March 2, 2012: Dr. Moses O. Biney to present “Transnational Mission Networks: From Africa to America”

DR. MOSES O. BINEY, assistant professor of religion and society and research director for the Center for the Study and Practice of Urban Religion, New York Theological Seminary, will introduce and analyze transnational networks that exemplify new forms of twenty-first-century mission efforts. These efforts use structures that look much like the nineteenth-century Protestant churches in Africa, relating to a mission board in New York or London—only now the relationship is reversed, with the ordained leadership coming from Nigeria or Ghana to New York.

Dr. Biney is also minister of missions and outreach at First Presbyterian Church of Irvington, New Jersey. He has served in various ministerial positions, including as the organizing pastor for a Ghanaian immigrant congregation in Bronx, N.Y. Dr. Biney is author of From Africa to America: Religion and Adaptation Among Ghanaian Immigrants in New York (2011).

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