Religious and ceremonial art

Exploring the Causes and Cures of Missionary AttritionToo Valuable to Lose is a groundbreaking global study that examines why missionaries leave the field prematurelyand what can be done about it.

Asians make up the largest and most dispersed peoples of the world, and Christians constitute a sizable proportion of this population.

This qualitative study explores intercultural social dynamics among international Christian workers who are part of multicultural teams engaged in Christian ministries in a North African country.

Vincent Donovan is best known as the author of the influential bestseller, Christianity Rediscovered (1978).

As the first Bengalee Archbishop of South Asia, Theotonius Amal Ganguly, CSC, made a remarkable contribution in the expansion of Christian missionary activity in Bengal through all the three political regimes that Bangladesh went through.

Icon painting has reached its zenith in Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries.

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps.

Awakening the Hermit Kingdom: Pioneer American Women Missionaries in Korea gives a focused look at the long-ignored subject, the pioneer women missionaries to the Hermit Kingdom, as the early missionaries often called Korea.

Missionaries, while being prepared in the Bible, often receive little training in understanding the world in which we live and some experience great hardship out in the field as a result.

This updated version of Tippett's 1977, The Deep Sea Canoe, describes a significant but often overlooked aspect of the expansion of Christianity in the South Pacific, that of South Sea Island believers who carried the gospel from one island to another in their deep sea canoes.

Systematically explores the affinity and the rivalry between art and religion, focusing at length on music, visual art, literature, and architecture in turn.

Although a large majority of believers agree that they should share their faith, most report that they, in fact, do not.

A major church shift is happening all around the world.

An essay on the religious significance of the person in philosophy of beauty, aesthetic experience, and the philosophy of art.

Vincent Donovan is best known as the author of the influential bestseller, Christianity Rediscovered (1978).

The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it.

Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of the spiritual in healing, Spirituality and Art Therapy is an exciting exploration of the different ways in which the spiritual forms an essential, life-enhancing component of a well-rounded therapeutic approach.

This uniquely Canadian volume tells stories of Ellie Johnson, missiologist and director of Partnerships at the Anglican Church of Canada from 1994 to 2008.

Can we afford to chase beauty in a world that emphasizes distraction and naked ambition over a lifestyle of wonder and spiritual restfulness?

Saints and Spectacle examines the origins and reception of the Middle Byzantine program of mosaic decoration.

For centuries, access to Tibet was difficult for geographical and political reasons until missionaries pried it open in the nineteenth century.

Is the Christian concept of grace anathema to the social structure of merit-making found in Buddhist karmic communities?

Because the World Matters.

Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society offers a broad - historical, theological, and philosophical - reflection on the phenomenon of moral conversion.

The true story of mission has been deeper, wider, and far more diverse than many Christians in countries with long histories of church presence have realized.

All ministry leaders concern themselves with the intersection of Jesus-centered ministry and contemporary culture.

Do you need a little adventure in your life?

Developing a Practical Theology of Risk In a world where danger and uncertainty loom large, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure about how to tread wisely in ministry.

The Pilgrim’s Progress has inspired readers across the centuries to persevere in their faith.

Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.

Lesslie Newbigin's concept of the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel has been used for over thirty years to discuss the overlap of mission and ecclesiology.

While we look forward in mission and strive to develop strategies for reaching a rapidly changing world with the gospel, we must also look back.

Este libro analiza la evolución del arte icónico desde sus inicios en Bizancio hasta la época del Imperio ruso.

Discover Your Place in the Movement of God An incredible breakthrough in missions history is taking place as disciples of Jesus make more disciples of Jesus around the globe, particularly among the least-reached.

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How to Flourish Spiritually and Economically in Tough PlacesThe Arabian Gulfthe wealthiest country in the world is located here, as is the worlds busiest airport.

Searching Questions about the Hadith from a Christian PerspectiveThe Hadith are Islams most influential texts after the Quran.

A major aspect of the history of Christian missions is the way groups who have jumped the ecclesiastical ship have renewed and recalled their parent bodies back to biblical roots and a biblical vision.

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Amy Oxley Wilkinson was a well-known missionary in both China and the West in the early twentieth century.

This is a book about Christianity in one particular region in Kenya.