Book reviews

The Holy Spirit in the World: AGlobal Conversation.

By Kirsteen Kim. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2007. Pp. xiv,210. Paperback $25.

Whathappenedintermsofpneumatology the holy spirit or spirit of christ, and that the last chapter,“theology of the between the seventh assembly of the their presence and activities need to be holy spirit in aPlural World,” brings World council of churches (canberra, taken into account in pneumatology. together insights from all the theologies 1991)—wherethe Korean theologian thenextfourchaptersgivealucidand discussed to suggest apneumatology that chung hyun Kyung shocked the partici- informative summary of contemporary is responsive to contemporary cultural pants with her appearance on stage as a theologies of the spirit. in “the spirit of and religious pluralism and to the urgent shaman and invocation of the Han-ridden Mission,” Kim discusses the theologies need of discerning between the holy spirits—and the thirteenth conference of the spirit of the lausanne covenant; spirit and spirits. Kim draws out the on World Mission and evangelism of of roland allen, harry Boer,lesslie implicationsofthiskindofpneumatology the World council of churches (athens, newbigin, John V. taylor,and John Paul for christian mission in terms of healing 2005)? The Holy Spirit in the World offers a ii; and especially of Karl Barth, Paul and reconciliation, the theme of the detailedaccountofthedevelopmentofthe tillich, and Karl rahner.in“the Mission thirteenth conference on World Mission theology of the holy spirit between these of the spirit,” Kim discusses orthodox and evangelism in athens in 2005. two events, with afocus on mission. pneumatology,with special attention to The HolySpiritintheWorldis amaster- after abrief introduction on the aram Keshishian and John Zizioulas, fulstudyofcontemporarypneumatology. pneumatological implications of the emphasizing the distinct role of the spirit Wellresearched,clearlywritten,ecumeni- seventh assembly’s theme, “come, in creation and re-creation as the “spirit cal, intercultural, and interreligious, it holy spirit, renew the Whole creation,” of life.” Kim also highlights the orthodox offersexactlywhatitssubtitleannounces:a the first chapter summarizes catholic, concerns expressed at canberra and their globalconversation.forWesterners,itsstudy Protestant,andorthodoxpneumatologies impact on the next general assembly of of indian and Korean pneumatologies is with their responses to the question of the Wcc at salvador,Brazil (1996). this particularly useful. the insights it gathers wherethe spirit is present: in the church, chapter ends with alengthy disquisition for apneumatological missiology and a in the heart, and everywhere, on Jürgen Moltmann’s pneumatology.in missiologicalpneumatologyareatreasure respectively.itisfollowed by asurvey of “Missioninthespirit,”Kimpresentsindian trove. inominate it as the best theology new testament data on the spirit, which theologies, especially those of stanley book of 2007. is organized under the three aspects samartha, Vandana Mataji, and samuel —Peter c. Phan highlighted by Pentecostals (with the ryan. in “Mission among the spirits,” emphasis on Pentecost), catholics (with Kim presents Korean pneumatology, Peter C. Phan, the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of theemphasisonthespiritasgiftoftherisen focusing on revival movements led by Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, christ), and orthodox (with the emphasis Kil sŏn-chu and lee yong-do, suh nam- Washington, d.C., is the authorofseveral on the presence of the spirit throughout dong’s ,yonggi cho’s books in missiology,including Being religious creation). Kim points out that the Bible Pentecostaltheology,andruytong-shik’s interreligiously:asianPerspectivesoninterfaith also speaks of “spirits” as distinct from p’ungnyu theology. Dialogue (Orbis Books, 2004).

