Book Reviews
Mission Handbook, 14th edition, Canada/USA Protestant Ministries Overseas.
Edited by W. Dayton Roberts and John A. Siewert. Monrovia, Calif.: MARC (Mis sions Advanced Research and Communi cation Center), 1989. Pp. 550. Paperback $23.95.
This comprehensive reference work, Ministries Overseas to Canada/USA Protcussing the relationship between church published approximately every four estantMinistries Overseas. The 14th edi and parachurch missionary efforts. years, is an indispensable tool for those tion carries statistical data for Canada Christy Wilson gives a brief state who are leaders, participants, and sup and the United States separately, with ment on Tentmakers, alluding to an porters of the missionary endeavor of out offering combined totals for North unsubstantiated statistic that 80 per the church. It is essential to the work America, making comparisons with cent of the unreached people groups of a broad range of people, including: previous editions a bit cumbersome. are in restricted areas. scholars and leaders of missionary While statistics and directory in In a rather strange treatise, Arthur agencies, training institutions, and formation constitute most of the book, Glasser uses the title "That the World churches. the introductory chapters provide a May Believe" to paint a negative pic Readers of the new Mission Handhelpful context. In an article entitled ture of associations of missions that seek book should note a change in the sub "A Unique Opportunity," William to serve missions and increase their title: from North American Protestant Dyrness provides descriptive glimpses networking and cooperation. This of churches around the world. chapter would have been more 'appro In "The Sending Body," Sam priate as an editorial in a periodical than Wade Coggins, retiring Executive Director of uel Moffett reviews and evaluates the as a chapter in an important reference EFMA (Evangelical Foreign Missions Associasending base of North America, mak work. In an article dealing with mis tion), was a missionary in Colombia, South ing comparisons from the past and dis- sion associations, he takes an unex America, in his earlier years. plained departure to give, without context, a negative commentary about the World Evangelical Fellowship, Responding creatively to the which is a body made up not of mis needs of Furloughed and Return HAVING sions but of evangelical associations in ing Missionaries is the hallmark more than fifty countries. Despite the of Catholic Theological Union's GIFTS heavy editorializing, the chapter con (CTU) Mission Program. CTU tains helpful elements of history and Mission courses are presented THAT information about mission associa from a global perspective, within tions. a cross-cultural environment. DIFFER I found no major surprises in the Our Hyde Park location allows stu Profiles of Ecumenical Churches statistics, though some may not have dents to experience ministry within PEGGYL. SHRIVER expected the extent of increase in the Introduction by MARTIN E. MARlY number of missionaries. Career mis an urban context. Creative mis $7.95 siologists include: sionaries have increased from 39,370(a Among the thirty-two Christian slight adjustment of the number re Stephen Bevans, SVD Archimedes Fornasari, MCCJ communions-largely Protestant ported in the 13th edition of the Hand Anthony Gittins, CSSp John Kaserow, MM and Orthodox-profiled in this book book), to 43,648. Short-termers, who Michael Kirwen, MM Jamie Phelps, OP there are great diversities. Yeteach numbered 21,830 (this figure is some Ana Maria Pineda, SM Robert Schreiter, CPPS has been committed to working 6,000 less than what was reported in FALL MISSION INTENSIVE: together in an ecumenical relation the 13th edition of the Handbook, a re ship emphasizing unity of purpose ConductedbyC/aude-Marie BarbourandEleanor Doidge, WB vision reflecting a more restrictive def and destiny. Here are described the inition of short-term personnel) have - Theory and experience integration unique riches of each Christian -Individualized 10 week program tradition, the poignant stories of increased to 31,519. The total for career - Cross-cultural training their historical roots, the common and short-term personnel combined is 75,167,a gain of almost 23 percent from PROGRAMS OFFERED: human strengths and weaknesses, the evidence of the Holy Spirit as the number reported in the 13th edi - Degrees and Certificates balm and goad, and the centrality of tion. - Continuing Education Jesus Christ in all of the churches. Annual income received by U.s. - Day, Evening and Weekend Courses agencies for overseas ministries is re At bookstores or from: ported as $1,728,100,000, a 31 percent CONI'ACI: Lawrence Nemer, SVD FRIENDSHIP PRESS gain over the figure reported in the 13th Director ofWorld Mission Program Distribution Office edition. CATHOliC THEOWGICAL UNION ~O. Box 37844 Because of the variety of ways the 5401 SouthCornell - IBMR Cincinnati, OH 45222-0844 material is presented, there is no end Chicago, Illinois 60615 (513)948-8733 ~ of its uses for people of all levels. (312) 324-8000 Direct orders add $1 shipping per book. Orders under $25 must be prepaid. r -Wade Coggins
38 INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH Profiles in Liberation: 36 don Annis is an Overseas Develop "is the village Indian's tiny plot of Portraits of Third World ment Council scholar and researcher. corn and beans, known as the milpa." Theologians. Although by most standards the peas This is more than raising crops. It is a ants in San Antonio remain poor, a worldview . The milpa is both a cultur By Deane William Ferm. Mystic, Conn.: closer study of the population reveals ally congruent means of production and Twenty-Third Publications, 1988. Pp. class differences in response to com a logical expression of ethnic self 193. Paperback $9.95. plex historical, cultural, socioeco understanding or "Indianness." This nomic, and religious factors (chaps. 1 "milpa logic" is Catholic and for Deane William Ferm has been survey 2). A very recent factor is the rapid centuries has expressed the Indian's ing and introducing liberation theolo growth of Protestantism in Guatemala. lowly place in Guatemalan society. It gies for a long time and is widely Protestant membership during this maintains equality within the Indian known by his former resourceful pub period stood at around 20 percent and community by requiring that everyone lications on the subject. This time the is now closer to 30 percent. invest their economic surplus in reli author provides a unique service in The central actor in Annis's study gious celebrations-a kind of "cul- putting together profiles of thirty-six theologians from the third world, twelve from Africa, eight from Asia, and sixteen from Latin America, show ing how they do theology from their own context. His main contention is that there is not one monolithic system but many "liberation theologies." Ferm has not only worked exten sively and carefully with the bibliog raphy of these theologians but has corresponded with them, asking them some basic questions that can be rel evant to the North American reader ship, such as: their understanding of liberation theology, how their views and the issues have changed over the MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF THE past ten years, and the role of Marxist analysis in their theology. He asked CRO~CuLTURAL them to tell their own personal stories CLASSROOM and the crucial events that shaped their he education of MKs and third world. kids is a very special assign.. lives. ment-and the challenge doesn't end when class is dismissed! The product is a very useful guide T to the main representatives of contex Missionary teachers spend 24 hours a day in their new country. And tual theology in Africa, Asia, and Latin along with the teaching skills they take to their field of ministry, they America, with a selected bibliography need thorough preparation for the personal and lifestyle changes they'll of each individual author. The book is face. Teachers who are overwhelmed by the realities of cross..culturalliving good for dispelling common misper are hardly able to help students who often are themselves struggling with ceptions for those who care and as a separation, self...esteem and cultural identity. companion for introductory courses or Wheaton College Graduate School offers the training to meet this dual a personal reading course on this still challenge. Cross-Cultural Education-a specialization available in fertile and challenging subject. both Missions/Intercultural Studies 'and Educational Ministries-is -Mortimer Arias designed to ease the difficulties of teaching in a multi...cultural classroom and aid successful adjustment to life in an unfamiliar cultural setting. You'll benefitfrom: Relating Mortimer Arias,former bishop oftheEvangelical • Faculty whose academic credentials are enhanced by Christian education Methodist church in Bolivia, and former presi first..hand experience in overseas ministry to the needs of dentof the LatinAmerican Biblical Seminary in • The Billy Graham Center Library and its outstanding contemporary San Jose, Costa Rica, is now teaching Mission resources on missions, evangelism and third world society. and Evangelism at Iliff School of Theology, Den ver, Colorado. culture • Internships and cross..cultural tutoring opportunities • Many nearby mission agency headquarters • On..campus interaction with nearly 150 MKs among God and Production in a Wheaton's undergraduates Guatemalan Town. • Special financial aid programs for pre..service and furloughing missionaries By Sheldon Annis. Austin: Univ. of Texas Wheaton College Graduate School will prepare you Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 197. $27.50. to help MKs put their world together. Write us, or San Antonio Aguas Calientes is a mar call 1...800...888...0141 today, for full information. ket town located in the central high lands of Guatemala. "God" refers ~ Admissions Director to the religious implications of the data WHEATON COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL that the author uncovered in the course fWheaton, Illinois 60187..5593 1-800..888..0141 of his research, in 1977and 1978. Shel
