{"id":1378,"date":"2019-09-12T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?post_type=profile&p=1378"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:09:25","slug":"dana-l-robert","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/dana-l-robert\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana L. Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Robert is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission<\/a>. Her research and teaching interests span mission history, World Christianity, and mission theology. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Missiology. An Editor of the journal Church History<\/em>, she has been a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology, and Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. Her books include Faithful Friendships: Embracing Diversity in Christian Community<\/em>(2019); African Christian Biography: Stories, Lives, and Challenges<\/em> (2018); Joy to the World!: Mission in the Age of Global Christianity<\/em> (2010); Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion<\/em> (2009); Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914<\/em>(2008); Christianity: A Social and Cultural History<\/em> (co-author, 1997), and the now classic American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice<\/em> (1997). She is on the Editorial Committee for the award-winning digital humanities project Dictionary of African Christian Biography<\/a> and the Journal of African Christian Biograph<\/em>y. Under her leadership, the Center for Global Christianity and Mission led the North American regional mission study for the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches, which resulted in a 2022 report and the 2023 co-edited volume Creative Collaborations: Case Studies of North American Missional Practices<\/em>.\u00a0 In addition to STH, she is a faculty member in African Studies. Robert received her BA from Louisiana State University and her MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.<\/p>\n

Courses<\/h2>\n

African Christianity<\/p>\n

Christian Mission: Foundations, Issues and Practices<\/p>\n

World Christianity<\/p>\n

History of Christian Mission<\/p>\n

History of Missiology<\/p>\n

Women in World Christianity and Mission<\/p>\n

Readings in Contemporary Missiology<\/p>\n

Web Resources<\/h2>\n

Center for Global Christianity and Mission<\/a><\/p>\n

Interviews and Videos<\/h2>\n

Sprunt Lecture Series, Union Presbyterian Theological Seminary 2017, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_53E4F5Y788<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

University of Chicago Global Christianties: Perspectives, Methods & Challenges Conference Keynote Address Dr. Dana Robert, <\/b>June 2019:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=offYJwd_c-I<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.flumc.org\/ac18-videodetail\/friday-morning-special-speaker-dr-dana-robert-12834729<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Friday morning plenary, Florida Annual Conference United Methodist Church, June 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Publications<\/h2>\n

Books and Edited Volumes<\/h3>\n

Faithful Friendships: Embracing Diversity in Christian Community. <\/em>Foreword by Christine Pohl. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2019).<\/p>\n

African Christian Biography: Stories, Lives, and Challenges <\/em>(Editor) (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster Publications, 2018).<\/p>\n

Engaging Mission: Hospitality, Humility, Hope. Essays in Honor of Jonathan J. Bonk<\/em>. International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em> 39:4 (October 2015). Editor with Dwight P. Baker and Wilbert R. Shenk. [dedicated journal issue]<\/p>\n

Joy to the World!: Mission in the Age of Global Christianity<\/em> (Women\u2019s Division, GBGM: The United Methodist Church, 2010).<\/p>\n

Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion<\/em> (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). [Selected as one of the fifteen outstanding books in mission studies for 2009 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/span><\/em>]<\/p>\n

Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914<\/em> (Editor)(Curzon-Eerdmans, 2008). [Selected as one of the fifteen outstanding books in mission studies for 2008 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/span><\/em>]<\/p>\n

\u201cOccupy Until I Come\u201d: A.T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World<\/em>. Library of Religious Biography. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003). [Selected as one of the fifteen outstanding books in mission studies for 2003 by theInternational Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/span><\/em>] Korean translation 2004 (Seoul: B & A Publishing).<\/p>\n

African Christian Outreach: Vol. 2 Mission Churches<\/em>. (Editor) (Pretoria: South African Missiological Society, 2003). [Also published as April 2003 issue of Missionalia<\/span><\/em>]<\/p>\n

Frontiers of African Christianity: Essays in Honour of Inus Daneel<\/em>. Edited with G. Cuthbertson and H. Pretorius (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2003).<\/p>\n

Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women in the Twentieth Century<\/em>(Editor) (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2002). [Selected as one of the fifteen outstanding books in mission studies for 2002 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/span><\/em>, and selected as \u201cEssential Reading\u201d by journal Missiology<\/span><\/em>]<\/p>\n

