{"title":"Book review: Scott N. Callaham and Will Brooks (eds), World Mission: Theology, Strategy, & Current Issues","authors":"Shawn P. Behan","doi":"10.1177/00918296231190159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231190159","url":null,"abstract":"no biblical ground to equate them” (63). I may be misunderstanding Ott, but he seems to say the church and the kingdom are separate entities that do not overlap. I would argue that the church represents the kingdom when the church is ruled and led by King Jesus, and the church is one demonstration of the kingdom of God here on earth. Nevertheless, I would recommend this work for those looking for a primer or basic introduction to missions theology.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"388 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77170394","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":"Editor’s notes","authors":"Leanne M. Dzubinski","doi":"10.1177/00918296231190742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231190742","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134918898","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":"Envy: Differences between the West and Africa","authors":"Jim Harries","doi":"10.1177/00918296231189123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231189123","url":null,"abstract":"Envy is perceived and handled differently in the West than in Africa. Defined as “a negative . . . response to someone else’s superior quality,” envy is largely considered psychological in the West, and is often suppressed to avoid the stigma of a negative “emotion.” In contrast, Africans often express envy openly, at least to outsiders. Open expression of envious desire for what the West has underlies contemporary formal education in Africa, that as a result has little local fit. Unlike in the West, envy in Africa translates into witchcraft. My experience in Africa tells me that this is not magical or supernatural in the western sense of these terms, but rather is a way of responding to powerful and potentially destructive envy. Freedom from envy comes through faith in Christ, thus making clear the need for mission, discipleship, and culturally relevant theological education. My observations on envy in Africa are based on my own experience—born and reared in a White British community but having participated in village life in East Africa using indigenous languages, from 1988 to date, in the course of missionary work. Being deeply a “westerner,” with profound exposure to Africa, enables my translating what is less known in the West (African ways of life) into the “familiar,” that is, western scholarship. This is on the basis that good translation should always be into what is “known”. Although geographically and historically my exposure to African ways of life is very limited, I am inclined to refer to “Africans” rather than more specific ethnicities (tribes) that I know well, so as not to imply that the people whom I have gotten to know over many decades through closely sharing in their lives are uniquely peculiar.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"321 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78692851","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":"About-face transformation: Learning to embrace honor, shame, and face","authors":"Chris Flanders","doi":"10.1177/00918296231189118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231189118","url":null,"abstract":"Recent theology, biblical studies, and missiology have increasingly focused discussions on issues involving honor, face, and shame. These studies often highlight how traditional western perspectives on the self, social honor, and emotions of self-assessment (i.e., pride, guilt, shame) differ from those in the Majority World. A critical piece of effective engagement with such issues involves a change in orientation regarding these common attitudes and understandings. This article outlines some of the significant issues involved in a personal journey of such an about-face transformation and provides key suggestions that can enable willing participants to undergo a similar type of change.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"309 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78641894","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":"Muslim women’s perspectives on honor","authors":"L. Simon","doi":"10.1177/00918296231189113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231189113","url":null,"abstract":"The concepts of honor and shame have been extensively explored in cultural anthropology, psychology, biblical studies, and missiology. Yet there is still comparatively little written about how Muslim women, as distinct from Muslim men, experience honor and shame, and even less that amplifies the voices of Muslim women themselves. This article examines how honor is perceived and experienced by Muslim women around the world, based on their discussions with Christian women. It then explores implications for Christian engagement with Muslim women.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"21 1","pages":"297 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87782572","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":"Editor’s notes","authors":"Leanne M. Dzubinski","doi":"10.1177/00918296231175539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231175539","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"208 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82083539","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":"Response to Robert Priest by Timothy C. Tennent, President and Professor of World Christianity, Asbury Theological Seminary","authors":"Timothy C. Tennent","doi":"10.1177/00918296231173653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231173653","url":null,"abstract":"A response to Robert Priest’s review of my book, For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality and the Human Body","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"44 1","pages":"254 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73665258","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}
Gregory P. Leffel, C. Fensham, George R. Hunsberger, R. Hunt, William N. Kenney, G. Okesson, Hendrik R. Pieterse
{"title":"What we mean by public missiology","authors":"Gregory P. Leffel, C. Fensham, George R. Hunsberger, R. Hunt, William N. Kenney, G. Okesson, Hendrik R. Pieterse","doi":"10.1177/00918296231176757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231176757","url":null,"abstract":"In 2014 and 2015 a panel of missiologists assembled at the American Society of Missiology (ASM) to discuss ideas, concepts, and practices in support of the proposed 2016 ASM annual meeting under the heading “Missiology and Public Life: Mission’s Constructive Engagement with Societies, Change and Conflict.” In these panels, subsequent ASM panel discussions (2017–19), and in two issues of the journal Missiology devoted to the topic (April 2016, January 2017), the concept of public missiology emerged, and from this grew an informal seven-member study group of colleagues to clarify what might be meant by “public missiology” and define its scope. The following summarizes our study group’s conceptualization of public missiology and reflects our thinking to date. We suggest approaching missiological theory and practice from a new direction, one that focuses upon public life and emerging public orders as its object of analysis under the conditions of a rapidly changing world-historical order. This fresh approach to mission studies makes, we believe, an important contribution to ensuring mission’s vitality for the next several decades or for the next half-century.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"268 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86960018","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":"A case study of an insider movement among Buddhists in Thailand","authors":"Manuel Becker","doi":"10.1177/00918296231176771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231176771","url":null,"abstract":"While insider movements are common in the Muslim and Hindu world, they are rare in the Buddhist world. This case study summarizes the formation and development of an insider movement among Buddhists in Thailand. The key principles in the movement are presented and analyzed. Among them are the importance of reaching entire families, avoiding Christian practices that can become a stumbling block to others, promoting the priesthood of all believers, C5 contextualization, and the powerful testimony of a family following Jesus and being transformed by him.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"539 1","pages":"210 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85668811","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: Voddie T. Baucham, Jr, Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe","authors":"Sung H. Bauta","doi":"10.1177/00918296231176766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231176766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72741528","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}