JANUARY 1990 39 ture tax." Clues to this self-awareness sessed and the upwardly mobile en isfaction, her Protes tan t sister-in-law can be found also in the Indians' ap trepreneurs, both of which are open to manufactured marketable huipiles. The proach to cottage industries such as cane a Protestant ideology (or quasi-Prot Catholic woman's approach was sym mat (petate) and textile weaving (the estant brands of Catholic ideology) of bolic, deeply imbued with a sense of huipil). sue/a al cielo (from dirt floor to heaven, harmony, order, and balance. This the Increasingly, disintegrating forces pp . 81- 90). Protestant weaver set aside when she are working against the colonial Indian While testing his hypotheses, the converted to the Protestant faith. world view , gradually overtaking vil author disco vered a significant differ Both Catholics and Protestants lage life. The milpa-based economy is ence between the approach of a Cath weave with financial gain in mind. But in crisis. The traditional social egali olic and a Protestant weaver to the ir the difference between them lies in what tarianism (the assumption of shared craft. Whereas their technique was the the y bring to their task. The more of poverty) is bein g undercut. This has same, their different worldviews gave her psyche and cultural heritage that produced two classes of Indians that them quite different understandings of the traditional producer puts into her now stand ou tside the boundaries of what the y were doing. While the Cath weaving, the more she creates a kind traditional Indianness: th e dispos olic woman wove for plea sure and sat- of social currency that is marketable only within the community. But, the author argues, an individualistic Prot estant conversion redefines the Indi ans' communal self as me. While for the traditional Indian woman textiles are wealth, for a Protestant textiles are THE QUIET a means to wealth. Annis found tha t Catholic women tend to make money from weaving and Protestants from REVOLUTION selling what their Catholic sisters pro duce. The income derived from textiles As Christianity prepares to enter its third serves to stabilize, rather than change, millennium, it remains, despite strug the traditional productive system of gles and areas of decline, a Catholics. Protestants tend to use their remarkably lively faith. surplus to create and expand their op The Quiet Revolution portunities. Almost half of the up (previously published in wardly mobile families in his sample hardcover under the title were Protestants, in a village where about 18 percent are Protestant. In con Christianity in Today's clusion, Annis attributes the new In World) provides a vivid dian receptivity to Protestantism to the portrait of this faith as it ex sweeping change in traditional Indian ists aro und the world today. community values. This ground-breaking study may prove to be very significant if the au thor's conclusions can be upheld else where in Guatemala. Given the ultimate direction of his study, it is unfortunate that he did not develop a typo logy of Protestantism in San Antonio, in the same way that he did with Catholicism (pp . 90-91) . He documents the Prot estant presence and beliefs and dis cusses the Protestant ethic, with little awareness of an emerging new kind of Protes tantism. Although these hy potheses need to be tested on the sev eral types of Catholics and Protestants with more sensitivity to the theological and ideological nuances, Annis is to be congratulated for raising valid ques tions about the much vaunted growth of Prote stantism in Guatemala. - Guillermo Cook
At your bookstore, or call1-BOO-633-9326 In Michigan, call collect 616-459 -4591 Guillermo Cook lived in Guatemala during the FAX 616-459-6540 1960sand visits thecountryfrequently with the grassroots theological education program of the Latin American Evangelical Centerfor Pastoral
977 WM. B. EERDMANS Studies (CELEP). He is affiliated with the Latin PUBLISHING CO. America Mission and has a Ph.D. in intercu l :loSS JEFFERSON AVE. S.E. / GRAND RAPIDS, MI CH. +9S03 tural studiesfrom Fuller TheologicalSeminary.
40 INTERNATIONAL B ULLETIN OF MISSIO NARY R ESEARCH Fifteen Outstanding Books of 1989 Quest for Belonging: Introduction to a Study of for Mission Studies African Independent Churches.
By Inus DaneeI. Gweru , Zimbabw e: Mambo Press, 1987. Pp. 310. Paperback. The editors of the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH have No price given. selected the following books for special recognition of their contribution to mis sion studies in 1989. We have limited our selection to books in English, since it In this work designed as an introduc would be impossible to consider fairly the books in many other languages that tory missiological survey of African in are not readily available to us . We commend the authors, editors, and publishers dependent churches, Professor Daneel represented here for their contribution to advance the cause of missionary re combines his extensive research on search with scholarly literature. churches in Zimbabwe (chaps. ~6) with an introduction on a continental scale (chaps. 1-3) and a concluding Costas, Orlando E. chapter of "theological reflection." Liberating News: A Theology of Contextual Evangelization. Within a single work Daneel pro Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co. Paperback $12.95. vides brief but fair introductions to the Elliston, Edgar J., ed. work of other leading scholars such as Christian Relief and Development: Developing Workers for Effective Sundkler, Barrett, and Turner, and he Ministry. offers concise and incisive treatment of Dallas: Word Publishing. Paperback $14.99. the issues of typology, history, causa Gilliland, Dean S., ed. tion, and theological evaluation of in The Word Among Us: Contextualizing Theology for Today. dependent churches. Fully aware of Dallas: Word Publishing. Paperback $15.99. the hazards of generalizing about these Gittins, Anthony J. churches, he nevertheless recognizes Gifts and Strangers: Meeting the Challenge of Inculturation. that theological reflection on them is an Mahwah , N.J.: Paulist Press . Paperback $9.95. essential part of missiology. From this Goodpasture, H. McKennie, ed. perspective he presents much empiri Cross and Sword: An Eyewitness History of Christianity in Latin America. cal data and produces a valuable read Maryknoll , N .Y.: Orbis Books. Paperback $12.95. ing of the independent-church scene Greenway, Roger S., and Monsma, Timothy M. in Africa. Its significance for all African Cities: Missions' New Frontier. churches is obvious. Any theological Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House. Paperback $18.95. training institution that has not offered Horner, Norman A. a course on independent churches for A Guide to Christian Churches in the Middle East. lack of a suitable textbook has no ex Elkhart, Ind.: Mission Focus Publications (Box370). Paperback $6.00. cuse any more. The much-needed text Jansen , Frank Kaleb, ed. is now available. Target Earth: The Necessity of Diversity in a Holistic Perspective on World The only major weakness in this Mission. presentation is that geographical bal Pasadena , Calif.: Global Mapping International, and Kailua-Kana, Hawaii: Univ. ance is lost after chapter 3. The three of the Nations. Paperback $27.50. later chapters on Zimbabwe take up 55 McGee, Gary B. percent of the book and the final chap "This Gospel . .. Shall Be Preached": A History and Theology of ter deals almost exclusively with Zim Assemblies of God Foreign Missions Since 1959. Volume 2. babwean churches in the context of the Springfield, Mo.: Gospel Publishing House. Paperback $12.95. debate among Beyerhaus, Oosthuizen, MacInnis, Donald E. and Martin in South Africa in the Religion in China Today: Policy and Practice. 