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Turn Your Radio On
Zondervan 2009; US$ 10.99These fascinating stories are all about how the best loved gospel songs came to be written. more...
Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood
BRILL 2010; US$ 185.00Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 1843-1885. Popular interpretations have tended to describe... more...
The Cross and the Rising Sun, Volume 1
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 32.95Drawing on both Canadian and Japanese sources, this book investigates the life, work, and attitudes of Canadian Protestant missionaries in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (the three main constituent parts of the pre-1945 Japanese empire) from the arrival of the first Canadian missionary in East Asia in 1872 until 1931. Canadian missionaries made a significant... more...
The Cross and the Rising Sun, Volume 2
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2009; US$ 32.95The influx of Protestant missionaries from Britain to Japan, Korea and Taiwan was an integral part of the British presence in East Asia from 1865 to 1945. Ion draws on both British and Japanese sources to examine the life, work and attitudes of the British missionaries, women and men, who ventured far from their homeland to preach the gospel. He... more...
Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 31.95Much 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... more...
Gods Gentlemen
University of Queensland Press 1978; US$ 15.00David Hilliards Gods Gentlemen, originally published in 1978, remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission. Starting with its New Zealand beginnings and its Norfolk Island years (18671920), the work follows the Missions shift of headquarters to the Solomon Islands and on until... more...
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 27.99Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion describes two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region?s political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interact with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifts from Christianity to Islam and back,... more...
Nail, The
SPCK 2011; US$ 10.19This Lent book offers imaginative reflections on Christ?s crucifixion. Each of the seven chapters is focused on a different key character, who describes his or her experience of the Passion. The nails used to crucify Christ are used as a jumping off point for their reflections. Each character considers the questions, ?who killed Christ? and ?who was... more...
Sharing Your Faith With a Hindu
Baker Publishing Group 2002; US$ 15.00This book explores the many types of Hinduism and offers answers to many common Hindu concerns about Christianity. more...
Christians and Missionaries in India
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 74.95The assumption that Christianity in India is nothing more than a European, western, or colonial imposition is open to challenge. Those who now think and write about India are often not aware that Christianity is a non-western religion, that in India this has always been so, and that there are now more Christians in Africa and Asia than in the West.... more...









