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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These two men, identified as 'Alfred' and 'Enoch', assisted in the dispensary run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in Ama Achara, Nigeria. They were photographed around July 1929. (CSWC20/1/7/2/1) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This hand-tinted slide shows Chinese pilgrims outside the entrance arch to a Chinese temple or holy site sometime around 1905 to 1914. (CSWC47/LS1/8) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These girls from a mission school in Jammu, India, demonstrate their embroidery skills. (CSWC47/LS10/50) #photofriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Jamaican boys learning to make string from sisal fibre. The image comes from a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jamaica. (CSWC47/LS11/48) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This woman is grinding corn using a stone wheel, China, ca. 1905-1914. The courtyard appears to be decorated for the spring festival. (CSWC47/LS1/5) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Missionaries from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union identified this child as a 'boy priest' in Siwan, India, around 1906. (CSWC33/OS14/29) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hezekiya Tweya and Walter Elmslie photographed after Tweya's ordination at Bandawe in present-day Malawi, 18 May 1914. (CSWC47/LS3/1/54) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

These missionary nurses and toddler pose in Peru about 1947. The woman in the foreground may be Jessie L Norton. In the background is Annie G Soper, who founded the Peruvian Indian Mission in 1930. (CSWC33/OS13) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Four men and a sedan chair, China, ca. 1905-1914. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and was created by Charles Somerville, a medical missionary who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914. (CSWC47/LS1/52) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

These boys are gathered in front of a school in Chanpatia, Bihar, India in 1914. The Regions Beyond Missionary Union opened Chanpatia as a mission district in 1905. (CSWC33/OS14/62) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

'You are the salt of the earth' (Matt. 5:13). This woman is preparing salt near Okposi, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1930-1940. Okposi is the site of a saltwater lake, where salt production has been an important activity since the area was first inhabited. (CSWC47/LS9/43) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This church in Mukden (present-day Shenyang) exhibits the indigenisation of Christianity in its use of both Western and Chinese architectural elements. (CSWC47/LS8/31) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Men and women at a fair (or 'mela') in the village of Thawe, in Gopalganj, Bihar, India. The Durga Temple there is a major Hindu pilgrimage site. The photograph was taken in 1905 by Alexander Banks of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. (CSCNWW33/OS14/47) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This map shows the Church of Scotland's missions in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula circa 1880 and includes an insert of Scotland drawn to the same scale. The slide was meant to show audiences the enormity of the Kirk's undertaking and garner support. (CSWC47/LS2/1) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

📢 Just out! Special issue of Studies in World Christianity on “Indigenous Theologies: Relationality and Lived Cosmologies on Land and Sea.” #WorldChristianity #IndigenousTheology www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2026/06/stud...

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Group photo from #YaleEdin2026, on “Popular, Folk, Grassroots and Pop Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission.”

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The final Day 3 of #YaleEdin2026 began with a Nairobi panel, then paper panels, and a concluding session reflecting on the conference and planning for #YaleEdin2027!

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This street scene juxtaposing traditional Chinese buildings and clothing with automobiles and telephone lines in Beijing was captured around 1905 to 1914. The slide is part of a collection generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville. (CSWC47/LS1/13) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We had a full Day 2 of #YaleEdin2026, which started with a CUHK plenary panel, parallel paper panels, a “Meet the Publishers” panel, and a sing-a-long led by Professor Jean Kidula and Professor Kyama Mugambi! 🎶🎵

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It has been wonderful welcoming delegates to Day 1 of #YaleEdin2026 . We were also pleased to end the night with a #DuffLecture from the ethnomusicologist Professor Jean Kidula.

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Congratulations to Christina Li for passing her viva on Hong Kong Christianity!! Thanks to Drs Marina Wang and Felicity Loughlin for examining her work!

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Looking forward to welcoming delegates to #YaleEdin2026 later this week! www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/events/yale-...

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This large effigy made of paper was built to be burnt during the Indian festival of Dussehra. The image comes from a series of slides relating to Jammu City, where a Scottish mission station was founded in the late 19th/early 20th century. (CSWC47/LS10/41) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We look forward to welcoming Prof Jean Kidula (University of Georgia) to deliver the #DuffLecture2026 on June 10th on the topic “‘This time, I must sing’: African Missionizing and Christian Song.” edin.ac/4a62OFw #WorldChristianity #Mission #Ethnomusicology

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ngoni Warrior, Nyasaland (now Malawi). This image is part of a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to David Livingstone. (CSWC47/LS16/48) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This undated and hand-tinted lantern slide of men carrying a traditional sedan chair was included in a set relating to the Scottish medical missionary Dugald Christie, who worked in China between 1882 and 1923. (CSWC47/LS8/23) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This young boy was photographed around 1906 by missionaries of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal. (CSWC33/OS14/12) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This Kikuyu woman was photographed in Kenya sometime between 1905 and 1940. Church of Scotland missionaries established hospitals in Kikuyu in 1908, Tumutumu in 1909, and Chogoria in 1922. (CSWC47/LS7/11) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Northeast corner of the city wall and moat surrounding Mukden, Manchuria. (CSWC47/LS8/5) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Books by two of our own—Professors Brian Stanley and Andrew Walls—are recognised as among the ten most outstanding books in the field! Congratulations!! #WorldChristianity #missionstudies doi.org/10.1177/2396...

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This class of Igbo women was photographed on a Church of Scotland mission station in Nigeria, ca. 1930-1940. (CSWC47/LS9/27) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Our very own Emeritus Professor Brian Stanley will be awarded a Doctorate of Divinity from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge in July 2026. What a wonderful recognition—congratulations!! 🎉

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Inside a Buddhist Temple, China. From a collection of slides relating to Dugald Christie, who went to Manchuria with his wife in 1882 to work as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He retired in 1923 and died in 1936. (CSWC47/LS8/36) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

✍🏼 Registration is open for #YaleEdin2026! Join us in Edinburgh, June 10th to 12th, to discuss “Popular, Folk, Grassroots and Pop Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission.” #WorldChristianity #MissionHistory @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yale-edinb...

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Black and white lantern slide showing a road from the town of Motihari in Bihar, northeast India, to the Regions Beyond Missionary Union's mission station opened in 1900. (CSWC33/OS14/2) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Our final seminar of the term will include two visiting scholars who have been researching Scottish #MissionHistory to India and China, John Carter (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA) and Liza Qiu (Trinity Theological College, Singapore). #WorldChristianity

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Four children, identified as Janie, Alice, Maggie, and Mary, photographed with Scottish missionary Mary Slessor, circa 1880. Slessor was known for her work in present-day Nigeria, adopting abandoned children, notably twins and the children of slaves. (CSWC47/LS2/36) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We look forward to welcoming Dr Diego Malara (University of Glasgow) to speak on the efficacy and ubiquity of holy water in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. We are pleased to co-host this seminar with Religious Studies. #WorldChristianity #AnthropologyofChristianity

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Chao Ersun was the Han Chinese governor-general of Manchuria. He is pictured here in a collection of slides relating to Dugald Christie, a Scottish medical missionary in China. (CSWC47/LS8/40) #photofriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The latest issue of Studies in World Christianity has dropped! These are case studies from the history of Chinese Christian theologizing and social engagement to Christian women's contributions in Hong Kong and Zambia, and African Pentecostals in Belgium. www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2026/03/stud...

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Kate Tilson (Cambridge University) to speak to us from her research on British Evangelical missions in the Pacific Islands. @camhistory.bsky.social #WorldChristianity #MissionHistory

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Boot mender, India, ca. 1930. Leather work is a low-caste occupation in the Hindu caste system, so this man may be a member of a lower caste or possibly outside of Hindu caste system altogether. (CSWC33/OS15) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Lake Nyasa (or Lake Malawi) is located between present-day Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique. This image is from a collection on the Scottish missionary Robert Laws, who helped found the Livingstonia mission on the shores of Lake Nyasa in 1875. (CSWC47/LS5/1/5) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Wonderful to celebrate 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2025) with editor Professor Brian Stanley and all the contributors, online and in person. May it contribute to our ongoing discussions on this important topic. #WorldChristianity

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Temple of the Three Righteous Ones and Tea Booth, Manchuria, China, ca. 1882-1936. From a series of Church of Scotland lantern slides relating to Dugald Christie, who went to Manchuria with his wife, Elizabeth, in 1882 to work as a medical missionary. (CSWC47/LS8/35) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This Indian woman claps her hands in welcome or prayer. The circa 1920 tinted lantern slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union working in northeast India. (CSWC33/OS16/69) #PhotoFriday

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The boy in this tinted lantern slide from around 1930 is collecting water at a mela (a gathering or festival) from the Ganges or a tributary. The slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. (CSWC33/OS15/15)

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Lovely to have Revd Dr Raj Patta speaking to us about a liturgical turn in subaltern public theology. #WorldChristianity #PublicTheology

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Tomorrow, we welcome Revd Dr Raj Bharath Patta (United Stockport Methodist Circuit) to deliver our next research seminar on “Subaltern Public Theology: Dalits and the Indian Public Sphere.” #WorldChristianity #PublicTheology

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World Christianity @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, or Boxers, was a secret Chinese society opposed to Western imperialism and Christianity. This is from a United Presbyterian Church of Scotland collection, sometime during the Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. (CSWC47/LS8/29) #PhotoFriday

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