The award-winning companion film to: Spirit and Flesh
See our Documentary page for more about the film the critics call "the best documentary about the Moral Majority yet made."
April 13, 2010
Screenings of "African Christianity Rising" documentary films and presentations at Tufts University, Department of Sociology, et al.
April 20-23, 2010
Screenings of "African Christianity Rising" documentary films and conversations at the Denver Seminary, Iliff School of Theology and the University of Colorado. TBA
2010
VIDEO MATERIALS POSTED ONLINE from African Christianity & other projects: www.vimeo.com/channels/57182. And others at: www.vimeo.com/album/123087.
March 9, 2010 7 PM
Hartford Seminary. "African Christianity: Its Rise and Role in the Global Church" a conversation with filmmaker/scholar James Ault with screenings of "African Christianity Rising: Stories from Zimbabwe" and pieces of "Stories from Ghana."
March 2, 2010
Screening/discussion of "African Christianity Rising-Stories from Zimbabwe" at Drew Theological School, Madison, NJ. March 2, 2010
February 22-26, 2010
Jim Ault leading seminar/practicum: "Digital Video and Global Christianity," at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, CT. For information and availability, contact Dwight Baker at 203-624-6672 or Baker@omsc.org
January 5, 2010
Screening/discussion of "African Christianity Rising-Stories from Zimbabwe" at the Overseas Missions Study Center, New Haven, CT, 9:30 AM
November 16, 8 PM
Screening/discussion of "African Christianity Rising-Stories from Zimbabwe", Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 8 PM
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 4 PM
Screening/discussion of "African Christianity Rising-Stories from Zimbabwe", Boston University School of Theology, Room 325, Boston, MA, 4 PM
November 4-8, 2009
Jim Ault attending Sheffield Int’l Documentary Film Festival in Sheffield, England, with “African Christianity Rising” films.
October 2009
Publication date for Lift Up Mine Eyes, a history of the Northfield Mount Hermon School, the last three chapters of which--World War One to the present--were authored by James Ault.
September 21-24, 2009
Attending Independent Film Week and Urbanworld Film Festival in NYC with African Christianity Rising films.
July 21, 2009 2 PM
Preliminary screenings of African Christianity Rising films. Calvin College Christian Scholars Conference, Grand Rapids, MI
July 2 & 3, 2009
Yale-Edinburgh Scholars Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Trial screenings of African Christianity Rising-Part 1: Stories from Ghana Thursday, July 2, 7:15 PM, Yale Divinity School, and Stories from Zimbabwe, Friday, July 3, 8:30 PM
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:30 PM
Screening/discussion of African Christianity Rising--Part1: Stories from Ghana, Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, CT
January 2009
Video exhibits open at R. E. Phelon African Hall at the Springfield Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts. Including: "A Day in Ghana", "A Day Zimbabwe", "Mrs. Bwawa-School Teacher, ZIMBABWE", "Bishop Sarpong-Life and Outlook" GHANA, "Losagio-A Family Matter, ZIMBABWE", plus "Introduction".
May 19, 2007
Presenter, Workshop on Moral Conflicts in American Politics
Princeton University
(times & place TBA)
April 28-May 16, 2007
Zimbabwe-screening & follow-up filming in Harare & Mutare (times & dates TBA)
March 24, 2007
"Toward a New Christianity: Screening/Discussion of Film Series (in progress) on African Christianity and Its World Significance"
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN
Northwestern Auditorium
5:15 PM
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC--Part of Conference, March 23-5 on "African Christianity and the Neo-Diaspora"
March 22, 2007
Screening & lecture
African Christianity & Immigrant Life
Immigration History Research Center
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
4-6 PM 120 Andersen Library
February 9, 2007
African Christianity and its World Significance
Screening & discussion
Westmont College
Santa Barbara, CA
Founders Hall 3:30-5PM
November 19, 2006
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
Screening & discussion led by producer/director James Ault of pieces of a documentary series on African Christianity now in the process of completion. Filmed in Ghana, Zimbabwe and the USA.
Sunday 8:30-10:30 PM
November 13-17, 2006
"Digital Video & Global Christianity" workshop
Overseas Ministries Study Center
New Haven, CT
www.omsc.org
October 7 10:15-11:45 AM
Presenting pieces of documentary series on African Christianity at "Spirit in the World, An International Symposium on the Dynamics of Pentecostal Growth and Experience" held at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. For webcast & other details see www.usc.edu/pentecostalism.
September 2006
Major funding received to complete documentary series on African Christianity from the John Templeton Foundation . (Additional funding from the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship and the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College.)
Monday, May 22
Rice University, Houston, Texas
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING & CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
Telling Stories of Religion & Race Through Film
Award-winning documentary filmmaker & author, Dr. James Ault, will screen pieces of his documentary films & lead a discussion on the methods of cinéma-vérité filmmaking & their relationship to understanding religion, race & other core aspects of modern life.
3:30-5:30 PM Sewall Hall, Rice University
March 12, 2006
Talk & booksigning for "Spirit & Flesh", First Church (Unitarian), Boston, MA.
Tuesday, February 21
"Can Liberals Lead America? Understanding (and Misunderstanding) Popular Conservatism in America." Lecture/discussion for the "Hot Topics" series of the New College Foundation. The Music Room, College Hall, New College, Sarasota, FL
4:30-6:30 PM
February 15, 2006
New College, Sarasota, FL. "African Christianity, the African American experience, and the World." Screening/discussion of documentaries (in progress) on African Christianity and on Jobe's Barber Shop and Beauty Salon, Grand Rapids, MI The Music Room, College Hall, 7:00 PM
January 7-8, 2006
Visiting and filming Tabernacle Baptist Church, Utica, NY, traditional New Year's celebration of Karen members from Myanmar, as part of multicultural congregations project.