On Missionary Roads. tomko often provides his personal reflection and evaluation of mission By Jozef Cardinal Tomko. San Francisco: realities. for example, he comments on Ignatius Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 390. Paperback the massacres when speaking of Burundi $24.95. and rwanda (pp. 56–64), the “blasphemy laws” in Pakistan (p. 195), and his meeting Jozef cardinal tomko served as prefect of photographs);itreflectstomko’spersonal with evangelist Billy Graham (p. 259) and the congregation for the evangelization journey in mission. as tomko records the taizé founder roger schutz (p. 297). he of Peoples (the Vatican’s“Mission details of his visits to various countries, he also includes mundane matters of lost Department”) from 1985 to 2001. in this provides adelightful potpourri of history, luggage (p. 70) and spicy food (p. 297). in capacity he had a“privileged observation geography,statistics, and information on numerous, diverse ways, the book reveals post” (p. xi), allowing him to experience earlyevangelizers,currentpersonnel,and the deep faith of countless evangelizers thevastfieldofmissionaryactivity.During missionary challenges facing the local and the fundamentally missionary nature this time he undertook over 100 pastoral churches. of the church. journeystomissionterritories;inaddition, the book is divided into five unequal thisvolumeishandsomelyproduced, he was fortunate to accompany Pope John parts, reflecting the number of visits to well translated from the 2003 slovak Paul ii on all his missionary visits. various continents. succinctly stated, the original, and carefully edited. yetatleast these experiences and personal five sections, with the percentages of their one surprising error crept into the book. encounters form the background of this space allotment, areafrica (50 percent), Korean stephen cardinal Kim supposed- enjoyable book. it is much morethan a (20), the americas (20), oceania (5), ly “went to his deserved rest in 1998” travelogue(completewithnumerouscolor and europe (5). (p. 261)—but Kim remains alive in 2007.

100 international Bulletin of Missionary research,Vol. 32, no. 2 On Missionary Roads will appeal to abroad spectrum of evangelizers, as well as to academics. it captures how mission “travels in all directions” (p. 386), demonstrating that “mission is today younger than ever” (p. 388). —James h. Kroeger,M.M.

James H. Kroeger,M.M., is Professor of Mission Theology and Islamics at Loyola School of Theol- ogy in Manila. He recently published once upon atime in asia (Orbis Books, 2006).

The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church.

By alan Hirsch. Grand Rapids: Baker,Brazos Press, 2007. Pp. 288. Paperback $19.99. alan hirsch, building on the contribution to the emerging-church discussion that he made with coauthor Michael frost in The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the Twenty-first-Century Church (hendrickson, 2003), presents this book as “an attempt to exploreapostolic Genius and try to assist the western church to re- coverandimplementit”(p.275).examining his own engagement in innovative forms of emerging church, and stimulated by the dynamism of the early church and of the contemporary chinese church, he postulates that thereisa“unique energy and force that imbues phenomenal Jesus movementsinhistory”(p.274).“Missional Dna” constitutes that genius, which he parses with expositions of characteristics rangingfromthe“missional-incarnational impulse” to communitas (Victor turner). along the way,hesurveys the vast varietyofexperimentsthatconstitute“the emergent Missionalchurch(eMc),” and he provides both fascinatinginsightsand useful tools(relevant Websites and blogs) to explorethem further.commendable is his commitment to theological priorities: christ-centeredness with particular emphasis upon discipleship, radical suspicion of cultural captivity,relevant critiqueofinstitutionalism,andconcernfor theintegrityofchristianpraxis.ephesians 4:11ff. supplies the theology of leadership that is needed to activate “mDna.” theimportantdiscussionheprovokes will need to examine further the radical role of scriptureinthe formation of the eMc—his interpretation of the ephesians leadership model ignores the fundamental insight that “apostles, prophets,evangelists,pastor-teachers”are allministersoftheWord,andthatrigorous Word ministry equips the saints (Markus Barth). his rigorous theological inquiry is sometimes confused by major forays into various organizational theorists. one april 2008 101 wonders wherethe holy spirit works in Spreading Fires: The Missionary relation to mDna. the book has many Nature of Early Pentecostalism. diagrams and acronyms, an extensive glossary,ahelpful bibliography,and allan anderson. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis an index; it would be strengthened by Books, 2007. Pp. 312. Paperback $35. judicious cutting and editing. —Darrell l. Guder allan anderson, director of the Graduate is based on the extensive use of available institute for theology and religion and periodical literatureand other primary darrell L. Guder,acontributing editor,isPrinceton professor of Global Pentecostal studies sources. Spreading Fires—the title chosen Theological Seminary’sdean of academic affairs at the university of Birmingham in to highlight the fervent revivalist spirit and the Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional england, has provided the first major of Pentecostalism—is divided into three and Ecumenical Theology. historical survey of early Pentecostal parts:contextsandtheologicaldistinctives, missions. no small accomplishment, it expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century,and theories and practices. anderson bills his analysis as a“cor- rective” to the flawed work of historians The of Pentecostalism who “have often inter- preted this history from apredominantly whiteamerican perspective, adding their own particular biases of denomination, Missional ideology,race and gender” (p. 5). he thereforeendeavors to include the con- tributions of Majority World christians Church to the growth of the movement as much as possible, though the bulk of the book centers on the activities of north atlantic in Context missionaries. rather than functioning as a corrective, however,itprimarily increases Helping Congregations our knowledge of Pentecostal missions, since the historiography of the enterprise Develop Contextual Ministry is just now moving beyond its infancy. readerswillbenefitfromanderson’s study of the missionaries who left north Craig Van Gelder, editor america and europe for the regions beyond, the activities of their converts in evangelism, as well as his discussion “Here is amother lode of theology, biblical of the problems they faced, the cultural insight, and practical application for pas- attitudes they took with them, and their Contributors tors and congregations who want ‘missional’ failuresandachievements.hesuccessfully to be more than cliché. By giving the con- demonstrates that from the beginning of Mark Lau Branson cept ecclesial traction, these essays help the Pentecostal movement, mission has characterized its ethos. the book ends on James Tzu-Kao Chai God’s people move beyond good intentions astronglytriumphalnoteabouttheimpact Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier to good practice. Van Gelder and company of Pentecostalism on world , point the way to alife-giving and hopeful despite anderson’s initial hesitation to Terri Martinson Elton future for the church in North America.” embrace David Barrett’s statistics on the size of the movement. can it accurately Scott Frederickson —J.Nelson Kraybill be said that Pentecostal missionaries Joon Ho Lee exhibited “unprecedented missionary “The Missional Church in Context takes amajor vigour”? or that the movement became Gary M. Simpson “the main contributor to the reshaping of step forward in advancing the emerging Craig Van Gelder christianity itself from apredominantly missional church conversation. ...Provides western to apredominantly non-western athoroughgoing incarnational model and phenomenon”? (p. 290). closer examina- theological understanding of the church’s tion of nineteenth-century missions and mission in context, enhanced greatly by the revivals that occurred in many lands might have curbed these claims. never- anumber of excellent case studies. Must theless, Spreading Fires is aworthwhile reading for church leaders and theological ISBN 978-0-8028-4567-2 investment that will pay rich dividends 253 pages •paperback educators alike.” to students and scholars alike. —Gary B. McGee $20.00 —Howard J. Loewen Gary B. McGee, acontributing editor,is distinguished Professor of Church History and At your bookstore, PentecostalStudiesatassembliesofGodTheological Seminary,Springfield, Missouri. or call 800-253-7521 7585 www.eerdmans.com