1960s. In spite of this limitation, the Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis Books. $34.95; paperback $18.95. book is in a class by itself and goes a Newbigin , Lesslie. long way toward filling a gaping hole The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. in the literature on independent Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., and Geneva: World Council of churches. Churches. Paperback $14.95. - Stan Nussbaum Pate, Larry D. From Every People: A Handbook of Two-Thirds World Missions with Directory, Histories, Analysis. Stan Nussbaum is Director, Centrefor New Re Monrovia, Calif. : MARC/World Vision International. Paperback $14.95. ligious Movements, Selly Oak Colleges, Bir Roberts, W. Dayton, and Siewert, John A., eds. mingham, England. His doctoral dissertation on Mission Handbook: U.S.A.lCanada Protestant Ministries Overseas. 14th independent churches in Lesotho, presented at edition. theUniversity ofSouthAfricain 1986, was com Monrovia, Calif. : MARC/World Vision International, and Grand Rapids, Mich.: pletedunderthesupervisionof ProfessorDaneel. Zondervan Publishing House . Paperback $24.95. Sanneh, Lamin . Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. Paperback $17.95. Tucker, Ruth A. Another Gospel: Alternative Religions and the New Age Movement. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House. $19.95.
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42 INTERN ATIONA L BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY R ESEARCH book clearly ide ntifies the various pro themes, which places Marxist revolu ary praxis without actually being in grams of the agency and its affiliates . tion as the interpretive key, critical volved in an active revolution. He feels A stated purpose of the book is to analysis, projected result, or enabling that their attempts at praxis-based the describe the struggle of MCC pers on necessity of each theme, similar to th e ology are still imprisoned by theory and nel, many of whom are inexperienced results seen in the works of many other speculation . lay workers, with the demands of con Latin American rad ical liberation the Although Arce's rejection of evan science, Christian ethics, and compas ologians. gelism as witness, final judgment, the sion in complex moral and political One unique ele me n t of Arces possibility of a personal relationship arenas, so that others may benefit and presentation is his criticism of other with God in Christ, and the normativ be encouraged. In the stren gth of liberationists for trying to do theology ity of Scripture makes his theology par God 's Spirit, these efforts bear fruit be from th e starting point of revolution- ticularly repugnant to evangelicals, we yond expectation. "Little signs of the kingdom appear in the wildern ess of suffering and despair" (p . 10). Kreider and Goossen are well qualified to write about MCC. Both professional historians, Krieder ha s New - Spring 1990 served with MCC in a variety of as Thomas G. Christensen American Society signments; Goossen has written nu AN AFRICAN TREE OF LIFE merous books and articles about "For anyone who wants to see how the very best of Mennonite life. of contextual·theologies are being developed to This book is heartily recom day." - Robert J. Schreiter mended for the model it presents of an Paper $17.95 Missiology organization that seeks to mini ster to Lamin Sanneh the whole person in obedience to Jesus TRANSLATING THE MESSAGE Series Christ. The Missionary Impact on Culture -Frances F. Hiebert "A turning point in the study of the Christian mis sionary enterprise.. .." - Harvey Cox Paper $17.95 Louis J. Luzbetak The Church and Socialism: THE CHURCH AND CULTURES New Perspectives In Mlssiologlcal Anthropology Reflections from a Cuban Context. "An excellent book made even better-truly ecu menical." - Eugene Nida By Sergio Arce. New York: Circus Publi Paper $19.95 cations, 1985. Pp. xiii, 196. Paperback Ralph R. Covell $6.95. CONFUCIUS, THE BUDDHA, AND CHRIST Sergio Arce, Cuban Presbyterian the A History of the Gospel in Chinese ologian, offers an excellent example of Paper $16.95 praxis-based liberation theology in these James J. Stamoolis twelve essa ys dating from 1965to 1983. EASTERN ORTHODOX MISSION The first three essays set the founda THEOLOGY TODAY TransIattDg+ tions for his view of Christian faith : the Foreword by James Meyendorff a- Paper $18.95 history of Christianity in Cuba, his rea Guillermo Cook sons for being a Christian Marxist in THE EXPECTATION OF THE POOR 1heM MWY~". clii"Ci*n stead of simply