Culture Bibliography

Anthropology

• Hiebert, P. (1985). Anthropological insights for missionaries. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
• Kraft, C. (2010). Anthropology for Christian witness. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Change

• Bradshaw, B. (2002). Change across culture: A narrative approach to social transformation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
• Pocock, M. & Henriques, J. (2007). Cultural changes and your church: Helping your church thrive in a diverse society. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

Contextualization and Syncretism

• Flemming, D. (2005). Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for theology and mission.
• Laviera, T. (2003). AmeRícan. Arte Publico Press.
• Nouwen, H. (2005). Gracias! A Latin American journal. New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishers.
• Orsei, R. (1996). Thank you, St. Jude: A women’s devotion to the Patron Saint of the Hopeless Causes. New Haven, MA: Yale University Press.
• Tweek, T. (1997). Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic shrine in Miami. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Roxburgh, A. (1997). The missionary congregation, leadership and liminality.
• Van Rheenen, G. (Ed.). (2006). Contextualization and syncretism: Navigating cultural currents.

Culture

• Ao, L. & Penley, D. (2006). Cross-cultural leadership: Ministering to a multicultural community. Xulon Press.
• Arbuckle, G. (2010). Culture, inculturation and theologians: A postmodern critique. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.
• Carson, D. A. Christ & culture revisited. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing.
• Elmer, D. (2006). Cross-cultural servanthood: Serving the world in Christlike humility. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books.
• Gardiner, H. & Kosmitzki, C. (2002). Lives across cultures: Cross-cultural human development. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
• Hall, E. T. (1977). Beyond culture. Garden City, NJ: Anchor Books.
• Hoefstede, G. & Hofstede, G. J. (2005). Cultures and organizations: Software of the mind. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
• Hoefstede, G., Pedersen, P. & Hofstede, G. (2002). Exploring culture: Exercises, stories and sythetic cultures. Boston, MA: Intercultural Studies.
• Kohls, R. L. & Knight, J. (1994). Developing intercultural awareness: A cross-cultural training handbook. Boston, MA: Intercultural Press, Inc.
• Kraft, C. (1979). Christianity in culture: A study in biblical theologizing in cross-cultural perspective. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
• Ligenfelter, S. Agent of transformation: A guide for effective cross-cultural ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
• Niebuhr, H. R. (2001). Christ and culture. San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins Publishers.
• Samovar, L., Porter, R. & McDaniel., Communication between cultures. Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
• Storti, C. (1994). Cross-cultural dialogues: 74 Brief encounters with cultural differences. Yarmouth, MA: Intercultural Press, Inc.
• Stewart, E. & Bennett, M.  (2005). American cultural patterns: A cross-cultural perspective. Yarmouth, MA: Intercultural Press, Inc.
• Trompenaars, F. & Hampden-Turner, C. H. (1998). Riding the waves of culture: Understanding diversity in global business. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Publishers.

Race

• Alexander, E. (2012). Black fire: One hundred years of African American Pentecostalism. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic.
• Branch, T. (2006). At Canaan’s edge: American in the King years 1965-68. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
• Branch, T. (1988). Parting the waters: America in the Kings years 1954-63. New York, NY: Touchstone Book.
• Branch, T. (1998). Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
• Evans, A. (2011). Oneness embraced: Through the eyes of Tony Evans. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers.
• Ham, K., Wieland, C., & Batten, D. (2004). One blood: The biblical answer to racism. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, Inc.
• Hays, J. (2003). From every people and nation: A biblical theology of race. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
• Priest, R. & Nieves, A. (2007). This side of heaven: Race, ethnicity and Christian faith. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Matthews, K. & Park, S. (2011). The post-racial church: A biblical framework for multiethnic reconciliation. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic and Professional.
• Sharp, D. (2002). No partiality: The idolatry of race and the new humanity. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
• West, C. (1999). Cornel West reader. New York, NY: Basic Civitas Books.

Theology

• Aquino, M., Machado, D. & Rodriguez, J. A reader in latina feminist thology: Religion and justice. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
• Brooks, S. & Potter Engel, M. (Eds.). 2003. Lift every voice: Constructing Christian theologies from the underside. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
• Carnes, T. & Yang, G. (2004). Asian American religions: The making and remaking of borders and boundaries. New York, NY: New York University Press.
• Cone, J. ( 2006). A black theology of liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
• Dolamo, R. Tepediong, A, & Hopkins, D. (Eds.). (2007). Global voices for gender justice. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press.
• Farley, M. & Jones, S. (1999). Liberating eschatology: Essays in hoor of Letty M. Russell. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press.
• Foskett, M. & Kah-Jin Kuan, J. (Eds.) (2006). Ways of being, ways of reading: Asian American biblical interpretation. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press.
• Gonzalez, J. & Gonzales, C. (1994). Liberating pulpit. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.
• Gonzalez, J. & Gonzales, C. (1994). Mañana: A Christian Theology from an hispanic perspective. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.
• Isasi-Diaz, A. (2004). Mujerista theology. A theology for the 21st century. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press.

Worldview

• Hiebert, P. (2008). Transforming worldviews: An anthropological understanding of how people change. Baker Academic.
• Rogers, G. (2006). The role of worldview in missions and multiethnic ministry. Mission and Ministry Resources