The Uniqueness of the Chinese Mission Movement—Past, Present, and Future

Using the World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition ( WCE-3) as the springboard, this article explores the uniqueness of the Chinese missions movement from China, not including the overseas Chinese diaspora or Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. First, we provide an overview, context, and backdrop of the Chinese missions movement. Second, we compare and contrast China’s missions sending with that of (1) the United States/United Kingdom and (2) Brazil. We then highlight the unique characteristics of the Chinese missions movement and conclude with a future outlook.

Mission Challenges in the New Millenium

This paper is an analysis of various collective resources to consider new challenges in the world of mission. Throughout the third millennium, Christianity was faced with historically enormous goals and opportunities. The missionary activity is more than two centuries old. It appears that God moved His people in the event of a great wave of spreading the gospel to various parts of the world. This missionary movement has made it possible for the gospel to be accepted and heard by thousands and even millions of people representing various tribes, ethnicities and cultures. The Bible is translated into hundreds of languages and dialects. according to the phenomenon observed above, today the Church and Christianity are fast paced changes in this era actually raises a hope of the birth of a new mission movement in the challenges of the new millennium. This paper aims to provide a missiological overview of the possibility of a new missionary movement emerging.

The Contribution of Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) towards World Culture

In Indian tradition, the religious development of a person is completed when he experiences the world within himself. Sri Ramakrishna, a Bengali temple-priest propagated a new interpretation of the Hindu scriptures. Without formal education, he interpreted the essence of the scriptures with unprecedented simplicity. With deep insight into the rapidly changing social scenario, he realized the necessity of a humanist religious practice. Therefore, adopting a modern perspective, this paper attempts to highlight the contribution of Sri Ramakrishna in India towards the world culture. Qualitative methods through a systematic sociohistorical analysis that summarized the literature based on documents, books and journals are used in this paper. The results show that the Ramakrishna Mission movement has contributed significantly to Indian civilization in education, humanity, literature and spirituality. Although they are not politically involved, their contribution remains significant in shaping a free-thinking, self-respecting and fearless citizen towards British colonial in India.

The Ambiguous Beginnings of the Modern Mission Movements in the Reformed Church of Transylvania Between 1895 and 1918

This study looks at the ways how the Reformed Church encountered the new modern mission movement in Transylvania with the arrival of Dr. Béla Kenessey and Dr. István Kecskeméthy to the newly established Reformed Theological Seminary at Cluj in 1895. By the time being, some theologians expressed grave concerns about the dangers of theological liberalism to the Confessions. The paper argues that these young professors, touched by the mission movement and revival also sought to encompass those who had an evangelistic fervor to reach unbelievers and to serve those people in their personal and social needs. As a result, Christian Covenant was established in 1896, with official recognition in 1903 as the Christian Endeavor. It is hoped to unfold the major shifts regarding the attitudes to mission in the Reformed Church of Hungary and throw lights on ambiguous beginnings of mission movements.

Ydre mission som dansk kulturhistorie

In his new book, Daniel Henschen studies the foreign mission movement in Denmark as a case of an “empathic globalization” before modern globalization began to be developed at full scale from around 1960. The book is innovative in viewing the mission movement in Denmark as an integrated part of contemporary culture, contributing to the general cultural and political development in its time. At the same time, Henschen develops a new track in mission studies.

Queering Growth in Mid-20th Century Philadelphia

In this essay, I highlight a critical, if under-examined, dialectic between dominant urbanism and Black queer urbanism. First, I demonstrate the ways that dominant urbanists drew on a sedimented historical imaginary of the slum as a racialized site of debilitation and death in their articulation of and support for new urban infrastructures designed to support long-term stability through capitalist growth. Anti-blackness formed a fundamental aspect of the syntax and grammar of urban renewal and redevelopment. Next, I examine the efforts of the adherents of Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement to build a world centered in spiritually appropriated, communal architectures wherein their disruptive forms of social-geographic life challenged heteronormative futurity and segregation through the haptic politics of touch and what I term ecstatic consecration.