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World Christianity 2024: Fragmentation and Unity International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Gina A. Zurlo, Todd M. Johnson, Peter F. Crossing
This article marks the 40th year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year’s focus is on organizations that address the global fragmentation of Christianity by promoting dialogue among Christians. We identify here some of the larger umbrella organizations that seek to represent or bring together portions of four
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Grundzüge der Außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte: Asien, Afrika, und Lateinamerika 1450–2000 (Main Features of the Non-European History of Christianity: Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450–2000) International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Kevin Ward
Professor Klaus Koschorke’s pioneering work Grundzüge der Außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte: Asien, Afrika, und Lateinamerika 1450–2000 (Main features of the non-European history of Christianity: Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450–2000) provides an overview of the historical development of Christianity in the Global South between 1450 and 2000. Koschorke emphasized the “polycentric” nature
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Spirit-Filled World: Religious Dis/Continuity in African Pentecostalism International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
African Pentecostalism is in continuity with popular religion in linking African challenges and problems to the spirit world. However, Allan Anderson, a leading Pentecostal theologian, argues that this continuity should be studied simultaneously with the discontinuity between African Pentecostalism and certain popular religions. Based on this argument, there exists a tension between continuity with
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Interfaith Collaborations and Development in Botswana: Focus on Pentecostals and Other Christian Denominations International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Fidelis Nkomazana, Elizabeth Motswapong
The article seeks to address how religion under the auspices of interfaith networks and collaborations continues to be pivotal in the development of countries across the globe. These networks and collaborations come in different forms such as interfaith education, dialogue, and cooperation. Inter- and intra-faith umbrella bodies/organizations continue to provide forums for religious committees to gather
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Deep Rivers: A Pentecostal Approach to Disciple-Making International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Asia E. Williamson, Joseph W. Handley
The exponential growth worldwide of Pentecostalism during the twentieth century is undeniable. Through its remarkable growth, Pentecostalism has made a robust contribution to Christians’ overall understanding of the nature and power of the Holy Spirit. One area needing further exploration is the theological and biblical roots of Pentecostalism’s teachings on discipleship. This article’s analysis will
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Gerald H. Anderson and the Overseas Ministries Study Center: “Mission Trends” from Postcolonialism to World Christianity International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Dana L. Robert
This article introduces the scholarship and administrative accomplishments of Dr. Gerald H. Anderson, longtime Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center and Editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Based on his missionary experience in the Philippines, his voluminous writings, and his founding of major missiological organizations, Anderson was central to the reframing of
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Rediscovering the Spiritual in Religious Conversion Studies International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Kelly Michael Hilderbrand
This article is a review of conversion research and how it views the spiritual within conversion. Central to missions is the understanding of the process of conversion. Missiologists, psychologists, sociologists, and theologians have all studied the process of conversion. An evaluation of conversion studies shows that researchers tend to ignore or downplay the role of spiritual agency or the supernatural
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The Importance of Thai Christian Art: An Analysis of Three Artists and Their Impact on Society International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Wipawee Panjinda
In this article, three differing approaches to faith representation will be presented. Sawai Chinnawong uses a traditional Thai art form, while Arnan Moontrakorn utilizes an amalgamated approach to Thai and Modern art. Jompol Puatawee, while using Thai imagery in his contemporary art style, does not reference traditional symbols. The artists featured, while all representing their Christian faith, do
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“That’s Jesus’s Intent, and That Was Our Intent Too!”: African Migration, Race, and US Missions International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Kimberly Akano
In this essay, I analyze the intersection of African migration, race, and Christianity in the United States to highlight the 1960s as a pivotal moment of African immigrant influence on US missions....
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“Spiritually Dynamic but Ecclesially Deviant”: African Immigrant Christianity and New Ecumenical Terrain in the West International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Matthew J. Krabill
This article argues that the presence of African immigrant Christianity in the West presents a critical, yet largely overlooked and unexplored arena for exploring ecumenical relations. The article ...
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Seeing the World Through African Eyes: A Tribute to Andrew Walls International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Jehu J. Hanciles
This is an autobiographical essay describing the seminal impact that eminent World Christianity scholar Andrew Walls (1928–2021) had on my intellectual life and scholarship from the time I became a...
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Possessing the Nations: Immigration and the Changing Landscape of the Church in Scotland International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Sheila Akomiah-Conteh
The landscape of Christianity in Britain has changed significantly in the last sixty years. The presence and influence of old and established church institutions have significantly diminished, but ...
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Every Christian Migrant a Potential Missionary: Reflections on the Missiology of the Redeemed Christian Church of God International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Harvey Kwiyani
This essay explores a key theme that undergirds Jehu Hanciles’s scholarship—that every Christian migrant is a potential missionary. Using the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) from Nigeria as...
