Douglas Petersen
Douglas Petersen is Margaret S. Smith Distinguished Professor of World Missions and Intercultural Studies at Vanguard University of Southern California. Dr. Petersen teaches courses in the graduate program in inter-cultural studies on subjects relating to world missions, having lived and served on the mission field for many years. He is also the founding director of CINCEL, VUSC's Costa Rica Study Center that prepares students for work on a variety of levels within Latin America by intense language study, cultural emersion and significant issues related to the mission field.
Dr. Petersen is the author of Not by Might Nor by Power. A Pentecostal Theology of Social Concern in Latin America. He has also co-authored a number of books including The Globalization of Pentecostalism: A Religion made to Travel and Called and Empowered: Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective both co-authored with Murray W. Dempster and Byron D. Klaus. He is also the editor of Transformation: An international Dialogue on Mission and Ethic, a magazine with worldwide distribution published by The Oxford Center for Mission Studies.
