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July 2019
Learning from Missionaries? The Example of the First Jesuits in India (1542-1803)
AAMS-Victoria Mission Studies Seminar with Professor Francis X. Clooney, SJ. Professor Clooney joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in 2005. He is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology. After earning his doctorate in South Asian languages and civilizations (University of Chicago, 1984), he taught at Boston College for 21 years before going to Harvard. His primary areas of Indological scholarship are theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India. He is also a…
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AAMS-NSW Mission Seminar
Christian-Muslim relations: crisis or opportunity? Fr Diego Sarrio Cucarella is the President of the Pontifical Institute for the Study of Arabic and Islamics, Rome. Fr Diego is a member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers). He has worked in Sudan, Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia, where he directed the Bibliothèque des Sciences des Religions, at Tunis, and was part of the Groupe de recherches islamo-chrétien (GRIC). He holds a licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the PISAI…
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AAMS-NSW Mission Seminar
Eco-farming: Down to earth missional theology Dr Matt Anslow is co-Director of the PLUNGE programme, Morling College, an eco-farmer, community organiser, musician, follower of Jesus, and Vice-President of the Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand. Matt has a PhD on Matthew's Gospel and farms a property on the edge of the Blue Mountains.
Find out more »AAMS webinar for postgraduate students with an interest in Mission Studies
Would you like to engage with students working in your specialist areas? Would you like to receive input from Mission Studies experts? AAMS announces its first webinar style Postgraduate Seminars for students and faculty with an interest in Mission Studies. Hosted by Associate Professor Darrell Jackson and Professor Darren Cronshaw, the seminars will provide you with a chance to present some of your own project work to students also working on mission-related postgrad projects. Make a note of the date:…
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