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  1. Book review: David R. Fields, Preaching and the Mission of God: Faithful Witness after Christendom FieldsDavid R.Preaching and the Mission of God: Faithful Witness after ChristendomEugene, OR: Wipf & S...

    Article • Missiology An International Review, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  2. Book Review: Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of the Church by Stephen B. Bevans BevansStephen B.. Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of the Church. Marykn...

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, December 2025, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  3. A Political Theology of Vulnerability, written by Sturla J. Stålsett

    Article • International Journal of Public Theology, December 2025, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  4. RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATION IN MAYA GUATEMALA: CULTURAL COLLAPSE AND CHRISTIAN PENTECOSTAL REVITALIZATION. Edited by John P.Hawkins. University of New Mexico Press, 2021. Pp. xxvi + 413. Hardback, $64.95.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  5. THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES TO RELIGION. Edited by YairLior and JustinLane. Routledge Handbooks in Religion. Routledge, 2023. Pp. xvi + 523. Hardback, $224.00; Paperback, $59.99.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  6. THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH METHODS IN SPIRITUALITY AND CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES. Edited by BernadetteFlanagan and KerriClough. Routledge Handbooks in Religion. Routledge, 2025. Pp. xiv + 407. Hardback, $240.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  7. Heritage and Horizons: Continuity and Divergence in Chinese Mission Movements

    Article • Exchange, September 2025, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  8. A DREAM OF THE JUDGMENT DAY: AMERICAN MILLENNIALISM AND APOCALYPTICISM, 1620–1890. By John HowardSmith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxii +370. Hardback, $74.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  9. EARLY JEWISH MESSIANISM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: REFLECTIONS IN THE DIM MIRROR. By SergeRuzer. Jewish and Christian Perspectives, 36. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii + 286. Hardback, $170.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  10. INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND YOGA IN GERMANY. By OwenWare. New York and London: Routledge. 2024. Pp. xx + 178. Hardback, $190.00; Paperback, $54.99; E‐Book, open‐access.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  11. THE BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK OF RELIGION, GENDER AND SEXUALITY. Edited by Sonya Sharma, Dawn Llewellyn, and Sîan Melvill Hawthorne. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. xii + 481. Hardback, $190.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  12. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM. Edited by AndrewAtherstone and David CeriJones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 720. Hardback, $165.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  13. Modern Chinese Theologies, Volume 1: Heritage and Prospect, edited by Chloë Starr

    Article • Journal of World Christianity, August 2025, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Tianji Ma

  14. Book Review: The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission by Wright, Christopher J. H. WrightChristopher J. H..The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Bib...

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  15. Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945–1980, by John Maiden

    Article • Pneuma, July 2025, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  16. Book Review: South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim. Oxford Studies in World Christianity by Chandra Mallampalli MallampalliChandra. South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim. Oxford Studies in World Ch...

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  17. Book Review: A Hundred Years of Mission Cooperation: The Impact of the International Missionary Council 1921–2021 by Jukko, Risto Together in the Mission of God: Jubilee Reflections on the International Mis...

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  18. The Spirit of Populism: Political Theologies in Polarized Times, edited by Ulrich Schmiedel and Joshua Ralston

    Article • International Journal of Public Theology, June 2025, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  19. EMPTY CHURCHES: NON‐AFFILIATION IN AMERICA. . Edited by James L.Heft, S.M. and Jan E.Stets. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 368. Hardback, $140.00; Paperback, $45.99.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  20. INVENTING AMERICA'S FIRST IMMIGRATION CRISIS: POLITICAL NATIVISM IN THE ANTEBELLUM WEST. By LukeRitter. Catholic Practice in North America. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 255. Hardback, $115.00; Paperback, $39.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  21. AN ETHOS OF BLACKNESS: RASTAFARI COSMOLOGY, CULTURE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS. By Jean‐MarieVivaldi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 230. Hardback, $120.00; Paperback, $30.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, May 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  22. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER. . Edited by Andrew C.Dole, Shelli M.Poe, and Kevin M.Vander Schel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xxxii + 683. Hardback, $170.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, May 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  23. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND ECONOMIC ETHICS. . Edited by AlbinoBarrera and Roy C.Amore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xiv + 722. Hardback, $190.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, May 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  24. Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-century France, by Michèle Miller Sigg

    Article • Religion and Gender, March 2025, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  25. Faith, Identity, and Ethnocentrism: A Case Study of Chinese Evangelical Churches in Germany

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, March 2025, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  26. Towards a Truly Catholic and a Truly Asian Church, written by Jukka Helle

    Article • International Journal of Asian Christianity, March 2025, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  27. Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China, written by Glen L. Thompson

    Article • International Journal of Asian Christianity, March 2025, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  28. CHURCH PLANTERS: INSIDE THE WORLD OF RELIGION ENTREPRENEURS. By Richard N.Pitt. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. x + 326. Hardback, $39.99.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  29. MAKE YOURSELVES GODS: MORMONS AND THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF AMERICAN SECULARISM. By PeterCoviello. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 304. Hardback, $94.00; Paperback, $31.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  30. MORMON LIFESTYLES: COMMUNICATING RELIGION AND ETHICS IN DOCUMENTARY MEDIA. By Marie‐ThereseMäder. Media and Religion, 5. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 2020. Pp. 385. Paperback, €79.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  31. MORMONISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY: AMERICAN RELIGION AND THE PROBLEM OF RACIAL INNOCENCE. By JoannaBrooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 229. Hardback, $44.99.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  32. TERRIBLE REVOLUTION: LATTER‐DAY SAINTS AND THE AMERICAN APOCALYPSE. By Christopher JamesBlythe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. x + 333. Hardback, $100.00; Paperback, $29.95.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  33. THE FEELING OF FORGETTING: CHRISTIANITY, RACE, AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA. By JohnCorrigan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2023. Pp. viii + 229. Hardback, $99.00; Paperback, $30.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  34. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF EARLY EVANGELICALISM. . Edited by JonathanYeager. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 661. Hardback, $175.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2025, Wiley

    Tianji Ma

  35. Book Review: Sarah Diefendorf, Review of The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals Review of The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals, by DiefendorfSarah, 2023. Oakland, CA: Univ...

    Article • Review of Religious Research, February 2025, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  36. Book Review: No Longer Strangers: Transforming Evangelism with Immigrant Communities by Eugene Cho and Samira Izadi (eds) EugeneCho and SamiraIzadi (eds), No Longer Strangers: Transforming Evangelism with Immigrant Commun...

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  37. The Cross, Friendship and Justice

    Article • The Expository Times, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  38. World Religions and their Missions, by Aaron J. Ghiloni, ed.

    Article • Religion and Theology, December 2024, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  39. The Missionary Spirit: Evangelism and Social Action in Pentecostal Missiology, by Jerry M. Ireland

    Article • Pneuma, December 2024, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  40. An exploratory study of Chinese migrant churches in Germany with a focus on their multidimensional functional purpose

    Article • Missiology An International Review, December 2024, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  41. Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World, written by Taylor C. Boas

    Article • Mission Studies, December 2024, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  42. Book Review: The Missionary Movement from the West: A Biography from Birth to Old Age by Walls, Andrew F.

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, December 2024, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  43. Contextualization or Syncretism? The Use of Other-Faith Worship Forms in the Bible and in Insider Movements, written by Derek Brotherson

    Article • Exchange, October 2024, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  44. Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe, by Voddie T. Baucham

    Article • Evangelical Quarterly An International Review of Bible and Theology, October 2024, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  45. Book Review: God at Work in the World: Theology and Mission in the Global Church by Lalsangkima Pachuau

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  46. A Reader in Chinese Theology, edited and translator by Chloë Starr

    Article • Exchange, September 2024, Brill

    Tianji Ma

  47. Schism: Seventh-day Adventism in Post-Denominational China, written by Christie Chui-Shan Chow

    Article • International Journal of Asian Christianity, August 2024, De Gruyter

    Tianji Ma

  48. A Possible Approach to the Translation Critique of the Chinese New Living Translation: Towards a Combined Holistic Method for Evaluating a “Daughter Translation”

    Article • The Bible Translator, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  49. Christ-Followers in Other Religions: The Global Witness of Insider Movements, written by Darren T. Duerksen

    Article • Mission Studies, July 2024, Brill

    Tianji Ma

  50. Book Review: Creative Collaborations: Case Studies of North American Missional Practices. International Missionary Council Centenary Series by Robert, Dana L., Kach-Yawnghwe, Allison, and Crago, Morgan

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  51. Book Review: Protestantism as a Worldwide Renewal Movement from 1945 until Today: Panoramic Survey Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity by Jan A. B. Jongeneel

    Article • Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, February 2024, SAGE Publications

    Tianji Ma

  52. Is Human Freedom an Illusion?

    Article • International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, May 2023, Eurasia Academic Publishing

    Tianji Ma

  53. Mission as "crossing frontiers"? - a New Mission Theological Reflection on the Mission Concept of David Bosch

    Article • Missionalia, January 2023, Stellenbosch University

    Tianji Ma

  54. Multi-configurational Ehrenfest simulations of ultrafast nonadiabatic dynamics in a charge-transfer complex

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, December 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Rocco Martinazzo, Tianji Ma

  55. Ultrafast exciton migration in an HJ-aggregate: Potential surfaces and quantum dynamics

    Article • Chemical Physics, January 2017, Elsevier

    Tianji Ma