ASM Monographs

The American Society of Missiology publishes a series for distinguished dissertations and other similar scholarly monographs in missiology and in related fields of missiological interest. In its initial years the series was co-published with the University Press of America, and from 2006 onward it is being co-published with Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers.

The ASM Scholarly Monograph Series makes more widely available quality scholarly work relating to the area of world mission. The Series welcomes submissions of doctoral dissertations completed in the last three years at universities and theological institutions in North America and around the world. Other similar scholarly monographs are also welcome. The manuscripts must be in English and not exceeding 350-400 pages.

Authors wishing their dissertations or monographs to be considered for the Series must first submit an abstract, table of contents, and a letter explaining the relevance and importance of the study to the ASM Scholarly Monograph Series Editorial Committee Chair, James R. Krabill. If the topic is deemed of interest and appropriate, the Chair will request a full electronic copy of the dissertation.

At two times during the year (May and December), the Committee determines which of the manuscripts received will be read by the Committee and considered for publication. Members of the Series Committee--who may request assistance from expert counsel on specialized topics--serve as readers who judge the dissertations. The reading process can take up to three months, at which time authors will be informed whether or not their manuscript has been accepted for publication. 

For further information regarding the Series, contact the Editorial Committee Chair, James R. Krabill ([email protected]).

• James R. Krabill, Monograph Committee Chair, Core Adjunct Professor of Mission, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
• Robert Gallagher, Chair of the Intercultural Studies department and Director of M.A. (Intercultural Studies), Wheaton College Graduate School
• Sarita D. Gallagher, Associate Professor of Religion, George Fox University
• William P. Gregory, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Clarke University
• Margaret E. Guider, OSF, Associate Professor of Missiology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
• Paul V. Kollman, Associate Professor of Theology
• Roger Schroeder, Professor of Intercultural Studies and Ministry, Catholic Theological Union
• Alison Fitchett Climenhaga, Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University
• Stanley John, Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies, Alliance Theological Seminary/Nyack College
• Susan Maros, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Christian Leadership, Fuller Theological Seminary
• Sue Russell, Professor of Mission and Contextual Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary

ASM SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPHS SERIES (Wipf & Stock, 2007-2022):

• Jinna Sil Lo Jin, Ignored: A Practical Theology Inquiry of Korean-Speaking Young Adults in a Transnational Congregational Context, No. 58, 2022.
  
  
• Yohan Hong, A Theological Understanding of Power for Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines: With Special Reference to US-Based Filipino Protestants in Texas, No. 57, 2022.
  
  
• Sue Whittaker, Music and Liturgy, Identity and Formation: A Study of Inculturation in Turkey, No. 56, 2021.
  
  
• B. Manohar James, Religious Conversion in India: The Niyogi Committee Report of Madhya Pradesh in 1956 and Its Continuing Impact on National Unity, No. 55, 2022.
  
  
• William A. Coppedge, African Literacies and Western Oralities?: Communication Complexities, the Orality Movement, and the Materialities of Christianity in Uganda, No. 54, 2021.
  
  
• Samuel Lee, Faith in the Marketplace: Measuring the Impact of Church Based Entrepreneurial Approaches to Holistic Mission, No. 53, 2021.
  
  
• Leanne M. Dzubinski, Playing by the Rules: How Women Lead in Evangelical Mission Organizations, No. 52, 2021.
  
  
• Uday Balasdundaram, Creativity and Captivity: Exploring the Process of Musical Creativity amongst Indigenous Cosmopolitan Musicians (ICMs) for Mission, No. 51, 2021.
  
  
• Mary Carol Cloutier, Bridging the Gap, Breaching Barriers: The Presence and Contribution of (Foreign) Persons of African Descent to the Gaboon and Corisco Mission in 19th-century Equatorial Africa, No. 50, 2021.
  
  
• Emily Ralph Servant, Experiments in Love: An Anabaptist Theology of Risk-Taking in Mission, No. 49, 2021.
  
  
• Vinod John, Believing without Belonging?: Religious Beliefs and Social Belonging of Hindu Devotees of Christ, No. 48, 2020.
  
  
• Taylor Walters Denyer, Decolonizing Mission Partnerships: Evolving Collaboration between United Methodists in North Katanga and the United States of America, No. 47, 2020.
  
