Center for Global Christianity and Mission

What Center for Global Christianity and Mission does

The Center for Global Christianity and Mission is a Boston University-affiliated non-profit organization focused on research, documentation, and outreach related to world Christianity and mission movements. It operates within Boston University's broader institutional framework (bu.edu) and functions as an academic research unit rather than a commercial entity. No Center-specific products, services, technology stack, pricing, customers, leadership roster, funding history, or revenue figures are disclosed in the available source data; the input material consistently indicates that the aggregated content pertains to Boston University generally, not to the Center itself.

Because the Center's primary activity is scholarly research and outreach on global Christian history and missionary movements, its outputs are most likely academic publications, archival documentation, conferences, and partnerships with denominational and missiological institutions — though none of these are explicitly enumerated in the input. The Center appears to be a sub-unit dependent on BU's overarching research administration, which in FY25 supported $574.25M in research awards and 7,609 publications, and partners with 200+ companies on BU discoveries, but these parent-level metrics cannot be attributed to the Center.

The business model of the Center is not articulated in the source data; as a non-profit research unit embedded in a private university, it would typically be funded through a mix of university allocation, foundation grants, and donor contributions rather than commercial revenue. No go-to-market motion, customer segmentation, pricing, or geographic footprint specific to the Center is documented, and the input repeatedly flags that available data relates to Boston University broadly rather than to the Center.

Name

Center for Global Christianity and Mission

Website

https://bu.edu

Company type

Private

Short description

The Center for Global Christianity and Mission is a Boston University-affiliated non-profit that conducts research, documentation, and outreach on world Christianity and mission movements; it functions as an academic research unit within BU rather than a commercial entity, and no Center-specific financials, leadership, or products are disclosed in available sources.

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Product category

Religious Research

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Religious Organizations (8131)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Missionary Training Colleges & Schools (EDAHAKAF), Christian Colleges with Theological Programs (EDAHAKAG)

Keywords

• Theological research
• Mission studies
• Global Christianity
• Religious documentation
• Christian outreach

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B2B

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Services

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Personnel, Operations, Others

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Core offering

The Center for Global Christianity and Mission conducts research, documentation, and outreach on world Christianity and mission movements. It studies historical and contemporary Christian expansion, produces scholarly output on global mission dynamics, and engages in outreach activities aimed at academic, ecclesiastical, and missiological audiences.

Product overview

Boston University operates as a comprehensive university with multiple product lines spanning online education platforms, campus facilities, and research services. The core digital product is BU Virtual, an online learning platform hosting graduate programs including AI-focused degrees (MS in AI in Business, MS in Enterprise AI, MS in Computer Science & AI, MS in Software Engineering for AI), data science, public health, and strategic communication. Physical products include FitRec fitness center and the Track & Tennis Center. Research services support 200+ companies commercializing BU discoveries. Programs are offered through multiple schools including Questrom School of Business, College of Communication, School of Public Health, and Wheelock College of Education.

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Broad incumbents

• Lausanne Movement: Global evangelical network convening leaders around world evangelization and mission, including research and documentation programs (e.g., the State of the Great Commission Report); a broader but thematically aligned organization engaging the same mission-research space.
• Pew Research Center — Religion & Public Life: The dominant US non-academic research outlet for empirical work on global Christianity, religious demography, and mission; broader in mandate but overlaps heavily with the Center's documentary and outreach work on world Christianity.

Direct peers

• Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture (OCCC): University-affiliated academic center at Oxford studying global Christianity, mission, and culture from a theological perspective, comparable in scope and academic positioning to a BU-based mission center.
• Yale Center for Faith and Culture: Yale Divinity School-affiliated research center engaging Christianity in global and cultural contexts through scholarship, publications, and programming; mirrors the Center's academic-research-and-outreach model inside a major research university.
• Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (Indiana University): University-based research center producing empirical and historical scholarship on religious movements, including Christianity, with conferences and publications comparable to a BU-based mission center's academic output.
• Billy Graham Center (Wheaton College): University-based evangelical research center focused on evangelism, mission, and global Christianity, with archives, conferences, and faculty research programs that directly parallel the Center's mission-research activities.
• Center for the Study of Global Christianity (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary): Most direct peer — operates at a theological seminary and is the leading academic center producing empirical data on world Christian populations and mission movements, directly overlapping the Center's described research, documentation, and outreach remit.
• Center for Religion and Civic Culture (USC): USC-affiliated academic research center studying religious movements in cultural and civic contexts, with similar positioning as a university-based research unit producing scholarship and outreach on religion.

Emerging players

• World Christian Database / World Christian Encyclopedia: The premier quantitative dataset on global Christianity and mission, produced by Gordon-Conwell's CSGC. It is both a research output and a competing platform for any academic center working on world Christianity demographics.

Regional players

• Bossey Ecumenical Institute (World Council of Churches): Internationally focused ecumenical institute based in Switzerland that combines graduate theological study, research, and outreach on global Christianity and mission — comparable academic model, but geographically and denominationally distinct from a US university center.

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