102 international Bulletin of Missionary research,Vol. 32, no. 2 Religious Diversity and Public and audi, not amity (the china christian Religion in China. council). With the breakneck pace of its development, the chinese state may well Zhibin Xie. Burlington, Vt.: ashgate, 2006. cease to be predatory,and Xie’s book may Pp. vii, 160. $89.95 /£45. turn out to be prophetic. But for religions in china today,the wolf living peacefully this volume addresses the issue of the communitarian scholars urging agreater with the lamb remains apious wish rather appropriate role of religion in public role for religion in public political debate. than apolitical reality. politicallife and its implicationsfor thecaseselectedforanalysis(theabortion —James tong china. the first part discusses Western debate)isalsovintageamerica,notchina, philosophical discourse on the publicness wherethe american framing of the issue James Tong, associate Professor in Comparative of religion and religion in public political just does not fit. in an avowedly atheistic Politics, University of California, Los angeles, culture, drawing on the views of John regime wherereligion has always been has written Disorder under heaven: collective rawls and robert audi. switching to a tightly controlled by the state, church- Violence in the Ming Dynasty (Stanford Univ. moreempirical focus, the second part sur- state relations arealtogether different Press, 1991). veysthereligioussceneinchina,dwelling from those in anation founded by Puritan on its doctrinal and organizational diver- immigrants. at least since 1949, there sity and the strict control that the state has never been any question of excessive places on religion. the thirdpart proposes religious expression in public life in china aliberal “constrained public religion” in or of using religious rather than secular china, advocating both religious contri- reasoning in publicpolicy discourse, Melanesia and Its Churches: Past butiontothepublicsphereandconstraints especially for abortion. the author’s and Present. on the state and religions for regulating proposal is not moot, but neither is it public religious political discourse. relevant in the foreseeable future. ByFrancoZocca.Goroka,PapuaNewGuinea: Based on adoctoral dissertation in the strength of this book lies in MelanesianInstitute,2007.Pp.v, 218.aus$30 philosophy,the book is largely awork its philosophical discourse, not in its / €20 /US$25. on the normative philosophy of religion. empirical analysis. thereisnot much the coreissues addressed areprimarily description of the state of the different this is an english translation of abook academic arguments within Western religions in china or of religious policy. publishedoriginallyinitalianin2006.the pluralistic, democratic societies, with the subject keywords for this book are author,who belongs to the roman catho- liberal thinkers pleading restraint and rawls,notraB(religiousaffairsBureau), lic order of Divine Word Missionaries, mission insurance Customized!

