Book reviews, research snippets, and whatever might be relevant about Christianity and the Middle East – with and referring to in, of, from or about, and globalization referring to entangled histories and fluid boundaries between Christianity, the Middle East and the rest of the world. Within the wider world of Christianity and the Middle East, Syriac Christians take pride of place – their rich and tumultuous history continues to inspire.
Heleen Murre-van den Berg is professor of Global Christianity at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Earlier, she served as Dean of this faculty, and she directed of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (Instituut voor Oosters Christendom – IVOC). For more, see LinkedIn and Academia as well as her Profile page of Radboud University and her previous weblog Globalisering, christendom en het Midden-Oosten. She is a member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) and of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW). Between 2019 and 2024, she directed the ERC Advanced project Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental Christians in Europe, 1970-2020.
Globalization, Christianity and the Middle East 