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Recommended Reading
Paul G. Hiebert: A Selected Bibliography
THESES
- “Structure and Integration in a Central Indian Village.” Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1967.
- “A Re-Evaluation of the Todas in Their Relations to Tribal and Hindus Cultures of South India.” M.A. thesis, University of Minnesota, 1958.
- “The Impetus of Nationalism on the Indigenization of the Protestant Church in India.” M.A. thesis, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, 1957.
BOOKS
- Anthropological Insights for Missionaries. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1985.
- Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1994.
- Hiebert, Frances F., and Paul G. Hiebert. Case Studies in Missions. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1987.
- Cultural Anthropology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1983.
- Hiebert, Paul G., and Eloise Hiebert Menneses. Incarnational Ministry: Planting Churches in Band, Tribal, Peasant, and Urban Societies. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1995.
- Konduru: Structure and Integration in a South Indian Village. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1971.
- The Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998.
- Hiebert, Paul G., R. Daniel Shaw and Tite Tiénou. Understanding Folk Religion: A Christian Response to Popular Beliefs and Practices. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1999.
- Coggins, James R., and Paul G. Hiebert. Wonders and the Word. Winnipeg, MB: Kindred Press, 1989.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
- “Conversion in Cross-Cultural Perspective.” In Conversion: Doorway to Discipleship, ed. Henry Schmidt, 88-106. Hillsboro, KS: Board of Christian Literature, 1980.
- “Form and Meaning in Contextualization of the Gospel.” In Word Among Us, ed. Dean S. Gilliland, 101-20. Dallas, TX: Word Publishing, 1989.
- “Evangelism, Church, and Kingdom.” In Good News of the Kingdom, ed. Charles van Engen, et al., 153-61. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993.
- Hiebert, Paul G., and Harold J. Recinos. “Globalization as Evangelism.” In Globalization of Theological Education, ed. Alice F. Evans, 64-89. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993.
- “The Gospel and Culture.” In Gospel and Islam, ed. Don M. McCurry, 58-66. Monrovia, CA: Missions Advanced Research & Communications Center, 1979.
- “The Gospel in Our Culture: Methods of Social and Cultural Analysis.” In Church Between Gospel and Culture, ed. George R. Hunsberger and Craig Van Gelder, 139-57. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996.
- “India: The Politicization of a Sacred Society.” In Religions and Societies, ed. Carlo Caldarola, 289-331. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1982.
- “Introduction to Mission Anthropology.” In Crucial Dimensions in World Evangelization, ed. Arthur F. Glasser, 45-88. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1976.
- “Karma and Other Explanation Traditions in a South Indian Village.” In Karma, ed. Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel, 119-130. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983.
- “The Kingdom Reconciling Humanity.” In Kingdom of God and the Way of Peace, 26-36. Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1979.
- “Metatheology: The Step Beyond Contextualization.” In Reflection and Projection, ed. Hans Kasdorf, Klaus W. Müller, 383-95. Bad Liebenzell: Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, 1988.
- “Missiological Education for a Global Era.” In Missiological Education for the Twenty-first Century, ed. J. Dudley Woodberry, et al., 34-42. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996.
- “The Missionary as Mediator of Global Theologizing.” In Globalizing Theology, ed. Craig Ott and Harold A. Netland, 288-308. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.
- Hiebert, Paul G. and Tite Tiénou. “Missions and the Doing of Theology.” In Urban Face of Mission, ed. Harvie M. Conn, et al., 85-96. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2002.
- “Missions and the Renewal of the Church.” In Exploring Church Growth, ed. Wilbert R. Shenk, 157-167. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1983.
- “Missions and the Understanding of Culture.” In Church in Mission, A Sixtieth Anniversary Tribute to J. B. Toews, ed. A. J. Klassen, 251-65. Fresno, CA: Board Of Christian Literature, 1967.
- “Popular Religions.” In Toward the Twenty-first Century in Christian Mission, ed. James M. Phillips and Robert T. Coote, 253-66. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993.
- “Power Encounter and Folk Islam.” In Muslims and Christians on the Emmaus Road, ed. J. Dudley Woodberry, 45-61. Monrovia, CA: MARC, 1989.
