New Asian Christianity route for MA students
New Asian Christianity route for MA students
We are excited to announce the launch of our new Asian Christianity MA route starting September 2024.
We are even more excited that Dr Nuam Hatzaw is joining us to lead the pathway.
The programme will offer our students a space (in the wider discourse of World Christianity, especially in diaspora communities) for an in-depth study of Christianity in Asia.
Students will explore the richness and diversity of Christian expression in Asia – its history, theology, missiology – as well as its dispersion to and expressions in the UK, Europe, and other parts of the world.
The programme – which takes place fully online – runs alongside our MA pathways in African Christianity and Pioneer Ministry, and this allows our students to engage in a deep scholarly study of aspects of Asian Christianity while in a conversation with students from other parts of the world.
With this exciting news we are also happy to announce that we have 50% bursaries for the first six students who successfully apply to start this September.
Open evening online
Tuesday 6 August is your chance to find out more with a special open evening online, starting at 7pm. Email us to book your place >
Introducing Nuam
Nuam Hatzaw belongs to the Zomi people, a predominantly Christian ethnic minority group found primarily in Chin State, north-west Myanmar. She was born in Chin State but has spent most of her life in the UK.
Nuam did her BA in Social Anthropology and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, and her MTh in World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD examined the lived theologies of migrant 1.5 generation Zomi women and how they negotiate the sense of ‘in-betweenness’ that is generated by experiences of migration and diasporic life.
An interdisciplinary scholar with training in qualitative research methods and frameworks, her research interests include World Christianity, Asian theology, postcolonial feminist theology, Myanmar studies, social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.
She is co-host of the podcast Voices of World Christianity and serves as mentor and consultant for the Chin State Academic Research Network, a non-profit dedicated to promoting education and research in and from the region.
Nuam lives in Edinburgh with her husband.
Get in touch
To book a place for the open evening or just to ask a question, please send us an email!
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