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Book Review: Robert L. Gallagher and Paul Hertig (eds). Contemporary Mission Theology: Engaging the Nations

anthropological toolkit to the topic of the chapter. For example, in his excellent chapter on anthropological approaches to religion, which alone is worth the price of the book, he writes, “Thinking Like an Anthropologist: Religion in the Twenty-First Century.” Fifteen chapters covering the standard subfields of cultural anthropology are divided into three major parts: Anthropology for the 21st Century; Unmasking the Structures of Power; and Change in the Modern World. The impact of globalization is addressed in every chapter, and the tools that are introduced, defined, and applied will help any student of mission and anthropology make sense of the complex, multicultural, global, and rapidly changing reality of the context of God’s mission in the world. A more postmodern concept of culture, focusing on meaning and power, is woven through every chapter, and Guest is especially attuned to applying anthropological insights to understanding systems of power in economics, politics, race, gender, sexuality, and religion. If missionaries and missiologists will seriously engage with Essentials of Cultural Anthropology it will have a significant impact on the way they understand the global cultural context in which God’s mission is lived out in the world today.