Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

by Brian M. Howell

Book Overview

Over the past few decades, short-term mission trips have exploded in popularity. With easy access to affordable air travel, millions of American Christians have journeyed internationally for ministry, service and evangelism. Short-term trips are praised for involving many in global mission but also critiqued for their limitations. Despite the diversity of destinations, certain universal commonalities emerge in how mission trip participants describe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830839739
• ISBN13: 9780830839735
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"