Mission and Science

Carine Dujardin holds a PhD in History and is Head of the Heritage Library at KADOC-KU Leuven. Claude Prudhomme is Professor Emeritus in Contemporary History at Université de Lyon.

• INTRODUCTION Mission Research Revised. Missiology as a Project of Modernity and a Contemporary Form of Apologetics Carine DujardinLa science des missions revisitée. La missiologie comme projet de modernité et forme contemporain d’apologétique Carine DujardinI. THE EMERGENCE OF PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC MISSION STUDY / L’ÉMERGENCE DE LA MISSIOLOGIE PROTESTANTE ET CATHOLIQUEProtestant Mission Study / La missiologie protestanteThe Protestant Mission Study. Emergence and Features Marc SpindlerLa lente émergence de la missiologie protestante comme discipline théologique en France au XIX-XXe siècle Jean-François ZornGustaf Lindeberg and the Place of Academic Mission Studies in Sweden, 1910s-1930s Magnus LundbergProtestant Missions and Mission Studies in the Netherlands. Encounter with Roman Catholicism Jan A.B. JongeneelConfronter le monde à la loi de Dieu et à l’Évangile. Johannes Verkuyl et la missiologie protestante aux Pays-Bas face à la modernité Jan van ButselaarCatholic Mission Study / La missiologie catholiqueGerman Catholic Mission Science. Comments on the Time of its Commencement Giancarlo ColletLa missiologie en transformation. La Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft et l’Internationales Institut für Missionswissenschaftliche Forschungen Mariano Delgado & David NeuholdScientia Missionum Ancilla. Alphons Mulders and the Beginnings of Mission Studies at Nijmegen University Peter NissenBeyond Pierre Charles. The Emergence of Belgian Missiology Refined An VandenbergheAlbert Perbal O.M.I. (1884-1971), un missiologue oublié Eugène LapointeSciences pour la mission, sciences de la mission. Quel rôle pour la papauté ? Claude PrudhommeII. MISSIONARIES AND SCIENCE / LES MISSIONNAIRES ET LA SCIENCELe musée missionnaire-ethnologique du Latran. De la mission à l’ethnologie, un défi ambitieux Laurick ZerbiniDoing Science and Teaching Science in Mid-Victorian Missions of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Norman EtheringtonSecular Knowledge and Salvage Anthropology. Henri-Alexandre Junod and the Thonga Tribe Patrick Harries‘The Sky is the Limit’. Missionary Imperatives and Constraints in Determining the Spatial Outline of the Mongolian Vicariates of the Congregation of Scheut, 1900-1939 Dirk Van OvermeireIII. THEORY VERSUS PRACTICE / THÉORIE VERSUS PRATIQUE The ‘Three Wise Men’ Came from the East. Interaction between Missiology and Missionary Practice in Asia, 1890-1940 Carine DujardinProtestant and Catholic Missions on Java, Netherlands East-Indies. A Comparison of Missionary Thinking, Strategies and Methods Frans J. VerstraelenProtestants et catholiques durant la période coloniale et précoloniale au Cameroun dans leur rapport à la science et à la missiologie Philippe Laburthe-TolraMissiology and the Missionary Society of St. Columban Neil CollinsProtestantism, Catholicism and Islam in German East Africa Armin OwzarLa mission catholique aux Juifs. Un champ missiologique entre études bibliques et attente eschatologique, ca. 1920-1950 Olivier RotaCONCLUSION Towards a Missionary Science? Concluding Remarks Claude PrudhommeVers une science de la mission ? Considérations réflexives Claude Prudhomme

This volume can be considered as an utmost important study about the discipline of missiology, which is both accessible to lay people and specialists. Toon Ooms, Louvain Studies 42 (2019) no. 1, pp. 97-99.