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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity presents a collection of essays that explore a range of topics relating to the rise, spread, and influence of Christianity throughout the world. Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more Explores the development of Christian traditions over the past two centuries across several continents and the rise in secularization
In this book, Kenneth Nehrbass examines the interaction between traditional or animistic religion (called kastom) and Christianity in Vanuatu. First, he briefly outlines major anthropological theories of animism, then he examines eight aspects of animism on Tanna Island and shows how they present a challenge to Christianity. He traces the history of Christianity on Tanna from 1839 to the present, showing which missiological theories the various missionaries were implementing. Nehrbass wanted to find out what experiences in the lives of the islanders distinguished those who left traditional religion behind from those who held on to it. In the end, he contends that there are twenty factors of gospel response and cultural integration that determine whether an animistic background believer will be a mixer, separator, transplanter, or contextualizer.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...vol. vi., 1884, p. 217, and Pioneering in New Guinea, p. 124 seq. 1 " The fame of Tamate has been noised abroad, so that people from China Straits and even from the Louisiade Archipelago visit him." H. M. Chester, Magistrate at Thursday Island to Colonial Secretary, Brisbane, August 3o, 1878. (PP. 1883, c. 3617, p. 8o.) 3 Work and Adventure in New Guinea, 1885, p. 213. 4 G. R. Askwith (Scratchley's Secretary) in Australian Defences and New Guinea, p. 36o. In December 1877 an attack was made upon the mission lugger Mayri, the captain of which was wounded. Chester, in forwarding the latter's report to the Colonial Secretary, Brisbane, added: "It appears they (the missionary party) have firearms but Mr Chalmers will not allow them to be loaded." No action was taken against the natives by H.M.S. Sappho beyond warning them. (PP. 1883, c. 3617, pp. 47-31.) See also Chalmers's A utobiography, pp. 146-151, and Work and Adventure in Kew Guinea, p. 58-62. He certainly could never otherwise have obtained that influence over the natives which enabled him, and in a lesser degree, enabled Lawes to render such conspicuous service to explorers, and gold-seekers, and to the Protectorate. The broad-minded religious policy of the missionaries increased, and helped to maintain the influence gained by their peaceful bearing. They came as educators as well as protectors, and they were careful not to render the principles they taught unpopular, by attempting to put savages, accustomed to licence, into the straitwaistcoat of European convention. They emphasized their creed, not by trying to enforce a rigid code of European manners, but by interpreting the Christian inspiration in terms suitable to a different climate and a different race....
Excerpt from Christianity and Civilization in the South Pacific: The Influence of Missionaries Upon European Expansion in the Pacific During the Nineteenth Century (the Robert Herbert Memorial Prize Essay, 1920) The subject of this essay is so wide that the writer has found himself compelled to limit the field of his inquiry in two directions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This book engages with a widespread contemporary dilemma--how do we do theology in a context where the cultures of the people are oral and not literate? The nations of the South Pacific, from their missionary beginnings, inherited an approach to theology that was dominated by Western cultural categories. The global movement of contextualization began to impact upon Pacific churches in the 1960s, and challenged this inherited approach. Significant changes have resulted, but the dilemma has remained. The dominant approach is still one that is defined by and better suited to literate cultures. The consequence is that theology remains an alien enterprise, distant from the life of the local churches, and distant from the hearts and minds of the indigenous people. In facing the dilemma, this book exposes the fundamental differences between primary oral cultures and primary literate cultures, and identifies the key factors that lie at the heart of the theological problem. By addressing each of these in turn, the author then paves the way ahead. He offers a methodology for theology that is rooted within the oral cultural context of the South Pacific . . . and potentially in any context where oral cultures are the norm. The consequences for theology and for theological education are profound.