Yale-Edinburgh Group
on the History of the Missionary Movement
and Non-Western Christianity

Consultations sponsored by the Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh, Yale Divinity School, and the Overseas Ministries Study Center

Information re. July 2-4 meeting at Yale Divinity School
2009 theme: Missions, Law, and Custom


General information

Papers

The deadline for papers has passed. Our pattern has been to have each oral presentation limited to 20 minutes, followed by discussion. Full papers are welcomed and, if submitted to Martha Smalley by June 25th, will be put on the CD-ROM distributed to all participants. More detailed information regarding submission will be sent to presenters.

Accommodations information

The deadline for pre-registration and accommodations has passed.

Schedule

Thursday, July 2

8:30 - 10:00 Continental breakfast available in Day Missions Reading Room

12:00 -1:00 p.m. Lunch available - Kenneth Scott Latourette Room

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Registration in the Day Missions Reading Room

1:00 - 1:45 p.m. Opening session: (plenary) in Day Missions Reading Room
Welcome
Opening paper by Prof. Lamin Sanneh

1:45 - 3:15 p.m : SESSION 1 (parallel)

RSV Room:
Chair: Jon Miller

Edward Blyden on "African Life and Customs" - Moses Moore, Arizona State University

An African American Looks at African Customs: Alexander Camphor's Missionary Story-Sketches and Folk-Lore from Africa - Paul W. Harris, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Day Room:
Chair: Jon Bonk

In the Absence of Missionaries: Puerto Rico's Hermanos Cheos -Edward Cleary, Providence College

Ivan Illich & Leo Mahon: Conflicting Responses to Latin American Folk Catholicism and Western Civilization - Todd Hartch, Eastern Kentucky University

3:15 - 3:45 Break

3:45 - 5:15 p.m. : SESSION 2 (parallel)

RSV Room:
Chair: Kathleen Lodwick

The Early LMS China Mission (1807-1834) and Qing Law - Jonathan Seitz, Taiwan Theological Seminary

Between Two Worlds: J. Hudson Taylor and the Clash between British and Chinese Customs, Cultures, and Laws. - G. Wright Doyle, Global China Center

Day Room:
Chair: Gerald Anderson

"'Baptism Does Not Alter the Condition of the Person as to his Bondage or Freedom': Efforts to Overcome Planter Resistance to Protestant Missions in the English Atlantic, c1645-1730." - David Wills, Amherst College

Heathen Stubbornness: Responses to Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Efforts on Grenada, British West Indies (1780s-1830s) - Paula Aymer, Tufts University

5:20 - 6:00 p.m. : SESSION 3 (parallel)

RSV Room:
Chair: David Dawson

The Polygamy Controversy in Korea; A Comparative Study of the Divergent Responses to Polygamy of the Scottish and North American Presbyterian missions in late nineteenth century Korea mission field - Daniel Sung-Ho Ahn , PhD candidate, CSCNWW University of Edinburgh

Day Room:
 Chair: Dwight Baker

Beit Abhe monastery and Patriarch Timothy: A sending center for missionary monks in the context of early 9th century Christian-Muslim relations - Steve Cochrane, Ph.D candidate, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies

Library Seminar Rm. 104:
 Chair: Edward Cleary

The Unheard Voice of Law from an Often Heard Text: A New Rendition of Bartolomé de Las Casas's Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias - David Orique, Ph.D candidate, University of Oregon

6:00 - 7:15 p.m. Buffet dinner in Latourette Room.

7:15-9:15 p.m. : Film viewing in RSV Room :
"African Christianity Rising--Part One: Stories from Ghana" plus "extras" slated for the DVD and potential online delivery of film and discussion with filmmaker James Ault re. how such materials might be suitably harnessed for the educational enterprise.

