Mission is contrived from and performed over lived contexts, but the visions that guide and drive mission are oftentimes blinded by power, position, protection, and plenitude. This collection visits those matters with queering attention to the shadows empires cast over the contexts of mission, and to the collusion and complicity of Christians and churches with empires past (as in the case of Rome) and present (as in the case of the United States of America). In the interests of those in mission fields who survived, but continue to agonize under the burdens of empires, the contributors to this work dare to re-vision the course and cause of mission. Writing from minoritized settings in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, the authors interweave the principles and practices of mission with the opportunities in decolonial theology and hermeneutics, minoritized and migrant Christologies, repatriation and the courage to get up and get out, indigenous insights and wisdom, mission archives, stories of resistance and endurance in zones of contact and violence, restless souls and returning spirits, and life-centered spiritual (en)countering. In Mission and Context as with previous volumes in this series-empires do not have the final word, nor the final world.
1.repatriation of native minds Jione Havea CONTEXT MATTERS 2.Turn to Decolonial Theology: A Southern African Invitation Teddy Chalwe Sakupapa 3.Hermeneutical Embers from the "Zone of Non-being" Vuyani S. Vellem 4.Reading Christ in the Neighbor's Eyes: An Asian Invitation Samuel Ngun Ling 5.Who is Christ for Ali? Refugees in a Post-Truth Age Eunice Karanja Kamaara 6.Get Out: Soul Trans-Formations in Trumpire Jennifer Leath 7.The Philippine Nation-State and the Killing of Indigenous Peoples: Christianity and Modernity as Walls of Legitimation and Conquest S. Lily Mendoza 8.Dare Not! Or Fear Not! Reimagining the Story of the Canaanite-Noisy Woman (Matthew 15) Surekha Nelavala MISSION MATTERS 9.Counter-creating Mission in but not of Empire Peter Cruchley 10.Conservative Evangelicalism, Prosperity Gospel, and the Pornification of Western Christianity Roderick R Hewitt 11.Calling for Communities of Resistance in the Context of Empire Sindiso Jele 12.Mission and Violent Conflict: Seeking Shalom Deborah Storie 13.Reassembling the Oikoumene Kathryn Poethig 14.Theology at the Nexus of Spirit and Life Kim Yong-Bock