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World Christianity 2023: A Gendered Approach International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Gina A. Zurlo, Todd M. Johnson, Peter F. Crossing
This article marks the 39th year of including statistical information on World Christianity and mission in the International Bulletin of Mission Research. This year’s focus is on women in World Chr...
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Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Philip A. Noss
Jewish Bible Translations, by the renowned Jewish scholar Leonard Greenspoon, is a classic study of the translation of the Bible. The first of its kind, it is an informative and instructive model f...
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Worshiping, Witnessing, and Wondering: Christian Wisdom for Participation in the Mission of God International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Kirsteen Kim
This review of Thomas John Hastings, Worshiping, Witnessing, and Wondering: Christian Wisdom for Participation in the Mission of God (2022), offers comments on its contextual and biblical foundatio...
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Pathways to Belonging: An Examination of Christian Identity in Tibetan Buddhist Contexts International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Jason D. Loper
This article examines the missiological challenge of group identity within Tibetan Buddhist contexts from both theological and sociocultural perspectives. It asserts that Paul’s comments in 1 Corin...
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Where the Dewdrops Fall: Shalom International Ministry and the Cultivation of a Twenty-First-Century Missionary Movement International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Jennifer L. Aycock, Gad Mpoyo
In our roles as lead pastor (Gad Mpoyo) and worshiping member/lay preacher (Jennifer L. Aycock), we have conducted a case study of Shalom International Ministry, a New Worshiping Community in the P...
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Digital Expressions of Church: The Online Identity of Free Churches as a Mirror of Their Missional Mentality International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Philipp Bartholomä
Free churches traditionally operated in a “revivalistic mode,” primarily reaching those who had already been religiously socialized. Within post-Christendom, however, they find it increasingly diff...
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Theologies of Fulfillment in a Reciprocal Study of Relationships between John Laughton and Rua Kēnana in Aotearoa New Zealand International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Steve Taylor
Crossing the borders of religion presents challenges and provides opportunities. This article presents a contextualized case study from Aotearoa New Zealand, examining the lifelong relationship bet...
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What Has Jerusalem to Do with the Internet? World Christianity and Digital Culture International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Alexander Chow
This article was originally presented as the keynote address at the 2021 Yale-Edinburgh Conference, on the theme “Oral, Print, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the History of Mission....
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Translation and Theology: The Lord’s Prayer in Three Chinese Versions International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Changping Zha
This study examines translations of the Lord’s Prayer in the Chinese Union Version, Today’s Chinese Version, and the Contemporary Chinese Version (New Testament), exploring how the doctrine of the ...
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In Search of Transformative Ways of Being in Mission: Introducing the Mission Spirituality Spiral International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Laura Lepori, Madge Karecki, †
This article reflects on the interface between missiology (and mission) and spirituality (including spirituality in practice). It explores the relationship between the two disciplines and introduce...
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Misunderstanding Misunderstanding: Exploring the Depth of Hindrance to Cross-Cultural Communications International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Geoff Beech
Those who have endeavored to engage cross-culturally understand that the process is neither simple nor straightforward. Apart from the obvious problems associated with understanding and misundersta...
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Book Review: Contextualization or Syncretism? The Use of Other-Faith Worship Forms in the Bible and in Insider Movements International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Christian J. Anderson
Few topics in missiology stir up heartfelt disagreement like Muslim contextualization. For fifty years now, evangelical missionaries have argued over how “Muslim” a Muslim-background church should be. Different passages of Scripture, understandably, have been wielded on different sides, but in this book Derek Brotherson aims to explore what the Bible as a whole has to say to the issue. The conundrums
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World Christianity: Now “in Season” International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Craig A. Noll
Greetings from the IBMR editorial trenches! In February 1992 I received a call from Gerald Anderson, director of OMSC (or maybe it was from Assistant Editor Bob Coote), asking whether I’d be willing to copyedit some material for the April 1992 issue of the IBMR. “Yes,” I said, “be glad to.” The calls kept coming, issue after issue. At some point, it became all the material for every issue.
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Tracking the Statistical Center of Global Seventh-day Adventism, from 1863 to the Present International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Gabriel Masfa
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination with roots in the Millerites’ experience in North America in the nineteenth century. From its inception until the 1960s, Seventh-day Adv...
