Religious mission and Religious Conversion Books
Independently Published Words that Work: A Language of Light for a World Living in Darkness
£13.52
James Clarke & Co. Ltd Light to the Isles Missionary Theology in Celtic and AngloSaxon Britain
Book SynopsisA major study of the development of the early English Church from a theological perspective, shedding new light on the thoughts and deeds of the first Anglo-Saxon missionaries. For both the specialist and the general reader.Trade Review'Chaplain of Marlborough College, Dales has written widely about Anglo-Saxon church history and theology. Here he looks at how monastic Christianity spread from the continent to Celtic Britain...how official Roman Christianity arrived among the Anglo-Saxons...[and] assesses the success of the missions in the writings of Bede and Willibrord and Boniface.' - Book News Inc, February 2011Table of ContentsForeword by Benedicta Ward Preface Introduction Prologue I. Martin Part 1: II. Patrick III. Samson and Gildas IV. Columba and Columbanus Part 2: V. Augustine and Paulinus VI. Aidan and Cuthbert VII. Theodore and Wilfred Part 3: VIII. Bede IX. Willibrord and Boniface Abbreviations References Bibliography Index
£24.00
James Clarke & Co. Ltd A Missiology of the Road
Book SynopsisAn in-depth study of the early work of the South African theologian David Bosch, showing how his distinctive and influential theology of mission was shaped and refined.Trade Review...a very careful and extensive view into Bosch's theological thinking before the publication of his Transforming Mission. ...[Livingston's] detailed discussions do not merely present a very complete picture of Bosch's theology, they also give access to Bosch's characteristic approach. ...this is a very rich, well-written description of Bosch's missiological thinking and for this it is to be recommended. -Stefan Paas, Exchange, Volume 44, 2015 "These condensed chapters are clear and lucid... I personally have gained many insights into the life and work of David Bosch; Livingstone gives an epilogue and includes extensive bibliography and three indexes..." -Daniel Jeyaraj, Theological Book Review, Vol. 26 No. 2, 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part One: David Bosch in Context 1 Apartheid and Afrikaner Identity 2 Bosch's Theological Pilgrimage: A Biographical Sketch Part Two: Bosch's Theology of Mission and Evangelism 3 Theology, Mission and Missiology: Bosch's Theological Method 4 The Historical and Theological Context of Mission: Major Motifs in Bosch's Thought 5 The Biblical Foundation for Mission 6 Mission, Evangelism and Church Growth Part Three: Crucial Theological Dimensions for a Missionary Church Introduction: The Missionary Nature of the Church as the Theological Horizon for Bosch's Missiology 7 The Eschatological Dimension of the Missionary Church: the Church as Witness to the Kingdom of God 8 The Ecclesial Dimension of the Missionary Church: the Church as God's "Alternative Community" 9 The Soteriological Dimension of the Missionary Church: the church as a sign and agent of God's reconciliation 10 Epilogue Bibliography
£32.75
John Murray Press The Street Children of Brazil
Book SynopsisUpdated edition of the international bestsellerTrade ReviewPoor and desperate lives transformed by the power of love shown in deed and truth. Sarah has lived what Jesus preached. * Jackie Pullinger *
£10.44
Associated University Presses A World of Crisis and Progress The American YMCA
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£73.15
Edinburgh University Press Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa
Book SynopsisExamines the Free Church of Scotland Mission in South Africa
£18.99
John Murray Press When God Breaks In
Book Synopsis Despite the growth of religion in general and Christianity in particular around the world, Western Europe and the UK remain overwhelmingly secular, with the church increasingly seen as backwards and irrelevant. In this provocative book well-known speaker and author Michael Green gives a snapshot of various different revivals from the UK''s history, as well as describing how the early church started and focusing on various revivals around the world. Be bold, writes Michael - revival can happen again! Trade ReviewMichael Green needs no introduction to readers of CEN...Green points to the paradoxical nature of the period through which we are living... he sees revivals happening when the spiritual outlook appears bleak. * The Church Newspaper *It's an excellent and easy read. * Together Magazine *When God Breaks In: Revival Can Happen Again by Michael Green is an almost breathless popular account of revival from Pentecost through to the present day, written with the purpose "to ignite the torch of hope that God can do it again" * Minsitry Today *
£9.99
Edinburgh University Press Protestants Gender and the Arab Renaissance in
Book SynopsisThe Ottoman Syrians residents of modern Syria and Lebanon formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a fresh narrative of the encounters of this minority Arab Protestant community with American missionaries, Eastern churches and Muslims at the height of the Nahda, from 1860-1915
£90.25
1517 Media Searching for Heaven in the Real World: A
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£14.72
Origin Press,USA The Women Who Loved Jesus: The Utold Story of the
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£14.24
Africa World Press Christian Missions Among Muslims: Sokoto
Book SynopsisA history and analysis of Christian missions in Sokoto province, Nigeria.
