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mission, linguistics, religion, Christianity, anthropology, missiology, intercultural studies
Kenya, Tanzania

Biography

Jim Harries, originally from UK, has lived in Siaya, western Kenya, since 1993 (previously, since 1988, in NW Province of Zambia). Jim is the chairman of the AVM (Alliance for Vulnerable Mission); he encourages people to do mission and development work using indigenous languages and resources. Jim believes that context is important to scholarship. Hence he communicates important contextual impacts on understanding arising from contemporary Africa. His primary work, in addition to research and writing, is bible teaching using African languages (Luo and Swahili) especially with indigenous churches. Jim is adjunct faculty at William Carey International University in California. He chairs the AVM (Alliance for Vulnerable Mission).

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Employment (3)

William Carey International University: Pasadena, CA, US

Research. (intercultural studies)
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Coptic Orthodox Church, Kenya: Nairobi, KE

2019-01-01 to present | Missionary
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Zion Harvest Mission: Kisumu, KE

1993 to present | Missionary
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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Birmingham: Birmingham, UK., Midlands, GB

2003-01-01 to 2007-07-17 | PhD (Theology)
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Formal Adoption of Wholistic Evaluation of English is Urgently Needed to Avoid Generation of Racism in the West, and Under-Development in Africa

2024-03-05 | Book chapter
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Envy: Differences between the West and Africa

Missiology: An International Review
2023-10 | Journal article
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Interpreting Cross-Cultural Digital Ethnography

Practices, Challenges, and Prospects of Digital Ethnography as a Multidisciplinary Method
2022-05-27 | Book chapter | Author
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A Traditional African Perspective on God and Disease

2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1-7252-9011-2
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Re-Strategising Mission (and Development) Intervention into Africa to Avoid Corruption, the Prosperity Gospel and Missionary Ignorance

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies
2021-10 | Journal article
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Essential Alternatives to Contemporary Missionary Training: For the Sake of Vulnerability to the Majority World (Africa)

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies
2019-10 | Journal article
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Five Cheers for the Ontological Turn

OKH Journal: Anthropological Ethnography and Analysis Through the Eyes of Christian Faith
2019-07-31 | Journal article
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The Mission of Development: Religion and Techno-Politics in Asia, edited by Catherine Scheer, Philip Fountain, and R. Michael Feener

OKH Journal: Anthropological Ethnography and Analysis Through the Eyes of Christian Faith
2019-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jim Osmar Harries
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Intercultural Generosity in Christian Perspective: The ‘West’ and Africa

Transformation
2015 | Journal article
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Secularism and Africa: In the Light of the Intercultural Christ

2015 | Book
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THE TALK LEADS THE WAY (ASTRAY): MISSION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA TODAY

Global Missiology English
2014 | Journal article
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Communication in Mission and Development: Relating to the Church in Africa

2013 | Book
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Jigger Fleas, Spirits, Inter-cultural Theology and the Development of Africa

Global Missiology English
2013 | Journal article
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Understanding and Responding to the Prosperity Gospel in Africa

Global Missiology English
2013 | Journal article
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Vulnerable Mission as an Alternative to Failing Aid Paradigms: Facing Reality on Reaching Africa

Global Missiology English
2013 | Journal article
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African Pentecostalism in Intercultural Linguistic Context 1

Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association
2013-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Jim Harries
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The Glaring Gap, Anthropology, Religion, and Christianity in African Development

Exchange
2013-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jim Harries
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The Great delusion: post-colonial language policy for mission and development in africa reviewed

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies
2012 | Journal article
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The immorality of the promotion of non-indigenous languages in africa

Global Missiology English
2012 | Journal article
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Theory to Practice in Vulnerable Mission: An Academic Appraisal

2012 | Book
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Witchcraft, envy, development, and Christian mission in africa

Missiology: An international review
2012 | Journal article
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The Contribution of the Use of English in Africa to Dependency in Mission and Development

Exchange
2012-01-01 | Journal article
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Deliverance ministry in an African cultural perspective

2011 | Other
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pragmatic linguistics applied to Bible translation, projects and intercultural Relationships: an african focus

Vulnerable Mission; Insights into Christian Mission to Africafrom aposition ofvulnerability
2011 | Journal article
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The Immorality of Aid to the'Third World'(Africa)

Vulnerable Mission; Insights into Christian Mission to Africa from a position of vulnerability
2011 | Journal article
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The Top Shelf in the Bible College Library

Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology
2011 | Journal article
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Vulnerable Mission: Insights into Christian Mission to Africa from a Position of Vulnerability

2011 | Book
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“Is It Post-modern, or Is It Just the Real Thing?”--Challenging Inter-cultural Mission-A Parable

Global Missiology English
2011 | Journal article
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Mission in a Post Modern World: Issues of Language and Dependency in Post-Colonial Africa

Exchange
2010 | Journal article
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The Perceived Nature of God in Europe and in Africa Dealing with “Difference” in Theology, Focusing on “Altered States of Consciousness”

Missiology: An International Review
2010 | Journal article
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Translation and the Language of Implementation of Third World Development: A Study of Sustainability in Africa

Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa
2010 | Journal article
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Witchcraft, culture, and theology in African development

African Nebula
2010 | Journal article
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The Perceived Nature of God in Europe and in Africa

Missiology
2010-10 | Journal article
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Mission in a Post Modern World: Issues of Language and Dependency in Post-Colonial Africa

Exchange
2010-01-01 | Journal article
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A Linguistic Case for the necessity of Enculturation in Theological and Economic Teaching based on the ‘Shape of Words’: including a case study comparing Sub-Saharan Africa with the West

Journal of Intercultural Communication
2009 | Journal article
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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT MONEY? SOME THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

The Goal of International Development: God's Will on Earth, as It Is in Heaven
2009 | Journal article
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'The Name of God in Africa' and Related Contemporary Theological, Development and Linguistic Concerns

Exchange
2009-07-01 | Journal article
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Intercultural Dialogue—an overrated means of acquiring understanding examined in the context of Christian Mission to Africa

Exchange
2008 | Journal article
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providence and power structures in mission and development initiatives from the West to the Rest: a critique of current practice

Evangelical Review of Theology
2008 | Journal article
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‘Material Provision’or Preaching the Gospel: Reconsidering ‘Holistic’(Integral) Mission

Evangelical Quarterly
2008 | Journal article
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Intercultural Dialogue — An Overrated Means of Acquiring Understanding Examined in the Context of Christian Mission to Africa

Exchange
2008-04-01 | Journal article
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Language in Education, Mission and Development in Africa

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2007 | Journal article
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Mission to the South, Words to the North: Reflections on Communication in the Church by a Northerner in the South

Exchange
2007-06-01 | Journal article
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Biblical Hermeneutics in Relation to Conventions of Language Use in Africa

Evangelical review of theology
2006 | Journal article
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Good-by-default and evil in Africa

Missiology: an international review
2006 | Journal article
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Ghosts and Cleansing amongst the Luo People of Kenya in 2000

Kima International School of Theology, Maseno, Kenya
2001 | Journal article
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The magical Worldview in the african Church: What is going on?

Missiology: An International Review
2000 | Journal article
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Afterword-The Top Shelf in the Bible College Library: More on MTTE after reading Richard Gehman’s Afterword in AJET 29.2

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Holiness in African Perspective

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Power and Ignorance on the Mission Field or" the Hazards of Feeding Crowds

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