Ten Outstanding Books of 2017 for Mission Studies

The editor of the International Bulletin of Mission Research, after consultation with several distinguished scholars, has selected ten books published in 2017 for special recognition of their contribution to mission studies. I commend the authors, editors, and publishers represented here for their contribution to the advancement of scholarship in studies of mission and world Christianity.

Cabrita, Joel, David Maxwell, and Emma Wild-Wood, eds.

Relocating World Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian Faith

Leiden: Brill

Hollinger, David A.

Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America

Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press

James, Christopher B.

Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice

New York: Oxford Univ. Press

Jones, Arun W.

Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836–1870Waco, TX: Baylor Univ. Press

Katongole, Emmanuel

Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in AfricaGrand Rapids: Eerdmans

Ma, Li, and Jin Li

Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China

Eugene, OR: Pickwick

Paas, Stefan

Church Planting in the Secular West: Learning from the European Experience

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, November 2016

Sedmak, Clemens

The Capacity to Be Displaced: Resilience, Mission, and Inner Strength

Leiden: Brill

Thompson, Todd M.

Norman Anderson and the Christian Mission to Modernize Islam

London: Oxford Univ. Press, January 2018

Walls, Andrew F.

Crossing Cultural Frontiers: Studies in the History of World Christianity

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books