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A Bias for the Gospel International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Mark R. Teasdale
In place of the various scholarly definitions of the word “evangelism” that emphasize specific practices and outcomes, a new definition should be developed that clarifies the gospel message and presents a positive disposition toward that message. Such a definition would overcome the core difficulties facing the church in North America and would have strong biblical support. The recommended definition
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Ecumenism of Blood and Christian Churches in Contemporary Nigeria International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Adolphus Ekedimma Amaefule
There has recently been an upsurge in the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, especially in northern Nigeria by the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram, and in the Middle Belt and other areas of the country by Muslim Fulani herdsmen. One of the characteristics of these persecutions is that while they are targeted mainly at Christians, these Christians are never separated along the lines of their denominations
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Asia Pacific Theological Association: Three Decades of Contribution toward Pentecostal Research and Ministry Training International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Denise A. Austin, John F. Carter
The Assemblies of God World Missions of the USA lists over 2,500 affiliated Bible schools, extension centers, and seminaries in the regions it serves worldwide, collectively with over 170,000 students. While some research has explored the history of theological education in the Asia Pacific, few have examined Pentecostal training in the region. This article argues that, over the last thirty years,
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A Case Study in Indigeneity in the Philippines: Looking Back at a 1930s Effort to Do Missions Using Indigenous Church Principles International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Marcus W. Dean
This article focuses on the missions efforts of a small denomination from the framework of indigeneity. Within the 1930s missions structure of the Pilgrim Holiness Church, one person was instrumental in the implementation of a mission policy focused on indigeneity. A part of this study is an overview of the concepts of indigeneity available in 1930 to place the policy in its missiological context.
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The Missiological Challenge of the Anonymous Missionary in the Nordic Context International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Jukka Kääriäinen
At the intersection of international development and Christian mission, are we in an era of the “anonymous missionary”? Karl Rahner proposed the “anonymous Christian” for understanding the religious other. Analogously, can a secular development professional, employed by a Christian mission agency, be considered an “anonymous missionary”? Can a professional hold a personal, secular identity while publicly
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Protestant Missionaries’ Understanding of and Attitude toward African Religion in Colonial Malawi International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Dorothy Tembo
This article explains missionaries’ understanding of African spirituality in colonial Malawi. More particularly, it describes missionaries’ attempts to isolate their converts from African cultural influences in order to create a well-balanced Christian community. The article analyzes missionaries’ attitude toward African religion, which ranged from denial to acknowledgment of religion in African communities
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Around the World in 283 Days: Traveling with the Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry Commission of Appraisal International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Peggy Bowler Lindsey
The Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry was an ambitious attempt by seven mainline Protestant denominations to evaluate the state of American foreign missions in 1931–32. It consisted of two parts, a fact-finding mission and the Commission of Appraisal, the findings of which are known as the Hocking Report. The Report stirred quite a bit of controversy and helped shape American Protestant missions for
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Syncretism and Christian Tradition: Race and Revelation in the Study of Religious Mixture International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Stephen Bevans
Syncretism is often regarded among theologians and missiologists as a negative process, even a betrayal of the gospel. In this book by Ross Kane of Virginia Theological Seminary, another view is offered, arguing that reasons for this negative view are often colored by colonialism and even racism, and they depend on too narrow a notion of revelation and Christian tradition. Every expression of Christianity—in
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The Legacy of Ellen G. White in Africa International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Gabriel Masfa
Although Ellen G. White, an influential American Seventh-day Adventist religious figure, never visited Africa in person, between 1887 and 1908 she wrote several letters to Adventist missionaries there and remained interested in the growth of Seventh-day Adventism among Africans until her death in July 1915. This article examines White’s contribution by analyzing correspondence between her and key Adventist
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Church Digitalization and the New Koinonia in the Era of the “Internet of Things” International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Sonny Eli Zaluchu
The church is facing an existential challenge caused by the current pandemic and by what has been called the Internet of Things. It consequently has no choice but to adapt and adjust as it addresses the needs of the present generation. This article discusses how these changes have occurred and how the church in general has repositioned itself as Church 5.0. Because of shifts away from certain traditional
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Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC: The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Dwight P. Baker
Organizations, including missionary NGOs, have both an inside and an outside: external circumstances and pressures to which they react, as well as core values that define them and guide, even impel, their actions. In Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC, Jeremy Rich provides a longitudinal study of the Congo Protestant Relief Agency, a mission-sponsored humanitarian NGO. He documents
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Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples: Four Hundred Years in the Service of the Missionary World International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Marek Adam Rostkowski
The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, commonly called Propaganda Fide, turned four hundred years old on January 6, 2022. Here we try to answer three fundamental questions about the Congregation: Why? For what purpose? Has it succeeded in reaching its objectives? We present here only the highlights of the history and activity of this organ of the Holy See in the service of the missionary
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A Faith with Which We Can Go Public: The Witness of Desmond Tutu International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Nico Koopman
This article highlights features of the public faith and theology of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who set a distinctive example of participation in the missio Dei. Tutu emphasized God’s inclusive love for the world, which the church is called to proclaim. He taught that God is always more than our best interpretations and representations of God’s revelation to us. Human beings have particular
