Contributors Atul Y. Aghamkar Is Director of the Evangelical
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Contributors Atul Y. Aghamkar is Director of the Evangelical Fellowship of India’s National Centre for Urban Transformation, Bangalore, India. An ordained minister of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, his publications include Insights into Openness: Encouraging Urban Mission (SAIACS Press, 2000) and Christian Missions in Maharashtra: Retrospect and Prospect (Evangelical Theological Research Writing Project. of India, 2010). Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar is presently a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Corydon, Indiana, USA. She earlier served as a professor of theology, gender and hermeneutics at the United Theological College and Serampore College in India, and the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, USA. Anand Amaladass is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, editor of Satya Nilayam Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy and co-author of Christian Themes in Indian Art (Manohar, 2012). His areas of research include aesthetics and inter-religious dialogue. Mehak Arshad (MPhil in English Literature) is a researcher and teaches English and research methodology at Lahore College of Theology, Lahore, Pakistan. Barakatullo Ashurov is a Visiting Scholar in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at Harvard University, USA. He gained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2014 and has taught at the Tajikistan Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with a research focus on Sogdian Christian texts. Jesudas M. Athyal is former Associate Professor of Dalit Theology and Social Analysis at Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai, India. He is the co-author of Understanding World Christianity – India (Fortress Press, 2016) and Associate Editor of Oxford Encyclopedia of South Asian Christianity (2 vols.) (Oxford University Press, 2011). Marina Ngursangzeli Behera, a Presbyterian from Mizoram, is Research Tutor and the M. Phil. Stage Leader at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, UK. She earlier served as Chairperson in the Department of the History of Christianity at the United Theological College in Bangalore, India, and as Professor of Ecumenical Missiology at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland. Prashan De Visser is President and Founder of Global Unites, an international youth movement for conflict transformation in nations devastated by violence. He is also the former host of the breakfast TV show Good Morning Sri Lanka. Leonard Fernando SJ is Principal of Vidyajyoti College of Theology, Delhi, India. His publications include Christian Faith Meets other Faiths: Origen’s Contra Celsum and its Relevance for India Today (ISPCK, 1998) and Christianity in India: Two Thousand Years of Faith (Penguin, 2004). He is General Editor of the History of Christianity in India series published by the Church History Association of India. Gulnar Francis-Dehqani is Bishop of Loughborough within the Church of England. She comes originally from Iran and has written and spoken on the areas of women in religion and interfaith studies in particular. Alina Ganje was born in Kazakhstan and holds a master’s degree in religion-politics- economics from the University of Zurich. Besides financial companies, she has worked for the G2W Institute, an NGO engaged in charitable projects in Russia. Sam George serves as Catalyst for Diasporas with the Lausanne Movement and as the executive director of Parivar International. He lives with his family in Chicago (USA) and holds degrees in engineering, management, theology and missiology; his publications include Understanding the Coconut Generation (Parivar International, 2018) and Diaspora Christianities (Fortress Press, 2018). Roger E. Hedlund is Director Emeritus of the Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies and Retired Managing Editor of Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research. He taught at Union Biblical Seminary (Yavatmal/Pune) 1974–8, the Church Growth Research Centre (Chennai, India) 1979–93 and Serampore College (West Bengal) 1994–7 and edited the Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2012). Romina Istratii is a PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her current research is an interdisciplinary project examining conjugal violence among the Ethiopian Orthodox community of Aksum. Her research interests include gender and religion in international development, anthropology of religion and religious epistemologies. Anderson Jeremiah is Lecturer in World Christianity at Lancaster University, UK, and an ordained priest in the Church of England. His publications include Community and the Worldview Among Paraiyars of South India (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Engaging the World: Christian Communities in Contemporary Glocal Societies (Regnum, 2014). Daniel Jeyaraj is Professor of World Christianity and Director of the Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His publications include studies on the Royal Danish Halle Mission, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, South Indian religions, proverbs and songs. Sheela Jeyaraj is an ordained presbyter of the Church of South India and is currently completing her doctoral thesis on gender justice in India at Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences in Allahabad, India. Youshib Matthew John is Research Coordinator at Lahore College of Theology, Lahore, Pakistan, with graduate qualification in statistics and economics. He has conducted various customised research projects and produced assessment reports published with numerous institutes. Todd M. Johnson is Associate Professor of Global Christianity and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA. He is also Visiting Researcher at Boston University’s Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs, leading a research project on international religious demography. Arun W. Jones, Dan and Lillian Hankey Associate Professor of World Evangelism at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA, has lived and worked in India and the Philippines. His research focuses on the history of Christianity in South and Southeast Asia, and he has published monographs on Episcopalians in the Philippines and Evangelicals in North India. Jacob Kavunkal SVD teaches Missiology and is Head of the Department of Theology, Mission and Ministry at Yarra Theological Union/University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. A priest and Indian, he founded the ecumenical Fellowship of Indian Missiologists and initiated the project of publishing the Concise Encyclopaedia of Indian Christianity (St Paul’s, 2014). Feruza Krason holds a Master of Arts (Biblical Languages) degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, USA, and is a Bible translation consultant with SIL Eurasia Area. Atola Longkumer, a Baptist from Nagaland, teaches religions and missions at South Asia Advanced Institute of Christian Studies, Bangalore, India. Her recent publications include Mission and Power: History, Relevance and Perils (Regnum, 2016). Michael Nazir-Ali is President of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue (OXTRAD), having earlier served as Anglican Bishop of Rochester in the UK, General Secretary of the Church Mission Society (CMS) and Bishop of Raiwind in the Church of Pakistan. His most recent book is Faith, Freedom and the Future; Challenges for the 21st Century (Wipf and Stock, 2016). Cedric Prakash SJ is a priest and human rights activist from Gujarat, India, recognised for his work in human rights, justice and peace. He is currently based in Beirut, Lebanon, with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) as the Advocacy and Communication Officer for the JRS – Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Pradeep Perez SJ is a research scholar of the folk tradition of Christian literature and culture in Bangladesh. An ordained Jesuit priest, he is the founder/coordinator of the Jesuit-run Magisbangla movement for university students and working young people in Bangladesh. David Radford is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of South Australia. He completed his PhD research in Kyrgyzstan and published a book based on his thesis, Religious Identity and Social Change: Explaining Christian Conversion in a Muslim World (Routledge, 2015). Joshva Raja, a priest of the Church of South India currently serving in the Church of England, has taught at the United Theological College, Bangalore, India, and at the Selly Oak Centre for Mission Studies, Birmingham, UK. He has published extensively on matters related to gospel, culture and communication. Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar is Programme Executive for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation of the World Council of Churches. An ordained Anglican priest, his publications include Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation: Problem, Paradigms and Possibilities, (Ashgate, 2010) and Many Yet One: Multiple Religious Belonging, (World Council of Churches, 2016). Anthony Roberts (not his real name) is a Christian worker for Afghanistan with a master of arts in world Christianity and other post-graduate work and is an ordained Presbyterian minister. Kenneth R. Ross, formerly Professor of Theology at the University of Malawi, is parish minister at Netherlorn in Argyll, Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh School of Divinity and Chair of the Scotland Malawi Partnership. Over the last