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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Studies in World Christianity.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 12 (2006) - vol. 14 (2008)Latest Articles: Studies in World ChristianityTWOProject MUSE®Studies in World Christianity1750-02301354-9901Latest articles in Studies in World Christianity. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Selecting Subjects
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255248
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Since I became Editor it has been our policy to choose a specific subject for each issue of the journal. Recent subjects have included ‘Singing a New Song’, ‘Suffer the Little Children’, ‘Women and Leadership’, ‘Dance to the Lord’. This format gives coherence to each issue. It is also important increasingly as the journal is included in citation indices: it becomes an important research resource. Choosing a subject for an issue involves seeking advice from colleagues throughout the world who can recommend possible authors. The total length of the annual volume is stipulated by the publisher, Edinburgh University Press. This determines the length of each of the three issues and, in turn, the word length of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallSelecting Subjects2008-12-11text/htmlen-USSelecting Subjects2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®29152026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11The Gospel of Judas (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255249
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Simon Gathercole’s The Gospel of Judas is a helpful guide that includes the history of the discovery and publication of the Gospel of Judas, a background of Judas in early Christian writings, and a fresh line-byline translation and commentary of the actual text. The translation of the text is the most valuable feature of the book, giving readers a first-hand impression of the content and style of the work. The accompanying commentary is especially helpful, not least because the text is fragmentary in so many places. In the commentary, Gathercole also provides definitions and background information to the obscure names and references in the text, allowing it to be more accessible to a wider audience that may
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallThe Gospel of Judas (review)2008-12-11text/htmlen-USThe Gospel of Judas (review)2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®39642026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11Native Americans: Remembrance, Reconciliation and Restoration
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255250
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Mary said yes to God, although it meant that the life she knew, and the life her people had prepared her for was to be changed forever. She was a young woman with her whole life ahead of her and she said yes to God, knowing the consequences of her yes would tear at the fabric of her world. We know that her yes tore open the constraints of the fabric of the whole world, ushering in a new world incarnated in Christ. This was more than a clash of cultures; it was the beginning of a radical change. I would like to invite you to reflect with me on what it might mean for the Christian Church as we stand here in this year 2007, on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the settlers at Jamestown, now in present day
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallNative Americans: Remembrance, Reconciliation and Restoration2008-12-11text/htmlen-USNative Americans: Remembrance, Reconciliation and Restoration2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®226012026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11Ancient Glory and New Mission: The Serbian Orthodox Church
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255251
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The Orthodox Church exists and lives within history and passes through it without changing its identity. This is a very important aspect of Orthodoxy which one should always have in mind when dealing with questions that regard the orthodox part of Christianity. This means that the Church always remains the same in its canonical organisation and theological teachings. However, the Church exists inside human society and interacts with it.
In the light of the ever-changing interests of contemporary man, the riddle that stands before us is as follows. What does the ostensibly static and passive Orthodox Church have to offer modern society and in what form? What could be the role of the Orthodox Church
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallAncient Glory and New Mission: The Serbian Orthodox Church2008-12-11text/htmlen-USAncient Glory and New Mission: The Serbian Orthodox Church2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®387692026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255252
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Are people who are considered ‘racial Others’ correct in asserting that those in the majority are oblivious to issues of race and ethnicity? This question is relevant when analysing the work entitled Places of Redemption by Mary McClintock Fulkerson. By grounding her observations about racism and able-ism in a theological framework, Fulkerson helps readers better understand the relevance of such concepts within today’s Christian Church.
Fulkerson sets out to accomplish her goal by focusing on the practical theology of a particular church called Good Samaritan United Methodist Church. Framing her concerns through political theorists such as Iris Young, she examines the marginalizing impact of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallPlaces of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church (review)2008-12-11text/htmlen-USPlaces of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church (review)2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®42642026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11Reflecting Christianity in Depictions of Islam: The Representation of Muslims in the Reports of the Early Royal Danish Mission at Tarangambadi, India
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255253
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The arrival of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg at the Danish trading post Tarangambadi in 1706 marks the beginning of the first systematically undertaken Protestant mission on the Indian subcontinent. Most of the missionaries, who acted on behalf of the Danish king, were recruited from Prussia and maintained ties with Pietist circles in the town of Halle (Saale). They regularly sent reports about general observations and their mission work to Halle, where the texts were edited, published and spread across Europe.
In this paper I will take a fresh look at the published narratives, particularly at the depictions of Muslim culture composed by the Royal Danish missionaries Ziegenbalg, Walther, John and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallReflecting Christianity in Depictions of Islam: The Representation of Muslims in the Reports of the Early Royal Danish Mission at Tarangambadi, India2008-12-11text/htmlen-USReflecting Christianity in Depictions of Islam: The Representation of Muslims in the Reports of the Early Royal Danish Mission at Tarangambadi, India2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®398152026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11Orthodoxy in Russia: Post-atheist Faith
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255254
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The revival of religiosity in post-Soviet Russia is a unique phenomenon in the history of Christian civilisation. Nowhere in the world was the policy of the total extermination of religion carried out during the course of only a few generations. By the time the demise of communism came about, for the overwhelming majority of the Russian population, Orthodoxy and Christianity in general were considered the ‘most mysterious mystery’, concerning which they had only a very vague idea.
According to the polls of the late 1970s and early 1980s, only 6–10% of the population could be labelled as ‘believers in God’. Even the faith of those few was quite peculiar; church attendance and knowledge about
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallOrthodoxy in Russia: Post-atheist Faith2008-12-11text/htmlen-USOrthodoxy in Russia: Post-atheist Faith2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®482852026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11Concepts of Mission: The Evolution of Contemporary Missiology (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255255
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This well-designed and attractive book provides readers with an introduction to the progress of mission thinking over the last few hundred years. Given the publisher and author it is no surprise that the approach is largely a Catholic one, written for a Catholic audience, with an emphasis on Catholic figures and theology. Francis Anekwe Oborji is a Nigerian priest, currently teaching missiology at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome.
The book is split into three parts: Basic Issues, Historical Perspectives and New Perspectives. The structure delivers what the subtitle promises, an account of the evolution of missiology as a theological discipline. This is not a history of missions, but on the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallConcepts of Mission: The Evolution of Contemporary Missiology (review)2008-12-11text/htmlen-USConcepts of Mission: The Evolution of Contemporary Missiology (review)2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®39622026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11The Church as an Agent of Community Development in Bulgaria
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Religious groups traditionally have played a major role in shaping communities. In modern civil societies, religious beliefs are still among the key factors that bond people together to form communities, both large and small. In countries like the United States it is often emphasised by researchers that religious communities are the backbone of American civil society. Most of the modern social institutions’ roots in many countries, such as hospitals, schools, retirement homes, can be traced back in the structures of the churches.
The church is often regarded as an institution itself, and this attitude is frequently passed onto the social institutions that the church creates and maintains. In many
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/341/image/coversmallThe Church as an Agent of Community Development in Bulgaria2008-12-11text/htmlen-USThe Church as an Agent of Community Development in Bulgaria2008-12-112008TWOProject MUSE®158942026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002008-12-11