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Welcome to Aarhus!

On behalf of Aarhus University, the Faculty of Theology, and the Danish Centre for Contemporary Religion, it is a pleasure and a great honour for us to invite you to this conference. We believe that – being located in Scandinavia – we have a special calling to bring together representatives from the major traditions that seldom meet: The Anglo-American, the Continental and the Nordic. This will add to the ecumenical character of the discussion of several interrelated topics dealing with the most hotly debated issues in missiological and ecclesiological research. We look forward to seeing you in Aarhus!

Yours sincerely

Viggo Mortensen and the organizing committee  

Theme

It has been documented in several recent studies of religious diversity that globalisation, secularisation and the return of religion lead to pluralisation of the religious landscape, the result of which is the reigning multireligi­osity so dominant in Western and other societies. See, for example, the Danish Pluralism Project.
This multireligiosity has changed the way religions live their lives and operate. Many different religions are in mission; and mission is eventually from everywhere to everywhere. This situation has given a totally new dynamic as to how religions spread and interact. Especially the Christian churches have been challenged to adapt to the new situation. A rethinking of the relationship between mission and ecclesiology has here proved to be crucial. Because the concept of mission has also come under scrutiny from postcolonial studies, and because the study of mission has been renewed in the direction of intercultural studies or studies in global theology and world Christianity, the academic study of mission is entering a new era. This happens as we celebrate the one-hundred year anniversary of the World Mission Conference in Edinburgh 1910. The evangelisation of the world was not achieved “in this generation” and will not be in the next. Although the vision of Edinburgh was never realised, the commitment for a church in mission still stands.

 The first World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1910. (Photo: World Council of Churches)
The conference will focus on the actual and future challenges for the Christian church and mission in an era of multireligiosity and will highlight the following themes:

  • Ecclesiology & Mission
    This section welcomes all papers examining the relationship between church and mission. How are we to understand the mission of the church or the church of mission in the third millennium? What impact do secularization, globalization and multireligiosity have on the relationship between church and mission? Both theoretical and empirical approaches are most welcome.
  • Church Renewal for the Third Millennium
    This section welcomes all papers examining church renewal for the third millennium. How can we promote church renewal? In which ways will the church be challenged especially in a future context of secularization, globalization and multireligiosity? What lessons can be learned among the Anglo-American, the Continental and the Nordic traditions - as well as globally? Both theoretical and empirical approaches are most welcome.
  • Church in Cyberspace
    This section welcomes all papers examining the relationship between church, mission and the new media, especially the Internet. How do the new media affect the ways in which the church operates? What impact do secularization, globalization and multireligiosity have on the church in cyberspace? Does the Internet offer new alternatives to traditional approaches to mission? Can church and congregational communities be built in cyberspace? Both theoretical and empirical approaches are most welcome.
  • The Future of Missiology
    This section welcomes all papers examining the future of the academic discipline of missiology. What is the role and place of missiology as an academic discipline within the parlance of theological studies? In what way can missiology integrate - or be integrated into - the variety of theological disciplines? When mission is transforming should missiology also be transforming?

Papers

Book of abstracts ready for download

Conference papers are now online

We invite papers (5000-6000 words) in the area of one of the four main themes of the conference. All proposals for papers will be peer-reviewed by an international committee. Participants with accepted papers will be exempts from paying the conference fee.

Deadlines:

  • Proposals (300 words): October 15, 2009
  • Acceptance notification: November 15, 2009
  • Paper, final draft: January 20, 2010

Proposals and final papers must be sent to: CM3@teo.au.dk.

There will be a publication after the conference. A separate editorial process decides which papers from the conference will be published here.
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Revideret 02.03.2010