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Summer School "Exploring Christianity in Asia I" (Mashhad and Münster 2020)
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 the Summer School had to be redesigned as a digital seminar from 12. October - 24. December 2020
The Study Programme "Exploring Christianity in Asia" brought together Iranian, Asian, and German Masterstudents, post-fieldwork M.A. and Ph.D. students with early-career researchers from different disciplines in a shared platform to discuss their ideas and research vis-à-vis the state of the art. Presentations and Webinars were provided by German professors or post-docs placed at the universities of Münster, Bochum and Bonn, and by some authors of the recent Oxford Handbook on Christianity in Asia (2014). It convened around 25 scholars as well as up to 50 advanced students from different diciplines engaged in that new field of study. The Study Programme fostered interdisciplinary research collaborations as well as increased interreligious awareness for this field's growing relevance to Theology and Religious Studies as well as the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The study programme [en] explored these five thematic areas:
- Mapping of Asian Christianity
- Cross-Cultural Flows and Pan-Asian Movements
- Asian Christianity and the Social-Cultural Process
- Interaction with Asian Religious Traditions
- Asian Migrant Churches in the Middle East and Europe
Thereby the study programme, on the one hand, built on the recent Oxford Handbook on Christianity in Asia and benefited from videos of its contributors. On the other hand, German professors and junior researchers on Christianity in Asia gave presentations.
The Summer School was sponsored by DAAD.
