Product Description: Working with new insights on the influence that Christian translations of Scriptures and catechisms into African languages had on cultural self-understanding, social awakening, religious renewal, reciprocity in mission, process, Sanneh shows that mission and translation were and continue to be integral parts of cultural renewal in the face of the relentless onslaught of imperialism in its classic and contemporary forms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Explores anthropology's contributions to the better cross-cultural understanding of epistemology, globalism, urbanization, church planting, spiritual warfare, and more.

Product Description: One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread...read more

Product Description: Commonly regarded as relics of an outgrown and mostly discredited colonialism, Christian missionaries are still playing an active role in many parts of the world and their number is, in fact, increasing. In this book, Kenelm Burridge examines these individuals and the work they do from a new perspective, combining anthropology with insights from history, sociology, missiology and theology, in an attempt to expose and explicate the contradictions and ambiguities involved in missionary endeavours and to establish a theory about the apparently inevitable processes that arise out of the nature of Christianity and the building of a Christian community...read more

Product Description: Current Concerns of Anthropologists and Missionaries contains 11 papers presented at the 1986 SIL Seminar on Anthropology. Discusses moral roots of conflict, world views, attitudes toward religion, ethics of evangelism, ethics of Christian mission, what to learn from critics, and missiology...read more