Decolonizing Mission Partnerships: Evolving Collaboration between United Methodists in North Katanga and the United States of America

Decolonizing Mission Partnerships: Evolving Collaboration between United Methodists in North Katanga and the United States of America
ISBN-10
1725259133
ISBN-13
9781725259133
Category
Religion
Pages
364
Language
English
Published
2020-06-26
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Taylor Walters Denyer

Description

We all know that healthy partnerships are essential to fruitful boundary-crossing ministries, but how exactly do we create them? What barriers must be overcome, and what self-examination must we do? How do the legacies of colonialism, racism, and unhealed trauma impact missional collaborations today? In this doctoral thesis, Denyer reflects on these questions as she examines the history of relational dynamics between American and Congolese United Methodists in the North Katanga Conference (DR Congo). By surveying memoirs, magazines, and journals, and conducting in-depth interviews, Denyer presents a complex and multifaceted example of a partnership that is in the process of decolonizing. More than just a history lesson, Decolonizing Mission Partnerships presents the questions, hard truths, pitfalls, and toxic assumptions we must face when attempting to be in mission together.

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