Missionalia

About Missionalia

Missionalia, the Southern African Journal of Missiology, has served as a leading scholarly voice in mission studies since its founding in 1973 as the journal of the Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS) — itself formed in 1968 through the initiative of David J. Bosch and a small circle of colleagues committed to rigorous, critical reflection on the church's mission. For more than five decades, the journal has provided a home for peer-reviewed research spanning missiology, church history, contextual theology, and the lived realities of faith communities across Africa and beyond, publishing the work of established and emerging scholars alike and helping to shape missiological discourse well past the borders of Southern Africa.

Over the years, Missionalia has done more than publish research — it has built and sustained a community. Seminaries and universities have drawn on its pages for coursework and doctoral research; scholars have used it as a proving ground for new ideas and a benchmark for scholarly rigor; and practitioners in the field have found in it a bridge between careful theological reflection and the practical realities of mission on the ground. As an open-access journal, it has made this scholarship freely available to institutions and individuals who might otherwise lack access to it — a commitment that has always been central to its identity.

Today, Missionalia is entering a new chapter. With a newly rebuilt digital platform, the journal is expanding its reach to connect with partners and readers in more than 40 countries in the coming months, while drawing new academic contributions from a growing network of theological leaders spanning over 100 institutions worldwide. This next season builds on the journal's founding conviction — that faithful, rigorous scholarship on mission belongs in conversation across the whole church, in every region God is at work.

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About Missionalia

Missionalia, the Southern African Journal of Missiology, has served as a leading scholarly voice in mission studies since its founding in 1973 as the journal of the Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS) — itself formed in 1968 through the initiative of David J. Bosch and a small circle of colleagues committed to rigorous, critical reflection on the church's mission. For more than five decades, the journal has provided a home for peer-reviewed research spanning missiology, church history, contextual theology, and the lived realities of faith communities across Africa and beyond, publishing the work of established and emerging scholars alike and helping to shape missiological discourse well past the borders of Southern Africa.

Over the years, Missionalia has done more than publish research — it has built and sustained a community. Seminaries and universities have drawn on its pages for coursework and doctoral research; scholars have used it as a proving ground for new ideas and a benchmark for scholarly rigor; and practitioners in the field have found in it a bridge between careful theological reflection and the practical realities of mission on the ground. As an open-access journal, it has made this scholarship freely available to institutions and individuals who might otherwise lack access to it — a commitment that has always been central to its identity.

Today, Missionalia is entering a new chapter. With a newly rebuilt digital platform, the journal is expanding its reach to connect with partners and readers in more than 40 countries in the coming months, while drawing new academic contributions from a growing network of theological leaders spanning over 100 institutions worldwide. This next season builds on the journal's founding conviction — that faithful, rigorous scholarship on mission belongs in conversation across the whole church, in every region God is at work.

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