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
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 24th, will be put on online for download by conference participants. More detailed information regarding submission will be sent to presenters.
Some rooms are available at the Yale Divinity School, the Overseas Ministries Study Center, and two area bed & breakfasts within walking distance of the Divinity School. These rooms will be assigned by the conference coordinator on a first-come-first-served basis, but with preference given to presenters and long term members of the Yale-Edinburgh Group. Please submit the pre-registration and accommodations form in order to be eligible for assignment of these rooms. Information about local hotels will be provided if there are not enough rooms at YDS, OMSC, and the B&Bs.
8:30 - 10:00 Continental breakfast available in Day Missions Reading Room, Yale Divinity Library
12:00 -1:00 p.m. Lunch available
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Registration in
the Day Missions Room
1:00 - 1:45 p.m. (plenary session)
Welcome: YDS Dean Gregory Sterling
Opening paper: Lamin Sanneh
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. - SESSION 1 (parallel sessions)
A: Latourette Room
Brian Stanley, Director CSWC, Univ. of Edinburgh
"The Missionary Doctor and the Rain Doctor: Enlightenment Scotland Encounters Africa"
Frank Kofi Blibo, Student, Harvard University, Divinity School
"Rationales, Reception and Re-interpretation of Missionary Medicine in Colonial Malawi, 1875-1914: Livingstonia"
B: RSV Room
Chad Bauman, Faculty, Butler University
"Force, Fraud, and Inducement?: Recuperative Conversions and the Growth of Indian Christianity"Geomon George, Faculty, City Seminary of New York
"Healing in a new way: Negotiating faith and medicine among Indian Pentecostal medical practitioners in the U.S. "
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. - SESSION 2 (parallel sessions)
A: Latourette Room
Sung-Deuk Oak, Faculty, UCLA
"From the Plough of Evangelism to the Fruit of Christian Love: The Changing Idea of the Medical Mission in Colonial Korea in the 1920s"Hyung Jin Park, Faculty, Torch Trinity Graduate University, Seoul, Korea
"Angelic Doctors Open the Door of Korea for the Christian Gospel!"Daniel S. H. Ahn, Faculty, Singapore Bible College
"The Paradox of the Korean Pentecost in 1907: The Issue on Divine Healing in the 1907 Pyungyang Revival in the Presbyterian Context"B. RSV Room
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Faculty, Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana
"Therapeutic Strategies in African Religions: Health and Herbal Medicine in Indigenous Christian Spirituality"Cephas Omenyo, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
"Revival of the Use of Herbal Medicine in Administering Divine Healing: The Case of Ghanaian Mainline Christianity"Sandra Costen Kunz, Faculty, Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana
"Perceived Origins of Current Images of Healing in Missionary-Founded Churches in Ghana"
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Buffet dinner
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. - SESSION 3 (parallel sessions)
A. Latourette Room
Elizabeth Koepping, Faculty, CSWC, Univ. of Edinburgh
"Theology, Culture and Spousal Abuse: an Unhealthy Mission Collusion"Michèle Sigg, Student, Boston University School of Theology
"Radical Disciples and Subversive Apostles in Malagasy Christianity: Women Leaders and Holistic Ministry in the Fifohazana Revival"B. RSV Room
Daryl Ireland, Student, Boston University School of Theology
"Is Medicine Christian, Secular, or yet Something Else?"Lane Sunwall, Student, University of Wisconsin
"Culture and Medical Missions"
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
in Day Missions Room
9:00- 11:00 a.m. SESSION 4: (parallel sessions)
A. Latourette Room
Gerald Anderson, Director Emeritus, OMSC
"The Legacy of Peter Parker, M.D."Kenneth W. Rea, VP and Faculty Emeritus, Louisiana Tech University (paper co-written by Michael Rea, Faculty, Northwood High School)
"Spreading the Gospel and Healing the Sick: Dr. Charles Taylor in Shanghai (1848-1853)"Geoff Johnston, Faculty Emeritus, Montreal College
"G.L. MacKay, The Barefoot Doctor"B. RSV Room
Rhonda Semple, Faculty, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
"Experiencing Health and Well-being: Community, Identity and Mycobacterium leprae in central Himalayan Anglo-Indian communities"Marina Ngursangzeli Behera, Faculty, The Ecumenical Institute, Bossey
"The Interaction between Traditional Mizo Religious Beliefs and the Christian Gospel with Specific Reference to the Concept of Health and Healing"Jim Pankratz, Faculty, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo
"Mennonite Medical Mission in India as Gospel Witness and Cultural Critique"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 1:00 SESSION 5: (parallel sessions)
A. Latourette Room
Daewon Moon, Student , Boston University School of Theology
"Ruanda Mission and Its Contribution to the East African Revival"Sylvia Owusu-Ansah: Central University College, Accra, Ghana & J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu: Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana
" Mass Evangelistic Crusades and the Gospel: A Comparative Study of American and African Healing Evangelists"B. RSV Room
James M. Hommes, Student, University of Pittsburgh
"A Medical Field Ripe for the Harvest: 19 th Century Medical Missionaries in Bakumatsu-Meiji Japan"Rachel Erickson-Rui, Post-grad
"Medical Work in Wenzhou China: Opium Refuges Help a Young Church towards Self-Support and Self-Sufficiency"
1:00- 2:00 Buffet lunch in Day Missions
Room
2:00 - 3:30 SESSION 6 (parallel sessions)
A. Latourette Room
Darin Lenz, Faculty, Fresno Pacific University
“'St. Mark of Calcutta' and the Pragmatic Spirit in Pentecostal Medical Missions”Blatei Nongbri, Faculty, John Roberts Theological Seminary, Shillong, India
"Welsh Presbyterian Mission, Health Care and Growth of Christianity in North East India"Sam Raj Nesamony, Student, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
"London Missionary Society and South Travancore Medical Mission, Neyyoor, 1838-1947"B. RSV Room
Jeffrey Hiatt, Faculty, Asbury Theological Seminary
"Healing: An Aspect of John Wesley's Christian Mission in the 18th Century"James Taneti, Post-grad
“'Nurses for the Needy': Bible Work and Nursing in Mid-Nineteenth Century England"
3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 - 4:45 SESSION 7 : in Neibuhr Hall
Resources session, including presentations re.
International Mission Photography Archive - Jon Miller, University of Southern California
Missionary collections at Hope College - Geoffrey Reynolds, Hope College
SIM International Archives - Tim Geysbeek
CMS hospital in Hangzhou - Shen Hong, Zhejiang University
Western Medicine in China project - Martha Smalley, Yale Divinity Library
5:00-6:00 p.m. DAY ASSOCIATES LECTURE: Niebuhr Hall
Delivered by J. Nelson Jennings, Executive Director Designate, Overseas Ministries Study Center
6:00-7:30 p.m. Dinner reception in Common Room
7:30 - 8:30 Concert in Marquand Chapel
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. SESSION 8 (parallel sessions)
A. Latourette Room
Todd Hartch, Faculty, Eastern Kentucky University
"Western Medicine and the Corruption of Christianity: Ivan Illich and the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico"Eliane Moura da Silva, Faculty, State University of Campinas, Brazil
"Physicians, Nurses and Protestant Missions in Brazil (1870-1920)"B. RSV Room
Tim Geysbeek, SIM International , University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"Evangelism, Divine Healing, Self-Support, and Equality: Walter Gowans' theology of missions (1893-1894)"Paul Grant, Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Dying German in Ghana, 1835-1918"
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00-12:30 SESSION 9 (parallel sessions)
A. Latourette Room
Andrew Barnes, Faculty, Arizona State University
"Health, Healing and Medicine: The Phelps Stokes Reports and Some Reactions by the International Missionary Council"William McCoy, Faculty, Eastern Nazarene College
"Leprosy, Piety, and Identity: The Mbuluzi Leprosy Hospital as Informal Pilgrimage Site, 1948-1982"B. RSV Room
Andrew Robson, Faculty Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
"Attitudes towards Sickness and Healing in Early Mission Encounters in Polynesia"Deanna Womack, Student, Princeton Theological Seminary
"The Art of Healing in the Service of the Gospel: Missions & Medicine in Ottoman Syria"
12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Lunch at Overseas
Ministries Study Center
1:45 - 2:30 p.m. Concluding remarks
and plans for next meeting.
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Recommendations re. transportation to New Haven:
BY AIR
TWEED-NEW HAVEN AIRPORT
A small but convenient airport, Tweed-New Haven is a 10 minute taxi ride to campus. US Airways services Tweed-New Haven, with connections through Philadelphia. See http://www.flytweed.com/. Estimated taxi fare from the airport is $15.00. Contact Metro Taxi, (203) 777-7777.HARTFORD: BRADLEY AIRPORT (BDL)
Bradley Airport is located north of Hartford, about 1 hour from New Haven, 1 1/2 hours during rush hour; serviced by all major airline carriers. The Go Airport Shuttle (http://www.2theairport.com/) and Connecticut Limo: http://www.ctlimo.com provide transportation to New Haven. 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:
***The most convenient connection is to take the Amtrak train directly from the Newark International Airport to New Haven. (http://www.amtrak.com). Then take a taxi from the New Haven train station to the Divinity School.
Van services:
- Go Airport Shuttle Service: http://www.2theairport.com from Kennedy, LaGuardia,or Newark (approx. $68 one way - drop off at Divinity School.) This service tends to be faster than Connecticut Limousine.
- Connecticut Limousine: http://www.ctlimo.com, from Kennedy, LaGuardia, or Newark ($68 one way); 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 $12.00; contact Metro Taxi (203) 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-airport.
BY TRAIN
Amtrak, http://www.amtrak.com, offers expedient service between Boston and DC. Metro North commuter trains (http://www.mta.info/mnr/ ) also offer frequent service to New Haven's Union Station from New York City. 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.
Questions? - Contact Martha Smalley.