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Authors:Christine Heather Bird, Moyra Dale Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. An ethnographic study in Nepal explores traditional cultural patterns of teaching and learning and asks how these patterns are also evident in teaching and discipling in the Nepali church. Pedagogical practices are analyzed to demonstrate the use of a performance-based model based on rote learning. It includes the interpretive context, modeling and observation, practice, performance, and evaluation. We conclude with a discussion of the implications for education or discipleship, including reviewing the place of questions, mistakes, “cheating,” and introducing innovations. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-06-16T12:18:04Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296221103269
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Authors:Jacob Lett Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. In this article, I put Koyama’s contextual Christology in conversation with Balthasar’s mission Christology and consider how they understand history, culture, and the “I” in light of their respective Christologies. In the process, I examine how different Christo-logics shape the nature of theological contextualization, particularly in the way they frame how Christ and, by extension, the church encounter the particularities of history and persons. In the end, I ultimately argue that Balthasar’s Christology offers the “theo-logic” for the dramatic understanding of history that Koyama is performing in his contextual theology and that a dual-nature Christology leads to a dual practice of contextual theology. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-06-04T05:36:26Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296221101619
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Authors:Ian D. Dicks Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. When engaging missionally with new and existing communities the focus is often placed on finding a program or project to facilitate this. Although social enterprises, community programs, and projects are important, the role of growing participation, the dynamics of social networks, and the type, quality, and depth of relationship required for engagement and deep life-sharing are essential to consider. In this article I will discuss some important aspects of growing participation that are applicable to all communities and that can lead to deep life-sharing, the sharing of the gospel, and, in time, hopefully to redemption and transformation. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-06-03T06:12:45Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296221101614
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Authors:Warrick Farah Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. While the dramatic growth of church-planting movements (CPMs) in non-Christian contexts around the world provides ample opportunity to explain their emergence and significance, a missiology of these movements is struggling to keep pace. This article argues that CPM is a unique feature in the field of mission studies that emerged in the later 20th century. Although it shares some of the same characteristics as the early Church Growth Movement discourse, CPMs today are a specific type of movement occurring mostly in least-reached Muslim and Hindu contexts. CPM missiology contains a number of features and unknowns which demonstrate that the discourse is both evolving and invaluable for how the global church understands mission. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-05-24T12:04:45Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296221097652
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Authors:Jamie Sanchez Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. Over the last 30 years, the world has watched as China has developed into an urban nation. Early scholarship on the missiological importance of urban centers framed cities as “the new frontier.” Over time, missiological inquiry continued ranging from new strategies for urban work to developing a theology of urban missions. The continued growth of cities around the world has kept the increasingly diverse environments of the city at the fore of missiological conversations. China’s aggressive urbanization development has meant large populations of rural-to-urban migrants have flooded into the cities in this period. There lacks, however, a robust discussion about the need for more rural-to-urban migrant churches in China. In this article I explore the possibilities for migrant churches in cities. To understand China’s urban context, I begin with a brief overview of rapid urbanization development. I then discuss the growth of the Christian population in China’s cities which is due, in part, to rural-to-urban migration. Following, I discuss some barriers of belonging that many rural-to-urban migrants experience, including barriers in urban churches. I end the article by suggesting possibilities of an establishment of migrant churches in China’s urban centers. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-04-21T04:43:34Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296221087258
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Authors:Steve Rundle, Min-Dong Paul Lee Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. “Business as mission” (BAM) was introduced to the Christian missions community during the 2004 Lausanne conference in Pattaya, Thailand. Since then, interest in BAM has grown exponentially, and with it, demand for support services, training, and financing. For all the attention, however, scholarly research in this area has not kept pace, and there remain many unknowns about the personal and contextual factors that contribute to the impact and sustainability of a BAM enterprise. Seeking to address that gap, this paper builds on insights from the social entrepreneurship literature that enables us to construct a typology that distinguishes between four basic types of BAM practitioner. While all four seek to advance the cause of Christ using business, and thus fit the basic definition of BAM, each brings a different combination of motivations, backgrounds, and practices. The relevance of those differences is then explored using survey data collected from 119 self-defined BAM practitioners around the world. We also identify several essential business practices that are correlated with strong economic and social impact. Implications for further research are discussed. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-04-21T04:43:13Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296221087257
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Authors:Moyra Dale Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. The Muslim women’s piety movement extends in different forms across the Islamic world today. While female scholars and teachers are not new in the history of Islam, the scale of this movement constitutes a significant shift in the place of women within Islam, by bringing discussion of issues of Muslim jurisprudence and Qur’anic interpretation into the framework of women’s lives and questions. The growing presence of female Muslim scholars and teachers is an implicit challenge to the widely quoted hadith that women are lacking in piety and intelligence. This article describes the movement, discusses its impact in Muslim society, and asks what the implications might be for Christian missiology. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-01-29T04:55:48Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296211072845
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Authors:Xiaoli Yang Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. The 21st century is marked by the exponential growth of Christianity in the Global East beyond Christendom. In the last thirty years, Canaan Hymns (jianan shixuan, 迦南诗选), over two thousand indigenous songs composed by a rural woman named Lü Xiaomin (吕小敏, 1970–) have spread and been sung from the underground to the world. They have become a hallmark of the Chinese church and mission movement beyond the borders of the Mainland. Coined as “God’s gift to China,” Xiaomin, a junior high school drop-out without any musical training, wrote these songs inspired by the Holy Spirit from the village fields of northern China. Despite ample video clips and documentaries of Xiaomin and Canaan Hymns being made available online, scholarship on their missiology has been underheard and underdeveloped. Drawing from the methodologies of “lived theology,” “grassroots theology,” and “biography as theology,” this article studies the formation, themes, and styles of Canaan Hymns through textual analysis, literature reviews, and interviews. In conversation with missiologists and theologians of the West and Asia such as Bosch, Moltmann, and Chan, a grassroots missiology that is contextual, pneumatological, and communal is discerned and articulated. In doing so, not only voices from the margins are heard and brought into global conversations, missio Dei is also given new meanings and significance in the context of the contemporary indigenous mission movement. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-01-27T09:26:43Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296211072846
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Authors:Robert Holmes, Eunice Hong Abstract: Missiology, Ahead of Print. The central research question of this qualitative study was: What are expatriate perceptions of North Korean (Juche) ideology' Other studies on Juche have examined Juche from religious, political, or missiological lenses. However, few qualitative studies have been done on this subject. While it is nearly impossible to conduct research with North Koreans living in North Korea, this study collected data from nine expatriates who had lived in North Korea around the time of the interviews. From the data, two major categories emerged: the foundational influences and function of Juche. The results indicate that the participants perceive Juche to be influenced by Korean culture, nationalism, and humanism, while the participants understand the function of Juche as a system of control, a religion, and an ideology. Citation: Missiology PubDate: 2022-01-04T06:14:21Z DOI: 10.1177/00918296211064294
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