Contemporary discussions about globalisation tend to emphasise its political and economic aspects. But the social and cultural changes globalisation is causing are pervasive, often unexamined, and, for that reason, all the more influential. It is also sometimes (wrongly) assumed that globalisation is simply about the export of Western values and products worldwide.

This book considers in detail the key drivers of globalisation, its contemporary shape, and the implications for world mission. It also looks at the impact of globalisation on different contemporary issues affecting mission, such as ethnicity, the environment, and global health, as well as globalisation’s effect on more traditional ‘missionary’ questions of the world religions, contextualization, theology, and the church.

One World or Many? is written by a variety of authors from all over the world, including some new and distinctive voices that will have considerable influence in the future. These authors met and interacted as a special working group of the World Evangelical Alliance Missions Commission, giving this readable book a greater sense of coherence. It was edited by Richard Tiplady who recently authored World of Difference: Global Mission at the Pic ’n’ Mix Counter, and who also edited one of Paternoster’s recent bestsellers Postmission: World Mission by a Postmodern Generation.

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ISBN: 9781842272404
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: PATERNOSTER PRESS - published 15/10/2003
Format: Paperback