  
• Rosalia Meza-Moreno, Toward a New, Praxis-Oriented Missiology: Rediscovering Paulo Freire's Concept of Conscientizacao and Enhancing Christian Mission as Prophetic Dialogue, No. 46, 2020.
  
  
• James A. Blumenstock, Strangers in a Familiar Land: A Phenomenological Study on Marginal Christian Identity, No. 45, 2020.
  
  
•  Lynn Thigpen, Connected Learning: How Adults with Limited Formal Education Learn, No. 44, 2020.
   
•  Craig Hendrickson, Charismatic Leadership and Missional Change: Mission-Actional Ministry in a Multiethnic Church, No. 43, 2020. 
  
  
•  Matthew Aaron Bennett, Narratives in Conflict: Atonement in Hebrews and the Qur'an, No. 42, 2019. 
  
  
•  Randall G. Prior, Contextualizing Theology in the South Pacific: The Shape of Theology in Oral Cultures, No. 41, 2019. 
  
  
•  Andrew Peh, Of Merchants and Missions: The Impact of British Colonialism on American Methodism in Singapore from 1885 to 1910, No. 40, 2019. 
  
  
•  P. V. Joseph, An Indian Trinitarian Theology of Missio Dei: Insights from St. Augustine and Brahmabandhab Upadhyay, No. 39, 2019. 
  
  
• Kevin George Hovey, Guiding Light: Contributions of Alan R. Tippett Toward the Development and Dissemination of Twentieth Century Missiology, No. 38, 2019. 
  
  
• Lila Balisky, Songs of Ethiopia's Tesfaye Gabbiso: Singing with Understanding in Babylon, the Meantime and Zion, No. 37, 2018. 
  
  
• Curtis W. Elliott, Theologizing Place in Displacement: Reconciling, Remaking, and Reimagining Place in the Republic of Georgia, No. 36, 2018. 
  
  
• Kevin Lines, "Who Do the Ngimurok Say That They Are?" A Phenomenological Study of Turkana Traditional Religious Specialists in Turkana, Kenya, No. 35, 2018. 
  
  
• Enoch Jinsik Kim, Receptor-Oriented Communication for Hui Muslims in China: With Special Reference to Church Planting, No. 34, 2018.  
  
  
• Megan Meyers, Grazing and Growing: Developing Disciples through Contextualized Worship Arts in Mozambique, No. 33, 2018. 
  
  
• Matt Friedman, Union with God in Christ: Early Christian and Wesleyan Spirituality as an Approach to Islamic Mysticism, No. 32, 2017. 
  
  
• Shuck Lung Clive Chin, The Perception of Christianity as a Rational Religion in Singapore: A Missiological Analysis of Christian Conversion, No. 31, 2017. 
  
  
• John Hubers, Missionary Orientalism: An Exploration of the Life and Thought of America's First Missionary to the Muslim World, the Rev. Pliny Fisk, No. 30, 2016. 
  
  
• Jenny McGill, Religious Identity and Cultural Negotiation: Toward a Christian Theology of Identity in Migration, No. 29, 2016. 
  
  
• Juliet Lee Ulytanlet, The Hybrid Tsinoys: Challenges of Hybridity and Homogeneity as Socio-Cultural Constructs among the Chinese in the Philippines, No. 28, 2016. 
  
  
• Haemin Lee, International Development and Public Relation: Changing Dynamics of Christian Mission in South Korea, No. 27, 2016. 
  
  
• Birgit Herppich, Trained Incapacity: A Critical Examination of Basel Missionary Preparation and Early Engagement in Ghana (1828-1840), No. 26, 2016. 
  
  
• Keon Sang An, An Ethiopian Reading of the Bible: Biblical Interpretation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, No. 25, 2015. 
  
  
• Byungohk Lee, Listening to the Neighbor: From a Missional Perspective of the Other, No. 24, 2015. 
  
  
• J. Scott Bridger, Christian Exegesis of the Qur'n: A Critical Analysis of the Apologetic Use of the Qur'n in Select Medieval and Contemporary Arabic Texts, No. 23, 2015. 
  
  
• Darren Todd Duerksen, Ecclesial Identities in a Multi-Faith Context: Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshua Satangs) among Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India, No. 22, 2015. 
  
