Professor David Hempton, Senior Professor at Harvard University and Dean of Harvard Divinity School, delivers the Gifford Lecture "Towards a theory of Transnational Religious Change." It is the first lecture in the series "Networks, Nodes,
and Nuclei in the History of Christianity, c. 1500-2020"
This lecture will define the terms
(networks, nodes, and nuclei), explain the choice of dates between two
revolutions in communication (print and the internet), and give some concrete
historical examples of the tangible benefits of looking at the history of
Christianity through transnational flows and networks. This approach
allows us to cross national and denominational boundaries and borders, and to
think more deeply about the underlying social and cultural conditions promoting
or resisting adaptation and change. It also enables us to explore the
crossroads or junction boxes where religious personnel and ideas encountered
different traditions and from which something new and dynamic emerged.
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