Mary is shown in this book to offer a lens through whom different forms of evanglisation take shape. On the one hand, the approach of building on a host culture for evangelisation is presented in this book as tilling the soil: cultivating the conditions which might enable an appropriate response from others to the invitation of faith. Yes Mary is also shown here as a figure in whom evangelisation takes shape through challenging dominant cultural norms by sowing the seed of authentic Catholic teaching. Through a close reading of the theologies of culture at work in Pedro Arrupe, SJ, Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Dorothy Day and John Henry Newman, this book not only outlines the theories behind key strategies for conducting the New Evangelisation in considerable depth and detail, but reveals the fundamentally Marian texture which they share, so the hitherto untapped resources of the title of Mary as "Star of the New Evangelisation" are brought vividly to light in new and unexpected ways.