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Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia

Author : Carey Anthony Watt
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843318644
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia by : Carey Anthony Watt

Download or read book Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia written by Carey Anthony Watt and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia' offers a series of analyses that highlights the complexities of British and Indian civilizing missions in original ways and through various historiographical approaches. The book applies the concept of the civilizing mission to a number of issues in the colonial and postcolonial eras in South Asia: economic development, state-building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs, and civil society.

Postcolonial Mission

Author : Desmond Van Der Water
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935946007
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Mission by : Desmond Van Der Water

Download or read book Postcolonial Mission written by Desmond Van Der Water and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian mission is much more than a sermon from the church addressed to the world. This book shows that mission must recognize that God is present in the world, calling all of God's people to witness to and participate in God's reconciliation, healing, and transformation of all parts of life. This is holistic mission for a postmodern world. Postcolonial Mission includes chapters from Steve de Gruchy, Roderick Hewitt, Paul Isaak, Namsoon Kang, Jooseop Keum, Sam Kobia, Marjorie Lewis, Rogate Mshana, Sarojini Nadar, Isabel Apawo Phiri, and Des van der Water.

The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective

Author : Kwok Pui-lan
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1640656316
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective by : Kwok Pui-lan

Download or read book The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective written by Kwok Pui-lan and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a major scholar, a postcolonial perspective on key current and historical issues in Anglicanism, foregrounding the voices of theologians and church leaders from the Global South. In recent years, the Anglican Communion has been consumed by debates about gender, sexuality, authority, and biblical interpretation, which have frequently divided along North/South lines. Much of these controversies stem from the colonial history of Anglicanism. Written by a pioneer in postcolonial theology, this groundbreaking volume challenges Eurocentrism and racism in the Anglican Communion by highlighting the voices of theologians and church leaders from the Global South. The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective scrutinizes Anglican theology and history to advocate for the decolonization of the Church. It examines controversies on Christianity and the social order, economic justice, worship, gender and sexuality, women’s leadership, and the Church’s mission in a religiously pluralistic world.

The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies

Author : Kirsteen Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198831722
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies written by Kirsteen Kim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in mission studies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. The Handbook builds on renewed interest in mission studies this century generated by recent key statements on mission from ecumenical, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox sources, and by a spate of academic works on the topic. Western church leaders now apply insights from foreign missions (such as, inculturation, liberation, interfaith work, and power encounter) to today's multicultural societies. Meanwhile, there are new initiatives in mission from the Majority World, where most Christians live, so that sending is not only 'from the west to the rest' but 'from everywhere to everywhere'. Therefore, this volume aims to reflect the voices of the receivers of mission as well as its protagonists and to raise awareness of new movements. In a time of growing recognition of 'religions' more generally, this work examines and theorizes the missional dimensions of the world's largest religion: its agendas, growth, outreach, role in public life, effect on cultures, relevance for development, and its approaches to other communities.

Postcolonial Politics and Theology

Author : Kwok Pui-lan
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 1646982304
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (469 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Politics and Theology by : Kwok Pui-lan

Download or read book Postcolonial Politics and Theology written by Kwok Pui-lan and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Politics and Theology seeks to reform and reimagine the field of political theology—uprooting it from the colonial soil—using the comparative lenses of postcolonial politics and theology to bring attention to the realities of the Global South. Kwok Pui-lan traces the history of the political impacts of Western theological development, especially developments in the U.S. context, and the need to shift these interlocking fields toward non-Western traditions in theory and practice. A special focus of the book is on the changing sociopolitical realities of American Empire and Sino-American competition, illustrated in Donald Trump's slogan of "Make America Great Again" and Xi Jinping’s hope for a “China Dream.” The shifting of U.S. and Asian relationships highlights the need to move our theological and political categories away from a vision of strongman domination and toward a postmodern, postcolonial, and transnational world, especially exemplified in the Asia Pacific context. Throughout, Kwok overturns the idea of centering one cultural framework and marginalizing others in favor of living into a multiplicity of deeply contextual theologies. She explores how these theologies are being developed in global, postcolonial contexts, through struggles for democracy and civil disobedience in Hong Kong, by efforts to reclaim selfhood and sexual identity from exploitative colonial desire, through the work of interreligious solidarity and peacebuilding, and in the practice of earth care in the face of ecological crisis.

Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony

Author : Marion Grau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056756150X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Book Synopsis Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony by : Marion Grau

Download or read book Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony written by Marion Grau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A progressive Christian approach to soteriology and missiology in a global, postcolonial context.

Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations

Author : Kay Higuera Smith
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830896317
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations by : Kay Higuera Smith

Download or read book Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations written by Kay Higuera Smith and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the church respond to issues of imperialism, race and globalization? Constructing an evangelical postcolonial theology may be the solution to dealing with these ever-growing issues. Gathering together essays presented at the 2010 Postcolonial Roundtable at Gordon College, this groundbreaking volume seeks to reconcile the ugly history of cultural dominion and colonialism with new perspectives on global society. Rethinking and reimagining the concepts of identity, power, interpretation and historiography through the lens of Christianity, the editors provide readers with new ways of understanding and bettering the world. "The Christian faith of the future must be a joint enterprise in which the descendants of the colonized and the descendants of the colonizers come together, reflect on the past and imagine a different and better future together," contributor Brian McLaren states. "That work will involve risks and dangers for both groups, and the contributions of both are essential. One lesson the gospel surely teaches us is this: we are all connected." Addressing themes like nationalism, Christology and western conquest, contributors discuss reasons Christians need to be careful how they frame their conversations on global topics. The language of "mission" can be misconstrued in light of postcolonial perspectives, and the essays dig into the role of evangelicalism in modern Christian outreach to help us keep pace with what God is doing in our era.

Beyond Empire

Author : Jonathan Ingleby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781449082307
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond Empire by : Jonathan Ingleby

Download or read book Beyond Empire written by Jonathan Ingleby and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian mission has been linked for good and ill with colonialism. But what is its relation to postcolonialsm, to a world which has gone 'beyond empire' but has not necessarily fully taken into account its colonial past? Postcolonialism offers a lens through which we can re-read Scripture and re-view the history of our times. Topics such as migration, the fate of indigenous peoples, hybridity, the postcolonial city, development, and many more, come into focus in this book. The discussion then leads naturally to a fresh expression of the nature of the Kingdom of God and the mission of the church.

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics

Author : Paul S. Chung
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630870560
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics by : Paul S. Chung

Download or read book Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics written by Paul S. Chung and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics is a groundbreaking attempt to present constructive missional theology in an integrative and interdisciplinary framework as it provocatively utilizes and contextualizes Reformation theology and hermeneutics concerning ethical theology embedded within the wider horizon of World Christianity. Mission as constructive theology is explored and refined in an hermeneutical and interdisciplinary fashion, underlying a new horizon of postcolonial theology and mission in light of God's act of speech. Missional church founded up God's grace of justification and Christ's diakonia of reconciliation becomes ethically oriented public church as it is engaged in mutireligious diversity of people's lives and lifeworld in the postcolonial context of World Christianity.

The Calling of the Church in Times of Polarization

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527656
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Calling of the Church in Times of Polarization written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many societies all over the world, an increasing polarization between contrasting groups can be observed. Polarization arises when a fear born of difference turns into ‘us-versus-them’ thinking and rules out any form of compromise. This volume addresses polarizations within societies as well as within churches, and asks the question: given these dynamics, what may be the calling of the church? The authors offer new approaches to polarizing debates on topics such as racism, social justice, sexuality and gender, euthanasia, and ecology and agriculture in various contexts. They engage in profound theological and ecclesiological reflection, in particular from the Reformed tradition. Contributors to this volume are: Najib George Awad, Henk van den Belt, Nadine Bowers Du Toit, Jaeseung Cha, David Daniels, David Fergusson, Jan Jorrit Hasselaar, Jozef Hehanussa, Allan Janssen, Klaas-Willem de Jong, Viktória Kóczián, Philipp Pattberg, Louise Prideaux, Emanuel Gerrit Singgih, Peter-Ben Smit, Thandi Soko-de Jong, Wim van Vlastuin, Jan Dirk Wassenaar, Elizabeth Welch, Annemarieke van der Woude, and Heleen Zorgdrager.

Postcolonial Practice of Ministry

Author : Kwok Pui-lan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149853449X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Practice of Ministry by : Kwok Pui-lan

Download or read book Postcolonial Practice of Ministry written by Kwok Pui-lan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial studies has challenged the Eurocentric frameworks and methodologies in the fields of biblical studies and theology. Postcolonial Practice of Ministry is a groundbreaking anthology that enables a new engagement between postcolonial and practical theologies, focused on three key areas of the practice of ministry: pastoral leadership, liturgical celebration, and interfaith engagement. Postcolonial Practice of Ministry will make an impact in at least two areas of theological reflection: first, among postcolonial scholars, it will stretch postcolonial theology into an area where it has been neglected; second, it will provide a comprehensive resource for rethinking the practice of ministry. Contributors to this volume are well-known scholars from different racial, national, and denominational backgrounds, bringing with them experiences of hybrid identities and multicultural churches. Many of them are pioneers in introducing postcolonial discourse to their fields.

Decolonizing Mission Partnerships

Author : Taylor Walters Denyer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725259133
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Decolonizing Mission Partnerships by : Taylor Walters Denyer

Download or read book Decolonizing Mission Partnerships written by Taylor Walters Denyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know that healthy partnerships are essential to fruitful boundary-crossing ministries, but how exactly do we create them? What barriers must be overcome, and what self-examination must we do? How do the legacies of colonialism, racism, and unhealed trauma impact missional collaborations today? In this doctoral thesis, Denyer reflects on these questions as she examines the history of relational dynamics between American and Congolese United Methodists in the North Katanga Conference (DR Congo). By surveying memoirs, magazines, and journals, and conducting in-depth interviews, Denyer presents a complex and multifaceted example of a partnership that is in the process of decolonizing. More than just a history lesson, Decolonizing Mission Partnerships presents the questions, hard truths, pitfalls, and toxic assumptions we must face when attempting to be in mission together.

