Evangelization or Colonization?

Contents
Preface vii
Introduction 1
1. Paradigmatic Crisis: The Exhaustion of Western Models 5
2. The Foundations of the Dominant Missionary Model 23
3. Formatting the Dominant Protestant Missionary Model 39
4. Re-discovering the Path to Dialogical Practice 55
Conclusion 83
Notes 89

Analzira Pereira do Nascimento is a mission worker with the Brazilian Baptist Convention’s World Mission Board (JMM) and served in Angola for seventeen years, during the civil war. She is a Doctor of Religious Sciences at the São Paulo Methodist University, collaborates with the Brazilian Association of Transcultural Mission (AMTB) and works in the Água Branca Baptist Church, São Paulo, in community projects with local community mission workers. She travels widely encouraging young people to take up a vocation in mission.

About the book:
Many years of cross-cultural work in Angola have led Analzira Nascimento to deeply rethink mission, especially in countries marked by western colonialization. As you read, be sure to ‘recognise’ the Spirit who moves people to participate in God’s mission in a world marred by suffering and injustice. Imagine Christian mission without the dichotomies of ‘us’ and ‘them’, mission which is relational and dialogical.
These are some of the questions this book addresses which forces the reader to reimagine participation in God’s mission as a meeting of strangers brought together by the work of the Holy Spirit.

Endorsements:
In my 25 years of guiding postgraduate students, Analzira Nascimento stands out. Many years of cross-cultural work in Angola led her to reflect deeply on the need to rethink mission, especially in poorer countries marked by the history of western colonialization. This book is the result. As you read, be sure to ‘recognise’ the Spirit who moves people to participate in God’s mission in a world marred by suffering and injustice.
Dr. Jung Mo Sung, PhD, Postgraduate Professor,
Methodist University of São Paulo

What is the character of Christian mission if we imagined a world without the dichotomies of “us” and “them”? What would Christian mission look like if its context were relational and dialogical? These are some of the questions that this brilliant book by Analzira Nascimento seeks to address. She sets her work firmly within the narrative of service to God’s kingdom in Angola, but
the history and characteristics of mission in that context have global implications. This is a work that forces the reader to reimagine participation in God’s mission as a meeting of strangers brought together by the work of the Holy Spirit. This should be required reading for church and mission leaders and for anyone looking for new models and paradigms for serving God in
whatever context they happen to live.
Dr Rosalee Velloso Ewell, Principal, Redcliffe College