Living Mission Interculturally : Faith, Culture, and the Renewal of Praxis

Gittins, Anthony J./ Arbuckle, Gerald A. (FRW)

Liturgical Press（2015/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780814683187
• DDC分類 261.1

Full Description

Our globalized world increasingly brings together people of many different cultures, though not always harmoniously. In recent decades, multinational companies have sought more efficient strategies for authentic intercultural collaboration. But in today's multicultural world-church, faith communities too—from local parishes to international religious communities—are faced with the challenge of intercultural living. The social sciences have developed some constructive approaches, but people of faith also need to build their endeavors on a sound biblical and theological foundation. Living Mission Interculturally integrates sociology/anthropology with practical theology, reminds us that good will alone is not enough to effect change, and points to a way of intercultural living underpinned by faith, virtue, and a range of new and appropriate skills.

Contents

Contents
Foreword   ix
Gerald A. Arbuckle, SM, PhD
Introduction   xiii
Chapter 1
Called to Conversion   1
     The Changing Face of International Religious Communities   1
     Definitions and Usage   3
     Ten Theses about Intercultural Living   4
     Three Guidelines   6
     The Call to Conversion: What, Who, Where, When?   11
     Suggested Follow-Up   14
Chapter 2
From Monocultural to Intercultural   15
     Defining and Clarifying Terms   15
     Characteristics of Intercultural Communities   24
     Changing Contours, Insights, and Needs   29
     Suggested Follow-Up   31
Chapter 3
Culture: "The (Hu)man-Made Part of the Environment"   32
     Approaching "Culture"   32
     Culture as "The (Hu)man-Made Part of the Environment"   35
     Suggested Follow-Up   45
Chapter 4
Culture: Life, Meaning, Skin, Reality   46
     Introduction   46
     Culture as "The Form of Social life"   47
     Culture as "A Meaning-Making System"   50
     Culture as "Social Skin"   54
     Culture as "An Enduring Social Reality"   55
     The Need to Clarify Terminology   56
     Suggested Follow-Up   61
Chapter 5
Culture, Faith, and Intercultural Living   62
     Lived Spirituality   62
     Cultural Variables and the Shaping of Faith   63
     Cultural Understandings of Past, Present, and Future   74
     Living our Faith and Spirituality Interculturally   76
     Two Examples: Oscar Romero and Jesus   77
     Suggested Follow-Up   79
Chapter 6
Social Profiles and Social Interaction    80
     A Caution and a Word of Encouragement   80
     Characterizing Social Types   81
     "High-Context" (Sociocentric) and "Low-Context" (Egocentric) Communication Styles   92
     Interpreting, Applying, and Living with Communication Styles   94
     Suggested Follow-Up   96
Chapter 7
Developing Intercultural Competence   98
     "Models of" and "Models for"   98
     From Ethnocentrism to Ethnorelativism   100
     The Ethnocentric Stages of Development   101
     The Ethnorelative Stages of Development   108
     Coda   113
     Suggested Follow-Up   114
Chapter 8
Mission, Margins, and Intercultural Living   115
     Review and Preview   115
     Margins and Marginality   117
     Marginality as Burden or Opportunity   121
     Liminality as a "Rite of Passage"   123
     Margins: Problems and Possibilities   124
     Jesus: Marginal by Choice and by Example   126
     The Missionary Potential of Marginal People   127
     Suggested Follow-Up   130
Chapter 9
Psychological Responses to Intercultural Living   131
     The Need for Mutual Adjustments   131
     A Schematic Diagram of Psychological Adjustment   133
     From Theory to Practice: Authentic Intercultural Living   142
     Suggested Follow-Up   146
Chapter 10
Cultural Responses to Intercultural Living   147
     The Grip of Culture   147
     The Dignity of Difference   148
     From Paradise to Brokenness: "The Cultural Flaw"   151
     Insiders and Outsiders, Participants and Nonparticipants   153
     The Jesus Solution: Removing the Barrier   158
     Suggested Follow-Up   161
Chapter 11
Community, Communitas, and Living Fully   162
     The Point of It All   162
     Community and Institutionalization   165
     Communitas: "Community with a Task"   168
     Normative Community: Institutionalization of Charism   169
     Mechanical Community   171
     How Much Communitas-Energy Is Needed?   172
     Communitas, Liminality, and Creativity   174
     Fanning the Flame   176
     Suggested Follow-Up   177
Chapter 12
     From Invitation to Radical Welcome   178
     Realizing Intercultural Community   178
     Three Types or Styles of Community   180
     Suggested Follow-Up   186
APPENDICES
     Appendix I: "Cultural Baggage"   187
     Appendix II: Skills and Virtues for Intercultural Living   194
     Appendix III: Intergenerational Living   204
     Appendix IV: Preferential Option for "The Other"   210
     Appendix V: Power and Authority   215
Notes   222
Bibliography   240
Index   250