Abstract
Abstract Using the idiomatic expression found in the United States, this essay contends that the current field of missiology is black-ish. The expression is used to describe something purports to be Black (African American), but upon close inspection may not be authentic to the culture. This essay seeks to examine the dearth of specifically African American contributions to missiology. Citing issues of internal structuring and epistemology, an argument is made that African American voices and culture are often lost in this maze constituted by a lack of uniformity within mission studies. Additionally, there is an existing catalogue of Black scholarship that deals, directly and indirectly, with mission but is often not given the same latitude of inclusion and review that White scholarship is afforded in the United States.
Highlights
Internal Structuring and EpistemologyAs stated in the introduction, this essay asserts that missiology done by, in, and on African American contexts is scarce. This is not to say that there are not any African American contributions
This essay seeks to examine, briefly, the dearth of African American contributions to the field of mission studies, or missiology, in the United States of America.1 Like many disciplines today, there is a lack of via free access
Walls goes on to list social sciences and history of religion as specific disciplines, along with theology, that need to be engaged robustly by mission studies. These are the exact disciplines this essay is advocating for, which are often included in missiology, except when it pertains to the African American context
Summary
As stated in the introduction, this essay asserts that missiology done by, in, and on African American contexts is scarce. This is not to say that there are not any African American contributions. While all of the aforementioned missiological foci of reconciliation, poverty, contextualization, and urban mission are important and need to be addressed, it seems that the current engagement is being done at the expense of the African American voice. This is not an argument for the particular in opposition to the universal. Walls goes on to list social sciences and history of religion as specific disciplines, along with theology, that need to be engaged robustly by mission studies These are the exact disciplines this essay is advocating for, which are often included in missiology, except when it pertains to the African American context. The lack of engagement with African American scholarship in those same fields remains conspicuously absent
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