2013
DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2012.758160
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New mission paradigms and the encounter with Islam: Fusing voluntarism, tourism and evangelism in short-term missions in the USA

Abstract: This paper concerns U.S. evangelical Christian mission practice in the Muslim world. Interests in and support for mission work among Muslims have increased -shifts that evangelical church leaders and missiologists attribute to the impacts of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that followed -and the short-term segment, which fuses voluntarism, tourism and evangelism, represents the newest paradigm in these undertakings. While the overall popularity of short-term mission is recognised by scholars and chur… Show more

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“…This growth has been further fueled with the incorporation of STM projects within the US government-sponsored development projects that Christian faith based organizations (FBOs) have pursued since the early 2000s (Bornstein 2003;Clarke 2006Clarke , 2007Hancock 2013;Hearn 2002;Thomas 2005). These shifts in development and foreign policy frameworks began with the private sector ventures that burgeoned in the 1980s and grew following the 2002 adoption of policies supporting faith-based initiatives in domestic social services and international development.…”
Section: The Operations Of Stm Exemplify What Robert Wuthnowmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This growth has been further fueled with the incorporation of STM projects within the US government-sponsored development projects that Christian faith based organizations (FBOs) have pursued since the early 2000s (Bornstein 2003;Clarke 2006Clarke , 2007Hancock 2013;Hearn 2002;Thomas 2005). These shifts in development and foreign policy frameworks began with the private sector ventures that burgeoned in the 1980s and grew following the 2002 adoption of policies supporting faith-based initiatives in domestic social services and international development.…”
Section: The Operations Of Stm Exemplify What Robert Wuthnowmentioning
confidence: 99%