International Association for Mission Studies
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bullet IAMS Members may review one book at a time, but suggest a second choice in case the first has been taken.
bullet Reviews must be in the hands of the Book Review Editor within 3 months of receipt of the book.
bullet The Editor's decision is final regarding who should receive books for review and whether the review will be published.
bullet If the review is accepted for publication the reviewer will retain ownership of the book.
bullet Reviews will normally be of a maximum length of 600 words.

Contact : Dr Paul Kollman, csc, Book Review Editor, MISSION STUDIES, 
130 Malloy Hall, Department of Theology, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA.

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Alexander, Estrelda Y. 2011. Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism. InterVarsity Press.

Ande, Titre. 2010. Leadership and Authority: Bula Matari and Life-Community Ecclesiology in Congo. Regnum Books.

Anderson, Emma. 2007. The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert. Harvard University Press.

App, Urs. 2010. The Birth of Orientalism. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Aram I. 2007. For a Church Beyond Its Walls. Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia.

Aram I. 2003. Justice, Paix, Reconciliation. Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia.

Aram I. 2010. St. Nerses the Gracious and Church Unity. Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia.

Aram I. 2010. A Journey of Faiyth, Hope and Vision: The Ecumenical Journey of His Holiness, Aram I. Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia.

Azra, Azyumardi, Kees van Dijk, and Nico J. G. Kaptein, eds. 2010. Varieties of Religious Authority: Changes and Challenges in 20th Century Indonesian Islam. ISEAS Publishing.

Balisky, E. Paul. 2009. Wolaitta Evangelists: A Study of Religious Innovation in Southern Ethiopia, 1937-1975. Pickwick.

Bargiacci, Enzo Gualtiero. 2008. A Bridge Across Two Cultures: Ippolito Desideri S. J. (1684-1733), a Brief Biography. Istituto Geografico Militare, Florence (also an Italian language description of the research project itself, Progetto Desideri, also 2008)

Bennett, Herman L. 2011. Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico. Indiana University Press.

Benson, Bruce Ellis and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, eds. 2008. Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo. Brazos Press.

Bessenecker, Scott A., ed. 2010. Living Mission: The Vision and Voices of New Friars. InterVarsity Press.

Bongmba, Elias K. 2007. Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and the Crisis of AIDS. Baylor University Press.

Borup, Jørn. 2008. Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, a living religion. Brill.

Bosch, David J. 2011 (orig. 1991). Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Mission. Orbis (20th anniversary edition; foreword by William Burrows, new conclusion by Darrell L. Guder and Martin Reppenhagen)

Brockman, David R. and Ruben L. F. Habito, eds. 2010. The Gospel among Religions: Christian Ministry, Theology, and Spirituality in a Multifaith World. Orbis.

Brown, Candy Gunther, ed. 2011. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing. Oxford.

Brown, Alan K. ed and trans. 2011. With Anza to California, 1775-1776: The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M.. University of Oklahoma Press.

Burgess, Richard. 2008. Nigeria's Christian Revolution: The Civil War Revival and Its Pentecostal Progeny (1967-2006). Regnum Books.

Burkhart, Louise M., ed. 2011. Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press.

Butkus, Russell A. and Steven A. Kolmes, eds. 2011. Environmental Science and Theology in Dialogue. Orbis Books.

Cartledge, Mark J. and David Cheeham. 2011. Intercultural Theology: Approaches and Themes. SCM Press. s

Charlton, R. Bruce. 2010. Strategy Coordinator: Changing the Course of Baptist Missions. Regnum Books.

Chilcote, Paul W. and Laceye C. Warner, eds. 2008. The Study of Evangelism: Explorying a Missional Practice of the Church. Eerdmans.

Cho, Paul Hang-Sik. 2010. Eschatology and Ecology: Experiences of the Korean Church. Regnum Books.

Chung, Paul S. 2009. Constructing Irregular Theology: Bamboo and Minjung in East Asian Perspective. Brill.

Cole, Neil. 2008. Search & Rescue: Becoming a Disciple Who Makes a Difference. Baker.

Coleman, Robert E. 2011. The Heart of the Gospel: The Theology behind the Master Plan of Evangelism. Baker.

Collins, Chuck and Mary Wright. 2007. The Moral Measure of the Economy. Orbis.

Collins, Paul. 2010. Judgment Day: The Struggle for Life on Earth. Orbis.

Cook, Matthew, Rob Haskell, Ruth Julian, and Natee Tanchanpongs, eds. 2010. Local Theology for the Global Church: Principles for an Evangelical Approach to Contextualization. World Evangelical Alliance.

Creary, Nicholas M. 2011. Domesticating a Religious Import: The Jesuits and the Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879-1980. Fordham.

Crews, C. Daniel and Richard W. Starbuck, eds. 2010. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees: Early Contact and the Establishment of the First Mission, 1752-1802. Volume One. Beginnings of the Mission and Establishment of the School. Volume Two. Cherokee National Press.
----------------. 2011. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees: The Anna Rosina Years, Part 1--Success in School and Mission. Volume Three. Cherokee National Press. 

Dahl-Bredine, Phil and Stephen Hicken. 2008. The Other Game: Lessons from How LIfe Is Played in Mexican Villages. Orbis

Dahlgren, Göran. 2007. La promotion de la littérature francophone de l'Afrique subsaharienne par l'État français 1960-1990. Missio No. 24, Swedish Institute of Missiological Research

Dardess, George and Marvin L. Krier Mich. 2011. In the Spirit of St. Francis and the Sultan: Catholics and Muslims Working Together for the Common Good. Orbis.

Dekar, Paul R. 2008. Community of the Transfiguration: The Journey of a New Monastic Community. Cascade Books.

Dekar, Paul R. 2010. Building a Culture of Peace: Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, the First Seventy Years. Pickwick.

Dickow, Helga and Andreas Heuser, eds. 2008. Religion on the Move: Exploring Passages in South African Christianity. Letters from Byblos, No. 23

Douglass, James W. 2008. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. Orbis.

Doğan, Mehmet Ali and Heather J. Sharkey, eds. 2011. American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters. University of Utah press.

Drønen, Tomas Sundnes. 2009. Communication and Conversion in Northern Cameroon. Brill.

Dunson, Donald H. 2008. Child, Victim, Soldier: The Loss of Innocence in Uganda. Orbis.

Eaton, Philip W. 2011. Engaging the Culture, Changing the World: The Christian University in a Post-Christian World. InterVarsity Press.

Endres, David J. 2010. American Crusade: Catholic Youth in the World Mission Movement from World War I through Vatican II. Pickwick.

Everist, Norma Cook and Craig L. Nessan. 2008. Transforming Leadership: New Vision for a Church in Mission. Augsburg Fortress.

Fellmann, Johanna. 2009. Von Schwaben in den Bismarckarchipel: Tagebücher der Missionarsfrau Johanna Fellmanann aus Deutsch-Neuguinea, 1896-1903. Herausgegeben von Ulrich Fellmann. Harrassowitz.

Flanders, Christopher L. 2011. About Face: Rethinking Face for 21st-Century Mission. Pickwick (N.B: This book is about Christian mission in Thailand)

Fletcher, John. 2008. Unexampled Labours: Letters of the Revd John Fletcher to Leaders in the Evangelical Revival. ed. with an introduction by Peter S. Forsaith. Epworth.

Fontana, Michela. 2011. Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court. Rowman & Littlefield.

Fox, Frampton F., ed. 2010. Violence and Peace: Creating a Culture of Peace in the Contemporary Context of Violence. Papers from the 15th Annual Centre for Mission Studies Consultation, Pune. CMS/Pune

Fox, Frampton F. ed. 2010. Edinburgh 1910 Revisited, 'Give Us Friends!" An Indian Perspective on 100 Years of Mission.  Papers from the 16th Annual Centre for Mission Studies Consultation, Pune. CMS/Pune

Franke, John R. 2009. Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth. Abingdon.

Franzén, Ruth.  2008. Ruth Rouse among Students: Global, Missiological and Ecumenical Perspectives. Studia Missionalia Svecana CV

Frost, Michael. 2011. The Road to Missional: Journey to the Center of the Church.Baker Books.

Gailey, Charles R. and Howard Culbertson. 2007. Discovering Missions. Beacon Hill Press.

George, Sherron Kay. 2010. Better Together: The Future of Presbyterian Mission. Geneva Press.

Gornik, Mark R. 2011. Word Made Global: Stories of African Christianity in New York City. Eerdmans.

Gort, Jerald D., Henry Jansen, and Wessel Stoker, eds. 2010. Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture. Rodopi. (could be reviewed along with a small book in Dutch entitled Een waaier van gedachter over geloven: Hoofdlinjnen in het theologisch werk van Hendrik M. Vroom by Dirk van Keulen, which also has a bibliography of works by H. M. Vroom by Annewieke L. Vroom).

Grafton, David D. 2009. Piety, Politics, and Power: Lutherans Encountering Islam in the Middle East. PIckwick.

Gribble, Richard. 2008. Vincent McCauley, CSC: Bishop of the Poor, Apostle of East Africa. Ave Maria Press.

Hackett, Rosalind I. J. , ed. 2008. Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets and Culture Wars. Equinox.

Hardage, Jeanette. 2010. Mary Slessor, Everybody's Mother: The Era and Impact of a Victorian Missionary. Lutterworth Press.

Hawkins, MaryAnn and Juanita Evans Leonard, eds. 2009. A Thread of Hope: Church of God Women in Mission. Anderson University Press.

Heim, Joseph A., ed. 2009. What They Taught Us: How Maryknoll Missioners Were Evangelized by the Poor. Orbis.

Helland, Roger and Leonard Hjalmarson. 2011. Missional Spirituality: Embodying God's Love from the Inside Out. InterVarsity Press.

Heltzel, Peter Goodwin, ed. 2008. Chalice Introduction to Disciples Theology. Chalice Press.

Hoff, Marvin D., ed. 2009. Chinese Theological Education, 1979-2006. Eerdmans.

Hogan, Linda, ed. 2008. Applied Ethics in a World Church: The Padua Conference. Orbis.

Horton, Michael. 2011. The Gospel Commission: Recovering God's Strategy for Making Disciples. Baker Books.

Huang, Paulos. 2009. Confronting Confucian Understandings of the Christian Doctrine of Salvation: A Systematic Theological Analysis of the Basic Problems in the Confucian-Christian Dialogue. Brill

Ignatius, I. 2007. Religious Language and Historising Method. Delhi: Ishvani Kendra

Jaenike, William F.  2008. Black Robes in Paraguay: The Success of the Guarani Missions Hastened the Abolition of the Jesuits. Kirk House.

Jensen, L. Paul. 2009. Subversive Spirituality: Transforming Mission through the Collapse of Space and Time. Pickwick.

Jensz, Felicity. 2010. German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908. Brill.

Jiyou, Paul Wang. 2010. Le premier concile plénier Chinois, Shanghai 1924: Droit canonique missionnaire forgé en Chine. Cerf.

Johnson, C. Neal. 2009. Business as Mission: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice. InterVarsity Press.

Johnson, Mary. 2011. An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life. Spiegel & Grau.

Jongeneel, Jan A. B., Peter Tze Ming Ng, Chong Ku Paek, Scott W. Sunquist, and Yuko Watanabe, eds. 2009. Christian Mission and Education in Modern China, Japan, and Korea: Historical Studies. Peter Lang.

Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti, ed. 2009. The Spirit in the World: Emerging Pentecostal Theologies in Global Contexts. Eerdmans.

Katongole, Emmanuel and Chris Rice. 2008. Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing. InterVarsity Press. 

Keenan, James F., ed. 2011. Catholic Theological Ethics: Past, Present, and Future: The Trento Conference. Orbis.

Kelly, Anthony J. 2008. The Resurrection Effect: Transforming Christian Life and Thought. Orbis.

Kim, Kirsteen. 2009. Joining in with the Spirit Connecting World Church and Local Mission. Epworth.

King, Roberta R.  2009. Pathways in Christian Music Communication: The Case of the Senufo of Côte d'Ivoire. PIckwick.

Klaver, Miranda. 2011. This Is My Desire: A Semiotic Perspective on Conversion in an Evangelical Seeker Church and a Pentecostal Church in the Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press.

Korgen, Jeffry Odell. 2007. Solidarity Will Transform the World: Stories of Hope from Catholic Relief Services. Orbis.

Koschorke, Klaus, ed. 2009. Falling Walls: The Year 1989/90 as a Turning Point in the History of World Christianity. Harrassowitz Verlag. (articles in German and English)

Kreider, Alan and Eleanor Kreider. 2011. Worship and Mission After Christendom. Herald Press.

Kriel, Lize. 2009. The 'Malaboch' Books: Kgaluši in the 'Civilization of the Written Word'. Franz Steiner Verlag.

Kuhn, Marko. 2008. Prophetic Christianity in Western Kenya: Political, Cultural and Theological Aspects of African Independent Churches. Peter Lang.

Kunter, Katharina and Jens Holger Schjørring, eds. 2008. Changing Relations between Churches in Europe and Africa: The Internationalization of Christianity and Politics in the 20th Century. Harrossowitz Verlag.

Lado, Ludovic. 2009. Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of Africanization: Processes of Localization in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon. Brill

Lai, Ah Eng. 2008. Religious Diversity in Singapore. ISEAS.

Langer, Erick D. 2009. Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the heart of South America, 1830-1949. Duke University Press.

Largen, Kristin Johnston. 2011. Baby Krishna, Infant Christ: A Comparative Theology of Salvation. Orbis.

LaVerdiere, Claudette. 2011. On the Threshold of the Future: The Life and Spirituality of Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, Founder of the Maryknoll Sisters. Orbis.

Lederleitner, Mary T. 2010. Cross-Cultural Partnerships: Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission. InterVarsity Press.

Leffel, Gregory P. 2007. Faith Seeking Action: Mission, Social movements, and the Church in Motion. Scarecrow Press.

Le Roux, Harold. 2011. The Church and Mission. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster Publications.

Lingel, Joshua, Jeff Morton, and Bill Nikides, ed. 2011. Chrislam: How Missionaries Are Promoting an Islamized Gospel. i2 Ministries.

Livermore, David A. 2009. Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World. Baker Books.

Lovett, Brendan. 2008. For the Joy Set Before Us: Methodology of Adequate Theological Reflection on Mission. Peter Lang.

Ma, Julie C. and Wonsuk Ma. 2010. Mission in the Spirit: Towards a Pentecostal/Charismatic Missiology. Regnum.

Magesa, Laurenti, ed. 2010. African Theology Comes of Age: Revisiting Twenty Years of the Theology of the Ecumenical Symposium of Eastern African Theologians (ESEAT). Paulines.

Mays, Rebecca Kratz, ed. 2008. Interfaith Dialogue at the Grass Roots. Journal of Ecumenical Studies.

Mayson, Cedric. 2010. Why Africa Matters. Orbis.

McCarthy, Kate. 2007. Interfaith Encounters in America. Rutgers University Press.

Melady, Thomas Patrick and Margaret Badum Melady. 2011. Ten African Heroes: The Sweep of Independence in Black Africa. Orbis.

Miller, Donald Eugene, Gerard Guiton, and Paulus S. Widjaja, eds. 2011. Overcoming Violence in Asia: The Role of the Church in Seeking Cultures of Peace. Cascadia.

Milne, Bruce. 2007. Dynamic Diversity: Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church. InterVarsity Press.

Moodley, Edley. 2008. Shembe, Ancestors, and Christ: A Christological Inquiry with Missiological Implications. Wifp and Stock.

Moon, W. Jay. 2009. African Proverbs Reveal Christianity in Culture: A Narrative Portrayal of Builsa Proverbs Contextualizing Christianity in Ghana. Pickwick

Mortenson, Viggo and Andreas Østerlund Nielsen, eds. 2010. Walk Humbly with the Lord: Church and Mission Engaging Plurality. Eerdmans.

Mukuka, George Sombe. 2008. The Other Side of the Story: The Silent Experience of the Black Clergy in the Catholic Church in South Africa (1898-1976). Cluster Publications.

M ü ller, Retief. 2011. African Pilgrimage: Ritual Travel in South Africa's Christianity of Zion. Ashgate.

Myers, Bryant L. 2011. Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development. Revised and Expanded Edition. Orbis.

Nairn, Thomas A., ed. 2008. The Consistent Ethic of Life: Assessing Its Reception and Relevance. Orbis.

Nichols, Laurie Fortunak and Gary R. Corwin, eds. 2010. Envisioning Effective Ministry: Evangelism in a Muslim Context. Evangelism and Missions Information Service.

Noll, Mark A. and Carolyin Nystrom. 2011. Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia. InterVarsity Press.

Noll, Mark A. and James Turner (Thomas Albert Howard, ed.) 2008. The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue. Brazos.

Nuessle, John Edward. 2008. Faithful Witnesses: United Methodist Theology of Mission. General Board of Global Ministries, Methodist Church (Study Guide by Diana L. Hynson.)

Nwoye, Chinwe M. A., ed. 2010. Urban Ministry in Africa: Theological Reflections for the 21st Century. Paulines.

Nyenhuis, Jacob E., Robert P. Swierenga, and Lauren M. Berka, eds. 2009. Aunt Tena, Called to Serve: Journals and Letters of Tena A. Huizenga, Missionary Nurse to Nigeria. Eerdmans.

Oduro, Thomas, Hennie Pretorius, Stan Nussbaum, and Bryan Born. 2008. Mission in an African Way: A Practical Introduction to African Instituted Churches and Their Sense of Mission. Bibel Media.

Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E., ed. 2011. Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace: The Second African Synod. Orbis Books.

Ott, Craig and Gene Wilson. 2011. Global Church Planting: Biblical Principles and Best Practices for Multiplication. Baker Books.

Paisant, Chantal, ed. 2009. La mission au féminin: Témoignages de religieuses missionnaires au fil d'un siècle (XIXe-début XXe siècle. Anthologie de textes missionnaires. Brepols.

Panikkar, Raimon. 2010. The Rhythm of Being. Orbis.

Paré, Jean. 2008. Réincarnation et Résurrection: Pour un Nouveau Message. Consolata, Canada.

Paul, Samuel A.  2009. The Ubuntu God: Deconstructing a South African Narrative of Oppression. Princeton Theological Monograph Series.

Pearson, Samuel C. 2010.  Supporting Asian Christianity's Transition from Mission to Church: A History of the Foundation for Theological Education in Asia. Eerdmans.

Piper, John. 2010. Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions. 3rd Edition. Baker Books.

Piwowarczyk, Darius J. 2008. Coming Out of the "Iron Cage": The Indigenists of the Society of the Divine Word in Paraguay, 1910-2000. Studia Instituti Anthropos.

Puglisi, Catyherine and William Barcham, eds. 2011. Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese. D. Giles Limited.

Raschke, Carl. 2008. GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn. Baker Books.

Redekop, Calvin Wall. 2010. European Mennonite Voluntary Service: Youth Idealism in Post-World War II Europe. Cascadia.

Reyes, Barbara O. 2009. Private Women, Public Lives: Gender and the Missions of the Californias. University of Texas Press.

Reynolds, Glenn, ed. 2011. Images Out of Africa: The Virginia Garner Diaries of the Africa Motion Picture Project. University Press of America.

Richards, Anne. 2011. Unreconciled? Exploring Mission in an Imperfect World. Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.

Roberts, Tom. 2011. The Emerging Catholic Church: A Community's Search for Itself. Orbis

Rodriguez, Daniel A. 2011. A Future for the Latino Church: Models for Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations. InterVarsity Press.

Roeber, A. G., ed. 2008. Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America. Penn State Press.

Rooms, Nigel. 2011. The Faith of the English. SPCK.

Rostkowski, Marek A.  2007. La cooperazione dei laici all'attitivà missionaria della chiesa nell'insegnamento di Giovanni Paolo II. Varsavia 

Rundle, Steve and Tom Steffen. 2011. Great Commission Companies: The Emerging Role of Business in Missions. 2nd edition, revised and expanded (1st ed. 2003). InterVarsity press.

Ruokanen, Miikka and Paulos Huang, eds. 2010. Christianity and Chinese Culture. Eerdmans.

Russell, Craig H. 2009. From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions. Oxford

Saayman, Willem. 2007. Being Missionary, Being Human: An Overview of Dutch Reformed Mission. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Salinas, Daniel. 2009. Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 1970s: The Golden Decade. Brill.

Santiago-Vendrell, Angel D. 2010. Contextual Theology and Revolutionary Transformation in Latin America: The Missiology of M. Richard Shaull. Pickwick.

Schmidt-Leukel, Perry, ed. 2008. Buddhist Attitudes to Other Religions. St. Ottilien.

Schmit, Clayton J. 2009. Sent and Gathered: A Worship Manual for the Missional Church. Baker Books.

Schnabel, Eckhard J. 2008. Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods. InterVarsity Press.

Schreiter, Robert J., R. Scott Appleby, and Gerard F. Powers, eds. 2010. Peacebuilding: Catholic Theology, Ethics, and Praxis. Orbis.

Schröder, Ulrike. 2009. Religion, Kaste und Ritual: Christliche Mission und tamilischer Hinduismus in Südinidien im 19. Jahrhundert. Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle.

Selles, Kurt D. 2011. A New Way of Belonging: Covenant Theology, China, and the Christian Reformed Church, 1921-1951. Eerdmans.

Sidenvall, Erik. 2009. The  Making of Manhood among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, c. 1890-c. 1914. Brill.

Sider, Ronald J., John M. Perkins, Wayne L. Gordon, and F. Albert Tizon. 2008. Linking Arms, Linking Lives: How Urban-Suburban Partnerships Can Transform Communities. Baker Books.

Smith, James K. A. 2009. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation. Vol. 1, Cultural Liturgies. Baker Books.

Stambach, Amy. 2010. Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa. Stanford University Press.

Stanislaus, L. and Jose Joseph, eds. 2007. Migration and Mission in India. Delhi: Ishvani Kendra.

Steffen, Tom and Lois McKinney Douglas. 2008. Encountering Missionary Life and Work: Preparing for Intercultural Ministry. Baker

Stiles, J. Mack. 2010. Marks of the Messenger: Knowing, Living and Speaking the Gospel. InterVarsity Press.

Stockel, H. Henrietta. 2008. Salvation through Slavery: Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier. University of New Mexico Press.

Stone, Bryan 2007. Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness. Brazos Press.

Stuart, John. 2011. British Missionaries and the End of Empire: East, Central, and Southern Africa, 1939-64. Eerdmans.

Stultz, Donald Le Roy. 2009. Grasping Truth and Reality: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Mission to the Western World. James Clarke & Co.

