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Dyron B. Daughrity
Assistant Professor of Religion

Division: Religion Division
Office: Appleby Center (APC) 257
Phone: (310) 506-4354
E-mail: dyron.daughrity@pepperdine.edu

  • Ph.D., University of Calgary, 2005
  • M.A., Abilene Christian University, 1999
  • B.A., Lubbock Christian University, 1995
Courses:
  • REL 301: Christianity and Culture: World Christianity
  • REL 330: History of Christianity (comprehensive overview)
  • REL 526: Religions of the World (Non-Western credit)
  • REL 532: Church History and Christian Theology, Part 2
Key Awards/Affiliations:
  • Pepperdine University: Seaver Fellow in Religion, 2008-2009
  • Seaver Research Council Grant, 2008-2009
  • Pepperdine University - Dean's Research Grant, January, 2008.
  • Pepperdine University - Harris Manchester Award, Oxford University, UK, July 2007.
  • University of Calgary - Humanities Teaching Excellence Award, 2006-2007, awarded by the Students' Union to two members of each faculty per year (2007).
  • Pepperdine Univerity - Dean's Research Grant, 2007.
  • Research Scholarships from the Disciples of Christ (Canada) for travel to Switzerland, India, UK, Malaysia, China, Brazil (multiple years).
  • Official Delegate to the WCC Ninth Assembly, February 2006. Served as Canadian delegate to the Ninth Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I represented the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Canada.
  • Harvard University Science and Religion Conference, July 2002. Received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to participate in a week-long conference on "Truth in Science, Truth in Religion."
  • University of Calgary - Constantinian Award, Granted by the Constantinian Order of Calgary (1999).
  • Abilene Christian University - Ministerial Scholarship (1995-1999).
  • Lubbock Christian University - "President's Award," awarded to one male and one female student per year (1995).
  • American Academy of Religion
  • North American Association for the Study of Religion
  • International Association for the History of Religions
  • American Society of Church History
  • American Society of Missiology
  • International Association of Missions Studies
  • Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
Academic Interests:
  • Christianity and Colonialism
  • Christianity in India
  • Global Christian Ecumenism
  • Historiography in the study of Christianity
  • Interreligious Dialogue
  • Method and Theory in the study of Religion
  • World Christianity
  • World Religions
Selected Works:
  • World Christianity Today: A Global Introduction to the World's Largest Faith. NY: Peter Lang Publications, forthcoming (under contract).
  • Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South India. NY: Peter Lang Publications, 2008.
  • Book Chapter: "Christianity is Moving from North to South. . . So What about the East?," in Adogame, Afe and Shankar, Shobana, eds., Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World (Boston, MA: Brill, forthcoming).
  • Book Chapter: "Under the Influence: Pneumatology in Global, Historical Perspective," in Peter Heltzel, ed., Chalice Introduction to Theology (St. Louis, Missouri: Chalice Press, 2008).
  • A Dissonant Mission: Stephen Neill, Amy Carmichael, and Missionary Conflict in South India, in International Review of Mission 97:384/385 (January/April 2008). Peer-reviewed.
  • The Literary Legacy of Stephen Neill, in International Bulletin of Missionary Research 32:3 (July 2008). Peer reviewed.
  • A Brief History of Missions in Tirunelveli: From the Beginnings to its Creation as a Diocese in 1896, in Indian Journal of Theology 46:1&2 (Published in 2008 but dated 2004 due to publication delay). Peer reviewed.
  • Stephen Neill, Missions, and the Ecumenical Movement, in International Review of Mission 94:375 (Oct. 2005).
  • Hinduisms, Christian Missions, and the Tinnevelly Shanars: A Study of Colonial Missions in 19th Century India, in Axis Mundi (March, 2005).
  • Researching Bishop Stephen Neill: Engaging History, Methods, and the Reconstruction, http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/Cdaurighty.htm Cambridge University, Henry Martyn Centre (2003).
Performances:
  • Bishop Stephen Neill: Heroic, Villainous, and Genuinely Human, at the annual conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, Edinburgh, UK, July 2008.
  • A Dissonant Mission: Stephen Neill, Amy Carmichael, and Missionary Conflict in South India, at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, February 20, 2007.
  • The Most Intriguing Questions of Religion Today, at the Calgary Art Centre for Stonebridge Merchant Capital Corporation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, February 7, 2007.
  • The World Council of Churches Today: Perspectives from Brazil, at the 2006 Convention of the Disciples of Christ in Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, August 2006.
  • International Terrorism and Christian Response, at Union Biblical Seminary in Pune, India, November 2005.
  • The Life and Legacy of Stephen Neill, at the Bishop Stephen Neill Study and Research Centre, Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu, India, October 2005. This was a three-part presentation based on my Ph.D. dissertation.
  • An Overview of Christian Missions with Perspectives for the 21st Century, at the Western Christian Fellowship in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, April 2005.
  • Researching Bishop Stephen Neill: Engaging History, Methods, and the Reconstruction, at the Henry Martyn Centre, Westminster Hall, Cambridge University, UK, March 2003.
  • Christianity and Secular Societies, at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Derby, UK, March 2003.
  • Islam: An Introduction with Reflections, at the Regional meeting of the Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, Red Deer, Alberta, November 2002.
  • 9/11: An Interreligious Appraisal of History, at the September 11th Remembrance and Interfaith Peace Gathering, Calgary, Alberta, September 2002.
  • The Early History of the American Restoration Movement, at the Spring Conference for the Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, Red Deer, Alberta, May 2002.
  • Hinduisms, Christian Missions, and the Tinnevelly Shanars: A Study of Colonial Missions in 19th Century India, at the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, Texas, November 2004.
  • A History of Protestant Missions in South India's Tinnevelly Diocese, at the International Association of Missions Studies, Port Dickson, Malaysia, August 2004.
  • Bishop Robert Caldwell, India's Tinnevelly Shanars, and Social Mobility, at the American Academy of Religion Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 2004.
  • Researching a Revered Bishop: Reflections on the Doing of Historical Biography, at the American Academy of Religion Conference in Moscow, Idaho, April 2003.
  • Between Two Worlds: An Analysis of Stephen Neill's Model for Interreligous Dialogue, at the Ph.D. colloquium, University of Calgary, Department of Religious Studies, March 2000.
  • Toward a Dialogical Method in the Academic Study of Religion, at the Ph.D. colloquium, University of Calgary, Department of Religious Studies, November 1999.
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