Free Enough to Grow
The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016
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Beschreibung
This open access volume provides an absorbing analysis of the multifaceted mission that gave rise to the Turkish Protestant movement. James Bultema identifies and investigates four central factors that have contributed to the movement’s development: religious freedom, missionary activity, interdependent choice, and plausibility structures. He explores the complex interplay of these factors, drawing upon an array of qualitative interviews and historical studies to decipher the movement’s first 55 years.
By means of hermeneutics and abductive reasoning, Bultema teases out his argument that imperfect but sufficient religious freedom created a fertile foundation for the growth of mostly tiny Turkish Protestant churches that were countercultural and vulnerable, but also vitally interconnected. His work contributes an intriguing case study on the complicated give-and-take of Christian mission and religious freedom in a Muslim-majority context, an original framework of interrelating conceptual constructs, and a most extensive mission history of the Turkish Protestant movement.
Students of Turkey and mission and scholars of religious studies, missiology, and modern Christianity, be sure to engage with a rewarding reading of Free Enough to Grow: The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016—winner of the Science Award on Religious Freedom 2026 from the Freie Theologische Hochschule (FTH) Gießen.
This open access volume provides an absorbing analysis of the multifaceted mission that gave rise to the Turkish Protestant movement. James Bultema identifies and investigates four central factors that have contributed to the movement’s development: religious freedom, missionary activity, interdependent choice, and plausibility structures. He explores the complex interplay of these factors, drawing upon an array of qualitative interviews and historical studies to decipher the movement’s first 55 years.
By means of hermeneutics and abductive reasoning, Bultema teases out his argument that imperfect but sufficient religious freedom created a fertile foundation for the growth of mostly tiny Turkish Protestant churches that were countercultural and vulnerable, but also vitally interconnected. His work contributes an intriguing case study on the complicated give-and-take of Christian mission and religious freedom in a Muslim-majority context, an original framework of interrelating conceptual constructs, and a most extensive mission history of the Turkish Protestant movement.
Students of Turkey and mission and scholars of religious studies, missiology, and modern Christianity, be sure to engage with a rewarding reading of Free Enough to Grow: The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016—winner of the Science Award on Religious Freedom 2026 from the Freie Theologische Hochschule (FTH) Gießen.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access The only book to provide a historical interpretive overview of the influential rise of the Turkish Protestant movement The first book to propose the conceptual construct of a multilevel plausibility structure The only book to propound an ethnic-religious synthesis of post-conversion identity
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James Bultema
Themen in »Free Enough to Grow«
Open Access Religious Freedom in Islam Christian Mission in Muslim Contexts Religious Conversion and Identity Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background Plausibility Structure Christian Mission Islam