As the ecumenical professional association
for mission studies in North America, the American Society of Missiology
includes more than 600 academicians, mission agency
executives and missionaries in a unique fellowship of scholarship and mission.
It seeks to:
Promote the scholarly study of theological, historical, social and practical
questions relating to the missionary dimension of the Christian church.
Relate studies in Missiology to the other scholarly disciplines.
Promote fellowship and cooperation among individuals and institutions engaged
in activities and studies related to Missiology.
Facilitate mutual assistance and exchange of information among those thus
engaged.
Encourage research and publication in the study of Christian missions.
The ASM publishes the quarterly journal Missiology:
An International Review which has a worldwide
circulation of approximately 2,100 subscribers. The Editor of the journal
is Terry C. Muck. Associate Editors
are Angelyn Dries and Graham Walker.
In cooperation with Orbis Books, the society publishes the ASM
Series, in which 28 monographs have been published since 1980.
Angelyn
Dries, OSF, is chair of the editorial committee for the series.
The ASM Dissertation Series
was begun in 1993. Gary McGee is
chair of the editorial committee for that series which has published three
volumes thus far in cooperation with University Press of America.
In all of its publications, it is the concern
of the ASM to incorporate the knowledge, understanding, skills, and techniques
provided by the social and behavioral sciences, by regional area studies,
by a wide range of professional experience (in fields such as agriculture,
education, medicine, and public health), and by biblical, theological and
historical studies.
The ASM meets annually
in June in tandem with the Association of Professors of Mission (APM). |