International Bulletin of Mission Research Vol. 46 No. 1 January 2022 IBMR - 46,H.1

Editorial What Difference Does Twenty Years Make? Imagining the Future 7 in Humble Hindsight Easten Law Articles Introduction to the Special IBMR Issue on the World Christian 11 Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson Christians in and from the Middle East: Lessons from the World 15 Christian Encyclopedia Deanna Ferree Womack Global Catholicism: Diverse, Troubled, Holding Steady 25 J. J. Carney Women Worldwide: Interplay between Church and Society and 35 the Gender Paradox Wai-Yin Christina Wong What the World Christian Encyclopedia Tells Us about Freedom 44 of Religion or Belief Ewelina U. Ochab Refugees and the Mission of the Church 52 Cindy M. Wu The Uniqueness of the Chinese Mission Movement—Past, 60 Present, and Future Mary Ho and Rudolf Mak World Christianity and Religions 2022: A Complicated Relationship 71 Gina A. Zurlo, Todd M. Johnson, and Peter F. Crossing The Poverty Captivity of Mission in the Churches—and Strategies 81 for Its Liberation Titus Presler The Legacy of Anna E. Hall, African American Missionary to Liberia 92 Jenny McGill Missionaries and the Construction of Christian Homes: Examining 105 the Formation of African Social Identities in Colonial Malawi Dorothy Tembo Social Capital and the Church: Engaging Virtually for the Sake 115 of the World Simone Mulieri Twibell Book reviews The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East 123 Reviewed by Lucy Schouten What Does the Bible Say about Strangers, Migrants, and Refugees? 124 Reviewed by Stephen Bevans Missional Theology: An Introduction 125 Reviewed by Blair Bertrand Christian Theology in the Age of Migration: Implications for World Christianity 126 Reviewed by Samuel Lee Chinese Theology and Translation: The Christianity of the Jesuit Figurists 127 and Their Christianized Yijing Reviewed by Sheng Ping Guo Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China 128 Reviewed by K. Thonbamliu Honor, Shame, and the Gospel: Reframing Our Message and Ministry 129 Reviewed by R. Daniel Shaw Strangers in a Familiar Land: A Phenomenological Study on Marginal 130 Christian Identity Reviewed by R. Pam Barger Global Arts and Christian Witness: Exegeting Culture, Translating the 131 Message, and Communicating Christ Reviewed by Beth Argot Remembering Those Who Advanced World Christianity 133 Noteworthy 139

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