Paul Harris presented paper at history meeting

Paul Harris presented paper at history meeting

Paul Harris, History, presented a paper entitled “Exporting Uplift from Georgia to Liberia: Two Methodist Schools”, as part of the annual meeting of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity in New Haven, Conn. The paper grew out of an ongoing research project on racial politics in the northern branch of the Methodist Church, as it expanded into the South among both African Americans and whites after the Civil War.

The Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity is an informal group of scholars formed to facilitate discussion and exchange of information about historical aspects of the missionary movement and the development of world Christianity, with special emphasis on sources for documentation. It is a forum where viewpoints from the fields of political, social, diplomatic, and religious history can converge to reassess the significance of the missionary movement and its worldwide effects.