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Royal Power Perfected (also Triumphing!) in Weakness International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Thomas John Hastings
I write this editorial in the midst of a challenging Lenten season. These days I often feel that kind of sinking, hold-your-breath moment of dread as when a plane on its final approach lists hard left and right just before safely touching down. Given the perilous situation facing far too many of God’s beloved children—Ukrainian civilians in the crosshairs of a tyrant operating with the blessing of
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Pentecostal Culture in Rio’s Peripheries: Graffiti and National Political Agency International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Christina Vital da Cunha
In this article, I revisit the formulations of anthropologist Pierre Sanchis about "urban popular culture," with the aim of making comparisons with Pentecostal growth in the peripheries beginning in the 2000s. This growth has revealed comparisons between existing cultural references and new aesthetic and grammatical forms, with repercussions in social interactions, the economy, and local and supralocal
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The Church and the Pandemic in Burma International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Pum Za Mang
This article explores how the Burmese, traumatized by deepening political crisis and state violence resulting from the military coup in February 2021, have endured the devastation of the virus, how that staggering virus shattered churches, and how churches, with modest assets, managed to help each other to survive together. Amid an inexpressible health crisis tearing them apart, churches epitomized
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Revisiting Lamin Sanneh’s “Western Guilt Complex” from a Grassroots Perspective International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-05-20 K. Kale Yu
In his critique of the so-called Western guilt complex, the late Lamin Sanneh challenged scholars and Christians to consider the transmission of Christianity beyond the scope of Western perspectives. This article revisits Sanneh’s seminal work to discuss the ways the Western guilt complex undermines our ability to understand indigenous knowledge systems, which inform and stimulate religious sensibilities
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An Analysis of the Philippine Catholic Church’s Approach to President Duterte’s Drug War International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Christopher Ryan Maboloc
Institutional clashes are catalysts for sociopolitical change, as illustrated by the five-hundred-year history of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The church remains instrumental in the conscientization process after the EDSA People Power Revolution (1986). However, the challenge now facing the church—in particular, President Duterte’s “war on drugs”—requires a more resolute approach. This article
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The Gathering of Scattered Israel: The Missional Enterprise of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Ronald E. Bartholomew
This article focuses on LDS missionary theology; changing missionary practices, training, and demographics of the missionary force in historical perspective; the relationship between the size of the missionary force and church growth; and the LDS Church’s geographic expansion as an international church.
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Christian Witness in Turkey: A Personal and Biblical Commentary International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Wolfgang Häde
This article discusses the witness of Protestant Christians in Turkey from historical, empirical, and theological perspectives. A historical survey from the Ottoman Empire around 1820 to the present is followed by an overview of the variety in forms of Christian witness today. Short, exemplary personal stories of converts from Islam to the Christian faith demonstrate the impact of the witness. In some
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Social and Religious Inculturation of Health Care in the Roman Catholic Mission in Georgia International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Ana Chkuaseli
This article examines the social and religious aspects of medical activities conducted by Roman Catholic missionaries in Georgia from the seventeenth century. The writings of Cristoforo di Castelli, Giudice di Milano, and Arcangelo Lamberti and a Georgian-Italian bilingual manuscript “Glossary of Medicinal Plants” have been analyzed to determine the theoretical and practical issues related to missionary
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Introductory Essay: African Theological Advance International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Tite Tiénou
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Kwame Bediako Makes an Offer International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Joel Carpenter
This review essay addresses the major themes of Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako’s thought, as presented in Tim Hartman, Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity. Bediako advocated examining the traditional spirituality of African peoples, studying the Bible in vernacular languages, and asking how the person and work of Jesus Christ engage local cultures. He insisted that Western theology
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Book review: Global United Methodism: Telling the Stories, Living into the Realities International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-03-15 David Bundy
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Book Review: The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Stephen Di Trolio Coakley
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Book Review: Towards a Pentecostal Theology of Praxis: A Case Study International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Mark J. Cartledge
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Book Review: A Public Missiology: How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-01-30 J. Jayakiran Sebastian
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Book Review: A Malawi Church History, 1860–2020 International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Emma Wild-Wood
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Book Review: Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity By David R. Swartz International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Robert L. Gallagher
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The Global Flourishing Study: A New Era for the Study of Well-Being International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele
The Global Flourishing Study (GFS) will involve data collection for some 240,000 participants, from twenty-two geographically and culturally diverse countries, with annual data collection on the same individuals for five years. The survey includes questions on well-being, along with demographic, social, economic, political, religious, personality, childhood, community, health, and character-based questions
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Migration and the Making of Global Christianity International Bulletin of Mission Research Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Daniel Jeyaraj
This book documents how Christian migrants from the origins of Christianity until 1500 helped establish Christianity as a world religion. Its sociohistorical methodology identifies and celebrates the contributions of ordinary Christian migrants in cross-cultural and transnational contexts. It argues that Christian missionary engagements are often incorrectly associated with empire and institutional
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