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Understanding Folk Religion: 25th Anniversary Edition
A Christian Response to Popular Beliefs and Practices
by Paul G. Hiebert, R. Daniel Shaw and Tite Tiénou
Series: American Society of Missiology Series
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
414 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.83 in
- Paperback
- 9798385200573
- Published: April 2024
$47.00 / £38.00 / AU$72.00
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Paul G. Hiebert (1932–2007) was distinguished professor of mission and anthropology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and has been described as “arguably the world’s leading missiological anthropologist.”
R. Daniel Shaw is senior professor of anthropology and translation at Fuller Theological Seminary. The American Society of Missiology honored him with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.
Tite Tiénou is research professor of theology of mission, dean emeritus, and director of the Paul G. Hiebert Center for World Christianity and Global Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
“Dan Shaw and Tite Tiénou have done a great service to missiologists and theologians—both teachers and students—in offering this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of their 1999 book Understanding Folk Religion. The authors offer a new preface and a very helpful new prologue that helps readers navigate and profit more fully from their work. The book is also a tribute to their original fellow author, the late Paul Hiebert, a giant in the field of missiological anthropology and a great Christian human being.”
—Stephen Bevans, SVD, professor emeritus of mission and culture, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
“For twenty-five years, Folk Religion by Paul Hiebert, Dan Shaw, and Tite Tiénou has been the preeminent missiological text on folk religious beliefs and practices. Although Hiebert is no longer with us, Shaw and Tiénou have done us a great service in updating this classic work. Its insights are just as relevant and transformative for mission today as they were in 1999.”
—Harold Netland, professor of philosophy of religion and intercultural studies, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“With rapid globalization and spreading urbanization, haven’t we left the world where ‘folk religion’ was part and parcel of a former way of life or found only among people whose lives were enveloped with animism? Not so fast! Folk religion is alive and well everywhere, but many of us still struggle to understand it or to engage it biblically. This anniversary edition is as relevant and needed today as it was when first published, and together with a helpful prologue and current epilogue makes this a ‘must-read’ for anyone engaged in ministry.”
—Darrell Whiteman, author of Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness