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R. Daniel Shaw, Professor of Anthropology and Translation, School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, served with the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Papua New Guinea (1969–81). He is the author of ten books on culture and translation, folk religion, and hermeneutics, including two ethnographies of the Samo.—danshaw@ fuller. edu intrinsically cross-disciplinary, drawing from a multiplicity of sources, including theology, the social sciences, and religious studies. 2 Having moved beyond the dated boundaries of colonial paradigms, missiology seeks to integrate perspectives and data from social, political, economic, and religious spheres long held separate.

With more missionaries coming from the non-Western world, Ajith Fernando’s call for changing the missionary job description must be taken seriously. He argued that local people must be allowed to do what they best …