re)turns, correcting for the excesses of earlier turns. (Re) focusing on religious practice is really more common sense than a new approach. Religion involves practices, beliefs, ideas, objects—everything connected with human living has been turned to…