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    "description": "Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society. The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. \r\nMissiology is described in this book as a \u201cproject of modernity,\u201d a contemporary form of apologetics. \u201cScientific apologetics\u201d was the way to justify missions in a society that was rapidly becoming secularized. \u2018Mission & Science\u2019 deals with the interaction between new scientific disciplines (historiography, geography, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics) and new scientific insights (Darwin\u2019s evolutionary theory, heliocentrism), as well as the role of the papacy and what inspired missionary practice (first in China and the Far East and later in Africa). The renewed missiology has in turn influenced the missionary practice of the twentieth century, guided by apostolic policy. Some \u201cmissionary scholars\u201d have even had a significant influence on the scientific discourse of their time.\r\nContributors: Giancarlo Collet (University of M\u00fcnster), Neil Collins (Missionary Society of St. Columban), Mariano Delgado (Universit\u00e9 de Fribourg), Norman Etherington (University of Western Australia), Patrick Harries (Universit\u00e4t Basel), Jan A.B. Jongeneel (Universiteit Utrecht), Philippe Laburthe-Tolra (Universit\u00e9 de Paris V Sorbonne), Eug\u00e8ne Lapointe (Universit\u00e9 Saint-Paul Ottawa), Magnus Lundberg (Uppsala University), David Neuhold (Universit\u00e9 de Fribourg), Peter Nissen (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Armin Owzar (Universit\u00e9 de Paris 3), Olivier Rota (Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Artois), Marc Spindler (Universiteit Leiden), Jan van Butselaar (Protestantse Kerk in Nederland), An Vandenberghe (Zorgbedrijf OCMW Antwerpen), Dirk Van Overmeire (KADOC-KU Leuven), Frans J. Verstraelen (State University of Zimbabwe), Laurick Zerbini (Universit\u00e9 Lyon 2), Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Zorn (Institut Protestant de Th\u00e9ologie-Facult\u00e9 de Montpellier).\r\n",
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