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How do the many contemporary issues and challenges about gender relate to the newest conceptions of mission? Does mission as currently conceived help women, for example, or speak adequately to such widespread phenomena as gender-related violence? Is there a “gender imperative” for mission?
The newest issue of International Review of Mission, assembled by guest editor Dr Fulata Lusungu Moyo and published this week with WCC’s publishing partners Wiley Blackwell, addresses these questions by focusing on the theme of “mission, gender and power.” Along with other articles, the issue presents nine pieces on the theme from leading scholars and theologians.
Gender intersects with a whole range of concrete missiological concerns, the articles argue, from newer notions of “mission from the margins” to gendered aspects of such mission-related engagement with economic and environmental justice or migration and trafficking or theological education.
Moyo, who is the WCC programme executive for the just community of women and men, finds positive payoff in missiological focus on gender, noting that “Gender perspectives in the whole ecumenical endeavour, especially as it relates to justice and peace, ensure a more pragmatic approach, deeper solidarity, and increased relevance in the work of the churches, mission, and ecumenical partners.”
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