The perils of Christian mission : writing from the New World TAGS: Africa | China | Fiji | India | missions | New College Library | Syria | World Christianity Guest curator Suzi Higton writes about her current display in the Funk Reading Room case In their quest to spread the Word of God, missionaries have for centuries traversed continents …Continue reading →

Images of early Islamic architecture: a record of destroyed antiquities in Iraq and Syria TAGS: Aleppo | antiquities under threat | Archaeology | destroyed antiquities | digitisation | Early Islamic Architecture | Edinburgh | ERA | Iraq | Mosul | Palmyra | PhD | Samarra | Shia | Syria | Theses   The aim of our PhD thesis digitisation project is to make available the unique research of the University of Edinburgh. This research has a greater significance when, within the …Continue reading →

Unique World Christianity Collections coming home to New College, Edinburgh TAGS: Africa | Archives | China | Divinity | India | missions | New College Library | Syria | World Christianity Now we’re in the in the final stages of the Centre for the Studies of World Christianity Library (CSWC) Project, we’re receiving daily deliveries of books to New College Library from the Library …Continue reading →