عنوان

Transnational Identities and the Church:

شماره

LA121097

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Transnational Identities and the Church:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Examining Contemporary Ethnicity and Place

نام نخستين پديدآور

Eloise Hiebert Meneses

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Ethnic identities have been problematic for the construction of local churches since New Testament times. Transnationalism adds a layer of complexity to this circumstance, as migrants hold multiple identities and retain strong ties to places of origin. An examination of the history of anthropology's study of ethnicity reveals ethnicity's constructed nature, along with its tendency to demand loyalty as to a family. Given people's very real need for a place of ultimate belonging, churches have sometimes too easily resolved the tension between Christian identity and ethnic identities by segregating themselves. New Testament churches were assemblies associated with place, not ethnicity, bringing together diverse peoples and requiring them to submit to Christ, as to the head of a household. There is evidence that contemporary attempts to form multi-cultural churches out of a liberal political agenda ironically become enmeshed in power struggles. But those that recognize the centrality of the gospel succeed due to the adoption of a central authority, Christ himself, who relativizes all ethnic and national identities in favor of a common purpose, the spread of the gospel to others who have not heard it. Ethnic identities have been problematic for the construction of local churches since New Testament times. Transnationalism adds a layer of complexity to this circumstance, as migrants hold multiple identities and retain strong ties to places of origin. An examination of the history of anthropology's study of ethnicity reveals ethnicity's constructed nature, along with its tendency to demand loyalty as to a family. Given people's very real need for a place of ultimate belonging, churches have sometimes too easily resolved the tension between Christian identity and ethnic identities by segregating themselves. New Testament churches were assemblies associated with place, not ethnicity, bringing together diverse peoples and requiring them to submit to Christ, as to the head of a household. There is evidence that contemporary attempts to form multi-cultural churches out of a liberal political agenda ironically become enmeshed in power struggles. But those that recognize the centrality of the gospel succeed due to the adoption of a central authority, Christ himself, who relativizes all ethnic and national identities in favor of a common purpose, the spread of the gospel to others who have not heard it.

تاريخ نشر

2012

توصيف ظاهري

62-78

عنوان

Mission Studies

شماره جلد

29/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1573-3831

اصطلاح موضوعی

anthropology

اصطلاح موضوعی

ethnicity

اصطلاح موضوعی

globalization

اصطلاح موضوعی

identity

اصطلاح موضوعی

migration

اصطلاح موضوعی

multi-cultural churches

اصطلاح موضوعی

nationalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

place

اصطلاح موضوعی

transnationalism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Eloise Hiebert Meneses

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157338312X638028

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y