List of Contributors

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu (PhD, University of Birmingham) is Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal Theology at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana. His research areas include Christianity in Africa and Pentecostal/charismatic spirituality.

John Azumah (PhD, University of Birmingham) is the Founding Executive Director of the Sanneh Institute at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. His research focuses on world Christianity as well as Islam and Christian–Muslim relations in the Global South.

Pavol Bargár (PhD, Charles University) is an Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His research focuses on theology and culture and theological anthropology.

Eugene Baron (PhD, University of the Western Cape) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Practical and Missional Theology at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. His research focuses on South African Mission History, Critical Race Theory, Reconciliation, and Post-colonial Mission.

Stephen Bevans (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is a priest in the Roman Catholic missionary congregation of the Society of the Divine Word and Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus, at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, USA. He is a member of the WCC’s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism and writes on mission theology and ecclesiology.

Nico A. Botha (DTh, Missiology, University of South Africa [Unisa]) is a retired Professor in Missiology at Unisa in Pretoria, South Africa, and Emeritus minister of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa. He is currently Postgraduate Supervisor and Research Fellow at Unisa, and Director of the Institute for Urban Ministry.

Joanildo Burity (PhD, Essex University) is a Lead Researcher and Professor of the Professional Masters in Sociology at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, and Professor of Postgraduate Programs in Sociology and Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco, in Recife, Brazil. His main research interests are religion and politics, religion and collective action at national and transnational levels, and identity and culture.

Chen Yongtao/ 陈永涛 (PhD, University of Helsinki) is Professor of Christian Theology and Chinese Christianity at Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, China. His research focuses on Gospel and culture, contextual theology, and Chinese Protestant Christianity.

Edmund Kee-Fook Chia (PhD, University of Nijmegen) is on the Faculty of Theology of Australian Catholic University (Melbourne), while serving as Honorary Fellow of University of Divinity (Australia) and Visiting Researcher of Radboud University (Netherlands). His publications include Asian Christianity and Theology (Routledge) and World Christianity Encounters World Religions (Liturgical Press).

Gina Colvin Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Porou (PhD, University of Canterbury) is an educator for Praxis New Zealand and maintains her research interest in Indigenous eco-spirituality.

Gemma Tulud Cruz (PhD, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) is Senior Lecturer in Theology at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research expertise is on migration theologies.

Rosemary Dewerse (PhD, Auckland University) is Tumuaki (General Manager), Education and Training Centre, Waka Whakakitenga, Aotearoa New Zealand. A missiologist and educator, she is committed to learning from indigenous peoples and to humble and courageous intercultural engagement.

Tomas Sundnes Drønen (PhD, School of Mission and Theology) is Professor of Global Studies and Religion at VID Specialized University, Norway. He currently holds the position as Dean of Faculty of Theology, Diaconia, and Leadership Studies, and his research focuses on religious change in central Africa.

Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on Catholic communities in eastern Africa.

Martha Th. Frederiks (PhD, Utrecht University) is Professor of World Christianity at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research interests include African Christianity, religion and migration, and Christian–Muslim relations. With Dorottya Nagy, she recently published World Christianity. Methodological Considerations (2020), and Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission (2021).

Michael W. Goheen (PhD, Utrecht University) is Professor of Missional Theology at Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, USA, and Director of Theological Education at Missional Training Center, Phoenix, USA.

Seija Jalagin (PhD, University of Oulu) is a Lecturer in the Department of History, Culture, and Communication Studies at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her research focuses on Protestant missions and, more recently, on forced migrations.

Mechteld Jansen (PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is Full Professor of Missiology and Rector of the Protestant Theological University Amsterdam-Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on migration and mission, secularism, and Godtalk.

Todd M. Johnson (PhD, William Carey International University) is the Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of Mission and Global Christianity and co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA. His research focuses on global Christianity and international religious demography.

Kapya J. Kaoma (ThD, Boston University) is a Zambian Anglican priest, interdisciplinary scholar, and Visiting Researcher at Boston University Center for Global Christianity and Mission in Boston, USA. He has authored and edited books including Creation Care in Christian Mission, The Creator’s Symphony, and God’s Family, God’s Earth.

Edward Kessler (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Founder President of the Woolf Institute and Fellow of St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Kirsteen Kim (PhD, University of Birmingham) holds the Paul E. Pierson Chair in World Christianity at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA, and serves as Associate Dean for the Center for Missiological Research. Her research interests also include intercultural theology (especially Korea and India), religions and development, and pneumatology.

Paul Kollman, CSC (PhD, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA. Past President of the American Society of Missiology and current President of the International Association for Mission Studies (to 2022), he studies African Christianity, missiology, and world Christianity.

Lap Yan Kung (PhD, University of Glasgow) is an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research focuses on public theology and the yoga movement in China.

Pan-chiu Lai (PhD, King’s College London) is a Professor of Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Septemmy Eucharistia Lakawa (ThD, Boston University) is the President of Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Theologi Jakarta (Jakarta Theological Seminary) in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is Associate Professor of Mission Studies, Feminist Theology, and Trauma Theology.

Karen Lauterbach (PhD, Roskilde University) is Associate Professor at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on Christianity and social change in Africa, with a particular focus on Ghana and Uganda.

Atola Longkumer (DTh, Senate of Serampore University) is a visiting faculty member at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS), Bangalore, India. Her research interests include Christian mission and religions, Indigenous cultures, and women and mission.

Annemarie C. Mayer (STD, Dr. habil., Tübingen University) is Professor of Dogmatic Theology and History of Dogma at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Trier, Germany. Her research focusses on ecclesiology, ecumenism, interreligious dialogue (in the Middle Ages), and missiology.

Sandra Mazzolini (PhD, Gregorian University) is an Italian ecclesiologist and Dean of the Faculty of Missiology at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, Italy. She has collaborated with other academic institutions and published various contributions to specialist journals, reviews, and collected works.

Dorottya Nagy (PhD, Utrecht University) is Professor of Theology and Migration at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and President of the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies (CEEAMS). Her research projects are key-worded by missiology, methodology, migration, contextualization, world Christianity, and Europe at large.

vănThanh Nguyễn (STD, Pontifical Gregorian University) is Professor of New Testament Studies and the holder of the Francis X. Ford, M.M., Chair of Catholic Missiology at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, USA. He has authored several books and numerous articles, including “Acts” in The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century.

Samuel Nwokoro is a PhD candidate in Islamic and Christian-Muslim Studies at the School of Divinity, Edinburgh University. His research focus is on Melkite Christianity in Umayyad Syria.

Val Ogden (PhD, University of Wales) is an ordained minister serving Methodist, ecumenical, and community contexts in the UK, and Associate Tutor with the Lincoln School of Theology, University of Durham. She is inspired and shaped by service in the United Church of Zambia, Pacific Theological College, Fiji, and multicultural Britain.

Gheorghe Petraru (PhD, University of Bucharest) is reverend, full-time Professor, PhD Coordinator in Systematic Theology, and former Vice Dean of Dumitru Stăniloae Faculty of Orthodox Theology at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania. He has taught mission studies and ecumenism since the early 1990s and fundamental theology since 2003.

Peter C. Phan (ThD, Pontificia Universitas Salesian; PhD, DD, University of London) is the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. He has authored and edited thirty books on systematic theology.

John Mansford Prior (PhD, University of Birmingham) is a post-graduate Lecturer in Inter-Contextual Theologies at Ledalero Institute in Maumere, Indonesia. His research centers on theological thinking within and beyond local, regional, and global cultures.

Dana L. Robert (PhD, Yale University) is the Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission, and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at the Boston University School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Marie-Hélène Robert (PhD, Lyon Catholic University) is a Professor of Missiology and a Research Fellow in the Sciences and Humanities Confluence Research Centre (UCLy), Lyon, France. Her research focuses on ecumenical mission in Europe. She is a Sister of the missionary congregation Our Lady of the Apostles.

Miikka Ruokanen/罗明嘉 (PhD, University of Cambridge; PhD, University of Helsinki) is Professor Emeritus of Dogmatics, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Professor of Systematic Theology, Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, China. He is also Guest Professor, Renmin University of China, and Advisory Professor, Fudan University. He has authored twenty books on systematic theology.

J. Jayakiran Sebastian (Dr. theol., Hamburg University) is Dean and H. George Anderson Professor of Mission and Cultures at United Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg and Philadelphia, USA. He writes on the ongoing relevance of the early teachers of faith, baptism, unity, and conversion, Dalit theology and praxis, and contemporary missiological thinking.

Brian Stanley (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Professor of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a historian of modern Christian missions and the growth of Christianity as a world religion.

Muthuraj Swamy (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, and Project Manager for Theological Education for Mission in the Anglican Communion, London, UK. His research focuses on World Christianities, interreligious relations, and peace and reconciliation.

Mika Vähäkangas (ThD, Helsinki University) is director of Polin-institute of Åbo Akademi University and Professor in Mission Studies and Ecumenics at Lund University, Sweden. He focuses on African Christianity and encounters between Christian faith and power structures. He is Extraordinary Professor of University of the Western Cape and Research Fellow of Stellenbosch University.

Henning Wrogemann (Dr. theol., Dr. habil., University of Heidelberg) holds the Chair for Science of Religion and Intercultural Theology at Protestant University Wuppertal, Germany. His research focuses on intercultural and interreligious hermeneutics, theology of mission and dialogue, Islamic mission (da^cwa), and Christian–Muslim relations. He is author of the trilogy Intercultural Theology (IVP 2016–2019).

Gina A. Zurlo (PhD, Boston University) is Co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA. She is the co-editor of the World Christian Database (Brill) and co-author of the World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition (Edinburgh University Press).