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The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions contains more than 1,400 articles on the theory, practice, theology, and history of missions. A comprehensive, one-volume reference, it not only provides a wealth of information on the topic of world missions, it also offers a contemporary study of the subject from an evangelical perspective. Over three hundred missionaries, theologians, and educators...

the purposes of those definitions, is mandatory. The diversity also points out the complexity of the word/concept. “Religion” is an attempt to bring under one broad umbrella an incredible diversity of religious ideas and practices. The third source of the difficulty of defining religion is positing transcendence itself. Most definitions of religion recognize, if not the reality of, then the belief in, an entity that is above and beyond the mundane world of everyday existence. Yet by definition such
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