\u201cEvangelism as the Heart of Mission.\u201d Mission Evangelism Series # 1. (NY: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 1998).<\/p>\n

Christianity: A Social and Cultural History<\/em>, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1997). Joint author with Howard Kee, Emily Albu, Carter Lindberg, and Jerry Frost. Author of \u201cChristianity in the Wider World,\u201d on Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, from the 15th through the 20th centuries.<\/p>\n

American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice<\/em>.(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997). [Selected as one of the fifteen outstanding books in mission studies for 1997 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/span><\/em>; selected as \u201cEssential Reading\u201d by the journal Missiology;<\/span><\/em> Fourth printing]<\/p>\n

Arthur Tappan Pierson and Evangelical Movements<\/em>. (Seoul, Korea: Yangsuh Publishing Company, 1988). [in Korean]<\/p>\n

Major Collaborative Works<\/h3>\n

Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions<\/em>. Gerald H. Anderson, ed. (Macmillan Library Reference, 1997). International Advisory Board; wrote entries on: Eliza Agnew, Belle Harris Bennett, William Eugene Blackstone, Eliza Bridgman, William and Clementina Butler, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Grace Dodge, Sarah Doremus, Mary Edwards, Hettie Fernbaugh, Welthy Honsinger Fisher, Fidelia Fiske, Alice Browne Frame, Asahel Grant, Judith Campbell Grant, Ann Hasseltine Judson, Walter Russell Lambuth, Sarah Farquhar Loveless, Arthur Tappan Pierson, Mary Reed, Phoebe Rowe, Albert Benjamin Simpson, Helen Rasmussen Springer, John McKendree Springer, John Stewart, Justus and Calista Vinton, Jonathan and Deborah Wade, Beulah and Sarah Woolston.<\/p>\n

International Mission Bibliography<\/em>. Norman Thomas, gen ed. ATLA Series. (Greenwood: Scarecrow Press, 2003). Sub-editor for \u201cMission History.\u201d Annotated bibliography of mission studies, from 1960 to the present.<\/p>\n

Articles and Book Chapters<\/h3>\n

IV.22 \u201cMission Studies and World Christianity,\u201d in Kirsteen Kim, Knud J\u00f8rgensen and Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga, eds., The<\/em> Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies<\/em> (Oxford, 2022): 383-402.<\/p>\n

With Kara Jackman and Patricia Thompson, \u201cMethodist Woman\u2019s Foreign Missionary Society Windows,\u201d (Boston: n.p., 2022).<\/p>\n

\u201cArthur Tappan Pierson,\u201d Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church<\/em> (4th<\/sup> ed), edited by Andrew Louth, (Oxford University Press, 2022).<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld Christianity as a Revitalization Movement,\u201d World Christianity: History, Methodologies, Horizons<\/em>, edited by Jehu Hanciles (Orbis Books, 2021): 3-22.<\/p>\n

\u201cForeword,\u201d <\/span>Sixteenth\u2013Century Mission: Explorations in Protestant and Roman Catholic Theology and Practice, <\/em>edited by Robert L. Gallagher and Edward L. Smither (Lexham Press, 2021).<\/p>\n

\u201cForeword,\u201d The Practice of Mission in Global Methodism: Emerging Trends from Everywhere to Everywhere,<\/em> edited by David W. Scott and Darryl W. Stephens (Routledge, 2021).<\/p>\n

\u201cScottish Fulfilment Theory and Friendship: Lived Religion at Edinburgh 1910,\u201d Scottish Church History <\/em><\/span>49.2 (2020): 63\u201382.<\/p>\n

\u201cSacred Music and Christian Transnationalism in 1920s-1930s China and Japan,\u201d in Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood, eds. Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity: Historical Studies in Honor of Brian Stanley <\/em>(Brill, 2020): 221-239.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Founding of the Woman\u2019s Foreign Missionary Society and the Beginnings of Boston University,\u201d Methodist History <\/em>LVIII: 1&2 (October 2019 & January 2020): 40-54.<\/p>\n

\u201cNaming \u201cWorld Christianity\u201d: Historical and Personal Perspectives on the Yale-Edinburgh Conference in World Christianity and Mission History,\u201d International Bulletin of Mission Research<\/em>, 44:2 (2020): 111-128.<\/p>\n

With Aaron Hollander. \u201cBeyond Unity and Diversity: A Conversation with Dana Robert on Mission, Ecumenism, and Global Christianities,\u201d Ecumenical Trends<\/em> 48:6 (June 2019):2-9,15.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocating Relocating World Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian Faith<\/em>,\u201d International Bulletin of Mission Research<\/em>, April 2019. http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/2396939318805397<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCalled and Sent: United Methodists as Missionaries,\u201d New World Outlook<\/em> (October 2018):10-13. \u00a0https:\/\/www.umcmission.org\/find-resources\/new-world-outlook-magazine\/2018\/october\/called-and-sent-united-methodists-as-missionaries<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom \u2018Give Us Friends\u2019 to \u2018Other Sheep I Have\u2019: Transnational Friendship and Edinburgh 1910,\u201d Interkulturelle Theologie: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Missionswissenschaft <\/em>2-3\/2018: 196-216; Version including multilingual abstracts, Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft<\/em> 102. Jahrgang | 2018 | 200-214.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfterword,\u201d in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South, <\/em>Mark A. Lamport, ed., (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).<\/p>\n

\u201cSamuel Mutendi of the Zion Christian Church: Interpretations of a Prophet,\u201d Journal of African Christian Biography <\/em>3:2 (April 2018): 5-11.<\/p>\n

\u201cO Cristianismo mundial como um movimento feminine,\u201d pp. 27-50 in Miss<\/em>\u00f5<\/em>es, Religi<\/em>\u00e3o e Cultura: estudos de hist<\/em>\u00f3<\/em>ria entre os s<\/em>\u00e9<\/em>culos XVIII e XX<\/em>, eds. Carlos Andr\u00e9 Silva de Moura, Eliane Moura da Silva, Harley Abrantes Moreira (Brazil: Universidade de Pernambuco, and Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, 2017).<\/p>\n

\u201cTestimony: The Task of United Methodist Women\u2019s History,\u201d Methodist History<\/em> 55:1&2 (October 2016 and January 2017): 7-18.<\/p>\n

\u201cJosiah Kibira: Ecumenical Statesman,\u201d Journal of African Christian Biography<\/em> 1:2 (July 2016): 5-7.<\/p>\n

With Cisca Verwoerd-Ireland, \u201cA. J. Gordon: A Major Figure in the Foreign Missionary Movement,\u201d American Baptist Quarterly<\/em> XXXIV:2 (Summer 2016): 210-222.\u00a0 Special issue on A.J. Gordon, edited by Richard Pierard.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne Christ\u2014Many Witnesses: Visions of Mission and Unity, Edinburgh and Beyond,\u201d Transformation:\u00a0 International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies<\/em> 33:4 (2016): 270-281. Published with responses by Prof. Petros Vassiliadis, Bishop Hwa Yung, Prof. Mireya Alvarez, and Dr. Hielke Wolters. (Keynote address for One Christ\u2014Many Witnesses Celebration Symposium,<\/em> Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, England, September 4, 2015.) Additional response by Wonsuk Ma, \u201cPentecostal Gift to Christian Unity: Its Possibility in the New Global Context,\u201d International Review of Mission<\/em> 107:1 (June 2018):33-48.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrthodoxy and Humanitarianism: Realities, Resources and Research Agendas,\u201d The Review of Faith & International Affairs <\/em>14:1 (2016): 58-65.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorical Trends in Missions and Earth Care,\u201d in Kapya J. Kaoma, ed., Creation Care in Christian Mission<\/em>. Oxford: Regnum Press, 2016:71-84. Reprinted from International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em> 35:3 (2011): 123-129.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristian Transnationalists, Nationhood, and the Construction of Civil Society,\u201d in Donald Yerxa, ed., Religion and Innovation: Antagonists or Partners? <\/em>London: Bloomsbury, 2016: 141-156.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobal Friendship as Incarnational Missional Practice,\u201d International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em> 39:4 (October 2015): 180-184.<\/p>\n