£25.46
Parchment House How You Can Preach Salvation
£34.00
Counted Faithful Handbook of Revivals
£11.10
Counted Faithful An All-Round Ministry
£11.10
Send The Light Andrew Fuller and the Evangelical Renewal of
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the pastoral theology of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) suggests that evangelical renewal did not only take place alongside the local church - missions, itinerancy, voluntary societies - but also within the congregation as the central tasks of dissenting pastoral ministry became, in the words of one diarist, 'very affecting and evangelical'. How did evangelicalism transform dissenting and Baptist churches in the eighteenth century? Is there a distinctively congregational expression of evangelicalism? And what contribution has evangelicalism made to pastoral theology? renewal did not only take place alongside the local church - missions, itinerancy, voluntary societies - but also within the congregation as dissenting pastoral ministry became, in the words of one diarist, 'very affecting and evangelical'.
£24.99
Muddy Pearl Campus Lights: Students Living and Speaking for
Book SynopsisA meeting in a restaurant in Eastern Europe is suddenly interrupted by secret police. Public artworks are installed in a Guatemalan town to confront injustice perpetrated by gangs and government. A ministry begins in the Solomon Islands where none existed before. All this is the work of students, young people the very age the disciples were when Jesus entrusted his ministry to them. Drawing together incredible stories from every region of the globe - from North America to Romania, from movements with official recognition to those persecuted to the point of being driven underground - Campus Lights bears witness to the way that student mission is flourishing around the world today. In his journalistic, engaging style, Luke Cawley recounts how students are taking risks to share their faith, continuing the legacy of Jesus' young disciples as they went out into the world and changed nations. Far more than a book on student mission, Campus Lights will inspire all leaders, encouraging them to take risks for the kingdom in their own context, and showing how students and young people can be catalysts for change in our world.
£12.99
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Evangelisches Gesangbuch. Ausgabe Fur Die
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£17.10
The University of Chicago Press American Indians and Christian Missions Studies
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Of Revelation and Revolution Volume 2 The
Book SynopsisThe second in a three-volume study, this volume explores colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. It shows how the relationship between the British evangelists and the Southern Tswana created complex exchanges of goods, signs and cultural markers which affected both Africans and Britons.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Revival and Awakening
Book SynopsisShows that Americans through their missionaries had a strong hand in the development of one of the Middle East's most intriguing groups: the modern Assyrians. This book details the history of Christian minority and influence American missionaries had on them. It unveils a relationship between modern global contact and more.Trade Review"Unraveling the complex process in which the American Protestant project of moral and religious reform helped to stimulate the development of 'Assyrian' national consciousness, Becker provides an excellent example of how secular modernity could be configured in a noncolonial missionary context in the encounter between two different Christian communities." (Talal Asad, author of Formations of the Secular)
£77.90
The University of Chicago Press Evangelicalism The Coming Generation
Book SynopsisLooking at what he calls 'The Coming Generation' of Evangelical opinion leaders and elites . . . Hunter draws a nuanced and finely detailed portrait of young Evangelicals who, while certainly more conservative than the mainstream of American Protestants, are at least ambivalent about some important aspects of fundamentalism and at most ready to repudiate elements of fundamentalist faith, politics, and practice. . . . With this book, James Hunter confirms his position as one of the most informed and informing writers on American Evangelicalism.Samuel C. Heilman, This World
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and
Book SynopsisDrawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicine. Based on immersive research of a transnational Christian medical aid program, Britt Halvorson tells the story of a thirty-year-old initiative that aimed to professionalize and modernize colonial-era evangelism. Creatively blending perspectives on humanitarianism, global medicine, and the anthropology of Christianity, she argues that the cultural spaces created by these programs operate as multistranded conversionary sites, where questions of global inequality, transnational religious fellowship, and postcolonial cultural and economic forces are negotiated. A nuanced critique of the ambivalent relationships among religion, capitalism, and humanitarian aid, Conversionary Sites draws important connections be
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Conversionary Sites
Book SynopsisDrawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicine. Based on immersive research of a transnational Christian medical aid program, Britt Halvorson tells the story of a thirty-year-old initiative that aimed to professionalize and modernize colonial-era evangelism. Creatively blending perspectives on humanitarianism, global medicine, and the anthropology of Christianity, she argues that the cultural spaces created by these programs operate as multistranded conversionary sites, where questions of global inequality, transnational religious fellowship, and postcolonial cultural and economic forces are negotiated. A nuanced critique of the ambivalent relationships among religion, capitalism, and humanitarian aid, Conversionary Sites draws important connections be
