Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341865
Michael L. Copeland (郭麦克)
{"title":"“The Hatred in My Heart”: Challenges and Opportunities of Han Christian Identity in Engaging Uyghur Muslims","authors":"Michael L. Copeland (郭麦克)","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341865","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000As Han Christians continue to engage in Christian mission, understanding their interaction with Uyghur Muslims gives insights into growing barriers and future possibilities. Oral histories and relevant historical sources qualitatively explain the challenges and opportunities involved in Han Christian interaction with Uyghurs Muslims. The article assesses the historical and current backgrounds of both groups. Comparing self-reported identities and interactions reveal not just their distinctives but also opportunities for connection. Finally, this article discusses these specific opportunities, despite escalating tensions, for continued Han Christian engagement in Christian mission with Uyghurs, especially as it relates to sharing translated scripture.","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44067750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341877
James A. E. Mulroney
{"title":"Confessions of a Chinese Heroine: The Labor Camp Memoirs of Sr. Ying Mulan, written by Teresa Ying Mulan","authors":"James A. E. Mulroney","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42545219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341871
D. Ireland
{"title":"Schism: Seventh-Day Adventism in Post-Denominational China, written by Christie Chui-Shan Chow","authors":"D. Ireland","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341871","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44267204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341882
Dao Zi (岛子)
{"title":"Dark Candles and Prayers","authors":"Dao Zi (岛子)","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341882","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45417505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341875
Matthew P. Winslow
{"title":"Inside the Church of Almighty God: The Most Persecuted Religious Movement in China, written by Massimo Introvigne","authors":"Matthew P. Winslow","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341875","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49055142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341870
J. Seitz
{"title":"China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church, written by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye","authors":"J. Seitz","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341870","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47024234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341862
Jue Wang (王珏)
{"title":"Ideologies and Commitments: An Analysis of Three Typical Attitudes to the Protestant Missions in the Anti-Christian Movement","authors":"Jue Wang (王珏)","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341862","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper presents various Chinese-Christian understandings of the Protestant missions from the U.S. and U.K. in the 1920s. By examining three typical attitudes represented by Zhao Zichen, Li Chunfan, and Zhang Yijing, the author argues that external influences from ideologies – such as nationalism – alone are insufficient to explain the differences among them. Looking closely at what Zhao, Li, and Zhang wrote about the Anti-Christian Movement, it is argued that their inner commitments should be included when accounting for their differences.","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46330092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341863
David H. F. Ng (吴海辉)
{"title":"Constructed Identities and Potent Imaginaries","authors":"David H. F. Ng (吴海辉)","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341863","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper offers a missiological reflection on the construction of Mainland Chinese ethnic and racial identity. Through a survey of scholarly literature on both the ethnic classification project in Mainland China and “yellow” as a racial designator in Western imagination, this article demonstrates their fluid, constructed, and imagined nature in the context of power, inequality, and vulnerability. While these imposed constructions are contested and negotiated, they are also, to varying extents, shared and accepted. This article also argues that such constructed identities and imaginaries can powerfully shape our understanding and encounter with others in our increasingly diverse and interconnected world. For the Christian, Jesus’ humble, self-giving, sacrificial love and service should shape our identity and relationship with others in ways that transcend our inherited ethnic and racial identity constructions. As citizens of heaven, Christians – in both their attitudes and practices – should thus model an alternative to the ethnic and racial division and brokenness already evident in the church and the world.","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43874915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341867
Xiaoli Yang (杨晓莉)
{"title":"Who Am I?","authors":"Xiaoli Yang (杨晓莉)","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341867","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45176006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-06-07DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341845
Emmanuel Katongole
{"title":"Mission as Integral Ecology: Doing Theology at Bethany","authors":"Emmanuel Katongole","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341845","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Christianity’s reality in the global south where poverty, climate change, ecological degradation and marginalization are the daily, lived experience of the majority of the world’s population, presents theologians with a unique moment of challenge and opportunity for theological exploration, experimentation, and missiological innovation. This article explores and analyzes one such experiment, the Bethany Land Institute (BLI, https://bethanylandinstitute.org/) in Uganda. Inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, BLI promotes the concept and practice of integral ecology as a lens for missiological reflection. The article argues that integral ecology, as pursued at BLI, invites us to rethink the traditional themes of Christian mission such as conversion, love, spirituality, and ecclesiology. It also provides a new model of doing theology, one that is particularly appropriate in an era marked by World Christianity, and by the global ecological crisis.","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41936725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}