“Performing World Missions in 1911,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin<\/em> (Winter\/Spring 2015): 84-87.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Cooperation to Common Witness:\u00a0 Mission and Unity, 1910-2010,\u201d in Called to Unity\u2014For the Sake of Mission, <\/em>eds. Knud J\u00f8rgensen and John Gibaut (Oxford: Regnum Press, 2014): 46-58.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterfaith Earth Care and Dialogue in Zimbabwe,\u201d Evangelical Interfaith Dialogue<\/em>, (Fall 2014):31-33, 47.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen in Mission: A Protestant Tradition,\u201d New World Outlook, March 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cForty Years of the American Society of Missiology: Retrospect and Prospect,\u201d Missiology<\/em> 42:1 (January 2014): 6-25. Published online Oct 1, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cForty Years of North American Missiology: A Brief Review,\u201d International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em> 38:1 (January 2014): 3-8. <\/span>Published in Korean in Current Mission Trends<\/em><\/span> 18 (June 2015): 185-205.<\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cGender Roles and Recruitment in Southern African Churches, 1996-2001\u201d in Communities of Faith in Africa and the African Diaspora<\/em><\/span>, eds. Casely B. Essamuah and David K Ngaruiya. (Pickwick Publications, 2013): 116-134.<\/p>\n

Foreword, Bible in Mission<\/em><\/span>, eds. Pauline Hoggarth, Fergus MacDonald, Bill Mitchell, Knud J\u00f8rgensen\u00a0 (Oxford: Regnum Press, 2013).<\/p>\n

\u201cWitness and Unity in 21st Century World Christianity,\u201d <\/span>Transformation:\u00a0 International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies <\/em>30:4 (October 2013): 243-256.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMission in the Global Context: Challenges and Opportunities,\u201d in <\/span>The Gift of Mission Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Maryknoll Centennial Symposium<\/em>, ed. James H. Kroeger (Orbis, 2013): 98-105. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReflections on Historians, Historiography, and the Confessional Divide,\u201d Fides et Historia<\/em><\/span> 44:2 (Summer\/Fall 2012): 87-91.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Rethinking Missionaries\u2019 from 1910 to Today,\u201d Methodist Review <\/em><\/span>4 (2012):57-75.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoston, Students, and Missions from 1810 to 2010,\u201d in 2010Boston:<\/em><\/span> The Changing Contours of World Mission and Christianity, <\/em><\/span>eds. T Johnson, R Petersen, G Bellofatto, and T Myers (Wipf and Stock, 2012): 13-27.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Giants of \u2018World Christianity\u2019: Historiographic Foundations from Latourette and Van Dusen to Andrew Walls,\u201d in Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls<\/em><\/span>, eds. William Burrows, Mark Gornik, and Janice McLean (Orbis, 2011): 141-154.<\/p>\n

\u201cMission in Long Perspective,\u201d in Edinburgh 2010: Mission Today and Tomorrow,<\/em><\/span>\u201c eds. Kirsteen Kim and Andrew Anderson (Oxford: Regnum Books, 2011): 55-68.<\/p>\n

\u201cReconciliation as Mission,\u201d Focus<\/em><\/span> (Winter 2011): 32-37.<\/p>\n

\u201cMission Frontiers from 1910 to 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part I: \u201cFrom Geography to Justice.\u201d Missiology, <\/em><\/span>Vol. XXXIX, no. 2 (April 2011):5e-16e.<\/p>\n

Part II: \u201cUnbelief, Unreached, and Unknown.\u201d Missiology, <\/em><\/span>Vol XXXIX, no. 3 (July 2011):1e-12e.<\/p>\n

With David W. Scott, \u201cWorld Growth of the United Methodist Church in Comparative Perspective: A Brief Statistical Analysis.\u201d Methodist Review <\/em><\/span>Vol. 3 (2011): 37-54.<\/p>\n