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Revivals Awakening and Reform
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£27.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Caught in the Current
Book SynopsisWhile Evangelicalism is known for its defence of orthodoxy and resistance to liberalizing trends, it is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist in ways that evangelicals themselves do not realize. Offering an insider’s view into British and Canadian evangelical churches, Caught in the Current explores how and why evangelicals are changing.Trade Review“Sam Reimer significantly expands our understanding of the shifting religious landscape in Canada and the UK through a comparative lens. This is particularly valuable since Canada lacks the volume of commentary on the topic that we see in the US, and in-depth analysis of evangelical convictions are generally missed by the mainstream media. Written by one of the top experts in the field, Caught in the Current is rich in data and incisive in its commentary.” Peter J. Schuurman, Global Scholars Canada and Redeemer University, and author of The Subversive Evangelical: The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch
£89.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Caught in the Current British and Canadian
Book SynopsisWhile Evangelicalism is known for its defence of orthodoxy and resistance to liberalizing trends, it is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist in ways that evangelicals themselves do not realize. Offering an insider’s view into British and Canadian evangelical churches, Caught in the Current explores how and why evangelicals are changing.Trade Review“Sam Reimer significantly expands our understanding of the shifting religious landscape in Canada and the UK through a comparative lens. This is particularly valuable since Canada lacks the volume of commentary on the topic that we see in the US, and in-depth analysis of evangelical convictions are generally missed by the mainstream media. Written by one of the top experts in the field, Caught in the Current is rich in data and incisive in its commentary.” Peter J. Schuurman, Global Scholars Canada and Redeemer University, and author of The Subversive Evangelical: The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch
£25.19
Columbia University Press Conflict Conquest and Conversion Two Thousand
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis work fills a substantial gap in the existing literature. It is encyclopedic in its range, keeping in view the missionary struggles between eastern and western Christianity-the Coptic, Roman, and Orthodox churches-as well as the divisions between the Protestant denominations. Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon's history is conceived on a grand scale and draws together much of the recent enormous literature on the subject. -- Andrew Porter, King's College London This book is a handy historical survey of the history of the Christian mission in the Middle East. It is well written and has a clear and thoughtful flow. -- Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas The authors succeed in showing how Christian missions have inextricably connected the religious, cultural, and political history of this region over the past two millennia. -- Heather J. Sharkey Middle East Journal ... Simon and Tejirian have done an admirable job focusing on the past 2,000 years of Christian presence and witness in the Middle East. -- Scott Bridger The Gospel Coalition ... A fascinating and useful book... -- Rene Wadlow Transnational Perspectives The end result of Tejirian and Simon's massive undertaking is a clear, succinct volume thatcovers an impressive breadth of material. It should be required reading... Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations A valuable introduction to the fascinating and conflicted history of the Christian missions in the Middle East. -- Heleen Murre-van den Berg The Catholic HIstorical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Spread of Christianity: The First Thousand Years 2. The Latin West in the Middle East: Pilgrimage 3. Disintegration 4. The Great Awakening of the Protestants and the Anglicans 5. Missionaries and European Diplomatic Competition 6. The Imperialist Moment: From the Congress of Berlin to World War I 7. Achievements and Consequences: Intended and Unintended 8. World War I: Nationalism 9. Setting the Agenda: From Conversion to Witness-and Back Notes Bibliography Index
£79.80
Columbia University Press Conflict Conquest and Conversion Two Thousand
Book SynopsisConflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifted from Christianity to Islam and back, adding new dimensions to the history of the region and the nature of the relationship between the Middle East and the West. Historians and political scientists increasingly recognize the importance of integrating religion into political analysis, and this volume, using long-neglected sources, uniquely advances this effort. It surveys Christian missions from the earliest days of Christianity to the present, paying particular attention to the role of Christian missions, both Protestant and Catholic, in shaping the political and economic imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon delinTrade ReviewThis work fills a substantial gap in the existing literature. It is encyclopedic in its range, keeping in view the missionary struggles between eastern and western Christianity-the Coptic, Roman, and Orthodox churches-as well as the divisions between the Protestant denominations. Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon's history is conceived on a grand scale and draws together much of the recent enormous literature on the subject. -- Andrew Porter, King's College London This book is a handy historical survey of the history of the Christian mission in the Middle East. It is well written and has a clear and thoughtful flow. -- Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas The authors succeed in showing how Christian missions have inextricably connected the religious, cultural, and political history of this region over the past two millennia. -- Heather J. Sharkey Middle East Journal ... Simon and Tejirian have done an admirable job focusing on the past 2,000 years of Christian presence and witness in the Middle East. -- Scott Bridger The Gospel Coalition ... A fascinating and useful book... -- Rene Wadlow Transnational Perspectives The end result of Tejirian and Simon's massive undertaking is a clear, succinct volume thatcovers an impressive breadth of material. It should be required reading... Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations A valuable introduction to the fascinating and conflicted history of the Christian missions in the Middle East. -- Heleen Murre-van den Berg The Catholic HIstorical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Spread of Christianity: The First Thousand Years 2. The Latin West in the Middle East: Pilgrimage 3. Disintegration 4. The Great Awakening of the Protestants and the Anglicans 5. Missionaries and European Diplomatic Competition 6. The Imperialist Moment: From the Congress of Berlin to World War I 7. Achievements and Consequences: Intended and Unintended 8. World War I: Nationalism 9. Setting the Agenda: From Conversion to Witness-and Back Notes Bibliography Index
£25.20
University of Illinois Press Terror in Minnie Vautrins Nanjing
Book SynopsisA daily account of enormous courage and unthinkable horror during the Nanjing MassacreTrade Review“In what was undoubtedly a labour of love, Suping Lu has provided a moving account of Wilhelmina "Minnie" Vautrin, an American missionary and educator trapped in Nanjing during the Japanese occupation. . . . This book will immediately communicate the severity of the massacre to a general audience. . . . The terrible psychological effects of the Japanese invasion on such a good-hearted person come across vividly, and are difficult to forget.”--The China Quarterly"This diary is not only an important record of a tumultuous period of wartime Nanjing, but also a valuable document about the life of a female American missionary teaching in Republican China."--Daqing Yang, coeditor of Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience"Through the harrowing stories of the victims, accounts of heroic confrontation with Japanese soldiers, and personal testimony, Minnie Vautrin's diaries provide a wealth of information on the Nanking Massacre. A close reading of her remarkable descriptions will help historians and students understand the tragic consequences of war from the vantage point of a civilian who worked helplessly to protect Chinese civilians from Japanese brutality."--Christian Henriot, author of Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949"A powerful account. . . .This book will immediately communicate the severity of the massacre to a general audience. . . . The terrible psychological effects of the Japanese invasion on such a good-hearted person comes across vividly, and are difficult to forget."--The China Quarterly
£35.10
University of Illinois Press Pacific Apostle
Trade Review"A very important work. This travel journal tells the story of a great man's baptism into other worlds of culture, language, nationhood, and appreciation for peoples outside of his purview. The more one knows about David O. McKay, the more one recognizes that this international experience changed the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."--R. Lanier Britsch, author of Moramona: The Mormons in Hawai'i"A well-researched and well-written narrative that places McKay's journey in historical context and prepares the reader to plumb its forward-looking significance. It will take its place in the extensive documentary history of the most important figure in twentieth-century Mormonism."--Gregory A. Prince, coauthor of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Pacific Apostle
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A very important work. This travel journal tells the story of a great man's baptism into other worlds of culture, language, nationhood, and appreciation for peoples outside of his purview. The more one knows about David O. McKay, the more one recognizes that this international experience changed the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."--R. Lanier Britsch, author of Moramona: The Mormons in Hawai'i"A well-researched and well-written narrative that places McKay's journey in historical context and prepares the reader to plumb its forward-looking significance. It will take its place in the extensive documentary history of the most important figure in twentieth-century Mormonism."--Gregory A. Prince, coauthor of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
£19.79
University of Notre Dame Press Cement Earthworms and Cheese Factories
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£70.55
Pennsylvania State University Press Negotiating the Christian Past in China Memory
Book SynopsisFocuses on the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a southeastern Chinese city profoundly influenced by western missionaries. Illustrates the complexities of memory and mission in shaping the city's cultural landscape, church-state dynamics, and global aspirations.Trade Review“This is a wonderful new resource for all scholars of Chinese religion and historians of China more generally. It is a beautiful example of how contemporary ethnographic work combined with historical archival research can produce some of the most pertinent and insightful portraits of state– society relations and their co-production of memory, history and identity.”—Gerda Wielander China Quarterly“Negotiating the Christian Past in China coalesces granular, deeply researched ethnographic data into a fresh and expansive take on the unique patterns of Church-state engagement and the relationship between social memory and faith identity. This story is local and global, particular and general. For anyone who has not yet visited, or cannot travel to, Xiamen, especially Gulangyu Island, this book is the next best thing.”—Joseph T. H. Lee,Pace University“Drawing on firsthand interviews, locally produced Chinese-language histories, and observation of historical celebrations, Negotiating the Christian Past in China offers a new understanding of China’s Christian past. In particular, Liu shows how this past is constructed by combining both official frameworks and unofficial nostalgias and experiences into a social memory that is actively produced without being dominated by state repression or characterized as grassroots resistance. This book takes readers as never before inside the lived world of Xiamen’s Christian present. It does so by exploring how protagonists construct its past in negotiations with other societal actors in the shadow of the state.”—Carsten Vala,author of The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China“This book is not only a catalyst for the development of empirical Christian studies in China but also contributes to deepening the exploration of the field of Christian history and cultural memory studies.”—Wei Xiong Religious Studies Review
£84.96
SPCK Publishing The Provocative Church
Book SynopsisThe Provocative Church offers a liberating understanding of evangelism as a corporate activity, in which all the gifts needed to enact the life of the Kingdom - to stir people into asking, 'What does this mean?' - are spread throughout the whole Church. It encourages the development of a theology of conversion.Trade ReviewThe Provocative Church is one of the best, most honest, most theologically grounded and therefore most practically helpful books on evangelism to have come out in recent years * Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Chelmsford *
£11.39
SPCK Publishing A Call Less Ordinary
Book SynopsisThe inspiring story of Rich Wilson, Team Leader at Fusion and the growth of the incredible student movement he serves. Packed with real-life stories of ordinary people following an extraordinary God, this book will encourage readers to find and pursue their calling through adventure and adversity.Table of Contents1. Calling and me: hearing the call 2. Calling and history: the family tree 3. Calling and community: small groups on fire 4. Calling and Pain: a long dark night 5. Calling and Money: hustling with faith 6. Calling and Battles: I will stand 7. Calling and Perseverance: long obedience/ grace and grit 8. Calling and Adventure: fire and ice 9. Calling and Hope: I see hope 10. Calling and movement: movement makers
£10.44
SPCK Publishing Under Construction Working with the Architect
Book SynopsisJesus wants to remake us; but if we barely allow Jesus through the front door, it is no surprise that we are left wondering whether this really is as good as it gets. Neil O'Boyle shows us what it means to open ourselves up, so that the light of Christ shines into the dark nooks and exposes the sagging rafters.Trade ReviewHugely engaging, deeply challenging, brilliantly creative and extremely practical. * Laura Hancock, National Ministries Director, Youth for Christ *What I like about this book is that it doesn’t settle for the ordinary but invites the reader to allow Jesus Christ to wander the corridors of our lives and check out any room that might be off limits for three simple outcomes - freedom, life and transformation, and one simple purpose - a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. * Most Revd John Sentamu, Archbishop of York *
£9.49
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Cane Ridge Americas Pentecost
£14.20
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Permanent Revolution
Book SynopsisA new brand of apostolic ministry for today's world The Permanent Revolution is a work of theological re-imagination and re-construction that draws from biblical studies, theology, organizational theory, leadership studies, and key social sciences.Table of ContentsAbout the Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series xiii Foreword by Darrell L. Guder xv Preface: A Briefing for the Journey xix Introduction: The Crisis of Infertility and What to Do About It xxvii Part One Ephesians 4:1–16: Frameworks for Ministry 1 Activating the Theo-Genetic Codes of APEST Ministry 3 2 An Elegant Solution: Distributed Intelligence in the Body of Christ 27 3 Better Together: The Synergy of Difference 55 4 Missional Ministry for a Missional Church: A Church Where Everyone Gets to Play 73 Part Two Apostolic Ministry 5 Custody of the Codes: Mapping the Contours of Apostolic Ministry 97 6 Come Back, Peter; Come Back, Paul: The Relation Between Nuance and Impact 119 7 Living from the Center: Apostolic Ministry and the Renewal of Christianity 137 Part Three Apostolic Leadership 8 The Enterprise of Movement and the Movement of Enterprise 159 9 The Spirit of Innovation: Creating New Futures for the Jesus Movement 183 Part Four Apostolic Organization 10 Movements R Us: Thinking and Acting Like a Movement 205 11 Apostolic Architecture: The Anatomy of Missional Organization 227 Conclusion 249 Afterword by Mike Breen 251 Appendix: A Question of Legitimacy: The Restoration of the Apostolic Ministry 255 Notes 273 The Authors 307 Index 309
£18.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Sensational Devotion
Book SynopsisExamines contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land recreations, creationist museums, and megachurches in order to understand how they serve their evangelical believer-users while also shaping larger cultural and national dialogues. The book examines how performative media support specific theologies and core beliefs by creating sensual, live experiences for those who use them.Trade ReviewAn engrossing and richly detailed study of the way evangelicalism performs itself—and its adherents—into being by intimately recoding participants’ bodies, feelings, and yearnings. The book deserves a wide and appreciative readership in religious studies, theatre and performance studies, affect studies, and media studies as well.” —Ann Pellegrini, New York University
£26.55
University of California Press Conversion to Christianity
