Paperback.

Binding states volume 28; verso page states volume 26.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Edinburgh 2010 Common Call -- Foreword / Heiner Bielefeldt -- Editorial introduction: Freedom of belief and christion mission: a difficult time for freedom of religion / Knud Jørgensen -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- Freedom of religion or belief from a human rights perspective / Tore Lindholm -- Freedom of religion or belilef from a biblical perspective / Thomas Schirrmacher and Richard Howell -- Global challenges and opportunities in religious liberty / Brian Grim -- HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS -- A doxological framework for interpreting discrimination, persecution and martyrdom / Christof Sauer and Dwi Maria Handayani -- A theology of martyrdom / Agne Nordlander -- Mission, persecution and martyrdom in the early church / James J. Stamoolis -- The era of Constantine / Maximilian J. Holzl -- Mission human rights and religious freedom - a relationship of light and shadow: historical, ecumenical and interreligious perspectives / Dietrich Werner -- Christians in a minority situation / Knud Jørgensen -- Religious persecution and violence in the 21st century: a global survey based on the World Watch List / Frans Veerman -- Mission and ethics of Mission 2014 / Christian Troll and Thomas Schirrmacher -- CASE STUDIES -- Egypt - the church under pressure / Cornelis Hulsman and Ramez Atallah -- Christians in Turkey as part of a western conspiracy? a Turkish perspective on christian missionaries / Wolfgang Hade -- The Middle East: a region without a christian future? / Hanna Josua -- Case study: Israell and Messianic Jews / Dan Sered and Yoel Ben-David -- The decline of ancient north African christianity through the impact of Islam / Bernd Brandl -- Marxism and religion: the paradox of church growth in Ethiopia, 1974-1991 / Tibebe Eshete -- Freedom of belief and the church in Eritrea / Kjetil Tronvoll and Daniel Rezene Mekonnen -- The somali Conundrum: christian presence in time of peace and in time of turbulence / David W. Schenk and Peter M. Sensenig -- Religious freedom and christian mission: people's Republic of China / Kim-Kwong Chan -- Beset from within, beleaguered from without: North Korea's catacombs in an era of extermination / Tim A. Peters -- Is the silk road still open? Central Asia: christian mission under growing restrictions on religious freedom / Anneta Vysotskaya -- India: religious poloarisation in Hindu context / Siga Arles -- Mission and persecution - parallel stories: the state of religious minorities in Burma / Kristin Storaker -- Religious freedom in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim state / Jeff Hammond -- Faith and freedom in the land of the pure / Maqsood Kamil -- Freedom of religion and christian mission in Russia before and after the era of the Soviet Union / Valentin Kozhuharov -- Western Europe - marginalisation of christians throughout secularisation? / Lars Dahle -- Religious freedom in Brazil and Latin America / Felipe Augusto Lopes Carvalho and Uziel Santana dos Santos -- MISSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES -- Free to believe and to do mission worldwide / Hans Aage Gravaas -- Do christian witness and mission provoke persecution? / Jan A. B. Jongeneel -- The missionary witness of the persecuted and the martyrs / Tite Tienou -- Christian solidarity inthe face of discrimination and persecution / Christof Sauer.