Polin Seminar with our new researchers

Warmly welcome to the Polin Seminar on April 15th at 1:15-4 p.m. in the Auditorium Theologicum, Annexet, Piispankatu 16.

Our new researchers at the Polin Institute will present their research projects. PhD Student Sofia Lindahl will present her research projects. The Polin monograph stint receiver Dr Matthew Lynch (Oregon State University, USA) and the guest researchers Prof. Henry Mbaya (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Dr Jason Lepojärvi (George Fox University, USA) and Prof. Eugene Baron (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) present their monograph projects.

Program

13.15-13.45 Sofia Lindahl: Worldviews, Spiritual Experiences and Processes of Appropriation: Factors Shaping the Discussion on Yoga in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

13.45-14.15 Dr Matthew Lynch: Scriptural (Re)Production in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Case of Jalal al-din Rumi and the Mevlevis

Coffee

14.30-15.00 Prof. Henry Mbaya: The Community of the Resurrection and the Training of Black Clergy in South Africa 1903-1960

15.00-15.30 Dr Jason Lepojärvi: C.S. Lewis’s Gay Best Friend, Arthur

15.30-16.00 Prof. Eugene Baron: A critical perspective on the Contemporary Metanarratives in Missiology