Understanding and Teaching Religious Belief Systems in the 21st Century Missions

Abstract

My purpose in writing this paper is to demonstrate the use of a systems model as a way to enable both graduate and undergraduate students who are training for cross-cultural ministry to use specific models to examine the structural properties of religious belief systems. In so doing I am trusting that some who read or hear this presentation will see this subject as a valuable area of preparation that should be taught more widely in undergraduate and graduate studies for prospective or current cross-cultural workers.