NIME - Nordic Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research

NIME - Nordic Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research - is a network of researchers from religious studies and theology with interest in subjects relating to Christian mission and ecumenism. NIME connects more than 70 scholars from 23 universities and university colleges in the fields of mission and ecumenism throughout Northern Europe. The network organises conferences, workshops, and doctoral courses as well as coordinates information about events of interest for the scholarly community. The network is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Viggo Mortensen, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus and Assistant Prof. Jonas Adelin Jørgensen, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.  

The main purposes of NIME are (1) to promote missiology and ecumenism as common fields of research across boundaries of method (history, theology, etc.); (2) to define new challenges for Christian mission and ecumenism emerging inside and outside the North European context; (3) to establish a forum for discussion among researchers and to give scholars opportunity to discuss results with the broader scholarly constituency.  

NIME does not receive funding from any private or public source but is an independent research network sponsored by the various member universities and university colleges. NIME does not have individual membership but strongly recommends individuals to become members of our international body, International Association for Mission Studies, IAMS.

Update AGM 2008: This year’s annual general meeting (AGM) in NIME will take place during the IAMS Balaton meeting, 16th-22nd August. We kindly ask all NIME members participating in the IAMS meeting to contribute to our AGM by submitting a brief annual report on the status of missiological and ecumenical studies at your home institutions. Please note: even if you are not able to participate in the AGM meeting, the report itself is valuable for the broader scholarly community. In order to give the annual reports a ‘standardised’ outlook, I have created a small template which you might want to use. The template might be opened through this link: http://www.missionsresearch.org/jj/billedearkiv/Arkiver/Annual_Reports_to_NIME/Template_NIME.doc. Please save the document on your own computer and send me an electronic copy at jaj@teol.ku.dk. Thank you in advance!