December 2005
With funding from the Louisville Institute, and with colleagues Rudy and Shirley Nelson, we launch a new documentary project, "A Call for Change: The Global Church in America," which will portray the experiences of multicultural congregations and the lessons they hold for the church and the world.
November 25-7
Film "Mission 2005" of members of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana visiting sister churches in NYC to demonstrate and teach deliverance ministry. For African Christianity project.
Thursday, November 11
Massachusetts Book Awards 2005, Double Tree Hotel, Lowell, MA. Evening awards ceremony. SPIRIT & FLESH receives Honor Award for Nonfiction from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. For information, www.massbook.org.
Sunday, July 17
The Kopkind Colony, Guilford, VT, 7 PM
Screening/discussion of BORN AGAIN and discussion of SPIRIT & FLESH.
June 2005
Premier broadcast of Northampton's Living History Community Heritage Project, Program One: "KIM HOWES: Son of Florence"
Community Access Cable Television: Northampton, Massachusetts, and surrounding communities (check local listings)
June 26 2005
Discussion of SPIRIT & FLESH at St. Philips Episcopal Church, Garrison, NY, Sunday afternoon
June 14
Stony Brook Lecture
7 PM, Second Baptist Church
589 Granby Rd. (Rt.202)
South Hadley, MA
Info: 413-427-2643
Speaking from SPIRIT & FLESH and screening parts of BORN AGAIN.
May 25
Reading/discussion of SPIRIT & FLESH
7 PM--Forbes Library, Northampton, MA
May 23
Screening & discussion of BORN AGAIN: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
7 PM--Forbes Library, Northampton, MA
Tuesday, May 3
African Christianity
New Faith for a New World
8 PM
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI
Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author, James Ault, will screen and discuss parts of his documentary series (in progress) on the growth and transformation of Christianity in Africa filmed in Ghana and Zimbabwe.
Monday, May 2
Reading/screening 7 PM
Schuler Books & Music
28th St., Grand Rapids, MI
Author and documentary filmmaker, Jim Ault, will read from his new book "SPIRIT & FLESH: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church (Alfred Knopf, 2004) and show pieces of his award-winning documentary on the same Massachusetts congregation, "Born Again."
Wednesday, April 20, 7:30 PM
Belding Library, Ashfield, MA
Author/filmmaker James Ault will read from his new book, "SPIRIT & FLESH: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church" and screen pieces of his award-winning documentary on this same Worcester congregation "Born Again."
Friday, April 14th
"WHY DO WE AMERICANS FIGHT SO MUCH ABOUT `FAMILY VALUES'?" An interpretation of culture conflicts in church and society by author/filmmaker James Ault, from his new book SPIRIT & FLESH: LIFE IN A FUNDAMENTALIST BAPTIST CHURCH - Philadelphia, PA
McInnis Learning Center, Eastern University, St. David's campus 10 AM
Monday, April 11
Bennington College, Bennington, VT. 7pm Social Science Colloquium--presentation and screening: "Spirit & Flesh: Understanding Christian Fundamentalism and Social Conservatism in America." Lecture/theater Barn 100.
Thursday, March 31, 7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble Books
Hadley, MA
Local author/filmmaker James Ault will discuss his new book "SPIRIT & FLESH: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church" and screen pieces of its award-winning companion documentary, "Born Again."
March 3rd
Faculty Seminar at the University of Notre Dame.
Wednesday, March 2
Lunch with Twin Cities clergy association, Holy Trinity Church, Minneapolis.
Tuesday, March 1st
Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 4 PM, public lecture and screening: "Spirit & Flesh: Understanding Christian Fundamentalism and Social Conservatism in America."
Monday, February 28
The Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, 7PM, public lecture and screening: "Spirit & Flesh: Understanding Christian Fundamentalism and Social Conservatism in America."
Friday, February 25
Political Theory Colloquium, University of Minnesota, 1:00 pm "The Popular Appeal of Christian Fundamentalism and Social Conservatism in American Life"
Tuesday, February 10th
Reading and booksigning at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 335 Russell St., Hadley, MA 7 PM.
Tuesday, January 25th
Faculty Seminar at Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT
November 5-7, 2004
SPIRIT & FLESH author, James Ault, participates in the Sarasota Reading Festival and the St Petersburg Times Festival of Reading
Tuesday, October 13
Talk to the Covenant Association of church
leaders in Nashville, TN
October 8-10, 2004
SPIRIT & FLESH's author, James Ault, participates in the Southern Festival of Books, Memphis, Tennessee. Panel on Saturday 1 PM with book-signing to follow.
Tuesday, September 21th,
SPIRIT & FLESH talk and booksigning, Broadside Bookshop, 247 Main St., Northampton, MA. 7:30pm
September 5th, 2004
SPIRIT & FLESH reviewed in The Washington Post: "The best single-volume explanation of why American fundamentalist Christianity thrives among certain people, what needs it fulfills and why it will not die out . . . as rewarding to the beach reader as to the graduate student."
March 24th, 2004
Screening of BORN AGAIN and discussion of SPIRIT & FLESH's themes, with filmmaker/author James Ault
Center for Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