\u201cCross-Cultural Friendship in the Creation of Twentieth-Century World Christianity,\u201d International Bulletin of Missionary Research <\/em><\/span>35:2 (2011): 100-107.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBernard Mizeki: Missionary Saints and the Creation of Christian Communities,\u201d Yale Divinity School Library Occasional Publication, No. 19 (Yale Divinity School Library, 2005) (revised), in World Christianity<\/em><\/span>, Vol. IV, Part 22: Church Beyond Walls: The Performance of Pilgrimage, ed. Elizabeth Koepping (Routledge, 2010).<\/p>\n

\u201cMissionaries Worldwide, 1910-2010\u201d in Atlas of Global Christianity<\/em><\/span>, eds. Todd Johnson & Kenneth Ross (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld Christianity as a Women\u2019s Movement,\u201d Chapter 50 in Pui-lan Kwok, ed. Women and Christianity: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, <\/em><\/span>Vol. III Religious Leadership, Mission, Dialogue, and Movements<\/em><\/span> (Routledge, 2009).\u00a0 Reprinted from International Bulletin of Missionary Research <\/em><\/span>30:4 (2006): 180-188.<\/p>\n

With Douglas D. Tzan, \u201cTraditions and Transitions in Methodist Mission Thought,\u201d Chapter 25 in Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies, <\/em><\/span>eds. William J. Abraham and James E. Kirby (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 431-448.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong><\/span>Innovation and Consolidation in American Methodist Mission History,\u201d in World Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit<\/em><\/span>, eds. Darrell L. Whiteman and Gerald H. Anderson (Nashville: Providence House, 2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cShifting Southward: Global Christianity since 1945,\u201d reprint, in Robert L. Gallagher and Paul Hertig, eds., Landmark Essays in Mission and World Christianity <\/em><\/span>(Maryknoll: Orbis, 2009): 46-60.\u00a0 This volume purports to collect the fifteen most important essays on the subject written in the last seventy years. Also translated into Chinese, in Xu Yihua, Zhang Yuan, Zhu Xiaoli, eds., Religion and American Society<\/em><\/span>, Vol. 6 Contemporary Mission Activity<\/em><\/span> (Beijing, Shishi Publishing, 2009): 54-76.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ministry of Ezekiel Guti,\u201d Books and Culture <\/em><\/span>(March\/April 2009): 34-38.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cZimbabwe Testimony,\u201d Focus <\/em><\/span>(Winter 2008-9): 49-52.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe First Globalization: The Internationalization of the Protestant Missionary Movement Between the World Wars,\u201d in Ogbu Kalu and Alaine Low, eds., Interpreting Contemporary Christianity: Global Processes and Local Identities<\/em><\/span> (Eerdmans\/Curzon, 2008):93-130. Earlier version in International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em><\/span> 26:2 (April 2002): 50-66.<\/p>\n

\u201cForeword,\u201d in Ogbu U. Kalu, Clio in a Sacred Garb: Essays on Christian Presence and African Responses, 1900-2000. <\/em><\/span>Trenton: Africa World Press, 2008. (I edited this book as Series Editor. It was selected one of the 15 Best Books in Mission Studies for 2008, by the IBMR)<\/p>\n

\u201cTestimonies and Truth-tellings: Women in the United Methodist Tradition.\u201d Keynote address at \u201cStruggle, Faith and Vision: Celebrating Women in the United Methodist Tradition, 1788 to Today,\u201d March 9, 2007, Nashville, Tennessee.\u00a0 Edited version published in Focus<\/em><\/span> (Spring 2008): 34-43.<\/p>\n

\u201cShifting Southward: Global Christianity since 1945,\u201d reprint in Paul Chilcote and Laceye Warner, eds. The Study of Evangelism: Exploring a Missional Practice of the Church <\/em><\/span>(Eerdmans, 2008): 117-134.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018Christian Home\u2019 as a Cornerstone of Anglo-American Missionary Thought and Practice,\u201d in Dana L. Robert, ed., Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914<\/em><\/span> (Curzon-Eerdmans, 2008): 134-165.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em><\/span>Christianity\u2019s Future Will be Shaped by Women,\u201d\u00a0 in Mike Wilson, ed., Christianity: Issues in Opposing Viewpoints <\/em><\/span>\u00a0(Greenhaven Press, 2007).<\/p>\n

