Mission and Context [Hardcover]

Mission is contrived from and performed over lived contexts, but the visions that guide and drive mission are oftentimes blinded by power, position, protection, and plenitude. This collection visits those matters with queering attention to the shadows that empires cast over the contexts of mission, and to the collusion and complicity of Christians and churches with empires past (as in the case of Rome) and present (as in the case of the United States of America). In the interests of those in mission fields who survived, but continue to agonize under the burdens of empires, the contributors to this work dare to re-vision the course and cause of mission.

Writing from minoritized settings in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, the authors interweave the principles and practices of mission with the opportunities in decolonial theology and hermeneutics, minoritized and migrant Christologies, repatriation and the courage to get up and get out, indigenous insights and wisdom, mission archives, stories of resistance and endurance in zones of contact and violence, restless souls and returning spirits, and life-centered spiritual (en)countering. In Mission and Context as with previous volumes in this seriesempires do not have the final word, nor are they the final world.

The series is essential reading for our times, and challenging for those of us shaped by the powerful presumption that the modern theologies of Europe are of universal validity, with those from elsewhere mere marginalia. Modern Believing

Mission and Context is a courageous endeavor of fourteen scholars, including the editor, Jione Havea, to raise our consciousness about chronic effects of colonization of the church around the globe. Churches of malã²