Understanding Folk Religion

"""Dan Shaw and Tite Ti�nou have done a great service to missiologists and theologians--both teachers and students--in offering this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of their 1999 book Understanding Folk Religion. The authors offer a new preface and a very helpful new prologue that helps readers navigate and profit more fully from their work. The book is also a tribute to their original fellow author, the late Paul Hiebert, a giant in the field of missiological anthropology and a great Christian human being."" --Stephen Bevans, SVD, professor emeritus of mission and culture, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago ""For twenty-five years, Folk Religion by Paul Hiebert, Dan Shaw, and Tite Ti�nou has been the preeminent missiological text on folk religious beliefs and practices. Although Hiebert is no longer with us, Shaw and Ti�nou have done us a great service in updating this classic work. Its insights are just as relevant and transformative for mission today as they were in 1999."" --Harold Netland, professor of philosophy of religion and intercultural studies, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ""With rapid globalization and spreading urbanization, haven't we left the world where 'folk religion' was part and parcel of a former way of life or found only among people whose lives were enveloped with animism? Not so fast! Folk religion is alive and well everywhere, but many of us still struggle to understand it or to engage it biblically. This anniversary edition is as relevant and needed today as it was when first published, and together with a helpful prologue and current epilogue makes this a 'must-read' for anyone engaged in ministry."" --Darrell Whiteman, author of Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness"