Academic Exchanges

Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo (Methodist University of Sao Paulo)

• Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Website: www.metodista.br/
• Courses taught in: Portuguese
• Curriculum Specialties: Religious Education/Pedagogy (Freire). Economics/Community Development/Urban Ministries. Liturgy/Music. Wesleyan/Methodist studies. The Church and Culture.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. L. Wesley deSouza and Dr. Jonathan Strom

University of Helsinki

• Location: Helsinki, Finland
• Website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en
• Courses taught in: English
• Curriculum Specialties: Bible. Theology/Ethics. Philosophy of Religion. Psychology. The Religious Roots of Europe: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. The Catherine Institute: Christian studies of Eastern Europe, Russia, Orthodoxy, and Byzantine history and culture.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom

Georg-August Universität

• Location: Göttingen, Germany
• Website: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/19855.html
• Courses taught in: German
• Curriculum Specialties: Theology/Ethics. Bible. History. Intercultural Theology, Ecumenical and Interfaith Studies (with an emphasis on Judaism). Practical Theology: Church Welfare and Social Work, Pastoral Care, Religious Education, Liturgy and Homiletics.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom, Dr. Steffen Lösel, and Dr. Joy Ann McDougall

Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität (LMU)

• Location: Munich, Germany
• Website: www.en.evtheol.uni-muenchen.de/faculty/index.html
• Courses taught in: German
• Curriculum Specialties: Bible. Theology/Ethics. Church History. Ecumenics. Missiology. Practical Theology. Cultural studies. Hinduism. Buddhism. Religious Education. Opportunity for housing in ecumenical, international Collegium Oecumenicum.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom, Dr. Steffen Lösel, and Dr. Joy Ann McDougall

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Department of Religious Studies

• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Courses taught in: English
• Curriculum Specialties: Bible. Religion and Science. Religion, Medicine, and Health. Islam. Christianity in West Africa. Ethics. African Traditional Religions. Christianity and Culture.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Emmanuel Y. Lartey

St. Paul’s University, Faculty of Theology

• Location: Limuru, Kenya
• Website: http://www.spu.ac.ke/
• Courses taught in: English
• Curriculum Specialties: Islam/Christian-Muslim Relations. Development (Masters in Development Studies: Children and Development, Organizational Development, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Community Development, Theology and Development). Faith and Health (HIV/AIDS). Gender Studies. Pastoral Care.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom; Mimi Kiser and Dr. John Blevins– Rollins School of Public Health

Methodist Theological University (MTU)

• Location: Seoul, Korea
• Website: http://www.mtu.ac.kr/mtu_eng/c3/sub4.jsp
• Courses taught in: English, Korean
• Curriculum Specialties: Bible. Theology/Ethics. Church History. Ecumenics. Missiology. Practical Theology. Cultural studies. Religious Education.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom

University of St. Andrew, St Mary’s College, School of Divinity (Robert T. Jones, Jr. Fellowship)

• Location: Scotland
• Website: www.st-andrews.ac.uk
• Courses taught in: English
• Curriculum Specialties: Center for the Study of Religion and Politics (with an emphasis on Latin America). School of International Studies (Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence). Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. Institute for Bible, Theology, and Hermeneutics (MLitt in Theological Interpretation of Scripture) The More OT Pseudepigrapha Project.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom and Dr. Ian McFarland

Trinity Theological College

• Location: Bukit Timah, Singapore
• Website: http://www.ttc.edu.sg
• Courses taught in: English
• Curriculum Specialties: Center for the Study of Christianity in Asia. Emphasis on student spiritual formation (rooftop prayer garden). Liturgy/Worship. Sacred Music. Asian Christianity. Christian Education.
• Faculty Contacts(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom

University of KwaZulu Natal

• Location: Durban and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
• Courses taught in: English
• Curriculum Specialties: Center for Oral History and Memory Work/Resilience Studies supporting HIV/AIDS orphans. Center for Constructive Theology. Ujamaa Center for Biblical and Theological Community Development and Research. Gender Studies. Religion and Theology in the African Context. Hindu and Islamic Studies. Religion and Social Transformation. Catholic Theology and Christian Spirituality.
• Faculty Contacts(s): Dr. Elizabeth M. Bounds and Dr. Jonathan Strom

University College Stockholm

• Location: Bromma/Stockholm, Sweden
• Website: www.ths.se/site/index.php/in-english.html
• Courses taught in: English – spring semester
• Curriculum Specialties: Human Rights. Peacebuilding. Scholarships for Candler students participating in spring travel seminar to Israel and Palestine.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Ellen Ott Marshall

• Location: Cambridge, UK
• Website: http://www.wesley.cam.ac.uk/
• Courses taught in: English
• Curriculum Specialties: Church History. Biblical Studies. Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. Ancient, Medieval and Modern Judaism. Patristics. Christian Systematic Theology. Religions and the Natural Sciences. Religion and the Social Sciences. Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Sanskrit studies. Islam and Indian Religions. The Study of World Christianities. This requires a full-year of study in Cambridge.
• Faculty Contact: Dr. Ian McFarland and Dr. Jonathan Strom

Africa University

• Location: Mutare, Zimbabwe
• Website: http://www.africau.edu/
• Courses taught in: English
• Curriculum Specialties: Wesleyan/Methodist Studies. Health (HIV/AIDS). Conflict Transformation. The Religions of Africa and African Context for Christian Studies. Agriculture/Land Use. M.A.R. - Leadership for NGOs. Teaching Religion and Theology in Secondary Schools. Gender Studies.
• Faculty Contact(s): Dean Jan Love and Dr. Jonathan Strom