Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

by Brian M. Howell

Book Overview

Brian Howell provides an anthropology of short-term mission (STM) among American Christians. Delivering a history of STM along with an ethnographic case study of a trip to the Dominican Republic, Howell argues that the movement is sustained by a uniquely Christian travel narrative that borrows from the anthropology of tourism and pilgrimage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830839739
• ISBN13: 9780830839735
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"