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april 2008 103 began mission work in the south Pacific and current statistical data of the churches multitude of claims and insights, as well in 1974. he has been at the Melanesian across Melanesia (fiji, new caledonia, as only alimited bibliography,amplifies institute in Papua new Guinea since 1994 Vanuatu, solomon islands, east and West this problem. and is thus well qualified to produce a new Guinea). overall, however,the book is to substantialpublicationaboutthechurches the book exhibits both the strengths be warmly welcomed. the Melanesian of Melanesia. and weaknesses of such an enterprise. institute’s own publicity advocates its What is immediately striking about on the one hand, within asingle readable value as atextbook in the history of this book is the breadth of its coverage. volume it introduces an area of the world missionsandforstudentsinoceaniatoget its aim is “to present the current situation that is much neglected in writings in agood working knowledge of their own of the Melanesian christians and to trace mission studies. the detail included is missionarystories.itwillalsoserveothers these situations back to their roots, both quite extraordinary for such avolume; it whoarelookingforageneralintroduction historical and cultural” (p. 1). in eight reflects the immersion of the author in his to Melanesian cultures and churches. chapters the author addresses geography research over along period of time. on the —randall Prior and population, traditional cultures otherhand,thepublicationissoambitious and religions, european colonization, that, inevitably,ittends to overgeneralize Randall Prior,Professor of Ministry Studies and evangelization (in two chapters), and imparts only part of the story.that Missiology at the United Faculty of Theology, movements, emerging independence, thereislittle footnoted support for its Melbourne, ministered for five years in Vanuatu.

Women in Mission: From the New as an account of mainly,though not Testament to Today. exclusively,roman catholic women. in this section smith looks at movements SusanE.Smith.Maryknoll,N.Y.:OrbisBooks, in the Middle ages and case studies of 2007. Pp xix, 234. Paperback $25. little-known womenwith sometruly fascinating and generally unknown susan smith is anew Zealander who interesting. in the early church she writes stories. she demonstrates how women lectures at the university of auckland about Paul’s women coworkers. she wereinvolved in awide range of min- and is amember of the congregation of discovers them by reading behind the istries in the nineteenth and twentieth our lady of the Missions. she has also text, using ahermeneutic of suspicion as centuries. served in southeast asia and in Papua well as plain common sense to highlight sheconcludesbyproposingafeminist new Guinea. she brings this wealth of the role and place of women often ignored missiology that reclaims atrinitarian experience to research the neglected role oroverlookedbymalecommentatorswho theologyofmissionallowingformutuality of women in mission. in her preface she arenot expecting to find women in places and inclusivity in our engagement in asserts that women’s part in the story of of leadership or prominence. she draws mission. this book is ahelpful addition mission is still little understood, and her on the idea that the house church was a to asmall but burgeoning literatureon bookgoessomewaytowardrectifyingthis good model for women’s involvement as the role of women in mission. imbalance. she manages to give abroad it enabled them to move easily between —catherine r. ross sweep of all of church history,though the public and private spheres. admittedly mainly in the Western world. the second section, “Women strug- Catherine R. Ross, aNew Zealander who works for she uses avariety of approaches gling to Be Missionary,” covers the second the Church Missionary Society in Oxford, is the to tell the story of women in mission, century until Vatican ii in the 1960s. this J. V. Taylor Fellow in Missiology at the University which makes the content accessible and structurepoints to the bias of the book of Oxford.

Missionaries Among Miners, appear in addition to the local details, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van but usually only briefly and with little Tighem Brothers’ Diaries, Alberta, comment.railwaycompletionandtheriel 1875–1917. “rebellion” (pp. 22–25) happened shortly after leonard’s arrival. he mentions Edited by Mary Eggermont-Molenaar railway expansion south to Grand falls, and Paul Callens. Calgary,alta.: Univ.of Montana, and west through the crow’s Calgary Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 424. Paperback nestPasstoBritishcolumbia(pp.119–21). Ca$39.95. the miners’ strikes of 1894 and 1897 are noted in passing, as areepidemics of Missionaries among Miners, Migrants, arrived,alongwithcircumstancesleading smallpox and measles and atragic 1903 and Blackfoot publishes the diaries and to theirdeparture,introduce each of their landslide in the mining town of frank, correspondence of two flemish brothers diaries. alberta. leonardalso laments the death who came to southern alberta as catholic leonard’sdiary detailsthe growth of of Queen Victoria and Pope leo Xiii and missionaries:leonard(b. 1851) arrived thecatholiccommunity during twenty- comments on the election of the pope’s in 1882 as an oblate priest, and his older fiveyears of active ministry andincludes successor,Pius X. brother Victor (b. 1845) arrived in 1886 frequent references to Protestants, even Victor’s briefer diary recounts his as abrother.Brief sketches of the worlds to some conversions and “defections” voyage to alberta through new york from which they came and to which they (p. 171). issues of broad social significance and Montreal and his appointment to

104 international Bulletin of Missionary research,Vol. 32, no. 2 anew “industrial school” (p. 271) on spiritual life commission affirmations), We Look for aKingdom: The the Peigan reserve, which was near his and ranks and designations. Everyday Lives of the Early brother.along with the accompanying thisvolumeisanimportantreference Christians. letters, the diary provides awindow into work for those interested in the history, the era of residential schools. over time, organization, structure, beliefs, and By Carl Sommer.San Francisco: Ignatius Victor moves from frustration in teaching activities of the salvation army.its price, Press, 2007.Pp. 457. Paperback$19.95. “savages” the value of subsistence however,willlikelyrestrictitsdistribution agriculture, saying, “Poor school! Poor to libraries and specialists in the field. Pope Benedict XVirecently remarked on savages” (p. 280), to expressions of love —Paul f. stuehrenberg the importance for christians today of the and mutual appreciation as the Peigan “creative minority,” that is, the christians gradually are“converted and civilized” Paul F. Stuehrenbergisdirector of the Yale divinity ofthefirstthreecenturies.itisencouraging, (p. 300). together these diaries offer a School Library,New Haven, Connecticut, and asso- therefore, to see carl sommer writing firsthand view of nineteenth-century ciate Professor (adjunct) of Theological Literature. about the everyday lives of christians in attempts to “christianize” the canadian West. —John c. Mellis

JohnC.MellisiscurrentlyProvostofQueen’sCollege Faculty of Theology in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He served for twenty years in pastoral ministry and theological education among First Nations in Western Canada. Preparefor the unexpected.

