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This study identifies and analyzes the methods, achievements, and constraints of the socialist agricultural policy of post-revolutionary Ethiopia. It investigates the Land Reform Legislation of 1975 and its relevance to Ethiopian conditions at that time. Applying a social-interaction approach, this book examines the interrelationships among the different socioeconomic actors, who affected the success and shortcomings of the policy and its implementation....
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This book studies the emergence of Christ Groups against the background of Western individualistic approaches in the Indian national context. These small worship groups were formed and grew as the conversion of families began, as a result of, the literature distribution, that was meant to reach individuals.
The Christ Groups allow the cultural response to develop at its own pace in contrast to the mass-movement approach of church growth through homogenous...
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This volume studies Pentecostalism in Latin America as a broad, diverse, and multifaceted movement. It describes different features and colors that together shape its collective face. This is done from context to context, weaving in various relationships with society and politics. Pentecostalism is situated as a collective actor embedded in a changing reality that blends various streams for theological reflection. The book explains how Pentecostals...
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At a time when more and more Christians are coming across people from different cultural backgrounds this book addresses a number of important questions. How do we understand what culture is all about? How do we reach out to people from different cultures? What impact does culture have on "making disciples"? What impact does culture have on the local church? This book seeks to address and answer these questions – it is relevant to all Christians...
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This study is, based on extensive research that challenges traditional ways of understanding some evangelical missionaries of nineteenth-century Jamaica and calls for revision of those views. It highlights the strength and character of persons facing various challenges of life in their effort to be faithful to the guiding principles of their existence. It gives an account of evangelical missionaries fulfilling their mission to the black people of...
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This, book grows out of a desire to come to grips with our new context. Until, a few decades ago, we believed that Norway was for Norwegians, and that Norwegians were Christian, most of them even Lutheran. Slowly at first, but then, with increasing momentum, our neighborhoods and villages changed from being mono-cultural and mono-religious into something less Norwegian, but more like a rainbow society. This book brings together the presentations of...
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Leadership, especially Christian leadership, is a subject that needs clear, biblical, theological, and contextual thinking. There is no "one size fits all" model of leadership that will work in every context. Senior's effort in working out the apostle Paul's leadership principles in Malaysia, with its multicultural, multiethnic, and multi-religious contexts, is commendable. This book will surely serve as a catalyst toward additional research and critical...
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Where do we go from here? We want to help others find freedom-lasting freedom, from trafficking and exploitation. But, the process is as fraught with challenges as it is filled with calls to do better. What are the best routes to effectiveness? How do we avoid common pitfalls? This book brings together decades of experience to help us navigate the complexities of responding to holistic needs in prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, and reintegration....
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This book seeks to shed light on the Eastern church under early Islam, in order to reveal something of the vigor of Christianity where it has been, overlooked or was not expected. It brings together existing and new scholarship to provide a picture of faith that sees the challenge of mission and meets it with integrity, courage, and imagination.
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This book is an integral collection of essays looking at the shaping of Christianity in China, with a special emphasis on the contributions of Chinese believers. In addition to its geographical scope of the China Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, the material covers a span of time from the end of the Ming Dynasty until the Sichuan earthquake of 2008. Also, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Charismatics, and various kinds of independents rub...
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Women's voices are often unheard and unreported; and their place can be controversial. This book brings together the voices of Christian women scholars and practitioners at the nexus of Christianity, mission and Islam. It comes out of the colloquium of the same name, held in Melbourne, Australia in 2015, when twenty-eight women from different nations and nationalities, different ages and theological perspectives, and different religious backgrounds...
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This book is the result of a socio-theological analysis of the substantial membership growth of the Christian and Missionary Alliance-C&MA-in Lima, Peru, since 1973. The C&MA is a Protestant Christian denomination with worldwide work in North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and, recently, Europe. The focus here is on its work in Lima, Peru. The C&MA started its work in Lima in 1957, and by 1973 had 120 members. Today's membership has grown to...
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What is Jubilee? How could it transform our understanding of the world today - and of how God calls us to live in it? At the heart of Old Testament law is a revolutionary concept that, if applied today, could transform our economy and world. Jesus himself claimed that his ministry would bring its fulfilment, transforming the world. Uniting social justice, creation care, equality and worship, jubilee remains a radical challenge, thousands of years...
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Christianity is a world religion with about 2.3 billion practitioners. While World Christianity's attention to the explosive growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific, and Oceania is definitely significant, it is also important to consider World Christianity, as it is, developing in Europe. This book investigates this phenomenon in Western Europe through the prisms of diasporic identity, migrant narratives, and migrants' mission...
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