CSWC PhD thesis and dissertation collection
The Centre for the Study of World Christianity (formerly, the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World) exists to advance high-quality scholarship in Christianity as a polycentric faith whose adherents are now far more numerous in the majority world than in Europe or North America. We seek to make a distinctive contribution to scholarly knowledge in all areas of the study of world Christianity through interdisciplinary research, teaching and publication.
Recent Submissions
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Gifts from the world: bringing Dumitru Staniloae in conversation with some prominent themes in majority world theologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-15)This thesis engages the theological topic of the “gift” and “gift-giving” that has become popular within Euro-American theological discourse. While the academic discourse is traced back to an anthropological work that ... -
'Everyone has a story': Jordanian churches reimagine Middle Eastern Christianity in response to refugees
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)Syrian and Iraqi refugees displaced by regional conflicts have become a large presence in Jordan since 2011. The scale of the refugee phenomenon has affected both Christian-Muslim and intra-Christian dynamics in the country. ... -
Brazilian evangélicos in diaspora in South Florida: identity, ecclesiology and mission
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-15)Although there has been a rise in interest in the study of migrant churches in current World Christianity Scholarship, one of the gaps in scholarship today is Lusophone Christianity in the US. This is in part due to the ... -
Between ruins and remnants: religious reinvention and renewal among Christians in West Bank Palestine
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-07)This thesis offers an ethnography of local Christianity and its relation to the changing social, cultural, and political context of contemporary West Bank Palestine. This study argues that the changes over the course of ... -
Role of Christian faith for women living with disabilities and HIV in South-South Nigeria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-25)This study seeks to understand how women living with disabilities and HIV cope with the challenges in the society and in the church, and the extent to which Christian faith helps them to face their difficulties. In many ... -
Impact of religion on interreligious peace: evidence from zones of peace in Abuja, Nigeria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-01)This thesis argues that religion impacts peace between members of different religious groups, but it is at times not in the manner that some religious leaders and some of those who favourably comment on religious ... -
Conservative in theology, liberal in spirit: modernism and the American Presbyterian Mission in Thailand, 1891-1941
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The thesis examines to what extent, and in what ways, modernism impacted the American Presbyterian Mission (APM) in Thailand between 1891 and 1941. At the end of the nineteenth century, an American Protestant missionary ... -
Church of Scotland periodicals and the shaping of Scottish opinion regarding South African apartheid and the Central African Federation, c. 1912–c. 1965
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Using textual and visual material from Scottish Christian periodicals, this thesis examines the role of Christian humanitarianism in influencing Scottish public opinion relative to empire and race between c. 1912 and ... -
Public theology in post-1997 Hong Kong: the perspectives of Anglican theologians, scholars in Sino-Christian theology, and evangelical theologians, and a critical engagement with Stanley Hauerwas's theology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis offers the first major study of the developments of Protestant public theology in Hong Kong. The thesis evaluates some of the major expressions of public theology that have arisen since 1997, referring to the ... -
Contribution of North Sami everyday Christianity to a cosmologically-oriented Christian theology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The thesis explores the question of the contribution of North Sami everyday Christianity to cosmologically-oriented Christian theology. The basic assumption underpinning the study is that a ‘cosmological orientation’ – ... -
Evolution of evangelical socio-political approaches in contemporary China (1980s-2010s)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)This thesis explores the evolution of Evangelical socio-political approaches in contemporary China, arguing that Evangelicals in both the Three-Self church and the house churches have moved towards an increasing sense ... -
SIM – strengthened through diversity? An examination of the origins and effects of cultural diversity within a multi-national Christian mission agency 1975-2015
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Through a historical analysis of the mission theology and practice of SIM, an evangelical mission organisation that was originally dominated by North Americans but is now increasingly multi-national, this thesis seeks ... -
Toward a Chinese American evangelical theology: the promise of neo-Calvinism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-27)Recent evangelical scholarship increasingly calls for ethnic theological perspectives in the American context; for just as the center of World Christianity has shifted from the West to the Majority World, the ethnic and ...