Historical Dictionary of the Salvation Army. Beingcalledisdifferentthanbeingprepared. TheapostlePaul wasboth. So when he Edited by John G. Merritt. Lanham, Md.: unexpectedly found himself in chains, he was Scarecrow Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv,798. preparedtoshowlove andcompassionfor his $110. prison guards. Andthey listenedtohim. Howabout you? Chancesare you’re called, the editor of this latest addition to but areyou preparedtotakethe Good News intoplaceswhereyou feel “uncomfortable”? scarecrow Press’s historical dictionary At Bethel Seminary,weare committed series,JohnG.Merritt,wascommissioned to knowingand teachingasmuch as we can as an officer in the salvation army in about culturesnearand far. Becauseifyou are 1968. he served in various positions in called to aculture differentfrom your own, it is the united states and chile beforebeing importanttounderstandthatculture and love appointed director of the salvation army itspeople. southern historical center in atlanta, a Bethel hastwo programs specifically craftedfor cross-cultural ministry. Doctor position in which he served for eleven of Ministry in Global and Contextual years beforeretiring in 2001. Leadership through our distance learning Merrittworkedwith154salvationists program,and the M.A. in Global and from around the world to compile this Contextual Studies, availablethrough either historical dictionary of adenomination our traditional classroomsetting or distance now numbering 1.5 million members in learning program. 111 nations. the list of contributors in- Theunexpectedisgoingtohappen. Preparingyou to handle it is what we do best. cludes their rank, territory or country,and Learnmore by calling 800-255-8706, ext. 6288. academic degree(s), if any.articles are signed but lack individual bibliographies; instead, thereisaseventy-two-page biblio- graphicalessayandclassifiedbibliography Take theNextStep. ChangeYourWorld. at the end of the volume. however useful this approach might otherwise be, this arrangement makes it difficult to identify sources for individual articles. the introduction includes achronol- ogy and abrief introduction to the movement. the dictionary is arranged alphabetically,with numerous cross- references to other articles. it includes appendixes listingpersonnel (generals, St.Paul•San Diego •New York chiefs of staff, wivesofgenerals, children Philadelphia •Washington D.C. •New England of William and catherine Booth, commissioners, recipients of the order www.bethel.edu of the founder), official documents of the salvation army (doctrines, international april 2008 105 theperiodbeforechristianscould“emerge on the right track when he speaks about from the agape meal and in his contention fromtheirbasements”withthelegalization theirastonishing level of charity,their that “all the local churches assumed that of christianity underconstantinei. sexual discipline andlovingfamilylife, the roman church was in some way their sommer,anamerican catholic layman, is andtheir treatmentofslaves—although leader” (p. 177). throughout, ilonged deeply interested in the early christians. in each case one would like more for sommer to delve moredeeply—into he has attentively read the traditional information, rooted in abroader reading the lives of both laity and clergy,into the sources for the orthodox christians and of the literature. it is surprising to read christians’ burial practices, into their has made good use of the church orders. atreatise on the early christians that modes of evangelization. sommer’s he writes clearly,colorfully,and (from ignores the scholarship of Peter Brown, presentation is attractive, but it simplifies the vantage point of traditional roman ramsay MacMullen, and robert Wilken. apre-christendom christianity that is catholicism) safely. sommer’s concern to uphold traditional morecomplex and regionally varied in what ways werethese early catholic convictions is especially evident than he acknowledges. isense that a christians acreative minority? sommer is inhisconsistentseparationoftheeucharist deeper treatment of the early christians’ everydayliveswouldfindthemtobemore creative—and morechallenging—than the “model citizens” (p. 227) to which he introduces us. —alan Kreider

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Global Pentecostalism: The chapel runs aclinic, apharmacy,and a New Face of Christian Social sewing school. Engagement. somethingveryimportantisobvious- ly going on in the Pentecostal movement. donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori. although previously fixed on astrictly Berkeley: Univ.ofCalifornia Press, 2007. otherworldly salvation, now the example Pp. 263, with dVd. $60 /£35; paperback ofJesus’concernfortheimpoverished,the $24.95 /£14.95. sick, and the socially outcast, along with the vision of the kingdom of God, has it is nowwidelyrecognizedthatPentecos- breaker,crisscrossing africa, asia, and begun to play amorecentral role. talism, in its myriad forms, is the fastest , interviewing hundreds of the authors wisely limit themselves growing religious movement in the people, and observing outreach efforts to to the non-Western world and do not world.Withinthisswiftlyspreadingwave drug addicts in hong Kong, sex workers study churches that have embraced a another, less noticed surge is developing, in Bangkok and calcutta, babies with one made up of thousands of Pentecostal aiDs in several places, and dozens of churches that areengaged in avariety of other programs. social programs in their communities. the result of their investigation is an Please bewareofbogus renewal Donald Miller,asociologist who directs informative and highly readable account notices. agenuine IBMR renewal the center for religion and civic culture that puts faces and names on what is notice will have areturn address at the university of southern california, quickly becoming the major expression of Denville, nJ 07834 on the outer andtetsunaoyamamori,presidentemeritus of christianity around the globe. one envelope, and the address on the of food for the hungry international, call example is Jackie Pullinger, whose reply envelope will go to Po Box it “progressive Pentecostalism” and be- ministry to heroin addicts in hong Kong 3000, Denville, nJ 07834-3000. lieve it is the leading edge of Pentecostal- succeeds by relying on the holy spirit, Please e-mail [email protected] ism, especially in the non-Western world. forgoing modern management methods orcall(203)624-6672,ext.309,with for four years they traveled around and afund-raising staff.another example any questions. thank you. the globe to investigate this cresting is Pastor oscar Muriu, whose nairobi

108 international Bulletin of Missionary research,Vol. 32, no. 2 right-wingpoliticalideology.theyforesee linked in religious practice that seeks to interviews and an equal number of apossible complementarity with some of directly confront social issues affecting contextual observations offering insight the insights of .they the place of Maya people in Guatemalan intoMayaculturalidentityamidacomplex predict that the emerging “progressive” society” (p. 35). samson illustrates mix of religious pluralism and political Pentecostalismthey witnessed—with Kaqchikel political involvement with a fault lines. itsflexible structures, its welcoming story of the community’s response to the —Michael K. Duffey of the emotional component in praise, assassinationofoneofitsministers.samson its uncanny capacity to indigenize into also describes two Maya Presbyterian MichaelK.duffey,associateProfessorofTheology, different cultures, and now its emerging organizations that have played important Marquette University,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is commitment to the Jesus ethic—is the roles in the resurgence of Maya culture the author of sowing Justice, reaping Peace: wave of the future. they make avery and activism. case studies of racial, religious, and ethnic convincing case. this book also includes astrength of samson’s perceptive healing around the World (Sheed and Ward, alively DVD showing many of the sites study is that it includes three dozen 2001). discussed in its pages. —harvey cox

Harvey Cox is the Hollis Professor of divinity at Harvard University,Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of firefromheaven: the rise '#2(8,&4#:% ofPentecostalspiritualityandthereshapingof religion in the twenty-first century (addison- Wesley,1995) and When Jesus came to harvard: MakingMoralchoicestoday(HoughtonMifflin, +8.4 48"& 2004). #: %8'/2 !#22#8: Re-enchanting the World: Maya Protestantism in the Guatemalan Highlands. (8:%4&%*0#8:*" !#22#8: *:' "&*'&42$#6 By C. Mathews Samson. Tuscaloosa: Univ.of alabama Press, 2007. Pp. 256. $60; paperback 4J:D@OI IM 0)@6: 0IF;:OI02I):M$M+&=@$ &"@+&O@I&MO $29.95. @O; I):&1 0:$8(&"@+: @0 E&0&MO $:@;:105 J: D@OI I):" IM +1@06 I): :00:O=: M8 D)M D: @1: 9I): ?M;B the Presbyterian church is the oldest M8 *)1&0I< I): =M""FO&MO M8 0@&OI0 9@O; IM Protestant denomination in Guatemala, FO;:10I@O; I)@I &O I)&0 =F$IF1: I): =)F1=) &0 I): having arrived in 1882. c. Mathews MO$B &O0I&IFI&MO I)@I )@0 ?MI) I): "@O;@I: @O; samson, visiting assistant professor of I): 6MD:1 IM ?: @1:=MO=&$&O+ 8M1=: &O 0M=&:IB53 anthropology at Davidson college, in Davidson, north carolina, has provided '1!;51 !%&"%.+- 0.(41)*1%, avery readable study of the Maya/ 2%'/1$$'% '/ "'(-%1-.#+'(.) 3+$$+'( Presbyterian identity in Guatemala. he begins by reconstructing the past century of religious developments amid &0=ME:1)MD %M; &0 $:@;&O+ BMF1 =)F1=) &OIM "&00&MO Guatemala’s violent political lurches. notingthat“evangelicalismisnowwoven "&O BMF1 =MOI:CI5 #FI):1 L:"&O@1B20 'M=IM1 M8 !&O&0I1B &O intothefabricofquitepossiblythemajority *MO+1:+@I&MO@$ !&00&MO@O; #:@;:10)&6 61M+1@"61:6@1:06@0IM10 8M1 of Guatemala’s Maya communities,” he examines specifically the development I):M$M+&=@$$:@;:10)&6 8M1I): "&00&MO@$=)F1=)&ONM1I) ,":1&=@5 of the Mam and Kaqchikel indigenous presbyteries, describing the development ofMayaspiritualityandreligiouspractices, dynamicsbetweenindigenouspeopleand ladinos, and the churches’ struggle for 9<)-5 73-< indigenous rights and ajust peace. focusing on the period from the /7K(/-K(HGAH >DDD5$FI):10:"5:;F.="$ height of the civil war through the peace accords(ca.1980–96),samsondescribesthe internal activities and the role within civil society of these two Maya Presbyterian 1&2,#2$*$/*(+(1-02+ *,#02$-() groups.the Mam, he concludes, have responded to local needs through the development of anew familial kinship system reflecting their Maya background 3$'42#+. !-))*%($2 and biblical faith. for the Kaqchikel, theologicalandpoliticalinvolvement“are april 2008 109