The Editors : Werner Ustorf is Professor of Mission at the Department of Theology of Birmingham University. He had been teaching previously at Hamburg and Heidelberg universities. His research interest is the history of the missionary movement. Currently his missiological focus is on western culture. Toshiko Murayama from Japan is a doctoral research student at Birmingham's Department of Theology.
She had been coordinating the Centre for the Study of North East Asian Missiology (Birmingham) from 1997 to 1999.