Fifteen Outstanding Books of 2008 for Mission Studies In consultation with fifty distinguished scholars from around the world, the editors of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research have selected fifteen books published in 2008 for special recognition of their contribution to the advance- ment of scholarship in studies of the Christian mission and world Christianity. Aritonang, Jan Sihar, and Karel Steenbrink, eds. A History of Christianity in Indonesia. Leiden: Brill. €179 / $267. Begrunder, Michael. The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Paperback $40. Dyrness, William A., and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, eds. Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press. $50. Frykenberg, Robert Eric. Christianity in India: From Beginnings to the Present. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. $150. Hanciles, Jehu J. Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration, and the Transformation of the West. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. Paperback $35. Hiebert, Paul G. Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. Paperback $24.99. Jenkins, Philip. The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died. New York: HarperOne. $26.95. Kalu, Ogbu U. Clio in a Sacred Garb: Essays on Christian Presence and African Responses, 1900–2000. Trenton, N.J., and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press. Paperback $29.95. Lara, Jaime. Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. $75. Makdisi, Ussama. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. $35. Robert, Dana L., ed. Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706–1914. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Paperback $40. Sharkey, Heather J. American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. $39.50. Strengholt, Jos M. Gospel in the Air: Fifty Years of Christian Witness Through Radio in the Arab World. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum. Paperback €65. Svelmoe, William Lawrence. A New Vision for Missions: William Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1896–1945. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. Paperback $46. Zahniser, A. H. Mathias. The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. Paperback $36. April 2009 97.