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Friday, July 3

8:00 - 8:45 a.m. Continental breakfast provided - Latourette

8:45- 9:20 a.m. SESSION 4: (parallel)

RSV Room:
 Chair: Lamin Sanneh

British Orientalism, Nationalism and the Transnational Reform of Islamic Law After World War II - Todd M. Thompson, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge

Day Room:
Chair: Robert Frykenberg

Reconfiguring Home: Bible Women, Protestant Missionaries and Indian Christian Marriage - James Taneti, PhD candidate, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond

9:30 - 10:50 SESSION 5: (parallel)

RSV Room:
Chair: Paul Stuehrenberg

Social Activism, Cultural Accommodation and Repentance: Paradoxes of Christian Evangelism in Early Twentieth-century China - Gloria S. Tseng, Hope College

Undercover Mission: South Koreans and Americans Working Around the Law in Modern China - Amy Mormino, Saint Petersburg Theological Seminary

Day Room:
 Chair: Brian Stanley

From Savage to Child: The Missionaries Shifting Critique of the African, c. 1900 - Richard Elphick, Wesleyan University

Reasons for Staying Home: Anglo-American Resistance to Missionary Transnationalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Andrew Witmer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia

10:50 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:45 : SESSION 6: (parallel)

RSV Room:
 Chair: Richard Pierard

Contested Dharma: Christians, Caste, and Custom - Robert Frykenberg, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Law, Custom and Missionary Praxis in India's Deccan, 1810-1870 - Chandra Mallampalli, Westmont College

Day Room:
Chair: Angelyn Dries

European Customs and African Practices: Christian Missions and the Survey of African Marriage and Family Life - Andrew Barnes, Arizona State University

Mary Slessor and the Scottish Presbyterian Mission in Calabar: Customs and Law - Jeanette Hardage

12:45-1:45 Buffet lunch - Latourette

1:45 -3:00 : SESSION 7: (parallel)

RSV Room:
 Chair: Paul Stuehrenberg

Self-Regulation and Legal Interaction in the Early Tahitian Mission - Emily Manktelow, PhD candidate, King's College London

Missionary postcards from the Pacific - Paul Stuehrenberg, Yale Divinity School Library

Day Room:
 Chair: Jon Miller

Creating Customary Law in Kom, Cameroon (1920-1940): Founding Fathers - Jacqueline de Vries, Ph.D candidate, University of Groningen

Tanzanian Converts, Church Law and Sacramental Imagination, 1950-1970 - Angelyn Dries, Saint Louis University

3:15 - 4:30: SESSION 8

RSV Room:
 Chair: Dwight Baker

The Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen: The Native Oak Hill School and Church 1876-1886 - Darnell Morehand-Olufade, Arizona State University

United States Missions and the Laws of Race in the 20th Century - Mary K. Cavazos, Middlebury College

Day Room:
 Chair: Stanley Skreslet

Thwarting Custom, Critiquing Law: Some Scottish Presbyterian Medical Missionary Perspectives in the African setting - Martin Lunde

Until Proven Guilty: Presbyterians and Traditional Law and Custom - Geoff Johnston, Presbyterian College

4:30 - 5:00 p.m. Break

5:00-6:00 p.m. DAY ASSOCIATES LECTURE in Niebuhr Hall

"From the "poor heathen" to "the glory and honour of all nations": vocabularies of race and custom in Protestant missions, 1844-1928"
- Brian Stanley, Director , Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh

6:00-7:15 p.m. Dinner reception in Common Room

7:15 - 8:15 : Concert by the Elm City Chamberfest in Marquand Chapel

8:30 - 10:00: Film viewing in RSV Room
"African Christianity Rising--Part Two: Stories from Zimbabwe"--screening and continuing discussion with filmmaker James Ault about the films and about online delivery of moving picture in cross-cultural study and communication.