Book SynopsisThis study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.Table of ContentsRobert W. Hefner, Introduction Howard Clark Kee on the Early Church Terence Ranger on Southern Africa Robert W. Hefner on Java William L. Merrill on Mexico Donald K. Pollock on Amazonia John Barker on Papua, New Guinea Aram A. Yengoyan on Australia Charles F. Keyes on Thailand David K. Jordan on China Peter Wood, Afterword
£26.10
University of California Press Making Chastity Sexy
Book SynopsisLooks at the language of the chastity movement and discovers a savvy campaign that uses sex to 'sell' abstinence. Drawing from interviews with evangelical leaders and teenagers, this title examines the strategy to shift from a negative 'just say no' approach to a positive one: 'just say yes' to great sex within marriage.Trade Review"An excellent qualitative examination of how religious persons make sense of their sexuality within contemporary society." -- Kelsy C. Burke Sociology Of Religion "Making Chastity Sexy is important and perceptive in a profound way... Brilliant." -- Frank Schaeffer Huffington Post "Making Chastity Sexy offers a convincing critique ... will appeal to a broad audience." Sociology Of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abstinence, AIDS, and Evangelicals: An Introduction 1. From Abstinence to Purity: The Changing Tropes of Chastity 2. Of Purity Rings and Pop Stars: Using Sex to Sell Abstinence 3. "Someday My Prince Will Come": The Fairy-tale Narrative and Female Power 4. Disciplining Sexuality: How American Evangelical Youth Are Committing to Abstinence--and Sticking with It 5. The Fractured Fairy Tale: When True Love Doesn't Wait 6. Fearing God, Not AIDS: Abstinence in Africa 7. The Condom Conflict: Saving Lives or Promoting Promiscuity? 8. What's Not So Great about Great Sex Appendix: List of Interviewees Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Boundless Faith
Book SynopsisLooking at American Christianity in relation to globalization, this book shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in US policies and programs abroad. It refutes that US churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions.Trade Review"A clear and systemic discussion of a topic that has too often been dominated by polemics." -- Timothy Renick Christian Century "Compelling... a vivid portrait of the interaction between American Christianity and the rest of the world and the future of this relationship." Foreword "Wuthnow's latest sociological masterpiece." -- Richard Fox Young Theology Today "An erudite and readable account." Publishers Weekly "Offers an abundance of interesting and highly relevant material... Like [Wuthnow's] earlier works, Boundless Faith can be recommended without hesitation." Journal American Academy Of Religion/ Jaar "Eminent" Books & Culture: A Christian Rvw "Wuthnow's thoughtful and sometimes surprising treatment of available data-statistics about membership, mission, and growth in Christian communities-makes it clear why this kind of scholarship matters." -- Marilyn McEntyre Sojourners: Faith, Pol & Culture "[Wuthnow] brings something different to the field of study." -- Todd Johnson Church History Stds In Christiany And CultureTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. At Home and Abroad The Changing Contours of American Religion 2. The Global Christianity Paradigm From Cultural Connection to Demographic Distance 3. Four Faces of Globalization Debating Heterogeneity and Inequality 4. The Evolution of Transnational Ties Changing Patterns of Social Organization 5. The Global Role of Congregations Bridging Borders through Direct Engagement 6. Faith and Foreign Policy Does Religious Advocacy Matter? 7. The Challenges Ahead Good for America, Good for the World? Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£18.90
University of California Press The Holy Vote
Book SynopsisThrough two years of ethnographic fieldwork at a megachurch, sociologist Sarah Diefendorf investigates the ways in which the evangelical church is working to grow during a time in which cultural shifts are leading young people to leave religion behind. In order to expand, the church has revisited topics long understood as external threats to the organization, such as feminism, gender equality, racial inclusivity, and queer lifetopics Diefendorf classifies as the imagined secular in the minds of evangelicals. The Holy Vote shows, however, that the church continues to uphold already privileged identities even as it reworks its messages to appear more welcoming, offering insight into how White evangelical understandings about sex and families have shaped a political movement that has helped remake the Republican Party and transform American politics. In this enlightening work, Diefendorf highlights the complex origins of these understandings and considers their intersections with contemTrade Review"A keenly perceptive ethnographic study. . . . it should attract a wide range of readers, not just those interested in sociology of religion or White evangelicals, but anyone interested in the endurance of social inequalities." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Good and Godly in Trump’s America 2. The Fear of Religious and Cultural Decline 3. The Imagined Secular: Confronting Feminism, Gender, and Family Life 4. White Evangelicals: Emotion Work and Racial Inequality 5. Sacred Sex: Marriage and Heterosexuality 6. We Aren’t the Extremists: Same-Sex Marriage and Changing Ideas of Sin 7. Enduring Inequalities in Unsettled Times Appendix A: Navigating Prayer, Positionality, and Institutional Review Appendix B: Participant Overview Notes References Index
£64.00
Magis Productions A Call to Vision A Jesuits Perspective on the
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£60.30
Harvard University, Asia Center Deliverance and Submission
Book SynopsisSouth Korea is home to some of the largest evangelical Protestant congregations in the world. This book investigates the meaning ofand the reasons behinda particular aspect of contemporary South Korean evangelicalism: the intense involvement of middle-class women.
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Harvard University Press Innocents Abroad American Teachers in the
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive archives of teachers’ letters and accounts, Zimmerman’s narrative explores the teachers’ shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined.Trade ReviewTeaching abroad, [Zimmerman's] book shows, often led Americans to a deeper understanding of cultural relativity and the imperfections of their own society. -- David Espey * Peace Corps Writers *This charming history of the missionaries, Peace Corps volunteers, and other idealists who taught in the four corners of the world over the past 100 years is billed by the author and publisher as an examination of our shifting understanding of "culture"...For readers interested in education, though, it offers an even more delicious treat: countless scenes of progressive teachers thwarted in their efforts to export dubious ideas. * Education Next *In Innocents Abroad, Jonathan Zimmerman provides both an important contribution to historical scholarship and a fascinating glimpse at the lives of a unique group of Americans. This book examines Americans in the twentieth century who went overseas to teach, whether under the auspices of missionary groups or as members of secular groups, most especially the Peace Corps. This is a gracefully written, thoroughly researched, and creatively organized study. It provides a thoughtful and imaginative perspective on how Americans who served as teachers overseas conceived of the American project overseas. -- Fritz Fischer * Journal of American History *Through historical analysis and comments on teaching in the new global age, Zimmerman gives readers of Innocents Abroad much to consider. -- Christine Ogren * Teachers College Record *With Innocents Abroad, Jonathan Zimmerman establishes himself as one of the more adroit thinkers among contemporary educational and cultural historians...More than simply a study of Americans teaching overseas throughout the "American Century," then, Innocents Abroad offers a fresh way to think about the seemingly irreconcilable tension underlying the universalist and relativist approaches to culture prevalent in the world today...Offering us insight into the ways that we might value freedom and equality for all people while also respecting diverse worldviews, Innocents Abroad makes a significant contribution to educational and cultural history as well as to our efforts to understand the post-9/11 world in which we live. -- Charles Dorn * History of Education Quarterly *This is an eloquent history that provides a unique window on American citizen diplomacy during the twentieth century. As American citizens, overseas teachers were often conscious of mediating political worlds, even as they were conscious at personal levels of mediating professional duties, social identities, and moral responsibilities. Zimmerman effectively maps both sets of intersections, thereby thickening descriptions of citizen diplomacy. Overseas teachers were also deployed by organizations in most cases, and the teacher perspectives Zimmerman assembles are important angles of vision on organizational channels of citizen diplomacy, including the U.S. Peace Corps and Christian mission organizations. These aspects of Zimmerman's study will be of interest well beyond the academy, including policy makers and practitioners concerned with international development, church missions, and voluntary sector activities. This is a valuable study, and it deserves a wide readership. -- R. Drew Smith * American Historical Review *Zimmerman offers frank analysis of their impressions, ambitions and anxieties--and the cultural and international forces that shaped them. Taking its name from Mark Twain's 1869 work on American encounters overseas, Zimmerman's book shows how what began as a heaven-sent mission to spread the light of American education to the benighted races became, over the course of the century, a source of shame and anxiety for American teachers overseas. -- Rebecca O'Brien * Forbes.com *Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Aboard the USS Thomas I. American Dilemmas * The American Method * he American Curriculum * Schooling for All? II. American Critiques * Teacher Professionalism and Its Critics * Church-State Relations * The Problem of Empire * Epilogue: American Teachers in a Global Age * Notes * Index
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Harvard University Press Holy Humanitarians
Book SynopsisHeather D. Curtis lays bare the theological motivations, social forces, cultural assumptions, business calculations, and political dynamics that shaped America's ambivalent embrace of evangelical philanthropy. In the process she uncovers the seeds of today's heated debates over the politics of poverty relief and international aid.Trade Review[Curtis’s] book shows that evangelicals have always displayed a mixture of innocence and partisan zeal. -- D. G. Hart * Wall Street Journal *Provides an illuminating lens into evangelical culture at the turn of the 20th century…Curtis explores the ways in which evangelical philanthropy created and curated the images of helpless people abroad. -- David C. Kirkpatrick * Marginalia *But how did [photographs of ‘sponsored’ children in developing countries]—not to mention the acts of transnational giving that they are intended to motivate—become so ubiquitous in American evangelical households? And how did evangelical institutions become such important players in international relief and development work in the first place? [Curtis] answers these questions and more in her brilliant new book…which shows that evangelical leadership in these realms significantly predated the tidal wave of postwar generosity that gave rise to organizations such as World Vision… [S]he underscores the urgency of ongoing moral reflection: After all, as her story makes clear, love of one’s global neighbor has sometimes come with dubious strings attached. -- Heath W. Carter * Christianity Today *A stellar study of the popular Christian Herald and its outsized importance in the emergence of American evangelical media, philanthropy, and global engagement at the turn of the twentieth century. This is a colorful, compelling narrative. -- Darren