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Selected Annotated Bibliography
on Missiology:
Missions—Social Aspects
Paul G Hiebert and Norman E Thomas
GENERAL
Adeney, Bernard T. Strange Virtues Ethics
in a Multicultural World Downers Grove,
IL InterVarsity Press, 1995 286 p p ,
paper 0830818553
An introduction to cross-cultural ethics based
on the assumption that each culture gives rise
to a distinctive value system, by one who
draws upon three generations of missionary
experience and taught theology and ethics in
Indonesia
Gittins, Anthony J. Gifts and Strangers
Meeting the Challenge of Inculturation
Mahwah, Ν J Pauhst Press, 1989 xn,
144 p p , paper 0809130882
A basic course for cross-cultural persons in
mission from North America and Europe
seeking to understand the dynamics of belief
and behavior in Third-World communities, by
the Associate Professor of Mission Theology
at the Catholic Theological Union in
Chicago, Illinois
Hiebert,
Paul
G.
Anthropological
Reflections on Missiological Issues Grand
Rapids, MI Baker Books, 1994 272 pp ,
paper 0801043948
A collection of essays by the noted missiologist and anthropologist on conceptual issues
relating theology, anthropology, and missiol­
ogy, and discussing practical issues in crosscultural evangelization
Hiebert, Paul G., and Eloise Hiebert
Meneses. Incarnatwnal Ministry Planting
Churches in Band, Tribal, Peasant, and
Urban Societies Grand Rapids, MI Baker
Books, 1995 405 pp , paper 0801020093
Drawing upon the insights of cultural anthro­
pology concerning various types of societies
Missiology
and cultures, two anthropologists discuss how
these differences affect church planting in
different cultural settings
Hiebert, Paul G., R. Daniel Shaw, and Tite
Tiénou. Understanding Folk Religion A
Christian Response to Popular Beliefs and
Practices Grand Rapids, MI Baker
Books, 1999 412 pp , paper 0801022193
An exploration of the characteristics of folk
religions and the ways religion is believed
and practiced in daily life, with missiological
implications
Kraft, Charles H. Anthropology for
Christian Witness Maryknoll, NY Orbis
Books, 1996 xvi, 493 p p , paper
1570750858
A thorough basic introduction to the study of
anthropology designed specifically for those
who plan careers m mission or cross-cultural
ministry
Luzbetak, Louis J. The Church and Cultures
New Perspectives in Missiological Anthropology (American Society of Missiology
Senes, 12) Maryknoll, NY Orbis Books,
1988 xx, 464 pp , paper 0883446251
A detailed introduction to missionary anthropology for those desiring a culturally sensitive ministry and witness—a complete revision of the 1963 classic in the light of contemporary anthropological and missiological
thought and in the face of current world conditions
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Taber, Charles R. The World Is Too Much
with Us: "Culture " in Modern Protestant
Missions. (The Modern Mission Era, 17921992: An Appraisal). Macon, GA: Mercer
University Press, 1991. xxiv, 208 pp.
0865543887.
A scholarly analysis of two hundred years of
discussion of the relation of missions and culture, focusing on the interaction among
Protestant missionaries, social scientists, and
indigenous peoples.
Whiteman, Darrell L., ed. Missionaries,
Anthropologists, and Cultural Change.
(Studies in Third World Societies, 25).
Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary
College, 1985. xii, 424 pp., paper. No
ISBN.
Thirteen essays by mission scholars on the
creative interaction between anthropology
and missiology in theory and practice, with
emphasis on issues of epistemology and cultural change.
GOSPEL AND CULTURE
Amaladoss, Michael. Beyond Inculturation:
Can the Many Be One? Delhi, India:
ISPCK, 1998. xv, 148 pp., paper.
8172144377.
A study of the complexity of inculturation,
beginning with a series of poignant questions
and leading to an exploration of the divinehuman encounter, by the noted Jesuit theologian/missiologist based on his Indian experiences.
Gilliland, Dean S., ed. The Word Among Us:
Contextualizing Theology for Mission
Today. Dallas, TX: Word Publishing, 1989.
viii, 344 pp., paper. 0849931541.
Fourteen scholarly essays by 13 faculty members of the School of World Mission of Fuller
Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California,
developing biblical and contemporary crosscultural aspects of contextualization as a
requirement for evangelical missions.
Hesselgrave, David J., and Edward
Rommen. Contextualization: Meanings,
Methods, and Models. Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker Book House, 1989. xii, 281 pp.,
paper. 0801043387.
