World Christianity through Middle Eastern Eyes and Experiences

Sponsored by Candler’s World Christianity program, this event will feature Mitri Raheb, founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University, Bethlehem. Raheb’s presentation will cover World Christianity from Middle Eastern perspectives and experiences, building on decolonial theory and his extensive work as Palestinian liberation theologian identifying several critical issues that are underrepresented in World Christianity scholarship today. Among other things, he plans to explore the treatment of geography as neutral rather than as contested theological space as well as the reproduction of Western Islamophobic narratives that distort fourteen centuries of Christian-Muslim coexistence in West Asia.

Raheb’s presentation will be followed by short presentations by Reyhan Durmaz, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Deanna F. Womack, associate professor of history of religions and interfaith studies at Candler.

For more information, contact World Christianity program director Jehu Hanciles at jjhanciles@emory.edu.

Boxed lunches will be provided for the first 50 registrants. Register below.