Saturday, July 4

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast provided - Latourette

9:00 - 9:45 a.m. : SESSION 9: (parallel)

RSV Room
 Chair: Richard Pierard

"A clean heart like clean clothes": Cleanliness Customs and Conversion in Egypt -Samir Boulos, PhD candidate, Oriental Institute of the University of Zurich

Library Seminar Rm. 104
 Chair: Sandra Costen Kunz

The Impact of the United States Law of Self-Determination on Creek Congregations in the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference - Judy Aaron, Graduate, Phillips Theological Seminary

9:45-10:30 a.m. : SESSION 10: (parallel)

RSV Room:
 Chair: Jon Bonk

Cross Samurai: the Japanese Congregational mission in Korea and the remaking of the relations between mission and empire, 1910-1921 - Xu Lu, Ph.D candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Day Room:
Chair: Geoff Johnston

Who Protects Us-God or Our Countries Treaties?: The China Missionaries' Dilemma Regarding Extraterritoriality - Kathleen Lodwick, Pennsylvania State University

Library Seminar Rm. 104:
Chair: Gerald Anderson

Missions, Law and Custom: Revisiting the Work of the American Baptist Missionaries among the Chin Peoples Go Van Mung, Myanmar Institute of Theology

10:30-11:00 a.m. Break

11:00-12:00 : SESSION 11: (plenary): RSV Room: Resources / Project Announcements

12:15 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch provided by Overseas Ministries Study Center - at OMSC, 490 Prospect Street

1:30 - 2:30 p.m. SESSION 12: (plenary) - at OMSC: Concluding remarks and plans for next meeting.



Recommendations re. transportation to New Haven:

BY AIR
TWEED-NEW HAVEN AIRPORT
A small airport, Tweed-New Haven is a 10 minute taxi ride to campus. US Airways services Tweed-New Haven, with connections through Philadelphia. See the flight schedule at: http://www.flytweed.com/flights.html. Estimated taxi fare from the airport is $15-20. Contact Metro Taxi, (203) 777-7777.

HARTFORD: BRADLEY AIRPORT (BDL)
Bradley Airport is located north of Hartford, about 1 hour from New Haven; serviced by all major airline carriers.
From Bradley to New Haven:
Go Airport Shuttle: http://www.2theairport.com - will drop off/pick up at Yale Divinity School, approx. $120 round trip.
Connecticut Limo: http://www.ctlimo.com , approx. $84 round trip; drops you off at New Haven's Long Wharf Terminal, which is a five-minute cab ride to hotels and campus; contact Metro Taxi (203) 777-7777.
Rental cars also available from Bradley Airport.

NEW YORK AREA AIRPORTS - KENNEDY (JFK), LAGUARDIA (LGA) & NEWARK (EWR)
Approximately 2 to 3 hours from campus.
From New York area airports to New Haven:
Go Airport Shuttle Service (formerly Prime Time): http://www.2theairport.com from Kennedy. This service tends to be faster than Connecticut Limousine and they will drop off/pick up at the Yale Divinity School.
Connecticut Limousine: http://www.ctlimo.com, from Kennedy and LaGuardia and Newark, approx. $130 round trip from JFK; Once you arrive at the New Haven depot (Long Wharf Terminal), it is a five-minute cab ride to hotels and campus. Taxis are available to the campus for an estimated fare of $10.00; contact Metro Taxi 777-7777.
Another option from Kennedy and LaGuardia is to take the New York Airport Service Express Bus to Grand Central Station in Manhattan (~$15 one way), and then take the Metro-North commuter train to New Haven's Union Station. Trains leave hourly.

BOSTON - Logan Airport
Travelers from Europe might want to compare fares to Boston instead of NY. Boston is farther from New Haven but it is possible to take the subway from Logan Airport to the train station and a train to New Haven. See: http://www.massport.com/logan/getti_typeo_south.html.

 

BY TRAIN
The Acela Express, available through Amtrak (800) 872-7245, http://www.amtrak.com, offers expedient service between Boston and DC. Regular Amtrak trains and Metro North commuter trains (http://www.mta.info/mnr/ ) also offer frequent service to New Haven's Union Station. Average travel times by regular rail to New Haven are as follows: from Boston 3 hours, from New York 2 hours, from Philadelphia 4 hours. Taxis meet all trains and cost approximately $10.00 to get to campus. It is not recommended that you walk to downtown New Haven from the train station (bad area.)

BY CAR

Questions? - Contact Martha Smalley.