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Introduction to the Sociology of Missions.(Review)
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By Robert L. Montgomery. Westport, Conn.; and London: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xxi, 183. $57.95.
This book is a worthy pioneering effort to make sociology as familiar and instrumentally useful to missiologists as anthropology. Having experience of both missionary work (in Taiwan) and the academy, Montgomery masterfully surveys the discipline of sociology and argues that it can profitably supplement--and sometimes correct--the contributions of anthropology.
He does so, after an opening chapter proposing the field of sociology of missions, by dealing with major areas of concern ...
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