03228cam a2200481Ia 4500 ocn857878918 OCoLC 20200709055929.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 130911s2012 ilu ob 001 0 eng d YDXCP YDXCP VLB E7B N$T 9781461938958 (electronic bk.) 1461938953 (electronic bk.) 9780830839735 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830839739 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)857878918 632554 (N$T) BV2082.S56 H69 2012eb REL 045000 bisacsh 266/.02373 23 N$TA Howell, Brian M. Short-term mission [electronic resource] : an ethnography of Christian travel narrative and experience / Brian M. Howell. Downers Grove, IL : IVP Academic, c2012. 1 online resource (256 p.) Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and indexes. "It changed my life": short-term mission and Christian narratives of travel -- "Are you for them or against them?": defining short-term mission -- That's no missionary!": redefining mission and the missionary establishment -- "Youth try the impossible!": youth movements and short-term mission -- "It will change your life": short-term mission and Central Wheaton Church -- "Remember, these are real missions": embodying a missionary narrative at Central Wheaton Church -- "Pour out your soul": living the narrative of short-term mission -- "Of course you always grow close to God on a mission trip": (re)narrating short-term mission -- "Just bring greetings": creating a new narrative for short-term mission -- "And what does the Lord require of you?": suggestions and an encouraging postscript. Drawing on the anthropology of tourism and pilgrimage, he shows how short-term mission (STM) combines these elements with Christian purposes of mission to create its own distinct narrative. He provides a careful historical survey of the development of STM and then offers an in-depth ethnographic study of a particular mission trip to the Dominican Republic. He explores how participants remember and interpret their experiences, and he unpacks the implications for how North American churches understand mission, grapple with poverty and relate to the larger global church. --from publisher description Description based on print version record. Short-term missions. Short-term missions. fast (OCoLC)fst01117489 RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Howell, Brian M. Short-term mission. Downers Grove, IL : IVP Academic, c2012 0830863400 (DLC) 2012027645 (OCoLC)778417028 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=632554 http://site.ebrary.com/id/10768152 ebrary YBP Library Services YANK 11083874 ebrary EBRY ebr10768152 EBSCOhost EBSC 632554 cpp3089 02 N$T 53741 53741