  
• Sarita D. Gallagher, Abrahamic Blessing: A Missiological Narrative of Revival in Papua New Guinea, No. 21, 2014. 
  
  
• Runchana P. Suksod-Barger, Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889–1931), No. 20, 2014. 
  
  
• Kim Marie Lamberty, Eyes from the Outside: Christian Mission in Zones of Violent Conflict, No. 19, 2014. 
  
  
• J. Kevin Livingston, A Missiology of the Road: Early Perspectives in David Bosch's Theology of Mission and Evangelism, No. 18, 2013. 
  
  
• Jonathan S. Barnes, Power and Partnership: A History of the Protestant Mission Movement, No. 17, 2013. 
  
  
• Gregg A. Okesson, Re-Imaging Modernity: A Contextualised Theological Study of Power and Humanity within Akamba Christianity in Kenya, No. 16, 2012. 
  
  
• vanThanh Nguyen, Peter and Cornelius: A Story of Conversion and Mission, No. 15, 2012. 
  
  
• Jukka Antero Kääriäinen. Mission Shaped by Promise: Lutheran Missiology Confronts the Challenge of Religious Pluralism, No. 14, 2012. 
  
  
• Ethan Christofferson, Negotiating Identity: Exploring Tensions between Being Hakka and Being Christian in Northwestern Taiwan, No. 13, 2012. 
  
  
• David P. Leong, Street Signs: Toward a Missional Theology of Urban Cultural Engagement, No. 12, 2012. 
  
  
• Shawn B. Redford, Missiological Hermeneutics: Biblical Interpretation for the Global Church, No. 11, 2012. 
  
  
• Stephen Pavey, Theologies of Power and Crisis: Envisioning / Embodying Christianity in Hong Kong, No. 10, 2011. 
  
  
• Christoper L. Flanders, About Face: Rethinking Face for 21st Century Mission, No. 9, 2011. 
  
  
• Colleen Mary Mallon, OP, Traditioning Disciples: The Contributions of Cultural Anthropology to Ecclesial Identity, No. 8, 2011. 
  
  
• David J. Endres, American Crusade: Catholic Youth in the World Mission Movement from World War l through Vatican ll, No. 7, 2010. 
  
  
• E. Paul Balisky, Wolaitta Evangelists: A Study of Religious Innovation in Southern Ethiopia, 1937-1975, No. 6, 2009.
   
• W. Jay Moon, African Proverbs Reveal Christianity in Culture: A Narrative Portrayal of Builsa Proverbs, Contextualizing Christianity in Ghana, No. 5, 2009. 
  
  
• Auli Vähäkangas, Christian Couples Coping with Childlessness: Narratives from Machame, Kilimanjaro, No. 4, 2009. 
  
  
• Roberta R. King, Pathways in Christian Music Communication: The Case of the Senufo of Cote d'Ivoire, No. 3, 2009.
   
• Edley J. Moodley, Shembe, Ancestors and Christ: A Christological Inquiry with Missiological Implications, No. 2, 2008. 
  
  
• Ken Christoph Miyamoto, God's Mission in Asia: A Comparative and Contextual Study of This-Worldly Holiness and the Theology of Missio Dei in M. M. Thomas and C. S. Song, No. 1, 2007. 

EARLIER PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASM SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH SERIES [formerly ASM Dissertation Series]:

• J. Nelson Jennings, Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934). 2005. Click here to purchase.
• Ross Langmead, The Word Made Flesh: Towards an Incarnational Missiology. 2004. Click here to purchase.
• George F. Pickens, African Christian God-Talk: Matthew Ajuoga's Johera Narrative. 2004. Click here to purchase.
• Kevin Xiyi Yao, The Fundamentalist Movement among Protestant Missionaries in China, 1920-1937. 2003. Click here to purchase.
• A. Sue Russell, Conversion, Identity, and Power: The Impact of Christianity on Power Relationships and Social Exchanges. 1999. Click here to purchase.
• Michael Parker, The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926. 1998. Click here to purchase.
• Douglas James Hayward, Vernacular Christianity Among the Mulia Dani: An Ethnography of Religious Belief Among the Western Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. 1997. Click here to purchase.