{"title":"Candis Berends","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCandis Berends completed her PhD in intercultural studies at Columbia International University in 2025. As a nomadic immigrant, she has lived in the United States (her country of birth), Morocco, England, China, Aotearoa New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Timor-Leste. Together with her Kiwi husband, she is the mother of two children, one on earth and one in heaven. Her experiences of bereavement, trauma, relocation, and cross-cultural engagement have shaped her empathetic approach to historical interpretation, attentive not only to what texts reveal but also to the significant absences they contain. Her research and writing have been published in Evangelical Quarterly and in Brill’s Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, 1500–1900.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrowse books by Candis Berends:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"literary-insight-into-mission-leading-up-to-the-edinburgh-world-missionary-conference-of-1910","title":"Literary Insight into Mission Leading Up to the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference of 1910","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DESCRIPTION]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow Available for Preorder!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: December 1, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the insights of British novelists Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and E. Nesbit, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Insight into Mission\u003c\/em\u003e examines novels and missiological texts published around the 1910 World Missionary Conference to illuminate the cultural and missiological conversations of the period. Treating these literary works as contextual aids, this study offers a fresh examination of a pivotal missiological event by exploring how the conference’s reports, debates, and decisions reflected or departed from the broader social discourse of Britain’s high imperial era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecretary J. H. Oldham, Cheng Jingyi, Harada Tasuku, Yun Ch’iho, and V. S. Azariah emerge as noteworthy characters at the conference. Their diplomatic decisions and words to the conference delegates reveal the complexities of navigating power structures during Britain’s high imperial era on British soil and among an assembly predominated by British missionaries. This intertextual reading illuminates an overarching sense of a new era on the horizon. While the potential decline of the British Empire caused angst among the novelists, the conference welcomed a new era in which leadership became younger, more national, and more ecumenical. [\/DESCRIPTION] [PREORDER]12\/01\/26[\/PREORDER][CREDIT] Candis Berends [\/CREDIT] [PAGES] 278 [\/PAGES] [BINDING] Paperback [\/BINDING] [PUBLISHER] William Carey Publishing [\/PUBLISHER] [PUBLISHYEAR] 2026 [\/PUBLISHYEAR] [ENDORSEMENT2]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eThe history of missions is a history of human cultures. This detailed study offers a fascinating and fruitful examination of one snapshot in missionary history through the lens of key literary and cultural artifacts. In so doing, it not only illuminates that moment but also brings light to the ways in which cultural texts are written and how, in turn, those texts help us to record, remember, and at times misremember the histories we tell, and how they help us to imagine and enact the future. Moreover, its cross-disciplinary approach—one that combines missiology with literary criticism—models a fruitful way forward, both academically and practically, for the church to bridge social and cultural gaps in spreading the gospel.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ccite\u003eKaren Swallow Prior, PhD\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor of The Evangelical Imagination\u003c\/span\u003e [\/ENDORSEMENT2] [ENDORSEMENT3]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eIn the history of mission studies, it is important to grasp the cultures and worldviews of missionary senders—denominations, societies, and theologians. In this intriguing work, by engaging the literature of nineteenth-century Britain before the 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, Candis Berends provides an excellent window into nineteenth-century mission sending from this Western nation. Students of British literature and mission history alike will benefit from this work.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ccite\u003eEdward L. Smither, PhD\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDean, School of Missions and Intercultural Ministry, Columbia International University\u003c\/span\u003e [\/ENDORSEMENT3] [ENDORSEMENT4]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eWhen I first heard about Candis Berends's monograph, I was filled with anticipation. As a missions professor whose undergraduate degree was in French, German, and English literature, I was very curious to see what would happen when these worlds collided. I was not disappointed! Placing the foundational World Missions Conference (WMC) in the context of empire, as reflected in contemporary novels, and exploring the mixed motivations of British society in its missionary zeal, helps today's missiologist understand some of the baggage we still carry, while at the same time helping us to see the positive ways the WMC 1910 was actually countercultural. All in all, this work is a unique and valuable contribution to the field of twenty-first century missiology.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ccite\u003eThe Rev. Bradley P. Roderick, PhD\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e [\/ENDORSEMENT4] [TOC]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbstract\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Historical Context of the WMC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     The Heft of King George V’s “Presence”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     History of European Empires Relative to Missional Interests\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Nationalistic Movements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     British-Specific Historical Realities Prior to the WMC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Cultural Context of the WMC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Thomas Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Rudyard Kipling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     E. Nesbit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Missiological Context of the WMC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e      The British Missiologists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e      Themes in Conversation Across the Missiological Texts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e      New Historicist Considerations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e      Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The WMC as a Meta-Text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     The WMC in Its Moment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Indigenous Speakers at the WMC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     The WMC’s Demonstration of Ecumenism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Effects of the WMC in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Analysis of Intertextuality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Themes Arising from the Literature Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     New Themes Arising from Reading the Texts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     New Historicist Concerns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Summary and Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix A. King George V’s Message to the WMC Delegates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix B. The Eight Commissions of the WMC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix C. The WMC’S Official Reply to King George V\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix D. Ranking of Mission Lands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\/TOC]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Carey Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49767290896643,"sku":"9781645087533","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook (Lumina Reader app)","offer_id":49767290863875,"sku":"9781645087557","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/5615\/1158\/files\/LiteraryInsightintoMission_CVR-Front.jpg?v=1791384331"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/5615\/1158\/collections\/AUTHOR_IMAGE_53ce5dfc-62a2-4600-a0cb-1c44d0dbfb19.png?v=1791998829","url":"https:\/\/missionbooks.org\/collections\/author-candis-berends.oembed","provider":"MissionBooks.org","version":"1.0","type":"link"}