Dochuk, author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical ConservatismA remarkable achievement. Holy Humanitarians offers valuable insights into issues of domestic inequality, Christian–Muslim encounters abroad, and Americans’ ambivalent attitudes about the suffering of distant others. This thoughtful, nuanced exploration of the contradictions of humanitarian sentiment is rich and compelling. -- Melani McAlister, author of The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American EvangelicalsA wonderfully written and powerfully insightful book that stretches and deepens our understanding of how religion helped shape America’s engagement with the world. Historians have recently explored humanitarianism and philanthropy around the turn of the twentieth century, yet Curtis shows that we’ve only just scratched the surface. -- Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and DiplomacyDeeply researched and cogently argued, Holy Humanitarians is a major contribution to the literature on the American missionary impulse and philanthropy. Curtis is a master stylist; her book is a model of how to write with beauty and grace. -- Grant Wacker, author of America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
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Harvard University Press Church in the Wild
Book SynopsisEmerson and the Transcendentalists get credit for revolutionizing religious life in America by introducing a new appreciation of nature. But in this reconsideration of faith in the antebellum period, Brett Malcolm Grainger argues that it was evangelical revivalists who transformed everyday religious life and spiritualized the natural environment.Trade ReviewWhile we sometimes attribute an enlightened ecology to the New England Puritans, [Grainger] shows how the many millions of evangelicals of the same period had a similar sensibility. The book shows what an approach to religion that strays from the titanic intellectuals and texts can do. In lieu of a rereading of Thoreau, Grainger offers us a fine-grained account of the hymns, sermons, and poetry that constituted the commonsense worldview of a people. -- James G. Chappel * Boston Review *Grainger…demonstrates in his trenchant debut that the American spiritualist origin story of Transcendentalists seeking the divine in the woods and fields doesn’t hold up…Readers of American history and Christian theology will enjoy Grainger’s history, and fans of Emerson and Thoreau will find much to intrigue and challenge them. * Publishers Weekly *Evangelicals today may be relatively out of tune with the environment and sanguine about what is happening to it. But as Brett Grainger shows in this timely work, they have not always been insensitive to communications from nature…Succeeds wonderfully in conveying the emotional engagement with nature experienced by antebellum evangelicals and the sparkling quality of their religiosity. -- Amanda Porterfield * Church History *In Grainger’s work, contemporary Christians might find a resource for understanding themselves as nature worshipers, and thus also as potential stewards of that nature…Through a focus on the nature motifs that pervaded evangelical piety, Grainger points to the fundamental eclecticism of American evangelical history. -- Dana Wiggins Logan * Reading Religion *This elegant book uncovers the vital piety at the heart of modern nature spirituality. Grainger provides a deeply intellectual and profoundly feeling portrait of evangelical romanticism. -- Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming ReligionBrett Grainger’s Church in the Wild is tremendously exciting work, both in the stories it tells and the ways it tells them. Grainger shows the impossibility of separating theology and devotion, learned discourse and popular practice, and—even more fundamentally—evangelical Christianity and the myriad other religious and secular domains from which it acquires new vocabularies, concepts, and practices. -- Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other EssaysChurch in the Wild makes the surprising revelation that nineteenth-century evangelicals were key to the spiritualization of nature in the United States. This is an extraordinary book about the American desire to find God in the natural world. -- Catherine Brekus, author of Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early AmericaIn this extraordinary book, Brett Grainger writes beautifully about how antebellum evangelicals saw ‘field, forest, and stream’ as suffused with the immediate presence of Christ. Church in the Wild convincingly argues that nature spirituality was as much an everyday practice for evangelicals as Bible piety. Readers will come away from this profound reinterpretation with a changed understanding of evangelicals as practitioners of outdoor worship, natural theology, and vital piety. -- Lincoln A. Mullen, author of The Chance of SalvationReaders discover a portrait of early American lived religion that centers [on] the great outdoors. If we have often ceded the natural world to histories of unorthodox, elite seekers such as the New England Transcendentalists, we lose sight of a wider range of religious and cultural experiences in which religious people made sense of their surroundings. -- Monica L. Mercado * Anxious Bench *The original, significant contribution of Grainger’s study is to map in graphic detail the evolution and varieties of religious experience that immersion in the nonhuman world spawned for all sorts and conditions of evangelical believers from this period. The book succeeds admirably…A fresh perspective on the manifold versions of nature reverence in America that flourished in nineteenth-century American beyond the more celebrated ‘Concord philosophy’ of Transcendentalist New Englanders like Emerson and Thoreau. -- John Gatta * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture *Masterful…The implications of this study are significant. Against longstanding scholarly characterizations of Protestants as agents of disenchantment, Grainger highlights the multiplicity of ways in which Evangelicals popularized the idea of divine immanence in nature. -- David Mislin * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
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