"Followers of Jesus believe that God has left a witness of God's self in every culture, among every people, at every period of human history. But the way human beings appraise the evidence of God's presence and connect to the supernatural through rituals and ceremonies has varied broadly throughout generations and across the planet. How can these tradi- tional and pre-Christian rituals be used to promote deep and compelling relevant Christian forms of worship? Anthro- pologist Dan Shaw and theologian Bill Burrows provide a path forward with an understanding and model of hybridity that moves the discussion of contextualization well beyond simply a way to avoid syncretism. Following their two elo- quent and insightful introductory chapters that lays the theoretical ground work, they provide us with twelve case stud- ies full of rich ethnographic detail from around the world. We have needed a book that combines solid missiological and anthropological theory with numerous examples. Traditional Ritual as Christian Worship will make a huge contri- bution to the missiological literature on contextualization."