- “Religious Fairs in Andhra Pradesh: An Analysis of Cultural Infrastructures.” In Culture and the Anthropological Tradition, ed. Robert F. Spencer and Robert H. Winthrop, 77-95. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.
- “Sets and Structures: A Study of Church Patterns.” In New Horizons in World Mission, ed. David J. Hesselgrave, 217-27. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1979.
- “Socio-cultural Theories and Mission to the West.” In Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Wilbert R. Shenk, ed. James R. Krabill, et al., 169-76. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.
ARTICLES
- “An Anthropologist Looks at Human Systems: The Gospel in Our Culture.” Brethren in Christ History & Life 21 (April 1998): 65-81.
- “An Anthropologist Looks at World Views: The Invisible Worlds in Which We Live.” Brethren in Christ History & Life 21 (April 1998): 122-44.
- “The Anthropology of Religious Conversion.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30 (April 2006): 103-4.
- “Are We Our Others’ Keepers?” Currents in Theology and Mission 22 (October 1995): 325-37.
- Hiebert, Paul G., and Young Lee Hertig. “Asian Immigrants in American Cities.” Urban Mission 10 (March 1993): 15-24.
- “Barrett and Beyond.” Missiology 12 (January 1984): 63-68.
- “Beyond Anti-colonialism to Globalism.” Missiology 19 (July 1991): 263-81.
- “Can We Change Entire Cultures?” Evangelical Missions Quarterly 31 (January 1995): 66-67.
- “The Category ‘Christian’ in the Mission Task.” International Review of Mission 72 (July 1983): 421-27.
- “Checks Against Syncretism.” Christianity Today, 11 February 1991, 39-40.
- “Christian Healing and the Struggle for Spiritual Survival.” Pneuma 9 (Fall 1987): 194-96.
- “Conversion and Worldview Transformation.” International Journal of Frontier Missions 14 (April 1997): 83-86.
- “Critical Contextualization.” Missiology 12 (July 1984): 287-96.
- “Critical Contextualization.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 11 (July 1987): 104-12.
- “Critical Issues in the Social Sciences and Their Implications for Mission Studies.” Missiology 24 (January 1996): 65-82.
- “Cultural Relativism and Theological Absolutes.” Direction 2, no. 1 (1973): 2-6.
- “Epistemological Foundations for Science and Theology.” Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin 8 (March 1985): 5-10.
- “Ethnicity and Evangelism in the Mennonite Brethren Church.” Direction 17, no. 1 (1988): 87-102.
- “The Flaw of the Excluded Middle.” Missiology 10 (January 1982): 35-47.
- “Gospel and Culture: The WCC Project.” Missiology 25 (April 1997): 199-207.
- “Megatrends in Missions.” Direction 16 (Spring 1987): 37-46.
- “The Missiological Implications of an Epistemological Shift.” Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin 8 (May 1985): 12-18.
- “Missiological Issues in the Encounter with Emerging Hinduism.” Missiology 28 (January 2000): 47-63.
- Tiénou, Tite, and Paul G. Hiebert. “Missional Theology.” Missiology 34 (April 2006): 219-38.
- “Missions and Anthropology: A Love/Hate Relationship.” Missiology 6 (April 1978): 165-80.
- Hiebert, Paul G. and Sam Larsen. “Partnership in the Gospel: Misers, Accountants, and Stewards.” Direction 28, no. 1 (1999): 55-62.
- “A People of Mission: A History of General Conference Mennonite Overseas Missions.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 55 (January 1981): 86-87.
- “Planting Churches in North America Today.” Direction 20, no. 2 (1991): 6-14.
- Hiebert, Paul G., R. Daniel Shaw and Tite Tiénou. “Responding to Split-Level Christianity and Folk Religion.” International Journal of Frontier Missions 16 (October 1999): 173-82.
- Hiebert, Paul G., and Barbara Hiebert-Crape. “The Role of Religion in International Development.” Conrad Grebel Review 13 (Fall 1995): 281-98.
- Hiebert, Paul G., and Norman E. Thomas. “Selected Annotated Bibliography on Missiology: Missions—Social Aspects.” Missiology 29 (July 2001): 393-97.
- “Spiritual Warfare and Worldview.” Evangelical Review of Theology 24 (July 2000): 240-56.
- “Spiritual Warfare and Worldviews.” Direction 29, no. 2 (2000): 114-24.
- “Window Shopping the Gospel.” Urban Mission 4 (May 1987): 5-12.
BOOK REVIEWS
- Review of Anabaptists and Postmodernity, ed. by Susan Biesecker-Mast and Gerald J. Biesecker-Mast. Missiology 30 (April 2002): 244.
- Review of Beyond Dialogue: Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity and Buddhism, by John B. Cobb, Jr. Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin 7 (March 1984): 29.
- Review of Bread for the Journey: The Mission of Transformation and the Transformation of Mission, by Anthony J. Gittins. Missiology 22 (July 1994): 386.
- Review of Caste, Cult, and Hierarchy: Essays on the Culture of India, by Pauline Kolenda. Journal of Asian Studies 45 (May 1986): 631-32.
- Review of Caste in Tamil Culture: The Religious Foundations of Sudra Domination in Tamil Sri Lanka, by Bryan Pfaffenberger. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 52 (June 1984): 405-6.
- Review of Christian Origins and Cultural Anthropology: Practical Models for Biblical Interpretation, by Bruce J. Malina. Journal of Psychology & Theology 15 (Spring 1987): 91-91.
- Review of Christianity and Cultures, ed. by Norbert Greinacher and Norbert Mette. Missiology 24 (July 1996): 415-16.
- Review of The Church Between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America, ed. by George R. Hunsberger and Craig Van Gelder. Missiology 25 (April 1997): 230-31.
- Review of The Cult of the Goddess Pattini, by Gananath Obeyesekere. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 53 (June 1985): 310-11.
- Review of Gospel versus Gospel, by Theron F. Schlabach. Mennonite Quarterly Review 55 (January 1981): 87-89.
- Review of In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India, by Susan Billington Harper. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 37 (October 2001): 530-32.
- Review of Kandila: Samo Ceremonialism and Interpersonal Relationships, by R. Daniel Shaw. Missiology 20 (October 1992): 548-49.
- Review of Meaning Across Cultures, by Eugene Albert Nida. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 8 (January 1984): 33-34.
- Review of More than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen, by Irene Glasser. Urban Mission 6 (May 1989): 61.
- Review of Partners in Dialogue: Christianity and Other World Religions, by Arnulf Camps. Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin 9 (January 1986): 36.
- Review of Religion: The Great Questions, by Denise Lardner Carmody. Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin 8 (November 1984): 34.
- Review of Religions and Cultures: First International Conference of Mediterraneum, ed. by Adriana Destro. Missiology 31 (October 2003): 495-96.
- Review of Rivalry and Tribute: Society and Ritual in a Telegu Village in South India, by Bruce E. Tapper. American Ethnologist 16 (February 1989): 176-77.
- Review of The Sacred in Popular Hinduism, by A. M. Abraham Ayrookuzhiel. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 52 (September 1984): 615.
- Review of Spiritual Power and Missions: Raising the Issues, ed. by Edward Rommen. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 21 (January 1997): 43.
- Review of Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth, by Lesslie Newbigin. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 31 (October 1995): 504-5.
- Review of The Twentieth Century: A Theological Overview, ed. by Gregory Baum. Missiology 28 (October 2000): 505.
- Review of Understanding Folk Religion: A Christian Response to Popular Beliefs and Practices, by Irving Hexham. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 43 (June 2000): 358-60.
- Review of Unearthly Powers: A Christian Perspective on Primal and Folk Religions, by David Burnett. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 15 (January 1991): 41-42.
- Review of World Christian Encyclopedia, ed. by David B. Barrett. Missiology 12 (January 1984): 63-68.
- Review of The World Is Too Much with Us: Culture in Modern Protestant Missions, by Charles R. Taber. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 28 (October 1992): 431.
- Review of The World Is Too Much with Us: Culture in Modern Protestant Missions, by Charles R. Taber. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 17 (April 1993): 85-86.
- Review of Zen and Christian: The Journey Between, by John D. Eusden. Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin 7 (March 1984): 29.