Full text now available online!

Current issue table of Contents

Missiology is the quarterly journal of the American Society of Missiology. It began publication in 1973, continuing in the tradition of its predecessor Practical Anthropology. An one of the premier scholarly journals of mission studies, it is distinctively:

• multi-disciplinary: including history, theology, anthropology, communication theory, religious encounter, ecumenics, methodology.

• interconfessional: including works from Roman Catholic, conciliar, and conservative evangelical spheres.

• practical: including not just theoretical reflection, but applied mission science.

The journal has a worldwide circulation of approximately 1,500 subscribers (including 1,000 libraries) and costs $26 per year for individuals ($22 for students) and $40 per year for institutions. ASM membership ($37 per year, $27 for students, $19 for retirees) includes a subscription to the journal. (For details and/or online subscription, go to Membership & Subscription.  Contact Dorothy Carroll for further information.)

The Editor of the journal is J. Nelson Jennings. Associate Editors are Colleen Mallon, OP, and Jay Moon.  Unsolicited manuscripts are welcomed. A downloadable Style Guide is provided to aid prospective authors; a Book Review Style Guide is also available for those who contribute book reviews.

Advertisers appropriate to the contents of the journal are welcomed. These may be arranged through Jean Warren, Missiology Advertising Manager. [Contact Information]

Majority World Gift Subscriptions are also now available for purchase.  Gift subscription funds will be used to provide free subscriptions to individuals and institutions in the Majority World who have expressed an interest in receiving Missiology.  The Missiology Editorial Office also welcomes nominations for Majority World Gift Subscription recipients; please notify Dorothy Carroll if you are aware of an individual or institution in the Majority World who may be blessed by receiving a free Missiology subscription. (Contribution rates, listed in one, two, and three year increments, will soon be added to the Membership/Subscription page of the website where payment can be made.)  

Online Access

Missiology is among the key theological journals chosen by American Theological Library Association (ATLA) to be included in ATLASerials® (ATLAS®). ATLASerials® (ATLAS®) is an online database collection of a subset of more than 140 of the major religion and theology journals indexed in the ATLA Religion Database® and available as full-text journal articles. If you would like to subscribe to ATLASerials® (ATLAS®), please specify if you are interested in individual, academic institutional, or congregational subscription access and email ATLA sales staff at sales@atla.com for further details.