Rethinking mission in the postcolony
Subtitle: salvation, society and subversion
By: Marion Grau
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780567280886; 9780567116192
Subjects: Missionaries; Missions; Theory
Description: "Much of the history of mission has been interlaced with imperial structures. Often the colonial and economic impulses of the colonial powers overshadow some of the counterimperial tendencies of biblical texts and ecclesial communities. Evangelical missionary theologies have led to cultural genocide. These missionary practices have been heavily critiqued in the last few decades. Christian progressives have been in the forefront of the critique of mission, but have often responded in ways that reject the mission of the word, instead highlighting a mission focused on developmental concerns that obscures the Christian content but continues to push Western capitalist structures into {u2018}developing{u2019} postcolonial societies. Instead, this book proposes an integration of gospel and culture. It aims to steer a third course towards an integration of the knowledges and treasures, the losses and laments of Christianities forged in colonizing and colonized societies. It proposes that these Christianities are more alike than different, and in need of each other for reconciliation of communities facing the ecological and economic collapse at the limits of what the planet can carry." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: "A Continuum imprint."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Point of (no) return; title: Reaching the limit : circumambulating the frontiers of civilizing mission; title: Departures : traversing methodically; title: Waymarkers : pattern recognition along the way; title: Itinerary I : converting Rome's successors; title: Itinerary II : going south : the Zulu, the Colensos, and the hermeneutics of salvation; title: Itinerary III : regifting the theological present : economies of exchange between Maori and Anglicans; title: In transit; title: Holding patterns; title: Aporias : no way out.