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001			ocn778417028
003			OCoLC
005			20251028093254.0
008			120806s2012 ilu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2012027645
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780830839735
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020			_a9780830839735 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a0830839739 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)778417028
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050	0	0	_aBV 2082.S56 _bH69 2012
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100	1		_aHowell, Brian M.
245	1	0	_aShort-term mission : _ban ethnography of Christian travel narrative and experience / _cBrian M. Howell.
260			_aDowners Grove, IL : _bIVP Academic, _cc2012.
300			_a256 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and indexes.
505	0		_a"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.
520			_aDrawing 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
650		0	_aShort-term missions.
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