PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914 (Editor) (Curzon-Eerdmans, 2008).
" Occupy Until I Come": A.T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World. Library of Religious Biography. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003). [Selected as one of the fifteen outstanding books in mission studies for 2003 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research] Korean translation 2004 (Seoul: B & A Publishing).
African Christian Outreach: Vol. 2 Mission Churches. (Editor) (Pretoria: South African Missiological Society, 2003). [Also published as April 2003 issue of Missionalia]
Frontiers of African Christianity: Essays in Honour of Inus Daneel. Edited with G. Cuthbertson and H. Pretorius (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2003).
Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women in the Twentieth Century (Editor) (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2002). [Selected as one of the fifteen outstanding books in mission studies for 2002 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, and selected as "Essential Reading" by journal Missiology]
"Evangelism as the Heart of Mission." Mission Evangelism Series # 1. (NY: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 1998).
Christianity: A Social and Cultural History, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1997). Joint author with Howard Kee, Emily Albu, Carter Lindberg, and Jerry Frost. Author of "Christianity in the Wider World," on Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, from the 15th through the 20th centuries.
American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice.(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997). [Selected as one of the fifteen outstanding books in mission studies for 1997 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research; selected as "Essential Reading" by the journal Missiology; Fourth printing]
Arthur Tappan Pierson and Evangelical Movements. (Seoul, Korea: Yangsuh Publishing Company, 1988). [in Korean]
MAJOR COLLABORATIVE WORKS
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Gerald H. Anderson, ed. (Macmillan Library Reference, 1997). International Advisory Board; wrote entries on: Eliza Agnew, Belle Harris Bennett, William Eugene Blackstone, Eliza Bridgman, William and Clementina Butler, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Grace Dodge, Sarah Doremus, Mary Edwards, Hettie Fernbaugh, Welthy Honsinger Fisher, Fidelia Fiske, Alice Browne Frame, Asahel Grant, Judith Campbell Grant, Ann Hasseltine Judson, Walter Russell Lambuth, Sarah Farquhar Loveless, Arthur Tappan Pierson, Mary Reed, Phoebe Rowe, Albert Benjamin Simpson, Helen Rasmussen Springer, John McKendree Springer, John Stewart, Justus and Calista Vinton, Jonathan and Deborah Wade, Beulah and Sarah Woolston.
International Mission Bibliography. Norman Thomas, gen ed. ATLA Series. (Greenwood: Scarecrow Press, 2003). Sub-editor for "Mission History." Annotated bibliography of mission studies, from 1960 to the present.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
"Foreword," in Ogbu U.Kalu, Clio in a Sacred Garb: Essays on Christian Presence and African Responses, 1900-2000. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2008.
"Testimonies and Truth-tellings: Women in the United Methodist Tradition." Keynote address at "Struggle, Faith and Vision: Celebrating Women in the United Methodist Tradition, 1788 to Today," March 9, 2007, Nashville, Tennessee. Edited version published in Focus (Spring 2008): 34-43.
"Shifting Southward: Global Christianity since 1945," reprint, in Paul Chilcote and Laceye Warner, eds. The Study of Evangelism: Exploring a Missional Practice of the Church (Eerdmans, 2008):117-134.
"The "Christian Home" as a Cornerstone of Anglo-American Missionary Thought and Practice," in Dana L. Robert, ed., Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914 (Curzon-Eerdmans, 2008):134-165.
"Christianity"s Future Will be Shaped by Women," in Mike Wilson, ed., Christianity: Issues in Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven Press, 2007).
"Gender Issues," in John Corrie, ed., Dictionary of Mission Theology: Evangelical Foundations (InterVarsity Press, 2007).
"Missionaries," in David Levinson and Karen Christensen, eds. Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations, Vol 3 (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2007).
With M.L. Daneel, "Worship among Apostles and Zionists in Southern Africa," in Charles Farhadian, ed., Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices (Eerdmans, 2007):43-70.
"The Patrick Paradox," Books and Culture (July-August 2007). Online at the Christian Vision Project, http://www.christianvisionproject.com/2007/08/the_patrick_paradox.html
"The Great Commission in an Age of Globalization," in D. Jeyaraj, R Pazmino, R Petersen, eds., The Antioch Agenda: The Restorative Church at the Margins. Celebrating the Life and Work of Orlando Costas (New Delhi, India: Indian Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 2007).
"Foreign Missions and Revivals," in Michael McClymond, ed., Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America , Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2006):174-176.
"World Christianity as a Women"s Movement," International Bulletin of Missionary Research, October 2006.
"Where are We Going in Mission Today?" New World Outlook , Sept-Oct 2006.
"The Mother of Modern Missions," Christian History and Biography (Spring 2006):22-24.
" Protestant Women Missionaries: Foreign and Home," in Rosemary S. Keller and Rosemary R. Ruether, eds., Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America V. 2 (Indiana U. Press, 2006), 834-843. [selected by the American Historical Association as winner of the 2006 Waldo G. Leland Prize for best reference tool in the field of history]
"Encounter with Christ: Luke as Mission Historian for the 21st Century," in J Krabill, W Sawatsky, and C Van Engen, eds., Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2006), 19-27.
"St. Patrick and Bernard Mizeki: Missionary Saints and the Creation of Christian Communities," Yale Divinity School Library Occasional Publication No. 19 (New Haven: Yale Divinity School Library, 2005).
"What Happened to the Christian Home? The Missing Component of Mission Theory," Missiology (July 2005).
"Widows and Service," in World Vision Faith in Action Study Bible (Zondervan, 2005):1982. [Finalist 2006 Christian Book Award]
"The Great Commission in an Age of Globalization," in Stephen Gunter and Elaine Robinson, eds., Considering the Great Commission (Abingdon, 2005); also printed in Focus (Fall 2004).
" Evangelist or Homemaker? The Mission Strategies of Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Wives in Burma and Hawaii," in Wilbert R. Shenk, ed., North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy (Eerdmans, 2004).
" Missions," Encyclopedia of Protestantism (Routledge, 2004). ed. H. Hillerbrand.
"Women in World Mission: Controversies and Challenges from a North American Perspective," International Review of Mission (January 2004).
"Changing Perceptions of Missionaries and Cultures," Journal of Presbyterian History 81:2 (Summer 2003).
"The Mission Education Movement and the Rise of World Christianity, 1902-2002," Focus (Spring 2003). (Plenary speech for the 100th Anniversary of the Mission Education Movement, General Assembly of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA).
" M.L. Daneel: Missionary as Folk Theologian," in Frontiers of African Christianity: Essays in Honour of Inus Daneel, ed. G. Cuthbertson, H. Pretorius, and D. Robert. Volume 8, African Initiatives in Christian Mission (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2003).
"Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Issues for Women and Mission Today," Currents in Theology and Mission 29:4 (August 2002).
" The First Globalization: The Internationalization of the Protestant Missionary Movement Between the World Wars." International Bulletin of Missionary Research, April 2002; Forthcoming in Ogbu Kalu, ed., Interpreting Contemporary Christianity: Global Processes and Local Identities (Eerdmans/Curzon, 2008).
" The Influence of American Missionary Women on the World Back Home," Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation (V 12.1, Winter 2002).
"Missions, Foreign," Dictionary of American History, 3rd edition (Charles Scribner"s Sons, 2002).
" Frau V," in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart,V.3, 4th ed. (Tuebingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2001).
" Foreign Missions," in Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century V.1 (New York: Charles Scribner"s Sons, 2001).
" Holiness and the Missionary Vision of the Woman"s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869-1894," Methodist History, (October 2000). Korean translation in Holiness Church and Theology 11 (Spring 2004).
" Premillennialism," in A. Scott Moreau, gen ed., The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions (Baker Book House, 2000).
" Shifting Southward: Global Christianity Since 1945," International Bulletin of Missionary Research (April 2000); Reprinted in Focus (Spring 2001). Korean translation in Holiness Church and Theology V 9 (Spring 2003):171-192.
" Selected Annotated Bibliography: Missions: History," Missiology (April 2000).
" The Redemption of Ham," Focus (Fall 1999).
"" History"s Lessons for Tomorrow"s Mission":Reflections on American Methodism in Mission," Focus (Winter/Spring 1999). Edited version appeared as "History"s Lessons for Methodism in Mission," New World Outlook (May-June 1999).
" Cheap Ecumenism or Apostolic Unity?" Boston Theological Institute Newsletter, December 2, 1998.
" From Mission to Missions to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Missions Since World War II." In New Directions in American Religious History, eds. Harry Stout and Darryl Hart (Oxford University Press, 1997). Earlier version appeared in International Bulletin of Missionary Research (October 1994).
" American Women and the Dutch Reformed Missionary Movement, 1874-1904,"
in Willem Saayman and Klippies Kritzinger, eds., Mission in Bold Humility: David Bosch"s Work Considered (Orbis, 1996).
" Missions," "Mary Gamewell," "John and Helen Springer," "Isabella Thoburn," "Clara Swain," in Charles Yrigoyen, Jr., and Susan E. Warrick, eds., Historical Dictionary of Methodism (Scarecrow Press, 1996).
" Rufus Anderson," "Mary Lyon," "Ann Judson," in Donald Lewis, ed., A Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, 1730-1860 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
" The Methodist Struggle Over Higher Education in Fuzhou, China, 1877-1883," Methodist History (April 1996).
" The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Siberia/Manchuria," in S.T. Kimbrough, Jr., ed., Methodism in Russia and the Baltic States: History and Renewal (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995). First published as "Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Missions to Russians in Manchuria, 1920-1927" Methodist History (January 1988).
" Mission," in Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995).
" The Legacy of A.J. Gordon," "The Legacy of A.T. Pierson," in Gerald Anderson, ed., Mission Legacies. Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Missionary Movement (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995).
" Mount Holyoke Women and the Dutch Reformed Missionary Movement, 1874-1904,"
Missionalia (August 1993).
" Revisioning the Women"s Missionary Movement," in Charles Van Engen, Dean Gilliland, Paul Pierson, eds., The Good News of the Kingdom: Mission Theology for the Nineties (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993).
" Evangelist or Homemaker?: The Mission Strategies of Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Wives in Burma and Hawaii," International Bulletin of Missionary Research (January 1993).
" A.J. Gordon and World Evangelization: Then and Now," in Garth Rosell, ed., The Vision Continues: Essays Marking the Centennial of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (South Hamilton, MA: Gordon-Conwell, 1992).
" Epilogue: Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America," in Howard C. Kee, ed., Christianity: A Social and Cultural History (New York: Macmillan, 1991).
" The Promotion of Missions," J.D.Douglas, ed., 20th Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 2nd Edition (Baker Book House, 1991).
"" The Crisis of Missions": Premillennial Mission Theory and the Origins of Independent Evangelical Missions," in Joel Carpenter and Wilbert Shenk, eds., Earthen Vessels: American Evangelicals and Foreign Missions, 1880-1980 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1990).
" A.T. Pierson," "A.J. Gordon," "Mount Hermon One Hundred," in Daniel G. Reid, ed., Dictionary of Christianity in America (Downers Grove,Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1990). "A.J. Gordon" reprinted in Bill J. Leonard, ed., Dictionary of Baptists in America (InterVarsity Press, 1994).
" Mission Study at the University-related Theological Seminary: The Boston University School of Theology as a Case Study," Missiology (April 1989).
" The Legacy of A.J. Gordon," International Bulletin of Missionary Research (October 1987).
Reprinted in J.I. Packer, ed., The Best of Theology, Vol. 3 (Carol Stream, Ill.: Christianity Today, 1989).
Reprinted in J. Christy Wilson, ed., Bringing Christ to All the World (South Hamilton, MA: Gordon-Conwell
Theological School, 1988).
Korean translation in Ministry and Theology (April 1991).
