Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness - How Personality, Calling, and Learned Competencies Influence the Expatriate Transitions of Pentecostal Missionaries

In Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness, John Farquhar Plake examines how Pentecostal missionaries adjust to foreign cultural environments and become proficient at their work abroad. Through an interdisciplinary lens, Plake examines predictors of expatriate effectiveness in 949 missionaries working in 127 nations.

About the author

John Farquhar Plake, Ph.D. (2014), Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, is an Adjunct Professor of Intercultural Studies at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, U.S.A. He specializes in missionary education, cross-cultural training, and student spiritual formation.

Product details

• Authors: John Farquhar Plake
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2016
• EAN: 9789004313811
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31381-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Global Pentecostal and Charism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations