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Short term missions

Hancock, “Short-Term Mission Voluntarism and the Postsecular Imaginary”

Hancock, Mary.  2015.  “Short-Term Mission Voluntarism and the Postsecular Imaginary.”  In Religion and Volunteering, edited by Lesley Hustinx, Johan von …

September 15, 2014 ndca-admin

Hancock, “Short-term Youth Mission Practice and the Visualization of Global Christianity”

Hancock, Mary. 2014. Short-term Youth Mission Practice and the Visualization of Global Christianity. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and …

July 20, 2014 ndca-admin

Film, “God Loves Uganda”

Williams, Roger Ross. 2013. God Loves Uganda. 83 min. Filmaker’s Description:  The feature-length documentary God Loves Uganda is a powerful exploration …

November 12, 2013 ndca-admin

Brian Howell, interviewed by Joshua Brahinsky

The following is an interview with Brian Howell conducted by Josh Brahinsky in September 2013. Josh: What motivated this book? …

November 12, 2013 ndca-admin

Howell, Brian (2012) Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

Reviewed by Joshua Brahinsky (University of California, Santa Cruz). While anthropology and religion have a checkered and ambivalent dynamic, relations between anthropology and missiology – Christian mission theory – are far more enmeshed and, perhaps, grating. This animates a sharp division between the two.

November 12, 2013 ndca-admin

Probasco, “Giving Time, Not Money”

Probasco, LiErin. 2013. Giving Time, Not Money: Long-Term Impacts of Short-Term Mission Trips. Missiology 41(2):202-224. Abstract: This article expands current …

March 29, 2013 ndca-admin

Hancock, “Encountering Islam”

Hancock, Mary. 2013. Encountering Islam in Short-Term Mission.” Missiology 41(2):187-201. Abstract: This article documents short-term mission’s engagement with Islam by …

March 29, 2013 ndca-admin

Kostarelos, “Short-Term Missions in the Orthodox Church”

Kostarelos, Frances. 2013. Short-Term Missions in the Orthodox Church in North America. Missiology 41(2):179-186. Abstract: This article examines beliefs, institutions, …

March 29, 2013 ndca-admin

Farrell, “Short-Term Mission to Global Discipleship”

Farrell, B. Hunter. 2013. From Short-Term Mission to Global Discipleship: A Peruvian Case Study. Missiology 41(2):163-178. Abstract: This article is …

March 29, 2013 ndca-admin

Moodie, “Inequality and Intimacy”

Moodie, Ellen. 2013. Inequality and Intimacy between Sister Communities in El Salvador and the United States. Missiology 41(2):146-162. Abstract: In …

March 29, 2013 ndca-admin

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