| List of Figures | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| A Note on Sources and Documentation | p. xv |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Transforming the Margins | |
| Globalization: Descriptions, Debates, and Destinies | p. 13 |
| Explaining Globalization | p. 14 |
| The Historical Question | p. 15 |
| Ready or Not: Aspects of the Non-Western Experience | p. 25 |
| Whose Globalization? | p. 32 |
| Transforming the Center | p. 35 |
| Globalization of Culture: "We ARe the World!" | p. 38 |
| Poverty and Prayer | p. 40 |
| Cultures Matter | p. 47 |
| White Man's Burden | p. 48 |
| Faces of the New Global Culture | p. 52 |
| The End of History? | p. 55 |
| The Mullahs and the Mall | p. 61 |
| Cultures of Globalization: Funny Thing about Elephants | p. 65 |
| Reason in Search of Reality | p. 68 |
| West and Non-West: Minding the Gap | p. 79 |
| The Birth and Bankruptcy of Christendom: A Missiological Reflection | p. 84 |
| Exonerating Constantine! Conversion of the West | p. 85 |
| Taking Christendom on the Road: The Western Missionary Movement (1500-1950) | p. 90 |
| Missionary Nationalism | p. 96 |
| How the Western Missionary Movement Bankrupted the Christendom Construct | p. 100 |
| Vernacular Translation | p. 104 |
| Indigenous Christian Movements | p. 107 |
| Discovering the Challenge of Religious Plurality | p. 109 |
| Twentieth-Century Transformations: Global Christianity and Western Intellectual Captivity | p. 112 |
| State of the Faith: The Western Experience | p. 114 |
| The Queen of the South | p. 121 |
| The Edinburgh 1910 Conference, Africa, and the "Shift" | p. 123 |
| The Significance of African Christianity: More Than Numbers! | p. 128 |
| Western Intellectual Captivity | p. 131 |
| Migration and the New World Order | |
| "A Wandering Aramean Was My Ancestor": Exile, Migration, and Mission in Biblical Perspective | p. 139 |
| The Old Testament: Light to the Nations | p. 140 |
| The New Testament: Into All the World | p. 148 |
| Migration and Mission: Any Foreign Country a Motherland | p. 155 |
| The Making of a New World Order: Empire, Migration, and Christian Mission | p. 157 |
| European Colonial Expansion and African Slavery (1500 to 1850) | p. 159 |
| Industrial Growth and High Imperialism (1800 to 1960) | p. 162 |
| The Role of Migration | p. 167 |
| The Limits of Empire | p. 167 |
| Unintended Consequences of Empire | p. 169 |
| Global Migrations (from the 1960s) | p. 172 |
| The Case for the Missiological Study of Migration | p. 177 |
| South-North Migration: Old Story, New Endings | p. 180 |
| Mapping New Trends: Reality in the Way of Theory | p. 183 |
| South-North Migration: An Overview | p. 186 |
| Impact of Migration on Source Countries | p. 194 |
| African Migrations: A Single Bracelet Does Not Jingle | p. 207 |
| A Mobile Continent | p. 207 |
| African Migrations and the Missionary Impulse | p. 218 |
| South-North Migration: The African Experience | p. 220 |
| The Emperor Has New Clothes: Assimilation and the Remaking of the West | p. 229 |
| America as an Immigrant Nation | p. 230 |
| The Significance of the 1965 Immigration Act for the United States | p. 234 |
| Assimilation in Question | p. 235 |
| A New (Missionary) Encounter? | p. 248 |
| Mobile Faiths | |
| Immigration and Religion: Reflections on Islam | p. 253 |
| Islam in Europe | p. 255 |
| The Radical (Islamic) Element | p. 259 |
| Western Europe's (Religious) Identity Crisis | p. 262 |
| A European Islam? | p. 266 |
| Islam in the United States | p. 269 |
| Naming American Islam | p. 273 |
| Sacred Canopies: Immigrant Congregations and American Religious Life | p. 276 |
| Immigrant Congregations and American Religious Life | p. 277 |
| The Missionary Element | p. 283 |
| "Communities of Commitment" | p. 285 |
| The De-Europeanization of American Christianity | p. 293 |
| Assessing the Missionary Function of the New Christian Immigrant Congregations | p. 296 |
| On the Road with the Ancestors: America's New African Immigrants | p. 303 |
| Introducing America's New Africans | p. 305 |
| The Fortunes of African Communities | p. 312 |
| African and American, Not African American | p. 319 |
| Have Faith, Will Travel: African Migrants and the Making of a New Missionary Movement | p. 324 |
| Four Types of African Immigrant Churches | p. 326 |
| Out of Liberia | p. 328 |
| Out of Nigeria | p. 333 |
| Out of Congo | p. 338 |
| An Appraisal of African Immigrant Missionary-Pastors | p. 344 |
| African Immigrant Churches in America: "Switch Off Mobile Phones-The Only Urgent Call Here Is the Voice of God" | p. 350 |
| The Macedonian Model | p. 351 |
| Minding Church Growth | p. 357 |
| Assessing the Missionary Commitment | p. 364 |
| Evaluating the Missionary Challenge | p. 366 |
| Conclusion: New Age, New Movement, Old Mission | p. 374 |
| Whose Future Is It? | p. 374 |
| Migration and Mission | p. 377 |
| The African Element | p. 380 |
| Some Implications for Mission and Mission Studies | p. 382 |
| Understanding the "Shift": Marginalizing the Center | p. 385 |
| The Future in Retrospect | p. 389 |
| List of African Christian Leaders and Pastors in Kenya and Ghana Interviewed in Spring 2004 | p. 392 |
| List of Churches in the Study | p. 393 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 397 |
| Index | p. 419 |
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