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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sherwood G Lingenfelter |
| ISBN: | 0801020689 9780801020681 |
| OCLC Number: | 33665796 |
| Description: | 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Market, Government, Mosque, and Church: The Social Contexts of Change -- 2. The Five Social "Ways of Life" -- 3. Understanding Social Environment -- 4. Property Interests and Cultural Bias -- 5. Labor Interests and Cultural Bias -- 6. Exchange Interests and Cultural Bias -- 7. Family Authority and Cultural Bias -- 8. Community Authority and Cultural Bias -- 9. Conflict, Political Interests, and Cultural Bias -- 10. Ritual, Social Interests, and Cultural Bias -- 11. Cosmology and Cultural Bias -- 12. Cultural Bias in a Mission Organization -- 13. Ideas and Interests: The Dynamics of Culture -- 14. A Pilgrim Lifestyle in Economic Relations -- 15. A Pilgrim Lifestyle in Family and Community -- 16. Agents of Transformation. |
| Other Titles: | Agents of transformation : |
| Responsibility: | Sherwood G. Lingenfelter. |
| Local System Bib Number: | 102987 105693 |
Abstract:
With the publication of Ministering Cross-Culturally and Transforming Culture, Sherwood Lingenfelter has established himself as one of the leading evangelical cultural anthropologists. Building on that reputation, in Agents of Transformation he helps both missionaries and church planters become aware of how the gospel cuts across cultural biases. Agents of Transformation is a companion volume to Transforming Culture. Whereas the latter volume provides the theoretical framework for understanding culture, the former offers research tools that will enable missionaries to ascertain their own cultural biases as well as those among whom they are ministering. Lingenfelter urges missionaries to resolve conflicts and develop ministry strategies within the structure of the indigenous culture with a view toward eventually transforming it.
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