Sunquist, Scott W. and Caroline N. Becker, eds. 2008. A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944-2007. Geneva Press.

Swierenga, Robert P. and William Van Appledorn, eds. 2008. Old Wing Mission: Cultural Interchange as Chronicled by George and Arvilla Smith in their Work with Chief Wakazoo's Band on the West Michigan Frontier. Eerdmans.

Talbert, Charles H. and Jason A. Whitlark. 2011. Getting "Saved": The Whole Story of Salvation in the New Testament. Eerdmans.

Talmon-Heller, Daniella. 2007. Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria: Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyubids (1146-1260). Brill.

Taneti, James Elisha. 2011. History of the Telegu Christians: A Bibliography. Scarecrow Press.

Taylor, Gordon. 2008 (2nd ed.). Fever & Thirst: An American Doctor Among the Tribes or Kurdistan, 1835-1844. Academy Chicago Publishers.

Tenny-Brittian, Bill. 2008. Hitchhiker's Guide to Evangelism. Chalice Press.

Teuffel, Jochen. 2009. Mission als Namenszeugnis. Eine Ideologiekritik in Sachen Religion. Mohr Siebeck.

Thelle, Notto R. 2010. Who Can Stop the Wind? Travels in the Borderland between East and West. Liturgical Press.

Thiessen, Elmer John. 2011. The Ethics of Evangelism: A Philosophical Defense of Proselytizing and Persuasion. InterVarsity Press.

Thomas, Norman E. 2010. Missions and Unity: Lessons from History, 1792-2010. Cascade Books.

Tomkins, Stephen. 2007. William Wilberforce: A Biography. Eerdmans.

Troll, Christian W. 2009. Dialogue and Difference: Clarity in Christian-Muslim Relations. Orbis.

Tyra, Gary. 2011. The Holy Spirit in Mission: Prophetic Speech and Action in Christian Witness. InterVarsity Press.

Vähäkangas, Auli. 2009. Christian Couples Coping with Childlessness: Narratives from Machame, Kilimanjaro. Pickwick.

Van Buren, Toon. 2010. Just Leave the Tree-Trunk Alone: A Magical-Realistic Journey through the Land of the Bawòng in the Congo. Sean Kingston.

Veneroso, Joseph R. 2011. Mirrors of Grace: The Spirit and Spiritualities of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. Orbis Books. 

Vondey, Wolfgang. 2008. People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology. Paulist Press.

Voss, Barbara L. 2008. The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco. University of California Press.

Währisch-Oblau, Claudia. 2009. The Missionary Self-Perception of Pentecostal/Charismatic Church Leaders from the Global South in Europe: Bringing Back the Gospel. Brill.

Wake, Eleanor. 2010. Framing the Sacred: The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press.

Ward, Edwina and Gary Leonard, eds.  2008. A Theology of HIV & AIDS on Africa's East Coast. Swedish Institute of Mission Research.

Ward, Haruko Nawata. 2009. Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650. Ashgate.

Ward, Robin. 2011. On Christian Priesthood. Continuum.

Weaver, Alain Epp, ed. 2011. A Table of Sharing: Mennonite Central Committee and the Expanding Networks of Mennonite Identity. Cascadia.

Weber, Linda J. 2010. Mission Handbook: U. S. and Canadian Protestant Ministries Overseas. Evangelical and Missions Information Service.

Wendland, Ernst. 2008. Contextual Frames of Reference in Translation: a Coursebook for Bible Translators and Teachers. St. Jerome.

Whiteman, Darrell L. and Gerald H. Anderson, eds. 2009. World Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit. Providence House Publishers.

Wilcox, Michael V. 2009. The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact. University of California Press.

Wilkinson, Michael and Peter Althouse, eds. 2010. Winds from the North: Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement. Brill.

Wingeier-Rayo, Philip D. 2011. Where Are the Poor? A Comparison of the Ecclesial Base Communities and Pentecostalism--a Case Study in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Pickwick.

Wong, Mary Shepard and Suresh Canagarajah, eds. 2009. Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue: Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas. Routledgs.

Workman, Dave. 2008. The Outward Focused Life: Becoming a Servant in a Serve-Me World. Baker Books.

Xi, Lian. 2010. Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China. Yale University Press.

Yandell, Keith and Harold Netland. 2009. Buddhism: A Christian Exploration and Appraisal. InterVarsity Press.

Yong, Amos and Barbara Brown Zikmund, eds. 2010. Remembering Jamestown: Hard Questions about Christian Mission. Pickwick.

Zocca, Franco, ed. 2009. Sanguma in Paradise: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Papua New Guinea. Melanesian Institute.

Books Still Available


 Craig, William Lane and Paul M. Gould, eds. 2007. The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind. Crossway.

Dula, Peter and Alain Epp Weaver. 2007. Borders and Bridges: Mennonite Witness in a Religiously Diverse World. Cascadia

Ekka, Jhakmak Neeraj. 2007. Christ as Sacrament and Example: Luther's Theology of the Cross and Its Relevance for South Asia. Lutheran University Press.

Engelke, Matthew. 2007. A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church. University of California Press.

Greenlee, David H., ed. 2005. From the Straight Path to the Narrow Way: Journeys of Faith. Authentic Books

Greenstein, Howard R., Kendra G. Hotz, and John Kaltner. 2007. What Do Our Neighbors Believe? Questions and Answers on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Westminster John Knox.

Mahon, Leo (with Nancy Davis) 2007. Fire Under My Feet: A Memoir of God's Power in Panama. Orbis.

Marin, Catherine, ed. 2007. Les écritures de la mission en Extrême-Orient: Le choc de l'arriveée, XVIIIe-XXe siècles: de l'attente à la réalité. Brepols

Msoka, Gabriel Andrew. 2007. Basic Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. Wipf and Stock.

Nelson, Dana K. 2007. Mission & Migration: Fifty-Two African and Asian Congregations in Minnesota. Lutheran University Press.

Northcott, Michael S. 2007. A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming. Orbis Books.

Oduro, Thomas. 2007. Christ Holy Church International: The Story of an African Independent Church. Lutheran University Press

Paré, Jean, 2007. Au Serivce des Plus Démunis. Consolata Canada

Pérennès, Jean-Jacques. 2007. A Life Poured Out: Pierre Claverie of Algeria. Orbis.

Peters, Ronald E. 2007. Urban Ministry: An Introduction. Abingdon.

Piedmont, R. L., ed. 2007. Research in the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 18. Brill.

Priest, Robert J. and Alvaro L. Nieves, eds.  2007. This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith. Oxford

Shore, Paul. 2007. Jesuits and the Politics of Religious Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania: Culture, Politics and Religions, 1693-1773. Ashgate.

Sípos, Álmos Ete. 2007. 'Bittet den Herrn der Ernte': Guyla Forgács (1879-1941), Pionier der ungarischen reformierten Inneren Mission. Boekcentrum.

Sittser, Gerald L. 2007. Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries. InterVarsity Press.

Smilde, David. 2007. Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. University of California Press.

Soothill, Jane E. 2007. Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. Brill.

Veneroso, Joseph R. 2007. God in Unexpected Places: Reflections on Faith and Life from Maryknoll Magazine. Orbis

Weber, Linda J. and Dotsey Welliver, eds. 2007. Mission Handbook, 2007-2009: U.S. and Canadian Protestant Ministries Overseas. Evangelism and Missions Information Service.

Zimmerman, Earl. 2007. Practicing the Politics of Jesus: The Origin and Significance of John Howard Yoder's Social Ethics. Cascadia

Zocca, Franco. 2007. Melanesia and Its Churches: Past and Present. Melanesian Institute.

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