\u201cGender Issues,\u201d <\/span>in John Corrie, ed., <\/span>Dictionary of Mission Theology: Evangelical Foundations <\/em>(InterVarsity Press, 2007). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMissionaries,\u201d <\/span>in David Levinson and Karen Christensen, eds<\/span>. Global Perspectives on the United States:\u00a0 Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations, <\/em>Vol 3 (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2007).<\/span><\/p>\n

With M.L. Daneel, \u201cWorship among Apostles and Zionists in Southern Africa,\u201d in Charles Farhadian, ed., Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices <\/em><\/span>(Eerdmans, 2007): 43-70.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Patrick Paradox,\u201d Books and Culture <\/em><\/span>(July-August 2007). Online at the Christian Vision Project, http:\/\/www.christianvisionproject.com\/2007\/08\/the_patrick_paradox.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Great Commission in an Age of Globalization,\u201d in D. Jeyaraj, R Pazmino, R Petersen, eds., <\/span>The Antioch Agenda: The Restorative Church at the Margins. Celebrating the Life and Work of Orlando Costas <\/em>(New Delhi, India: Indian Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 2007).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cForeign Missions and Revivals,\u201d in Michael McClymond, ed., Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America<\/em><\/span>, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2006): 174-176.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are We Going in Mission Today?\u201d\u00a0 New World Outlook <\/em><\/span>(Sept-Oct 2006).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mother of Modern Missions,\u201d Christian History and Biography <\/em><\/span>(Spring 2006): 22-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cProtestant Women Missionaries: Foreign and Home,\u201d in Rosemary S. Keller and Rosemary R. Ruether, eds., Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America<\/em><\/span> V. 2 (Indiana U. Press, 2006), 834-843. [selected by the American Historical Association as winner of the 2006 Waldo G. Leland Prize for best reference tool in the field of history]<\/p>\n

\u201cEncounter with Christ: Luke as Mission Historian for the 21st<\/sup><\/span> Century,\u201d in J Krabill, W Sawatsky, and C. Van Engen, eds., Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation <\/em><\/span>(Maryknoll: Orbis, 2006), 19-27.<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. Patrick and Bernard Mizeki: Missionary Saints and the Creation of Christian Communities,\u201d Yale Divinity School Library Occasional Publication No. 19<\/em><\/span> (New Haven: Yale Divinity School Library, 2005).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Happened to the Christian Home? The Missing Component of Mission Theory,\u201d Missiology<\/em><\/span> (July 2005).<\/p>\n

\u201cWidows and Service,\u201d in World Vision Faith in Action Study Bible <\/em><\/span>(Zondervan, 2005):1982. [Finalist 2006 Christian Book Award]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Great Commission in an Age of Globalization,\u201d in Stephen Gunter and Elaine Robinson, eds., Considering the Great Commission<\/em><\/span> (Abingdon, 2005); also printed in Focus<\/em><\/span> (Fall 2004).<\/p>\n

\u201cEvangelist or Homemaker? The Mission Strategies of Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Wives in Burma and Hawaii,\u201d in Wilbert R. Shenk, ed., North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy<\/em><\/span> (Eerdmans, 2004).<\/p>\n

\u201cMissions,\u201d Encyclopedia of Protestantism<\/em><\/span> (Routledge, 2004). ed. H. Hillerbrand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen in World Mission: Controversies and Challenges from a North American Perspective,\u201d International Review of Mission <\/em><\/span>(January 2004).<\/p>\n

\u201cChanging Perceptions of Missionaries and Cultures,\u201d Journal of Presbyterian History <\/em><\/span>81:2 (Summer 2003).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mission Education Movement and the Rise of World Christianity, 1902-2002,\u201d Focus<\/em><\/span> (Spring 2003): 21-23. (Plenary speech for the 100th<\/sup><\/span> Anniversary of the Mission Education Movement, General Assembly of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA).<\/p>\n

\u201cM.L. Daneel: Missionary as Folk Theologian,\u201d in Frontiers of African Christianity: Essays in Honour of Inus Daneel<\/em><\/span>, ed. G. Cuthbertson, H. Pretorius, and D. Robert. Volume 8, African Initiatives in Christian Mission (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2003).<\/p>\n

