{"title":"Book Review: A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality","authors":"Jenny McGill","doi":"10.1177/23969393231197729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231197729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139392904","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}
{"title":"The China Mission in the Early Seventeenth Century: The Link between Higher Administration and On-the-Ground Missions","authors":"Jingzhen Xie","doi":"10.1177/23969393231208452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231208452","url":null,"abstract":"Adopting an accommodationist strategy with a positive attitude, the mission in China had a breakthrough when Matteo Ricci reached the Ming Court in 1601. Valentin Carvaglio’s Lettre de la Chine de l’an 1601 reports on this historical moment and testifies that the Jesuits’ intelligent, discreet, and humble presence under the guidance of the policy was an effective strategy. However, after Ricci’s death, the high profile adopted by the mission and tensions between Carvaglio and Nicholas Longobardi caused setbacks. This article seeks to provide a deeper understanding of how new mission directions and tensions between the administration from above and missions on the ground can impact mission.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139393339","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}
{"title":"Spirit-Filled World: Religious Dis/Continuity in African Pentecostalism","authors":"M. S. Kgatle","doi":"10.1177/23969393231182053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231182053","url":null,"abstract":"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 certain popular religions in African Pentecostalism on the one hand, and discontinuity with certain aspects of it on the other hand—hence the concept “dis/continuity.” Seeking a balance, this review article explores Anderson’s text in regards to both the context of African Pentecostalism’s continuity with popular religion, where there is connection between people’s challenges and the spirit world, and the context of discontinuity, where African Pentecostalism is delinked from certain aspects of popular religion based on the very different ways in which African Pentecostalism addresses people’s various problems. In summary, while African traditional religions as an expression of popular religion use different mediums to find solutions, African Pentecostalism uses the power of the Holy Spirit for the same.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":" 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139393450","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}
{"title":"Interfaith Collaborations and Development in Botswana: Focus on Pentecostals and Other Christian Denominations","authors":"F. Nkomazana, Elizabeth Motswapong","doi":"10.1177/23969393231182136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231182136","url":null,"abstract":"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, dialogue, and cooperate on issues of mutual and national interests, thus contributing to the development of the country. These umbrella bodies and organizations are charged with fostering unity among different churches. In this article, Pentecostalism, under the umbrella body of Evangelical Fellowship of Botswana (EFB), is used as an example of interfaith collaboration with other churches to foster development in Botswana. These networks are being done in the spirit of the Lambeth Conference of 1998 that pointed out that: “Dialogue with people of other faith begins when people meet each other . . . in mutual understanding, respect, and trust . . . to share in service to the community . . . as an authentic witness.” These liaisons herein referred to as interfaith networks have immensely contributed to development in Botswana.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"8 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139395092","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}
{"title":"Book Review: Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Mission in Contemporary Xiamen","authors":"C. Chow","doi":"10.1177/23969393231197827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231197827","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"348 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139395114","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}
{"title":"Pandemonium, Pandemethics, Pantopia: What’s in a Word?","authors":"V. Küster","doi":"10.1177/23969393231182334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231182334","url":null,"abstract":"At the margins of the Covid-19 pandemic, religious groups aroused a pandemonium fueled by racism and discrimination against the poor and vulnerable with references to apocalyptic thought patterns. Imagining pantopia versus the “new normal” brings realized eschatology to the dialogue table. God’s option for the poor and the whole of creation is a critique of the neoliberal Anthropocene. It is not only we who try to interpret the virus, the virus is also interpreting us. The hermeneutical circle was suddenly interrupted by a contraflow. The injustices of global neoliberal capitalism and the intersectionality of different forms of discrimination revealed by the virus may not be covered up again but must be tackled by an intercultural pandemethics.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"478 - 488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44387274","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}
{"title":"Book Review: The Shape of Christian History: Continuity and Diversity in the Global Church","authors":"Andrew K. Opie","doi":"10.1177/23969393231173384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231173384","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"586 - 587"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43255751","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}
{"title":"Lived Poetics as a Contemplative Stance of Christian Witness: The Case from Australia for a World in Crisis","authors":"Xiaoli Yang","doi":"10.1177/23969393231175175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231175175","url":null,"abstract":"This paper evokes reflections on “lived poetics” as a contemplative stance of Christian witness during the recent pandemic in the context of multicultural Australia “Down Under.” Following an explanation of lived poetics, this paper articulates how deep listening, imagination, and participation are encompassed during periods of lockdown. By amplifying the author’s own and other Australian poetic voices, it seeks to demonstrate the power of lived poetics rooted in lived experience is both inspirational and transformative. It argues that this aesthetic epistemological path to make a beautiful and meaningful life is an effective contemplative stance of Christian witness in a broken world. It offers a new spiritual horizon of beauty that may save the world from decay and ashes, a new way of being and becoming fully alive.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"489 - 504"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45280307","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}
{"title":"Stephen Neill: A Colonial Scholar in an Independent Kenya (1969–1973)","authors":"Dyron B. Daughrity","doi":"10.1177/23969393231170552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231170552","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on Bishop Stephen Neill’s years (1969–1973) as the founding chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi. While he succeeded in his goal of establishing a fine academic program, almost nobody lamented his departure. While chiefly about Neill, the article touches upon larger issues related to Anglicanism and colonialism in a newly independent Kenya. It features a summary of interviews with Professor Jesse Mugambi, a longtime professor at the university, who worked with Neill during this era. It also includes a brief assessment of Neill’s time in Nairobi from the missionary-demographer David Barrett. A shorter version of this article was given in January 2023 to the American Society of Church History.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"525 - 535"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45064448","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}
{"title":"Book Review: Zhang Yijing (1871–1931) and the Search for a Chinese Christian Identity","authors":"M. Rauch","doi":"10.1177/23969393231172936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231172936","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"591 - 592"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46175131","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}