A comprehensive text for evangelicals on
contextualization, including historical background,
contemporary
regional
understandings, frameworks for analysis, and
six case studies of "authentic and relevant
contextualization."
Lingenfelter, Sherwood G. Transforming
Culture: A Challenge for Christian
Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book
House, 1992. 218 pp., paper. 0801056748.
Case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and Oceania on relating specific
cultural understandings of culture, social
order, and leadership to Western understandings and to biblical teachings.
Newbigin, Lesslie. The Gospel in a
Pluralistic Society. Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans; Geneva, Switzerland: WCC
Costa, Ruy O., ed. One Faith, Many
Publications, 1989. xi, 244 pp., paper.
Cultures: Inculturation, Indigenization,
0802804268.
and Contextualization. (Boston Theological A detailed analysis of the meaning of the
Institute Annual, 2). Maryknoll, NY: Orbis gospel and the mission of the church in the
Books; Cambridge, MA: Boston Theo- midst of a plurality of cultures and religions,
ogical Institute, 1988. xvii, 162 pp. by the highly respected ecumenical leader.
0883445875 (0).
Sixteen scholarly essays by Protestant and Sampson, Philip, Vinay Samuel, and Chris
Sugden, eds. Faith and Modernity. Oxford,
Catholic theologians originally presented at
UK: Regnum Books, 1994. 352 pp., paper.
the dialogue on "Contextualization of the
0745930395.
Faith: Past, Present, and Future," The Second
Annual Consultation on Global Mission of Papers from the Faith and Modernity
the Boston Theological Institute (21-22 Conference (Uppsala, Sweden, 1993) sponsored by the Lausanne Committee for World
March 1986).
Evangelization.
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Scherer, James Α., and Stephen B. Bevans,
eds. New Directions in Mission and
Evangelization 3: Faith and Culture.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999. x,
240 pp., paper. 1570752583.
Representing a variety of branches of the
Christian church and located in areas around
the world, the contributors express their views
on issues of inculturation in this text designed
for classroom use in mission and world
Christianity courses.
Shorter, Aylward. Toward a Theology of
Inculturation.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books; London, UK: Geoffrey Chapman,
1988. xii, 291 pp., paper. 0883445360 (0).
0225665026 (C).
The author brings together the many strands
of historic and contemporary Roman
Catholic thought on the theology of incultur­
ation, with the argument that faith must
become culture in order to be fully received
and lived.
Zahniser, A. H. Mathias. Symbol and
Ceremony: Making Disciples across
Cultures. (Innovations in Mission).
Monrovia, CA: MARC, 1997. x, 236 pp.,
paper. 1887983058.
Helps for Western Christians to understand
the functions of symbols and ceremonies
within cultures, and to learn how to use them
for cross-cultural disciple-making among
Jews, Hindus, Muslims, and traditional reli­
gionists while avoiding syncretism.
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
Bromley, David G., and Phillip E.
Hammond, eds. The Future of New
Religious Movements. Macon, GA: Mercer
University Press, 1987. vi, 278 pp., paper.
0865542376.
Seventeen scholarly articles prepared for the
conference on the future of new religious
movements held in October 1983 in Berkeley,
California,
sponsored by the New
Ecumenical Research Association (New
ERA).
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Chirenje, J. Muterò. Ethiopianism and AfroAmericans in Southern Africa, 1883-1916.
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State
University Press, 1987. xii, 231 pp.
0807113190.
A scholarly history of the rise of African
independent churches in southern Africa,
focusing on the role Afro-Americans played
in that process.
Mather, George Α., and Larry A. Nichols.
Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and
the Occult. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan,
1993. 384 pp. 0310531004.
A guide to the hundreds of religious groups in
North America outside Protestantism,
Catholicism, and Judaism, with essays, short
and long, on their history, leaders, beliefs,
practices, and influence.
Mullins, Mark R. Christianity Made in
Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements.
(Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and
Culture). Honolulu, HI: University of
Hawaii Press, 1998. x, 277 pp.
0824821149 (hdbk), 0824821327 (pbk).
A behind-the-scenes study of several indige­
nous Christian movements in Japan that give
voice to unheard perceptions of many
Japanese Christians while questioning the
concept of Christianity as a truly "world reli­
gion."
Walls, A. F., and Wilbert R. Shenk, eds.
Exploring New Religious Movements:
Essays in Honour of Harold W Turner.