a Marxist, and his Latin American Basic Ecclesial Communities description of the mission of the church. in Protestant Perspective The other nine essays deal with Paper $15.95 th emes such as evangelism, unity, Paul F. Knitter church renewal, incarnation, faith, NO OTHER NAME? ideology, theology, spirituality, and A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes In Sanneh liberation. Arce's method is a bit de toward the World Religions Paper $14.95 ceptive, but easy to unravel because of Richard Henry Drummond its repetition in almost every essay. He TOWARD A NEW AGE IN begins making some pious, orthodox CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY statements about the theme, but then Paper $16.95 proceeds to immerse it in the principles Wilbert R. Shenk and practice of the Marxist revolution HENRY VENN ary movement in Cuba. What results MISSIONARY STATESMAN from that immersion is generally a sec Paper $16.95 ularized red efinition of these Christian Charles W. Forman At bookstores ISLAND CHURCHES OF or from the THE SOUTH PACIFIC publisher Raymond C. Hundley, missionary with OMS Paper $17.95 Eugene Nida and William Reyburn ,ft\ ORBIS BOOKS International in Columbia since 1970, is cur Maryknoll, NY 10545 rently Field Director for OMS Colombia and MEANING ACROSS CULTURES 'WI Adjunct Professor of Hermeneutics in the Bibli Paper $15.95 Add $2.00 for postage/handling cal Seminary of Colombia . He is the author of Everett Nichols Hunt, Jr. MCNisa orders Call toll free: Radical Liberation Theology: An Evangeli PROTESTANT PIONEERS IN KOREA 1-800-258-5838 Paper $17.95 In NYS call collect cal Response. 914 941-7687
JANUARY 1990 43 can learn much from his criticisms of Wise as Serpents, Harmless as our theologizing and our own critical Doves: Christians in China Tell interaction with his radical redefini Their Story. tions. In the final analysis, Arce is pro vocative but not convincing . Edited by Jonathan Chao and Richard Van The book also contains interesting Houten. Pasadena, Calif.: William Carey commentaries by Germ an liberationist Library, 1988. Pp. xxxiv, 248. Paperback Dorothee Soelle and Columbia Uni $10.95. versity's Stanley Aronowitz, and ends with four appendices containing proc This is a book of testimonies about the the experiences related here cover the lamations by Fidel Castro of his new religious experiences of Chinese Chris ap preciation of Christian liberationist period from 1949 to 1984 and are sub tians who are ass ociated with house faith as a partner in the goals of Marxis t divided into several phases: The Road churches in China. Collected by Jon revolution. to Liberation (1949-65); The Cultural athan Chao and edited by Richard Van Revolution (1966--69); Confusion and - Raymond C. Hundley Houten and the staff of the Chinese Resolve (1970-78); The Taste of Free Church Reseach Center in Hong Kong, dom (1979-80); Clamping Down (1981 84). The format includes question-and answer interviews, testimonies, letters to friends in Hong Kong, sermons, re The Logic of Evangelism ports by travelers, transcripts of re WILLIAM J.ABRAHAM corded material, interpretations by house-church leaders, poems, and " A~r~!ra m subjects tpe theology ~i1
44 INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN O F MISSIONARY R ESEARCH The Bishops' Progress: A Historical Ethnography of THE WORLD Catholic Missionary Experience life in German colonial times, in the transitions between the world wars, OF ISLAM on the Sepik Frontier. and in the approach to national inde pendence in 1975. ByMary Taylor Huber. Washington, D.C.: Huber's eye is always on the tell Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. Pp. ing detail that reveals what was truly xii, 264. $29.95. going on as history was moving ahead. She has a keen ear for the cognitive Now and again one reads a truly sat dissonance that SVDs overcame when isfying book. Mary Taylor Huber's The they spent as much time developing Bishops' Progress is one of those. Huber their material base as they did preach is a social anthropologist who became ing the Word and celebrating the Sac curious about missionaries during a raments. She sniffs out, too, the field trip dedicated to more standard dilemmas that men trained to live in anthropological concerns. We are for semimonastic communities in exact tunate she got side-tracked. observance of a schedule of prayer and Specifically, Huber has written on other activities faced on the jungle an "ironic dimension" she discov frontier. And the paucity of discussion ered in the life, work, and emerging of the transition from mission to local self-understanding of the missionaries GOD IS ONE church speaks volumes about Roman The Way of Islam of the Society of the Divine Word Catholic. missioners' dilemma in that By R. Marston Speight (SVDs)on the northeast coast of Papua arena. New Guinea between 1896and the late Highlighting the common fac Huber's book is good on these and tors as well as the important 1970s. She uses "progress" in the a dozen other points. It is readable, technology used by, the circumstances issues of faith and life that incisive, and insightful. She avoids the divide us, God Is One confronts affecting, the mission law governing, mistakes outsiders frequently make and the complex of roles taken on by barriers to understanding the when they venture into strange soci Islamic way with concern and three bishops to hold together the de eties, and by returning to tell the tale velopment of a fascinating interpreta accuracy. Includes examples of Huber gives her readers a splendid Islam's contributions to science, tion of mission life. chance to experience something of the We are all familiar with the adage art, medicine, architecture and texture of her subjects' lives. I suspect, literature. 144 pp. $5.95 that anthropology is written about too, that Huber has uncovered themes peoples culturally and perhaps geo that have validity far beyond its im NEIGHBORS graphically distant from an author, mediate Melanesian setting. The book Muslims in North America while sociology is what one writes is a must for anyone wanting to un lnieroietos by Elias D. Mallon about one's own people. To this re derstand what was happening in the Neighbors shatters the stereo viewer, who spent twenty-one years as Catholic missions of the past one types of fear and suspicion as a member of the Society of the Divine hundred years. Muslims in North America talk Word and five as a missioner in Papua -William R. Burrows in lively interviews about their New Guinea, it was amazing to see an families, their work, and their anthropological study so uncannily ac curate and insightful about his native spiritual journeys. 48 pp. $4.95 tribe. To Huber, the SVDs were a for William R. Burrows, former missionary to ONE GOD, eign people in a strange land. She cap Papua New Guinea, is Managing Editor, Orbis TWO FAITHS tures masterfully the ironies of mission Books, Maryknoll, New York. When Christians and Muslims Meet A Study Guide on the World of Islam By Sarah Klos Dissertation Notices Six excellent sessions combine participatory activities, clear in From the Catholic University of Nijmegen, structions and useful resources The Netherlands, 1969-1989 for adult and older youth study groups. 48 pp. $4.95 Doctoral dissertations relating to missions, Theological Faculty (Faculteit God geleerdheid) of the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The Faculty offers the S.T.D. degree. f At bookstores, denominational supply houses, 1969 Missio Aktuell Verlag, Aachen 1979. or directly from: Muskens, M. P. M. German version: "Partner beim FRIENDSHIP PRESS "Indonesie, een strijd om Aufbau, die katholische Kirche in Distribution Office P.O. Box 37844, nationale identiteit: nationalisten, Indonesien," Missio Aktuell Verlag, Cincinnati, OH 45222-0844 islamieten, katholieken. Published Aachen 1979..Bahasa Indonesian (513)948-8733 by Paul Brand, Bussum, 1969 (second translation: "Pengintegrasian di Direct orders add $1 shipping per book. edition 1970). English version: alam Indonesia," Percetakan Orders under $25 must be prepaid. "Partner in Nation Building, the Arnoldus Publishing House, Ende, Catholic Church in Indonesia," 1973.
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