Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies,Intercultural Theology,and World Christianity for 2022

The editors of the International Bulletin of Mission Research, after consultation with several distinguished scholars, have selected ten books published in 2022 for special recognition. We commend the authors, editors, and publishers represented here for their contribution to the advancement of scholarship in Mission Studies, Intercultural Theology, and World Christianity.

Farrell, Hunter and S. Balajiedlang Khyllep

Freeing Congregational Mission: A Practical Vision for Companionship, Cultural Humility, and Co-Development

Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press

Goheen, Michael W. and Timothy M. Sheridan

Becoming a Missionary Church: Lesslie Newbigin and Contemporary Church Movements

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press

Groody, Daniel

A Theology of Migration: The Bodies of Refugees and the Body of Christ

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books

Hollinger, David A.

Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Joshua, Paul and Joel Carpenter, eds.

Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches

Waco, TX: Baylor University Press

Kim, Kirsteen, Knud Jørgensen, and Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga, eds.

The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Sigg, Michèle Miller

Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France

Waco, TX: Baylor University Press

Starr, Chloë, ed.

A Reader in Chinese Theology

Waco, TX: Baylor University Press

Woodley, Randy

Mission and the Cultural Other: A Closer Look

Eugene, OR: Cascade

Zurlo, Gina A.

Global Christianity: A Guide to the World’s Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic