Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arts and mission : a complex story of cultural encounter / James R. Krabill -- Performing witness : loving our religious neighbors through musicking / Roberta R. King -- God moves in a mysterious way : Christian church music in multifaith Liberia, West Africa, in the face of crisis and challenge / Ruth M. Stone -- Sounds, languages, and rhythms : hybridized popular music and Christian-national identity formation in Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia / Sooi-Ling Tan -- Art as dialogue : exploring sonically aware spaces for interreligious encounters / Ruth Illman -- Simba Nguruma : the labor of Christian song in polycultural, multifaith Kenya / Jean Ngoya Kidula -- Crate-digging through culture : hip-hop and mission in pluralistic Southern Africa / Megan Meyers -- "Let the sacred be redefined by the people" : an aesthetics of challenge across religious lines / Michelle Voss Roberts and Demi Day McCoy -- Wild, wild China : contemporary art and neocolonialism / Joyce Yu-Jean Lee -- The poetic formation of interfaith identities : the Zapatista case / William Dyrness.

"In search of holistic Christian witness, we must cultivate new approaches for integrating the arts into mission praxis. Written by missiologists, art critics, ethnodoxologists, and theologians from around the world, these essays present historical and contemporary case studies while calling Christians to understand the power of art for expressing cultural and religious identity, opening spaces for transformative encounters, and resisting injustice"--