Dana L. Robert

Dana Lee Robert (born October 9, 1956) is an historian of Christianity and a missiologist.[1] Since 1984, she has been the Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission, and the director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University.[2]

Scholarship

In the early 1980s, Dana L. Robert became captivated by what she called "Comparative Christianity."[3] After completing her Ph.D. at Yale University, she began teaching at Boston University where, over the following three decades, she helped build the field that is now known as World Christianity. Robert's scholarship on women,[4] African Christianity,[5] American missions,[6] global networks,[7] and international friendships[8] has been generative. The pathways she carved out continue to guide the agendas of historians of Christianity and scholars in mission studies.[9]

Dana Robert and M.L. Daneel opened one of the first university-based Centers on World Christianity in North America.

In 2010, Dana Robert was selected to deliver the keynote address at the Edinburgh 2010 Conference, which marked the centennial of the World Missionary Conference of 1910. Addressing the most ecclesiologically inclusive gathering of Christians in modern history, Robert spoke about “Witnessing to Christ Today: Mission and Unity in the 'Long View' from 1910 to the 21st Century.”[10] Since that time, Robert has given the Henry Martyn Lectures at Cambridge University (2010),[11] the Woolsey Lectures in Theology and Culture at Houghton College (2011),[12] the Wallace Chappell Lectures in Evangelism at Duke Divinity School (2012),[13] the Ausberger Lecture Series at Eastern Mennonite University (2013),[14] the Parchman Endowed Lecture Series at Baylor University (2015),[15] the Donald A. Yerxa History Lecture at Eastern Nazarene College (2016),[16] and the Sprunt Lectures at Union Presbyterian Seminary (2017).[17]

In 2017, Dana Robert received several honors in recognition of her contributions to history, theology, and religious studies. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[18] The American Society of Missiology awarded her with the guild's Lifetime Achievement Award.[19] The Association of Theological Schools named her a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology,[20] and she served as a senior research fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany.[21]

Family

Robert was born in Lake Charles, LA. Her father P. Charles was a teacher. Her mother Mary Ellen was a housewife. Robert was married to Robert Kinloch Massie IV (a writer, politician, the son of Robert Kinloch Massie III (born 1929), an American historian and biographer. ) They divorced in 1995. She is married to Marthinus L. Daneel (Professor of Missiology), February 17, 1996.

Biography

Robert is a graduate of Louisiana State University (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D.).[22] She worked as a high school history teacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1978. In 1982 she became an instructor at Yale University, New Haven, CT. Then she went to Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. She was an assistant professor from 1984–90, associate professor from 1990–97, and full professor from 1997 to the present.

Dana L. Robert is an editor of the journal Church History.[23]

She is also a noted scholar on the study of Arthur Tappan Pierson.[24]

Memberships

  • African Initiatives in Christian Mission in Southern Africa, 1995–98
  • North American Committee, North Atlantic Missiology Project, 1996–98
  • Boston Theological Institute, International Mission and Ecumenism Committee
  • International Association of Mission Studies
  • Association of Professors of Mission
  • American Society of Missiology
  • American Society of Church History

Selected publications of Dana L. Robert

Books

  • 2010. Joy to the World!: Mission in the Age of Global Christianity. Women's Division, United Methodist Church.
  • 2009. Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion. Description and preview, and reviewers' comments in Church History, CHOICE, Missology, The Gospel Coalition, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, and Christian Century. John Wiley.
  • 2008. Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914, ed., Description & contents. By DLR: "Introduction," pp. 1-20, and "The 'Christian Home' as a Cornerstone of Anglo-American Missionary Thought and Practice," pp. 134–165. Wm. B. Eerdmans.
  • 2003. Occupy Until I Come: A. T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World. Description, preview, & previewers' comments. Wm. B. Eerdmans.
  • African Christian Outreach: Vol. 2 Mission Churches. (Editor) (Pretoria: South African Missiological Society, 2003). [Also published as April 2003 issue of Missionalia]
  • Frontiers of African Christianity: Essays in Honour of Inus Daneel. Edited with G. Cuthbertson and H. Pretorius (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2003).
  • 2002. Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women in the Twentieth Century, Orbis Books.
  • “Evangelism as the Heart of Mission.” Mission Evangelism Series # 1. (NY: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 1998).
  • 1998, 2nd ed. Christianity: A Social and Cultural History (coauthor). Description. Prentice Hall. Book and Media Awards winner, American Library Association & the Green Earth Award, the Nature Generation.
  • 1997. American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice. Description, preview, & reviewers' comments. Mercer University Press.

Articles

  • Arthur Tappan Pierson and Evangelical Movements. (Seoul, Korea: Yangsuh Publishing Company, 1988). [in Korean]
  • 2000. "Shifting Southward: Global Christianity since 1945," International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 24(2) pp. 50-58.
  • 2002. "The First Globalization," International Bulletin of Missionary Research 26(2) pp. 50–66.
  • 2005. "What Happened to the Christian Home? The Mission Component of Mission Theory," Missiology.
  • 2011. "Cross-Cultural Friendship in the Creation of Twentieth-Century World Christianity," International Bulletin of Missionary Research 35(2) pp. 100–107.
  • 2013. "Forty years of the American Society of Missiology: Retrospect and Prospect," Missiology, 42(1), pp. 6–25. Abstract and abridgment.

References

  1. ↑ "Robert, Dana L. 1956- - Dictionary definition of Robert, Dana L. 1956- | Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  2. ↑ "Dana L. Robert » School of Theology | Blog Archive | Boston University". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  3. ↑ Robert, Dana (2011). Historiographic Foundations from Latourette and Van Dusen to Andrew F. Walls. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. p. 141.
  4. ↑ Robert, Dana (1997). American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice.(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997). Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.
  5. ↑ Robert, Dana (2003). African Christian Outreach: Vol. 2 Mission Churches. Pretoria: South African Missiological Society.
  6. ↑ Robert, Dana (2003). " Occupy Until I Come": A.T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  7. ↑ Robert, Dana (2009). Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  8. ↑ Robert, Dana. "Sprunt Lectures". Youtube. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Web of Science Citation Index". Web of Science.
  10. ↑ "Dana Robert calls for common witness to Christ despite divisions". Edinburgh2010.org. 3 June 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Henry Martyn Lectures". Cambridge Center for Christianity Worldwide.
  12. ↑ "2011 Woolsey Lectures". houghton.edu. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Wallace Chappell Lectures". The Foundation for Evangelism. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Augsberger Lecture Series". Eastern Mennonite University. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Parchman Endowed Lectures". Baylor University. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Yerxa Lecture Series". Eastern Nazarene College. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  17. ↑ "2017 Sprunt Lectures". Union Presbyterian Seminary. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  18. ↑ "2017 FELLOWS AND FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS WITH THEIR AFFILIATIONS AT THE TIME OF ELECTION". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  19. ↑ Adeney, Frances (2018). "ASM Life Time Achievement Award 2017: Dana L. Robert". Missiology. 46: 99–101.
  20. ↑ "The Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Program". Henry Luce Foundation. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  21. ↑ "Dana L. Robert". Boston University School of Theology. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  22. ↑ http://www.upsem.edu/event/2017-sprunt-lectures/
  23. ↑ "Dana Robert". February 14, 2018.
  24. ↑ Robert Lee Dana, Arthur Tappan Pierson(1837-1911)
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