The following are current dissertation research projects of students receiving support from the CGCM in 2009:
Gift Makwasha:
has completed the research and has just defended his dissertation.
Ada Focer:
Research title:"Frontiers in Relation: Being Christian in the Post-Colonial World." She is collecting the life histories of people who, as recent college graduates, participated in Frontier Internship in Mission (FIM), a two year program sponsored by American Mainline Protestant churches between 1961 and 1974. It was then moved to Geneva and internationalized. These histories have stand-alone historical values since these people were active participants in the important changes happening at the time. In addition, patterns and connections within and across the individual life stories may become apparent when analyzed and, when put into conversation with social theory and other scholarship, might offer insight into the relation of religious and social activism during this era and afterwards.
Kenaleone Ketshabile:
Research's title: "An Inquiry into the Inculturation of Christianity among Barolong of Mafikeng." An analysis of burial rites of Barolong members of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa is used for the inquiry. The primary focus of the research is on the relationshio between the Christian message and practices of African Mission Churches and the cultures of their African members. The research location is Mafikeng and adjacent villages. Mafikeng is in the North West Province of South Africa.
John Kaoma:
Research's title: "When the Spirit becomes visible: Relating African and Western Christian Ecological Thought." In African traditional thought, everything is interconnected, hence the occuring ecological crisis has impacted on every aspect of African life. Because the spirit in African cosmology manifests or becomes visible in natural phenomena, creation has sacred worth. In line with Western ecological ethics of interconnectedness, an argument is made that African concept of interconnectedness is imperative to Christian ecological ethics.
Pat McLeod:
Research's title: "Evangelism in an American University Context." The study involves the convergence of three primary sources of data including qualitative research from two contemporay Campus Crusade for Christ ministries, the recent scholarship on evangelism from two theologians (William Abraham and Bryan Stone) and a substantial historical review of campus ministry in the United States.
Yeonseung Lee:
Research's title: "The Nexus of Nationalism and Internationalism, the YMCA and Yun Chi-ho in Colonial Korea." The study addresses the contributions of the YMCA for nation building in light of its connectional role. The study develops on the analysis of its pivotal figure, Yun CHi-ho. This study attempts to reclaim national as well as ecclesial history of Korea, while it rehabilitates Yun Chi-ho, whose work spanned the entire colonial period and was intertwined with both national and missions histories.
Septemmy E. Lakawa:
Research's title: "Risky Hospitality: Mission in the aftermath of Religious Violence in Indonesia." Based on a field research on the current Christian-Muslim communal violence in Indonesia from 1995 to 2005 the study constructs a contextual model of mission that is relevant to the changing Christian-Muslim relations in the aftermath of the violence. By synthezing the Christian tradition of hospitality and the Indonesian local practices of hospitality, the study attempts to develop a contextual model of mission as hospitality in the aftermath of religious violence. Building on the Indonesian local Christian women's experiences of Christian-Muslim communal violence and its aftermath, this study responds both to the the particularity of mission from within the context of religious plurality in Indonesia and to the broader or general threefold missiological issues of religious pluralism, religious violence, and religious peace.
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