Elkhart, IN: Mission Focus Publications,
1990. vi, 215 pp., paper. 1877736082.
A festschrift containing 16 scholarly essays in
honor of the distinguished founder of the
Centre for New Religious Movements, Selly
Oak, Birmingham, England.
Wilson, Bryan R. The Social Dimensions of
Sectarianism: Sects and New Religious
Movements in Contemporary Society.
Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press; New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990. xii, 299 pp.
0198273460.
Thirteen essays by the noted Oxford
University sociologist tracing the growth and
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expansion of various new religious movements in the West, relating them to their
social contexts.
WORK AMONG WOMEN—WOMEN IN
CHRISTIANITY
Bowie, Fiona, Deborah Kirkwood, and
Shirley Ardener, eds. Women and
Missions: Past and Present Anthropological
and Historical Perceptions. (Cross-cultural
Perspectives on Women, 11). Providence,
RI: Berg Publishers, 1993. xx, 279 pp.
0854967389 (hdbk); 0854968725 (pbk).
Thirteen scholarly essays by British and
African anthropologists, missiologists, and
historians on women missionaries and the
effect of Christian missionary activity on
women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Tucker, Ruth A. Guardians of the Great
Commission: The Story of Women in
Modern Missions. Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 1988. 278 pp., paper.
0310414717.
Well-researched accounts of women, married
and single, working in missions in foreign
countries as well as in the United States, in
the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
organized by the types of leadership which
they gave.
SPECIAL TYPES OF MISSIONS
Ferris, Elizabeth G. Beyond Borders:
Refugees, Migrants and Human Rights in
the Post-Cold War Era. Geneva,
Switzerland: WCC Publications, 1993.
xxxvi, 310 pp., paper. 2825410950.
A thoroughly researched analysis of the
responses to needs of refugees by the United
Nations, governments, and nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs), with a vision and plan
of action for churches and other NGOs.
context, with practical techniques and suggestions for ministry strategies.
Greenway, Roger S., and Timothy M.
Monsma. Cities: Mission's New Frontier.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House,
1989. xiii, 321 pp., paper. 0801038316.
One of the first major studies on urban missions, containing a biblical framework for
mission to cities, discussion of city issues that
need to be addressed by urban missions, and
models of urban mission in North America,
Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Harper, Nile. Urban Churches, Vital Signs:
Beyond Charity toward Justice. Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999. xv, 333 pp.,
paper. 0802844413.
The stories of 28 churches (including 16
African-American churches) in 15 major
cities in the United States that are making
successful contributions to the transformation
of inner-city communities.
Yamamori,Tetsunao, Bryant L. Myers, and
Kenneth L. Luscombe, eds. Serving with
the Urban Poor. (Cases in Holistic
Ministry). Monrovia, CA: MARC, 1998.
ix, 234 pp., paper. 1887983104.
Thirteen prominent urban practitioners
explore the meaning, trends, and case studies
of holistic urban mission, with emphasis on
modernization, relief and development agencies, gender and women's voices.
MEDICAL MISSIONS/HEALING
Ewert, D. Merrill, ed. A New Agenda for
Medical Missionaries. Brunswick, GA:
MAP International, 1990. 136 pp., paper.
No ISBN.
Fifteen essays by medical practitioners on
medical missions and community-based
health development, designed to show how
the latter in theory and practice provides a
new agenda for medical missions.
URBAN MISSION
Bakke, Ray. The Urban Christian: Effective
Ministry in Today s Urban World. Downers Kauffman, Christopher J. Ministry and
Meaning: A Religious History of Catholic
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1987. 200 pp.,
Health Care in the United States. New
paper. 0877845239.
York: Crossroad, 1995. xiv, 354 pp.
Theological reflections on the opportunities
0824514599.
and problems of ministry within the urban
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The first comprehensive history of Catholic
health care in the United States that explores
the religious self-understanding of caregivers,
especially nuns.
Shorter, Aylward. Jesus and the Witchdoctor:
An Approach to Healing and Wholeness.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1985. x, 256
pp., paper. 0225664313.
A discussion of how healing through Jesus
Christ can be holistic for persons afflicted by
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social, psychological, emotional, and spiritual evils, with insights from Catholic healing
and sacramental ministries in East Africa.
See also Missiology 15 (3) (July 1987): 398401 for the initial selected annotated bibliography of 30 titles on "Missions—Social
Aspects" by Paul G. Hiebert and Norman E.
Thomas.