Encountering the West : Christianity and the global cultural process : the African dimension / [print]
Lamin Sanneh.
- Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [(c)1993.
- 286 pages ; 22 cm.
- World Christian theology series .
- World Christian theology series. .
"First published in Great Britain in 1993 by Marshall Pickering"--T.p. verso.
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.
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.
Christianity and culture. Missions. Missions--Africa. Christianity and other religions. Christianity and other religions--Islam. Islam--Relations--Christianity. Religious pluralism--Christianity.