ReDi Conference 2025 in Wellington, South Africa

The 10th Conference for Research in Diaconia and Christian Social Practice (ReDi) on April 1 to 4, 2025 is approaching. The theme of the conference is Diaconia and Christian Social Practice: Challenging Contexts and Emerging Trends.

The conference will take place at the Andrew Murray Centre for Spirituality in Wellington, South Africa.

We invite contributions across a wide spectrum of formations and traditions to advance a global debate on diaconia and Christian social practice, thematically organized around twelve different tracks:

1. Diaconia and colonialism: Entanglement and detachment.
2. Diaconia of the marginalised: self-empowerment and self-representation through church-based initiatives towards social responsibility in local Christian social practices.
3. Diaconia, climate change, creation care and the sustainable development goals (SDG) agenda.
4. Expressions of Christian social practice (diaconia) in independent (including neo-Pentecostal and Charismatic) Christian traditions and churches / New approaches and practices of the diaconal church.
5. Diaconia and the non-profit sector: questions of diaconal agency and identity in market-related and civil society contexts.
6. Diaconia in dialogue with religion and development (RaD) / Diaconia and religion and development as overlapping expressions of Christian social practice.
7. Diaconia and interreligious or secular collaborations: Challenges and opportunities.
8. Conviviality, diaconia and society: transforming vision and creative practice for life together.
9. Health and healing in diaconal practice: Trauma healing, diaconal health, science, social healing and other practices.
10. Youth agency: Diaconia by, with and for the young people.
11. Diaconia and the missio Dei: New thoughts on the relationship between Diakonia and Missiology
12. Practitioners’ research: Reflections on diaconal practice

We especially encourage researchers from the Global South to submit a proposal. Abstracts should be between 350 and 500 words and be sent to ReDiSAConfe2025@vemission.org by 31 October 2024.

The conference fee – which includes stationery, transport to and from the airport, excursion transportation, lunches, coffee breaks, refreshments, and two conference dinners – is structured as follows:

• €20 for Masters and PhD students of the Global South (ReDi members)
• €30 for Masters and PhD students of the Global South (non-members of ReDi)
• €70 for Masters and PhD students of the Global North (ReDi members)
• €100 for Masters and PhD students of the Global North (non-members ReDi)
• €80 for participants from the Global South (ReDi members)
• €120 for participants from the Global South (non-members of ReDi)
• €200 for participants from the Global North (ReDi members)
• €250 for participants from the Global North (non-members of ReDi)

Note that flight and accommodation costs are excluded from the fee.