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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Missionary Library has published the LXXI Volume of the “Missionary Bibliography” 2007. As scholars and experts in this material know, it is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, as it offers a rich documentation of books and articles on the missionary world in its various aspects: history, religious orders, missionary congregations, missionary territories, missionary methodology, interreligious dialogue, ecumenism, new religious movements...Each one presents an exhaustive panoramic sketch of 3,000 articles on the mission in over 800 magazines worldwide. The volume is in English, while the bibliographical citations are in their original languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, and Scandinavian.
Founded by Fr. Johannes Rommerskirchen, OMI, in 1925, since 1978, the Missionary Bibliography has been linked to the Library at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. The present director is Fr. Marek Rostrowski, OMI, Librarian. The LXXI volume, the most recent edition, holds 3,858 articles and publications on 22 themes including: theology of the mission, history of the mission, present and future of the mission, missionary institutes, ecumenical dialogue and mission, religions in general, mission and atheism, mission and culture, situation of the mission in different continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, United States and Canada, Australia and Oceania.
The Appendix includes the addresses given at presentation of the 70th volume of the work, last year. Following this, there are 35 missionary book reviews. The volume is completed by two thorough indexes, one of authors and persons, and the other of themes. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 4/12/2008)