Transcending Mission

Author : Michael W. Stroope
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830882251
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Transcending Mission written by Michael W. Stroope and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IVP Readers' Choice Award Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's more, in telling the story of apostles and bishops and monks as missionaries, we think we have grasped the true thread of Christian history. But what about those odd shapes, those unsettling gaps and creases in the historical record? Is the language of mission so clearly evident across the broad reaches of time? Is the trajectory of mission really so explicit from the early church to the present? Or has the modern missionary enterprise distorted our view of the past? As with every reigning paradigm, there comes a point when enough questions surface to beg for a close and critical look, even when it may seem transgressive to do so. In this study of the language of mission—its origin, development, and application—Michael Stroope investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity. There is both surprise and hope in this tale. And perhaps the beginnings of a new conversation.

The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC): Bearing Witness To

Author : Jonathan Y. Tan
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506433553
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC): Bearing Witness To by : Jonathan Y. Tan

Download or read book The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC): Bearing Witness To written by Jonathan Y. Tan and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the theological contributions of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), a transnational body comprising fifteen Asian Catholic bishops' conferences as full members and ten associate members. The book introduces the contemporary context of Asia and represents a complete reworking of the author's approach to the FABC's way of being church and doing theology in Asia. The emphasis of the book is on the postcolonial dimensions of Asia and the challenges and implications of decolonization for shaping a postcolonial Asian church and way of theologizing. The book also addresses the challenges of religious pluralism for the FABC and the FABC's prophetic response--seeking to be a sacrament of unity and harmony amid much strife, violence, and conflict. Finally, the book discusses new challenges and possibilities for the FABC as it looks ahead. Tan explores the challenges and implications of migration, transient migration, online and virtual communities, and insider movements for shaping the future of the FABC's approach to theology.

Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

Author : Michael R. Griffiths
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134801173
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture by : Michael R. Griffiths

Download or read book Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture written by Michael R. Griffiths and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international levels. But how do these extant practices of memory function to precipitate justice and recompense? Are there moments when such techniques, performances, and displays of memory serve to obscure and elide aspects of the history of colonial governmentality? This collection addresses these and other questions in essays that take up the varied legacies, continuities, modes of memorialization, and poetics of remaking that attend colonial governmentality in spaces as varied as the Maghreb and the Solomon Islands. Highlighting the continued injustices arising from a process whose aftermath is far from settled, the contributors examine works by twentieth-century authors representing Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Imperial practices throughout the world have fomented a veritable culture of memory. The essays in this volume show how the legacy of colonialism’s attempt to transform the mode of life of colonized peoples has been central to the largely unequal phenomenon of globalization.

Decolonizing Evangelicalism

Author : Randy S. Woodley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498292038
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Book Synopsis Decolonizing Evangelicalism by : Randy S. Woodley

Download or read book Decolonizing Evangelicalism written by Randy S. Woodley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing interest in postcolonial theologies has initiated a vital conversation within and outside the academy in recent decades, turning many “standard theologies” on their head. This book introduces seminary students, ministry leaders, and others to key aspects, prevailing mentalities, and some major figures to consider when coming to understand postcolonial theologies. Woodley and Sanders provide a unique combination of indigenous theology and other academic theory to point readers toward the way of Jesus. Decolonizing Evangelicalism is a starting point for those who hope to change the conversation and see that the world could be lived in a different way.

Missional Ecclesiologies in Creative Tension

Author : Joon-Sik Park
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820486222
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis Missional Ecclesiologies in Creative Tension by : Joon-Sik Park

Download or read book Missional Ecclesiologies in Creative Tension written by Joon-Sik Park and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful study of the critical issues in missional ecclesiology, Joon-Sik Park reflects on two prominent twentieth-century theologians - H. Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962) and John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) - and integrates the insights of their respective traditions. Although ecclesiology was a major concern to both Niebuhr and Yoder, their views on the nature and calling of the church were distinct. Whereas Niebuhr (a theologian in the Evangelical and Reformed tradition) was concerned with defining the church in relation to a universal community, Yoder (standing within the Mennonite tradition) was interested in representing the church as an alternative community. Although Niebuhr was reluctant to distinguish the church sharply from the world, Yoder stressed the distinctiveness of the church from the world and considered the Christian faith a decisive difference between believing and unbelieving communities. Seeking to construct an integral missional ecclesiology, Joon-Sik Park carefully engages Niebuhr and Yoder and proposes a critical synthesis of their strengths. He holds in creative tension the contradistinctive ecclesiologies of Niebuhr and Yoder by means of Lesslie Newbigin's logic of election, providing a way to overcome an impasse between the two theologians.