Encountering the West : Christianity and the global cultural process : the African dimension
by
Sanneh, Lamin O.
Title
:
Encountering the West : Christianity and the global cultural process : the African dimension
Author
:
Sanneh, Lamin O.
ISBN
:
9780883449295
9780883449349
Personal Author
:
Sanneh, Lamin O.
Publication Information
:
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, ©1993.
Physical Description
:
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Series
:
World Christian theology series
World Christian theology series.
General Note
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"First published in Great Britain in 1993 by Marshall Pickering"--Title page verso.
Contents
:
1. Religion and the Cultural Project: An Examination of Thought and Action -- 2. 'They Stooped to Conquer': Cultural Vitality and the Indigenous Impulse in Missionary Translations -- 3. Gospel and Culture: Theological and Religious Reflections -- 4. Religious Insiders and Cultural Outsiders, or Religious Outsiders and Cultural Insiders? The Intercultural Critique -- 5. Religious Agnostics and Cultural Believers: Comparative Soundings on the Lost Trails of Christendom -- 6. 'The Garden of Eden Without the Snake?' The Moral Sting in the Cultural Tale: Some Conclusions.
Abstract
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Does religion reinforce the balkanization of cultural attitudes or does it help people transcend their culture? A noted scholar of world Christianity, Lamin Sanneh offers Westerners a perspective on such questions, a way to test the religio-cultural water and air in which they live.
He shows how modernity has made of moderns "cultural believers" and "religious agnostics," and how the stubborn refusal to confront this bias in both secular and religious culture depletes both Christianity and Western culture.
Subject Term
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Christianity and culture.
Missions.
Missions -- Africa.
Christianity and other religions.
Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Religious pluralism -- Christianity.
Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00859599
Christianity and culture. (OCoLC)fst00859660
Christianity and other religions. (OCoLC)fst00859685
Civilization -- Western influences. (OCoLC)fst01352414
Interfaith relations. (OCoLC)fst01353343
Islam. (OCoLC)fst00979776
Missions. (OCoLC)fst01023771
Religious pluralism -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst01752187
Christendom.
Cultuur.
christianisme -- culture -- mission -- Afrique.
christianisme -- culture -- Occident -- Afrique.
missiologie -- relativisme culturel.
christianisme -- pluralisme (théologie) -- pluralisme culturel.
Kultur.
Christentum.
Islam.
Geographic Term
:
Africa -- Civilization -- Western influences.
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Afrika.
Electronic Access
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