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Vol. 32, No. 1 January 2008 Mission and the Peaceable Kingdom hat went wrong? Why would intelligent, well educated Wyoung men in their prime willingly obliterate them- selves by crashing passenger jets into New York’s famous Twin On Page Towers—arch symbols of this nation’s commercial virility? How 3 The Gospel of Reconciliation Within the Wrath could they have been convinced that the incineration of ordinary of Nations Americans both compelled and justified their carefully executed David W. Shenk 10 Writing a Social History of Christianity in India John C. B. Webster 14 Āvarna and Adivāsi Christians and Missions: A Paradigm for Understanding Christian Movements in India Robert Eric Frykenberg 20 The Mission to North Korea Ben Torrey 22 Reflections on North Korea: The Psychological Foundation of the North Korean Regime and Its Governing Philosophy Hyun Sik Kim; translated by George Kap-Hun Kim and edited by Ben Torrey 26 Asian Society of Missiology: Bangkok 2007 Declaration 27 Missiometrics 2008: Reality Checks for Christian World Communions David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, and Peter F. Crossing mass murder by suicide? What religious or ideological wellsprings 31 Our Pilgrimage in Mission animated them and thousands like them? A plausible and much Paul A. Rader and Kay F. Rader repeated response to these perplexing questions was soon offered 35 The Statistical State of the North American by Bernard Lewis in his bestselling book, What Went Wrong? The Protestant Missions Movement, from the Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (Oxford Univ. Mission Handbook, 20th Edition Press, 2002). Once proudly superior Muslim civilizations, he ob- Michael Jaffarian served, had fallen behind the West in virtually all categories of 39 The Legacy of Marcello Zago human endeavor: cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, Willi Henkel, O.M.I. and military. They perceived their societies inching inexorably 40 Noteworthy toward irrelevance and extinction. Devotees using revealed antiq- IFMA and EFMA Announce Name Changes uity as the standard against which modernity should be measured 43 Daniel J. Nicholas believed that only the most desperate actions could salvage the integrity of their religion and its civilization from the fatal toxicity 44 Reviews of the decadent West. That’s what had gone wrong. 54 Dissertation Notices Continued next page 56 Book Notes Paging through the November 2006 issue of Religion in Eastern militant Muslims and evangelical Christians have come together Europe last February, I found my attention drawn to an article in common cause. Who could have imagined that Hizbullah in written by Gerald Shenk, whom I had met in Osijek, Croatia, Central Java—whose 10,000-strong militia proudly flaunt their two decades earlier. Entitled “What Went Right: Two Best Cases destruction of church property and murder of Christians—would of Islam in Europe—Cordoba, Spain, and Sarajevo, Bosnia,” the recently (February 2007) host an international group of some thirty essay served as a gentle counterbalance to the vast discourse Christians? And that the occasion of this meeting would be the of despair that has engulfed us since 9/11 and the subsequent joint launching of a Christian-Muslim book, the newly translated invasion of Iraq. Islam and Christianity: A Muslim and a Christian in Dialogue? And We badly need such perspectives. But even with voices like who could have foreseen twenty-seven years ago—when two Shenk’s, it is difficult to imagine how states with their competing young colleagues at Kenyatta University College, one an Ameri- economic interests and antithetical religious or political ideolo- can Mennonite and the other a Ugandan Muslim, published their gies can ever achieve genuine shalom. Numbed by the savagery co-authored book with the Uzima Press—that this humble book and carnage inflicted upon the world by its “most civilized” and would help reconcile Muslim and Christian enemies an ocean “most Christianized” nations during the first half of the twentieth away and almost three decades later? century, Reinhold Niebuhr concluded that while human beings are Also found in this issue are two articles on Christians in India, moral, the societies that define them can only beimmoral . Perhaps our annual statistical update on the state of world Christianity this is why Jesus urged his followers to be leery of their society’s and mission, a thoughtful analysis of shifting North American assessment of “the other.” “Love your enemies,” he said, “and Protestant missionary numbers, and a cautiously hopeful es- pray for those who persecute you” (Matt. 5:44). say by Hyun-Sik Kim, formerly a professor at North Korea’s Among the most universally recognized paintings by an Pyongyang University and personal tutor for family members American artist is The Peaceable Kingdom. The artist, Quaker of Kim Il Sung’s wife. preacher Edward Hicks (1780–1849), is known to have produced Kingdoms at peace still seem to be little more than a faintly more than 100 versions of this painting. He must have been ut- visible mirage on the constantly receding horizon of human terly captivated by Isaiah’s vision of shalom—of a day when “the longing. But the articles in this issue will have served at least one wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with worthwhile purpose by reassuring readers that the Peaceable the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little Kingdom is indeed no mirage. It is already here. The mustard child shall lead them. They will not hurt or destroy on all my seed is planted everywhere, and the yeast is hard at work. holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the —Jonathan J. Bonk LORD as the waters cover the sea” (Isa. 11:6–9 NRSV). This issue of the IBMR is marked by a hopeful yet realistic Front cover: Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom, oil on canvas, 44.5 tone. David Shenk’s lead article—the most heartening piece x 60.2 cm, about 1833, courtesy of Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, of its kind that I have read in recent times—tells how devoutly Massachusetts, museum purchase. INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH Established 1950 by R. 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