Volume 33 - Mission and Power : History, Relevance, and Perils
(Longkumer, Atola, Jorgen Skov Sorensen, and Michael Biehl (eds). Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2016.)
Mission cannot ignore its engagement with power. Christian mission is
unavoidably located within matrices of power structures: religion,
culture, colonial power, economic and gender. It is not only in the
missionary movement largely emanating from the West that Christian
mission is linked to structures of power. The Christian communities of
today also present significant images, practices, expressions, and
sometimes exploitations of power. This volume explores the notion of
power in relation to Christian mission and critically engages questions
such as: What notions of power have informed mission? How have power
structures been negotiated between Christian mission and local
culture/religions? Which of these manifestations of power are disturbing
and counter to the values of the Gospel?
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