Professor Martha Frederiks
- CMR 1900 project
- Team Leader, Africa and the Americas
- Section Editor, Western Africa
Dr Frederiks is Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Professor of the Study of World Christianity at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Martha studied theology and Islamic studies at Utrecht University and the Duncan Black MacDonald Institute in Hartford, CT before spending six years in West Africa working in the field of Christian-Muslim relations. In 2003 she obtained her PhD (cum laude) from Utrecht University. Her research focused on Christianity and Christian-Muslim relations in West Africa.
Professor Jaco Beyers
- CMR 1900 project
- Section Editor, Southern and Eastern Africa
Professor Beyers is Associate Professor in the Department of Science of Religion and Missiology at the University of Pretoria.
He completed his PhD on the topic of syncretism as possible outcome in the encounter between religions at the University of Pretoria (2002). His research interests and expertise include Religions of the world, Theology of Religion, Theology of Religions and Religion in Society. As a scholar of religions in the multi-cultural society of South Africa, the relationship of Christianity with other religions, particular with Islam, has become an important focal point of his research. He is currently the programme manager of Biblical and Religion Studies at the University of Pretoria.
Dr David D. Grafton
CMR 1900 project
Section Editor, North America
The Revd Dr David D. Grafton Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations on the faculty of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford International University.
Previous posts have included periods in Cairo, as Coordinator of Graduate Studies at the Evangelical (Presbyterian) Theological Seminary, Director of the Centre for Middle East Christianity at the ETSC, and adjunct lecturer in Islamic studies at the Dar Comboni Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. Dr Grafton’s academic interests focus on Christian-Muslim relationships in the Middle East, including 19th and 20th century Islamic socio-political thought, 19th and 20th Protestant missionary thought on Islam, and Middle East Christianity. Dr Grafton is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Dr Arely Medina
- CMR 1900 project
- Section Editor, South America
Dr Arely Medina is Professor at Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas (CUCEA) Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
Diego Melo Carrasco
Researcher, Department of History and Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile.
