{"title":"Book Review: She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton: The Illustrated Odyssey of a Princeton Slave","authors":"David Latimore","doi":"10.1177/23969393221139224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221139224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"583 - 585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42303439","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":"Insider and Outsider Knowledge: Etic and Emic Perspectives on Empirical Missiological Research and Its Consequences for Theological Education","authors":"T. Schuckert","doi":"10.1177/23969393231172499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231172499","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the need for a distinction between an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective in missiological research. It uses the concept of etic and emic that has been developed by the linguist Kenneth Pike, demonstrating the need from the historical example of the representation of Indian life and religion in Europe as well as some epistemological questions that evolve from the topic. Here, an outsider’s perspective led to a misunderstanding of Hinduism that has persisted to the present day. This contribution introduces recent research examples that illustrate the integrating etic and emic perspectives in research. After some practical considerations, the article concludes with consequences for theological education for missions.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"505 - 514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47058066","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":"Lessons from a Minority Church","authors":"T. Hastings","doi":"10.1177/23969393231191972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231191972","url":null,"abstract":"Knowing of my experience in Japan, a professor at one of South Korea’s leading theological seminaries made the following surprising comment during a recent visit to my office. “Given the current challenges of the Korean churches, such as leadership scandals, an aging and shrinking Christian population, and the secularization and materialism of society, I believe we may have something to learn from the experience of the minority churches of Japan.” With close to 30% of its population identifying as Christian, since the 1980s South Korea has been the poster child for church growth and missionary mobilization in East Asia, so I was shocked to hear a Korean theologian looking to Japan for guidance, where Christians make up a mere 1–2% of the population. In part as a response to this declaration, I plan to offer some reflections on the missional situation of the Japanese churches in my final editorials of the IBMR. Sometime in the 1930’s, Kagawa Toyohiko, the world-renowned Japanese evangelist, social reformer, and writer, told the following story.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"457 - 460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47148733","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: Christian Tradition in Global Perspective","authors":"Lalsangkima Pachuau","doi":"10.1177/23969393231173383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231173383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"587 - 589"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48648388","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":"Seventh-day Adventist Understandings of Islam and Muslims from the 1840s–1920s","authors":"A. Tompkins","doi":"10.1177/23969393231164326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231164326","url":null,"abstract":"Seventh-day Adventist understandings of Islam can be traced to the Millerite movement and the prophetic prediction that the Muslim Ottoman Empire would fall in 1840. The Seventh-day Adventist movement, which came out of the Millerite movement, would continue to connect Islam and prophecy throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Often the prophetic discussions of Islam utilized demeaning language and racialized terminologies to describe Muslims as anti-Christian forces. There was very little personal interaction between Seventh-day Adventists and Muslims during the nineteenth century. This gradually changed in the twentieth century as more Seventh-day Adventists worked in places with significant Muslim populations. As a result, an alternative way of describing and understanding Islam emerged that was less reliant on prophetic interpretation and took more seriously the lives and beliefs of Muslims. While the general tone towards Islam typically was negative through the 1920s the increase in interaction began to create the possibility for less antagonistic understandings of Muslims.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"515 - 524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48616711","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":"Mission and Dialogue: An Assessment of the Interaction of Orthodox Theology and Practice with the Reformation","authors":"Evi Voulgaraki-Pissina","doi":"10.1177/23969393221138358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221138358","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the mutual influence between the Reformers and the Orthodox in mission and interfaith dialogue. Relations between the two began soon after the Reformation itself, and since the founding of the modern Greek state (1830) three main historical phases can be distinguished: an initial phase during which the Protestants viewed the Orthodox (Greek) world itself as a mission field; a second phase, in the first part of the twentieth century which saw the emergence of missionary awareness among the Orthodox, significantly influenced by the large international mission conferences; a third (continuing) phase marked by the growth of the ecumenical movement and a more ecumenical understanding of mission.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"548 - 572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48904083","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 Legacy of Hildegard Prozell","authors":"Kristina Ece","doi":"10.1177/23969393231181896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231181896","url":null,"abstract":"Hildegard Prozell (1869–1948) was the first female missionary from the territory of Latvia (then the Russian Empire), who went to India to serve through Leipzig Mission. During her thirteen-year ministry there she established multiple schools for girls, was the school principal, developed zenana mission work in Mayavaram, and trained Bible women in India. Because of her ministry, a female mission support association was established in Riga, as well as mission nights and conferences. Her writing gave people back home a window to sharing the Good News to children in Eastern India.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"573 - 582"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43116993","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":"On the Profile of Intercultural Theology: A Discipline (Still) in the Making","authors":"Henning Wrogemann","doi":"10.1177/23969393231167777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231167777","url":null,"abstract":"This article distinguishes the discipline of Intercultural Theology from other theological disciplines (exegesis, church history, Systematic Theology) and from World Christianity and Anthropology of Christianity. The main thesis is that although Intercultural Theology has a broader methodological spectrum than Mission Studies, and although it approaches its subject matter in a far more differentiated way, the discipline will need to maintain its basis in mission theology lest it dissolve into pure cultural studies. Based on this premise, the article proceeds to discuss both methodological questions and the subject matter of the discipline. Finally, it highlights the following topics as of particular relevance at present: intercultural hermeneutics and the understanding of power, theologies of mission and the understanding of universality, and theologies of religion and the understanding of recognition.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"461 - 477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43892661","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":"My Pilgrimage in Mission","authors":"D. Whiteman","doi":"10.1177/23969393231173853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231173853","url":null,"abstract":"Anchored in the Incarnation as a model for cross-cultural ministry, this “pilgrimage” chronicles my life-long effort to connect anthropological insights with mission practice. I note how a linguist, four anthropologists, and an historian—Eugene Nida, Charles Kraft, Alan Tippett, Paul Hiebert, Louis Luzbetak, and Andrew Walls—contributed to my formation as a missiological anthropologist. Two themes that have been the hallmark of my research, teaching, writing, and training are contextualization and incarnational identification. The venues in which my pilgrimage has occurred have been as a mission volunteer in the Congo, a United Methodist missionary in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, a professor of anthropology in the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary, a trainer of several thousand missionaries, a member of the American Bible Society Board of Trustees, and various roles in the American Society of Missiology.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45267978","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}