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{"title":"Book Review: The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c. 1865–1935","authors":"B. Rice","doi":"10.1177/23969393221139212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221139212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"444 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41418305","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":"Introductory Essay: Migration and World Christianity","authors":"Matthew J. Krabill","doi":"10.1177/23969393221138343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221138343","url":null,"abstract":"Twenty years ago, few would have lamented the dearth of literature linking migration and mission studies more than Andrew Walls. Walls’s contribution to numerous fields and disciplines is simply colossal, as is his generational impact. While the migrant factor in Walls’s writing has perhaps garnered less explicit attention than others, several themes have greatly contributed to missiological thinking including the significant role of migration in advancing God’s missionary purposes throughout the biblical narrative, the critical function of migrancy in the cross-cultural diffusion of the Christian movement throughout its history, and the centrality of displacement, uprootedness, and sojourning for understanding the very nature of Christian life. His article, “Mission and Migration: The Diaspora Factor in Christian History,”1 remains seminal in this regard. Over the last number of years, few scholars have argued more persuasively and contributed more substantively to the role of migration in the shaping of World Christianity than Jehu J. Hanciles. The enduring relevance and contribution of Beyond Christendom (2008), combined with the recent publication of Migration and the Making of Global Christianity (2021), provide an impetus for fresh analysis and assessment of developments in the field. Towards this end, the April 2023 issue of the IBMR is dedicated to assessing the contribution of migration to missiological research and reflection with the aim of fostering new thinking, analysis, and perspectives. The essays in this issue represent a generation of scholars that have emerged and benefited from the scholarship in previous decades. Methodologically, the essays foreground the African experience in the West and are attentive to issues of power and positionality, to collaboration and partnership both in research and in writing, and to the importance of narrating religious vitality by and with often overlooked and discounted ecclesial agents and communities. First, Jehu J. Hanciles’s autobiographical essay describes the seminal impact that Andrew Walls had on his intellectual life and scholarship from the time he became a","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"160 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44539580","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":"Seeing the World Through African Eyes: A Tribute to Andrew Walls","authors":"Jehu J. Hanciles","doi":"10.1177/23969393221138363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221138363","url":null,"abstract":"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 student at the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World (at Edinburgh University) up to his passing in 2021. What is presented here is not an account of Walls’s illustrious career and extraordinary legacy; but rather a chronicle of my intellectual journey over a period of more than thirty years, during which Walls shaped my scholarship and academic commitments more profoundly than any other person. The story pulls back the curtain on what was, for me, a life-transforming relationship. It reveals in close detail how Walls’s tutelage, scholarly vision, and winsome brilliance molded and fashioned both my emergence as an African scholar and my evolution into a scholar of World Christianity (including the approaches, perspectives, and core interests that have characterized my work in the last two decades). The tale is told strictly through the lens of personal experience, with all the inherent biases and blind spots that this implies; not to mention the limitations of human memory that every historian knows all too well. Inevitably, however, the narrative arc engenders some coverage of Walls’s pioneering and immense contribution to World Christianity scholarship. It has been said that Walls “may be the most important person you don’t know.” It is my fond hope that this article goes some way to filling this knowledge gap. But, ultimately, this is a story of how a young African from Sierra Leone became a Walls-ian.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"163 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43920176","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":"“I wonder as I wander out under the sky. . .”","authors":"T. Hastings","doi":"10.1177/23969393221149315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221149315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"157 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46848761","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":"Possessing the Nations: Immigration and the Changing Landscape of the Church in Scotland","authors":"Sheila Akomiah-Conteh","doi":"10.1177/23969393221124350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221124350","url":null,"abstract":"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 many new groups have emerged to keep the heritage of the church alive. This mixed-methods study presents the changes that have occurred in the Christian landscape of the City of Glasgow in Scotland in recent years. It reports the formation of 110 new churches in Glasgow between 2000 and 2016 and the key role of international immigration in boosting theological diversity and numerical church growth in the Christian landscape of contemporary Scotland.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"191 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49121788","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: Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States","authors":"L. F. Turek","doi":"10.1177/23969393221139225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221139225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"294 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48248764","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":"Noteworthy","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/23969393231159831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231159831","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134946668","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":"New Generations, New Mission: Intergenerational Faith Transmission and the Missionary Function of African Immigrant Faith Communities","authors":"Allison Norton, C. Nyanni","doi":"10.1177/23969393221138355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221138355","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade, African-led churches in North America and Europe have seen tremendous growth due to the growing number of second- and third-generation children who are now coming of age. Utilizing perspectives from the United States and the United Kingdom, this article explores the intersection of two related concerns: (1) the transmission of faith across generations, and (2) evangelism that crosses racial, ethnic, and national boundaries. As such, we utilize a mixed-method approach to explore innovation and evangelism as the next generation creates spaces of their own within their intergenerational congregations.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"216 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43719335","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":"“That’s Jesus’s Intent, and That Was Our Intent Too!”: African Migration, Race, and US Missions","authors":"Kimberly Akano","doi":"10.1177/23969393221120508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221120508","url":null,"abstract":"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. Rather than serving as pawns in a US-centric debate about race and missions, African immigrants were key players given their firsthand racialized encounters and their efforts to link racial discord in the US with US missions in Africa. By situating this discussion in the 1960s—a time before the emergence of formalized African immigrant churches—this essay illuminates a longer history of African immigrant influence on US Christianity.","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"180 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43262026","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":"Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, Intercultural Theology, and World Christianity for 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/23969393221150201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221150201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43117,"journal":{"name":"International Bulletin of Mission Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"286 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43264059","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}