Charles E. Farhadian

Charles E. Farhadian is Professor of World Religions and Christian Mission at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, USA, with research interests on the relationship between religions and cultures, world Christianity, comparative missiology, and religion and globalization. His fieldwork is in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. His books include Christianity, Islam, and Nationalism in Indonesia (Routledge); Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices (Eerdmans); The Testimony Project: Papua (Deiyai, Papua); Introducing World Christianity (Wiley-Blackwell); Introducing World Religions: A Christian Engagement (Baker Academic); and co-editor, with Lewis Rambo, Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (Oxford). He studied at Seattle Pacific University (BA), Yale University (MDiv), and Boston University (PhD).