TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanneh,Lamin O
TI  - Encountering the West: Christianity and the global cultural process : the African dimension 
T2  - World Christian theology series
SN  - 9780883449295
AV  - BR115 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Maryknoll, New York
PB  - Orbis Books
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Missions
KW  - Africa
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Religious pluralism
N1  - "First published in Great Britain in 1993 by Marshall Pickering"--T.p. verso; 1 (pages 247-276) and index; 1. Religion and the Cultural Project: An Examination of Thought and Action --; 2. 'They Stooped to Conquer': Cultural Vitality and the Indigenous Impulse in Missionary Translations --; 3. Gospel and Culture: Theological and Religious Reflections --; 4. Religious Insiders and Cultural Outsiders, or Religious Outsiders and Cultural Insiders? The Intercultural Critique --; 5. Religious Agnostics and Cultural Believers: Comparative Soundings on the Lost Trails of Christendom --; 6. 'The Garden of Eden Without the Snake?' The Moral Sting in the Cultural Tale: Some Conclusions; 2
N2  - Does religion reinforce the balkanization of cultural attitudes or does it help people transcend their culture? A noted scholar of world Christianity, Lamin Sanneh offers Westerners a perspective on such questions, a way to test the religio-cultural water and air in which they live; He shows how modernity has made of moderns "cultural believers" and "religious agnostics," and how the stubborn refusal to confront this bias in both secular and religious culture depletes both Christianity and Western culture
ER  -