" Grandmothers and the Millennium of Russian Christianity," The Christian Century, Dec 24-31, 1986.
Reprinted in Focus, Winter 1988-89 (bulletin of the Boston University School of Theology)
" The Origin of the Student Volunteer Watchword," International Bulletin of Missionary Research (October 1986). (Korean translation in the Pierson Seminary Bulletin).
" Annotated Bibliography on Mission History." Edited with Norman Thomas, Missiology (April 1986).
" The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: Its Importance for North America," The Judson Bulletin (January 1986).
" African Epiphany," Anna Howard Shaw Newsletter (Spring 1985).
" Report on Mission and Human Rights," Written with Janice McLaughlin, Mission Studies, V.2, no. 1, 1985.
" The Legacy of A.T. Pierson," International Bulletin of Missionary Research (July 1984).
Assorted book reviews in Religious Studies Review, Missiology, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Methodist History, Lutheran Quarterly, America, Pacific Historical Review, The Edinburgh Review of Theology and Religion, The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, International Journal of African Historical Studies, The Journal of Religion, The Christian Century, Church History
FORTHCOMING (in press):
Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
With Douglas D. Tzan, "Traditions and Transitions in Methodist Mission Thought," in Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies, eds. William J. Abraham and James E. Kirby (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
"Missionaries Worldwide, 1910-2010" in Atlas of Global Christianity, eds. Todd Johnson & Kenneth Ross (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2010).
IN PROGRESS:
The Birth of the World Church. (Eerdmans, working title) A two volume history of 20th century world Christianity.
"Missiology and post-colonial consciousness ," Part 1.c. in Oxford Handbook to the Reception of Christian Theology, eds. Sarah Coakley and Richard Cross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
World Mission in the Age of Global Christianity. The United Methodist Church, 2010.
EDITORIAL WORK
2006- Website Development, "The History of Missiology," co-sponsored with Dr. Jack Ammerman, Boston University School of Theology. http://digilib.bu.edu/mission
2007 Consulting Editor, Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries, ed. Jonathan Bonk (Routledge, 2007)
2005- Editorial Consulting Board, The Asbury Journal.
2004-: Editorial Board, Oxford University Press, Studies in World Christianity. Lamin Sanneh, general editor.
Vol 1. Lamin Sanneh, Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity (2007).
2004-: Associate Editor, Church History (journal of the American Society of Church History)
1995-: General Editor with M.L.Daneel, Series "African Initiatives in Christian Mission," University of South Africa Press.
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A man with a shadow: The life and times of Professor Z K Mathews (Saayman) -1996
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African Earthkeepers. Interfaith mission in earth-care (Daneel)
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African Earthkeepers. Environmental mission and liberation in Christian perspective (Daneel)
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Transfigured Night. Mission and Culture in Zimbabwe"s Vigil Movement (Presler)
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Touching the Heart. Xhosa Missionaries to Malawi, 1876-1888 (Thompson)
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Zion and Pentecost (Anderson)
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African Christian Outreach Vol. 1 (Daneel)
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Frontiers of African Christianity: Essays in honour of Inus Daneel (Cuthbertson, Robert, Pretorius)
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African Christian Outreach Vol. 2 (Robert)
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Drumbeats: Sounds of Zion in the Cape Flats (Pretorius) " 2004
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All Things Hang Together: Holistic Theologies at the African Grassroots. (Daneel, 2008)
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Clio in a Sacred Garb: Essays on Christian Presence and African Responses, 1900-2000 (Kalu). 2008, Africa World Press.
1996-: International Representative, Journal of Constructive Theology, Centre for Constructive Theology, University of Durban-Westville, Republic of South Africa.
1994-2002: International Editorial Board, Religion & Theology/Religie & Teologie. publisher: E.J.Brill, Netherlands. (University of South Africa, Pretoria)
1993-2005: Editorial Committee, American Society of Missiology Dissertation Series.
1993-2008 International Editorial Board, Missionalia (journal of the South African Missiological Society)
1988-: Contributing Editor, International Bulletin of Missionary Research |