\u201cGospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Issues for Women and Mission Today,\u201d Currents in Theology and Mission<\/em><\/span> 29:4 (August 2002).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Influence of American Missionary Women on the World Back Home,\u201d Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation<\/em><\/span> (V 12.1, Winter 2002).<\/p>\n

\u201cMissions, Foreign,\u201d Dictionary of American History<\/em><\/span>, 3rd<\/sup><\/span> edition (Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons, 2002).<\/p>\n

\u201cFrau V,\u201d in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart<\/em><\/span>, V.3, 4th ed. (Tuebingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2001).<\/p>\n

\u201cForeign Missions,\u201d in Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century<\/em><\/span> V.1 (New York: Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons, 2001).<\/p>\n

\u201cHoliness and the Missionary Vision of the Woman\u2019s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869-1894,\u201d Methodist History<\/em><\/span>, (October 2000). Korean translation in Holiness Church and Theology<\/em><\/span> 11 (Spring 2004).<\/p>\n

\u201cPremillennialism,\u201d in A. Scott Moreau, gen ed., The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions<\/em><\/span> (Baker Book House, 2000).<\/p>\n

\u201cShifting Southward: Global Christianity Since 1945,\u201d International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em><\/span> (April 2000):50-58; Reprinted in Focus (Spring 2001). Korean translation in Holiness Church and Theology<\/em><\/span> V 9 (Spring 2003): 171-192.<\/p>\n

\u201cSelected Annotated Bibliography: Missions: History,\u201d Missiology<\/em><\/span> (April 2000).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Redemption of Ham,\u201d Focus<\/em><\/span> (Fall 1999).<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018History\u2019s Lessons for Tomorrow\u2019s Mission\u2019: Reflections on American Methodism in Mission,\u201d Focus <\/em><\/span>(Winter\/Spring 1999). Edited version appeared as \u201cHistory\u2019s Lessons for Methodism in Mission,\u201d New World Outlook <\/em><\/span>(May-June 1999).<\/p>\n

Evangelism as the Heart of Mission<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Mission Evangelism Series # 1. (NY: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 1998).<\/p>\n

\u201cCheap Ecumenism or Apostolic Unity?\u201d Boston Theological Institute Newsletter<\/em><\/span>, December 2, 1998.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Mission to Missions to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Missions Since World War II.\u201d In New Directions in American Religious History<\/em><\/span>, eds. Harry Stout and Darryl Hart (Oxford University Press, 1997).\u00a0 Earlier version appeared in International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em><\/span> (October 1994).<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Women and the Dutch Reformed Missionary Movement, 1874-1904,\u201d in Willem Saayman and Klippies Kritzinger, eds., Mission in Bold Humility: David Bosch\u2019s Work Considered (Orbis, 1996).<\/p>\n

\u201cMissions,\u201d \u201cMary Gamewell,\u201d \u201cJohn and Helen Springer,\u201d \u201cIsabella Thoburn,\u201d \u201cClara Swain,\u201d in Charles Yrigoyen, Jr., and Susan E. Warrick, eds., Historical Dictionary of Methodism (<\/em><\/span>Scarecrow Press, 1996).<\/p>\n

\u201cRufus Anderson,\u201d \u201cMary Lyon,\u201d \u201cAnn Judson,\u201d in Donald Lewis, ed., A Dictionary of Evangelical Biography<\/em><\/span>, 1730-1860 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Methodist Struggle Over Higher Education in Fuzhou, China, 1877-1883,\u201d Methodist History<\/em><\/span> (April 1996).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Siberia\/Manchuria,\u201d in S.T. Kimbrough, Jr., ed., Methodism in Russia and the Baltic States: History and Renewal<\/em><\/span> (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995).\u00a0 First published as \u201cMethodist Episcopal Church, South, Missions to Russians in Manchuria, 1920-1927\u201d Methodist History<\/em><\/span> (January 1988).<\/p>\n

\u201cMission,\u201d in Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought<\/em><\/span> (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Legacy of A.J. Gordon,\u201d \u201cThe Legacy of A.T. Pierson,\u201d <\/span>in Gerald Anderson, ed<\/span>., Mission Legacies. Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Missionary Movement <\/em>(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMount Holyoke Women and the Dutch Reformed Missionary Movement, 1874-1904,\u201d\u00a0Missionalia <\/em><\/span>(August 1993).<\/p>\n

\u201cRevisioning the Women\u2019s Missionary Movement,\u201d in Charles Van Engen, Dean Gilliland, Paul Pierson, eds., The Good News of the Kingdom: Mission Theology for the Nineties<\/em><\/span> (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993).<\/p>\n

\u201cEvangelist or Homemaker?: The Mission Strategies of Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Wives in Burma and Hawaii,\u201d International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em><\/span> (January 1993).<\/p>\n

\u201cA.J. Gordon and World Evangelization: Then and Now,\u201d in Garth Rosell, ed., <\/span>The Vision Continues: Essays Marking the Centennial of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary<\/em> (South Hamilton, MA: Gordon-Conwell, 1992).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEpilogue: Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America,\u201d in Howard C. Kee, ed., Christianity: A Social and Cultural History<\/em><\/span> (New York: Macmillan, 1991).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Promotion of Missions,\u201d J.D. Douglas, ed<\/span>., 20th Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge<\/em>, 2nd Edition (Baker Book House, 1991).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Crisis of Missions\u2019: Premillennial Mission Theory and the Origins of Independent Evangelical Missions,\u201d in Joel Carpenter and Wilbert Shenk, eds., Earthen Vessels: American Evangelicals and Foreign Missions, 1880-1980 <\/em><\/span>(Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1990).<\/p>\n

\u201cA.T. Pierson,\u201d \u201cA.J. Gordon,\u201d \u201cMount Hermon One Hundred,\u201d in Daniel G. Reid, ed., Dictionary of Christianity in America (<\/em><\/span>Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1990). \u201cA.J. Gordon\u201d reprinted in Bill J. Leonard, ed., Dictionary of Baptists in America<\/em><\/span> (InterVarsity Press, 1994).<\/p>\n

\u201cMission Study at the University-related Theological Seminary: The Boston University School of Theology as a Case Study,\u201d Missiology<\/em><\/span> (April 1989).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Legacy of A.J. Gordon,\u201d <\/span>International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em> (October 1987). <\/span>Reprinted in J.I. Packer, ed., The Best of Theology, Vol. 3 (Carol Stream, Ill.: Christianity Today, 1989). Reprinted in J. Christy Wilson, ed., Bringing Christ to All the World (South Hamilton, MA: Gordon-Conwell Theological School, 1988). <\/em>Korean translation in<\/span> Ministry and Theology <\/em>(April 1991).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGrandmothers and the Millennium of Russian Christianity,\u201d The Christian Century<\/em><\/span>, Dec 24-31, 1986. Reprinted in Focus<\/em><\/span>, Winter 1988-89 (bulletin of the Boston University School of Theology)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Origin of the Student Volunteer Watchword,\u201d International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em><\/span> (October 1986). (Korean translation in the Pierson Seminary Bulletin<\/em><\/span>).<\/p>\n

\u201cAnnotated Bibliography on Mission History.\u201d Edited with Norman Thomas, Missiology<\/em><\/span> (April 1986).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: Its Importance for North America,\u201d The Judson Bulletin<\/em><\/span> (January 1986).<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrican Epiphany,\u201d <\/span>Anna Howard Shaw Newsletter<\/em> (Spring 1985).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReport on Mission and Human Rights,\u201d Written with Janice McLaughlin, Mission Studies<\/em><\/span>, V.2, no. 1, 1985.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Legacy of A.T. Pierson,\u201d <\/span>International Bulletin of Missionary Research<\/em> (July 1984).<\/span><\/p>\n

Assorted book reviews in <\/span>Religious Studies Review, Missiology, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Methodist History, Lutheran Quarterly, America, Pacific Historical Review, The Edinburgh Review of Theology and Religion, The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, International Journal of African Historical Studies, The Journal of Religion, The Christian Century, Church History, American Catholic Studies, Studies in World Christianity, Asbury Journal, Harvard Divinity Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[20,223],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58422,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1378\/revisions\/58422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}