My Pilgrimage in Mission

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evangelicals and the Orthodox, as recommended in Mark R. Elliott, ed., Christianity and Marxism Worldwide: An Annotated Bibliography (Wheaton, Ill.: Institute for the Study of Christianity and Marxism, 1988), or Paul Mojzes, ed., Church and State in Postwar Eastern Europe (New York: Green­ wood Press, 1987), remain the primary sources. current standard treatments on Orthodoxy are Jane Ellis, Russian Orthodox Church: A Contemporary History (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1986);and Dim­ itry P. Pospielovsky, Russian Church Under the Soviet Regime, 1917­ 1982, 2 vols. (Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Valdimir's Seminary Press, 1985). Perhaps the most comprehensive reference work now available is a three-volume series edited by Pedro (Sabrina) Ramet: Vol. 1: Eastern Chris­ tianity and Politics in the Twentieth Century (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1988); vol. 2: Roman Catholicism and Politics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1989); and vol. 3: Protestantism and Politics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1992). My own chapter in volume 3 on Prot­ estantism in the USSR is an attempt at a detailed treatment through early 1991. Two book-length descriptions using the 1988 millennial celebrations for highlighting religious developments are Michael Bourdeaux, TheGos­ pel's Triumph over Communism (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1991; British title: Glasnost, Gorbachev, and the Gospel); and Jim Forest, Religion in the Russia (New York: Crossroad, 1990). Also helpful for an overall presentation of changes under Perestroika is the second edition of Kent Hill's Soviet Union on the Brink: An Inside Look at Christianity and Glasnost (Portland, Oreg.: Multnomah Press, 1991; 1st ed. title Puzzle of the Soviet Church). Several new publications speak to the role of religion in the revolu­ tions of 1989-91 and the task for the churches: Niels Nielson, Revolutions in Eastern Europe: Religious Roots (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1991); J. Martin Bailey, Spring of Nations: Churches in the Rebirth of Central and Eastern Europe (New York: Friendship Press, 1991); Ron Davies, After Gorbachev? How Can Western Christians Help? (Eastbourne, Sussex: MARC [Monarch Publications], 1991); Paul Mojzes, Religious Liberty in Eastern Europe and the USSR: Before and After the Great Transformation (Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia Univ. Press, 1992). See also Walter Sawatsky, Truth Telling in Eastern Europe: Liberation and the Challenge, Journal of Church and State, Autumn 1991; Mark Elliott, New Opportunities, Demands in the Old Red Empire, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, January 1992,pp. 32-39; WilTriggs, The Soviet Union: A Different Kind of Mission Field, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, October 1990, pp. 432-42; Igor Troyanovsky, ed., Re­ ligion in the USSR: A Guide to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and OtherReligions in Today's SovietUnion(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991; offers statistics as of 1990).