@inbook{664b0856b6a2404fa19e0c13bebab708,
title = "Christian Mission and Secularism",
abstract = "This chapter elucidates the prospects and pitfalls for Christian witness and public engagement provoking as well as confronting multiple secularisms. It disputes the claim of secularism to be a progressive, urban, gender equal, non-colonial principle of statecraft and personal conviction. It questions mission theories that either neglect or deny contemporary secularism by overemphasizing the persistence of Christianity in ethics and new spirituality, or by a retreat in fundamentalism. The chapter scrutinizes the thesis that mission and secularism can become mutual exorcists, liberating each other from various evils. The endeavour to understand - and not merely denounce - different secularisms, is imperative for any contextualised Christian mission. ",
keywords = "Mission, Secularism, Religious-Secular Binaries, Feminism, Mutual Exorcism",
author = "M.M. Jansen",
note = "The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in mission studies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. ",
year = "2022",
month = jun,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780198831723",
series = "The Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "493--507",
editor = "Kirsteen Kim and Knud Jorgensen and {Fitchett Climenhaga}, Alison",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies",
address = "United Kingdom",
}