SWEDISH MISSIOLOGICAL THEMES SVENSK MISSIONSTIDSKRIFT

Contributors
ELS-MARIE ANBÄCKEN was a missionary of the Örebro Mission Society (now named Interact)
between 1979 and 1983. Her doctorate for Stockholm University was published in 1997 as
Who Cares? Culture, structure and agency in caring for the elderly in Japan. She has lectured
widely in Sweden and Japan on social work in an international and socio-cultural perspective.
JAN-MARTIN BERENTSEN is Professor of Mission Studies at the School of Mission and Theology in
Stavanger. He is also chief editor of the journal Norsk tidsskrift for misjon. He was a missionary
of the Norwegian Missionary Society in Japan between 1966 and 1974. His publications
include Grave and Gospel: a missiological study in Japanese ancestor worship and the
theological implications of its encounter with Christian faith (Oslo, 1982; revd edn, Leiden,
1985), Det moderne Areopagos: røster fra den religionsteologiske debatten i vårt århundre
(Stavanger, 1994) and he has co-edited Missiologi i dag (Oslo, 1994).
TORMOD ENGELSVIKEN is Professor of Missiology at the Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology
in Oslo, and Professor at Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication in
Kristiansand. His doctoral research on Ethiopia was undertaken for the Aquinas Institute of
Theology and was published as The gift of the spirit (Dubuque, 1981). He has written several
books and articles on the charismatic movement and missiology, most recently Spiritual
conflict in today’s mission (Monrovia, Ca., 2001). He is one of the editors of the textbook
Missiologi i dag (Oslo, 1994).
DEBORAH GAITSKELL is a Research Associate of the History Department at the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London, and an editor of the Journal of Southern African
Studies. Her research interests encompass women’s history, female mission initiatives and
church organisations, domesticity and black girls’ education. She is writing a book on five
women missionaries in South Africa and has recently published articles in Transformation,
Women’s History Review, Journal of Religion in Africa, Feminist Review, and the South African
Historical Journal.
JAN GÓRSKI is a Roman Catholic priest and Professor of Missiology and Ecumenism at the
University of Silesia in Katowice and Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow. He has
authored four books, including Misje w teologii kontekstualnej (St Ottilien, 1991), and
published eighty other studies, mainly in Polish. He is a prominent member of the International
Association of Catholic Missiologists.
HANS RAUN IVERSEN is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Theological Communication
at the University of Copenhagen. He has written Tanzania tur/retur: Syv tekster om socialisme
og mission (Århus, 1981), Ånd og livsform. Husliv. Folkeliv og kirkeliv hos Grundtvig og
sidenhen (Århus, 1987), and co-authored with Eberhard Harbsmeier, Praktisk teologi
(Frederiksberg, 1995).
BRANISLAV KALÈEVIÈ is employed at the Institute for Bible Translation in Stockholm, Sweden,
and has also worked for the Slovenian Bible Society. He has a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy
and psychology from the University of Ljubljana, and is currently submitting a Masters