Recently added articles from International Bulletin of Missionary Research:
Syncretism and the eternal word.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Syncretism--the combining of two apparently incompatible things to produce a third entity--is an everyday occurrence. Across much of Africa and Latin America, for example, horses and donkeys blend their DNA to generate the mule --a unique and extraordinarily versatile animal combining the ...
Jesus Imandars and Christ Bhaktas: report from two field studies of interreligious hermeneutics and identity in globalized Christianity.(Essay)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The emergence of numerous indigenous forms of Christianity as a consequence of its globalization is a well-known and widely studied phenomenon in missiology. A debate concerning criteria for discerning authentic inculturation/ contextualization and illegitimate syncretism has accompanied ...
The church, the urban, and the global: mission in an age of global cities.(Essay)
Oct 01, 2009; ... We are living in a period of enormous global transformation--that is no secret. One of the results is that cities across the globe--all cities, the city in general--are rapidly changing. A majority of the earth's population now live in cities or megacities. (1) Over the past several ...
Declaration on creation stewardship and climate change: Micah Network.
Oct 01, 2009 ... We present here a recent declaration by the Micah Network, whose international president is C. Rene Padilla (office in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia). In the words of Padilla, an IBMR contributing editor, this declaration "may perhaps in time be regarded as the most significant ...
ARIS reports U.S. Roman Catholic population shift to Southwest.(American Religious Identification Survey)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009 ... The Roman Catholic population of the United States has shifted away from the Northeast and toward the Southwest, while secularity continues to grow in strength in all regions of the country, according to a study by the Program on Public Values at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut ....