Complex Currents, Contemporary Perspectives, and Converging Methods: A Review of the Graduate Student Research Panel at Princeton Theological Seminary’s 2018 World Christianity Conference Available to Purchase

During Princeton Theological Seminary’s 2018 conference on currents, perspectives, and methodologies in world Christianity, organizers invited doctoral students to present short abstracts on their dissertation projects. Their research offers us a window into the future of world Christianity as an academic field. This article reviews a sample of the presented projects, exploring what new questions, methods, and patterns of thought are animating the next generation of world Christianity scholars, including (1) a new sensitivity to the bricolaged nature of culture in a globalized and postmodern era, (2) an orientation toward contemporary concerns in the humanities and social sciences, and (3) increased experimentation with multiple methods and disciplinary perspectives.