Missiological Research

PREFACE

CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION

UNIT 1: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN MISSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

1 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH (M. Gilbert)

2 EPISTEMOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (A. Johnson)

3 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH (B. Grant)

4 THE FOUR-PHASE MODEL OF MISSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (M. Gilbert)

5 THE FOUR-PHASE MODEL IN academic CONTEXT (M. Gilbert)

6 THE LIBRARY IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: CONTENT AND METHODOLOGY (B. Grant)

7 SOCIAL SCIENCE RESOURCES FOR ENRICHING THE LITERATURE REVIEW (M. Gilbert)

8 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES (C. Self)

9 INTEGRATIVE CRITICAL ANALYSIS (M. Gilbert)

10 THEORY DEVELOPMENT (A. Johnson)

11 THEORY IN MISSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (A. Johnson)

12 ETHICAL RESEARCH WITH HUMAN SUBJECTS (J. Mostert)

13 VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY (J. Mostert)

UNIT 2: THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN MISSIOLOGICAL INQUIRY

14 INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL RESOURCES (P. Lewis)

15 DOING THEOLOGY MISSIOLOGICALLY (D. Rance)

16 BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS (P. Lewis)

17 BIBLICAL THEOLOGY (P. Lewis)

18 HISTORICAL THEOLOGY (C. Self)

19 SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY (P. Lewis)

20 CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY (A. Johnson and P. Lewis, with W. Newberry)

21 NarrativeS, narrative, AND Narrative THEOLOGY (P. Lewis)

UNIT 3: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

22 THE NATURE OF DATA (M. Gilbert)

23 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH (M. Gilbert)

24 ETHNOGRAPHY (A. Johnson)

25 RITOLOGY (D. Albrecht)

26 CASE STUDIES (A. Johnson)

27 HISTORICAL RESEARCH (C. Self)

28 GROUNDED THEORY METHOD (J. Easter)

29 FOUNDATIONS FOR INTERVIEWING (A. Johnson)

30 STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING (A. Johnson)

31 FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS (A. Koeshall)

32 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS (J. Easter and A. Johnson)

33 FIELD WORK AND FIELD NOTES (A. Johnson)

34 CODING IN QUALITATIVE FIELD RESEARCH (J. Easter and A. Johnson)

35 MEMOING IN QUALITATIVE FIELD RESEARCH (J. Easter and A. Johnson)

UNIT 4: QUANTITATIVE AND MIXED METHODS RESEARCH

36 SAMPLING FROM A POPULATION (M. Gilbert)

37 SURVEY RESEARCH (J. Mostert)

38 QUESTIONNAIRE CONSTRUCTION (J. Mostert)

39 STATISTICALLY SPEAKING (M. Gilbert)

40 INFERENTIAL STATISTICS (M. Gilbert)

41 HYPOTHESIS TESTING (M. Gilbert)

42 EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (B. Grant)

43 ACTION RESEARCH (B. Grant)

44 PROGRAM EVALUATION (J. Mostert)

45 CONTENT ANALYSIS (R. Bartels)

46 Q METHODOLOGY (R. Braswell)

47 PILE SORT METHODOLOGY (B. Grant)

UNIT 5: THEOLOGICAL AND EMPIRICAL INTEGRATION

48 INTEGRATING DISCIPLINES (A. Koeshall)

49 INTEGRATION IN WRITING UP MISSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (A. Johnson)

50 MY JOURNEY IN INTEGRATION (D. Rance)

51 INTEGRATION AND THE MISSIONARY LIFE (M. Hausfeld)

52 VALUING THE INTEGRATION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN MISSION PRACTICE (J. Easter)

53 MISSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AS WORSHIP (D. Rance)

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