Indigenous Missions in Post-Independent India- An Empirical Study

This book is meant to be a squeaky wheel to bring up the issue of Indigenous Missions in India. It also reflects Author's wide experience, insights and passion for the Mission of God. This factual and figurative presentation is going to be a manual for all those who passionately follow the teachings of Lord Jesus Christ meaningfully to the South Asian individuals and communities with relevance and sensitivity so that they could undergo a spiritual rebirth and pave their way towards revealing the Divine.

The author emphasises that conscientization model deals with the root cause of the oppressed and empowers the individual to realize his/her state. This model can be applied to any society to bring liberation in socio, political and economic contexts of the oppressed people.

This well-researched, compassionate, and ground breaking book is for those who have a real concern for indigenous people.

Dr. Pothana's academic credentials include a Bachelor's degree in English literature from Acharya Nagarjuna University; a Masters's degree in social work from the same university; a Master's degree in Religion & Philosophy from Madurai Kamaraj University; a Master of Divinity from GFA Seminary, Tiruvalla; a Master of Theology degree from Union Biblical Seminary, Pune and his Ph.D. from the University of Mysore through SAIACS in Bangalore.

He is a visiting professor of Missiology in several seminaries in India and abroad. He is also the director of COACH Institute of Intercultural Studies, Hyderabad which focuses on training mission leaders to share the Gospel with contextual mission methods.

I am delighted to write this foreword because I firmly believe mission workers and missiology teachers at every level and stage of their career can enrich and strengthen their ministry by learning the strategy and mission praxis presented in this book. I am inspired a lot by reading his book and encouraged to do my ministry in India. This book provided many insights into the mission field and missionary life for me personally.

This research examines the Biblical, Theological, Sociological, and Missiological perspectives of the Liberation motif, and identifies the contextual factors of the emergence and growth of indigenous Christian Mission societies in India. I believe this is one of the outstanding books to understand the indigenous missions in India.

This book is well designed and balances the combined structure of theory and field research.

While reading this book, you will find recommendations that can help to set a new direction for undertaking better ways of the liberation of the oppressed in the twenty-first-century India, and your dimension of the understanding of mission will be enhanced, and you will get a new perspective.

I recommend this book to all theological students, especially missionaries and missiologists. I hope that this book will become a primer for Christian mission workers, missiology teachers, and students.

Dr. Potana is an academic research scholar who has done a lot of research at the grassroots level and he has also shown missionary burden for the people and has applied this methodology in reaching out to them.

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