عنوان

Do We Need a Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World?

شماره

LA121088

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Do We Need a Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World?

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michael A. Rynkiewich

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

There was a time when mission studies benefitted from a symbiotic relationship with the social sciences. However, it appears that relationship has stagnated and now is waning. The argument is made here, in the case of cultural anthropology both in Europe and the United States, that a once mutually beneficial though sometimes strained relationship has suffered a parting of the ways in recent decades. First, the article reviews the relationships between missionaries and anthropologists before World War II when it was possible to be a 'missionary anthropologist' with a foot in both disciplines. In that period, the conversation went two ways with missionary anthropologists making important contributions to anthropology. Then, the article reviews some aspects of the development of the two disciplines after World War II when increasing professionalism in both disciplines and a postmodern turn in anthropology took the disciplines in different directions. Finally, the article asks whether or not the conversation, and thus the cross-fertilization, can be restarted, especially since the youngest generation of anthropologists has recognized the reality of local Christianities in their fields of study. There was a time when mission studies benefitted from a symbiotic relationship with the social sciences. However, it appears that relationship has stagnated and now is waning. The argument is made here, in the case of cultural anthropology both in Europe and the United States, that a once mutually beneficial though sometimes strained relationship has suffered a parting of the ways in recent decades. First, the article reviews the relationships between missionaries and anthropologists before World War II when it was possible to be a 'missionary anthropologist' with a foot in both disciplines. In that period, the conversation went two ways with missionary anthropologists making important contributions to anthropology. Then, the article reviews some aspects of the development of the two disciplines after World War II when increasing professionalism in both disciplines and a postmodern turn in anthropology took the disciplines in different directions. Finally, the article asks whether or not the conversation, and thus the cross-fertilization, can be restarted, especially since the youngest generation of anthropologists has recognized the reality of local Christianities in their fields of study.

تاريخ نشر

2011

توصيف ظاهري

151-169

عنوان

Mission Studies

شماره جلد

28/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1573-3831

اصطلاح موضوعی

Anthropology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Cross-fertilization

اصطلاح موضوعی

Culture

اصطلاح موضوعی

Epistemology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Globalization

اصطلاح موضوعی

Missiology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Person

اصطلاح موضوعی

Postcolonial

اصطلاح موضوعی

Postmodern

اصطلاح موضوعی

Reflexivity

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Michael A. Rynkiewich

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157338311X602370

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y