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008			930720r19931993nyu b 001 0 eng
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049			_aSBIM
050			_aBR115.E536 1993
050			_aBR115.C8.S228.E536 1993
072		7	_as1th _2rero
100	1		_aSanneh, Lamin O, _eauthor _931149
245	1	0	_aEncountering the West : _bChristianity and the global cultural process : the African dimension / _cLamin Sanneh. _h[print]
260		1	_aMaryknoll, New York : _bOrbis Books, _c[(c)1993.
300			_a286 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aWorld Christian theology series
500			_a"First published in Great Britain in 1993 by Marshall Pickering"--T.p. verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-276) and index.
505	0		_t1. Religion and the Cultural Project: An Examination of Thought and Action _t2. 'They Stooped to Conquer': Cultural Vitality and the Indigenous Impulse in Missionary Translations _t3. Gospel and Culture: Theological and Religious Reflections _t4. Religious Insiders and Cultural Outsiders, or Religious Outsiders and Cultural Insiders? The Intercultural Critique _t5. Religious Agnostics and Cultural Believers: Comparative Soundings on the Lost Trails of Christendom _t6. 'The Garden of Eden Without the Snake?' The Moral Sting in the Cultural Tale: Some Conclusions.
520			_aDoes 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.
520	8		_aHe 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.
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650		0	_aChristianity and culture. _93459
650		0	_aMissions. _9106
650		0	_aMissions _zAfrica. _95985
650		0	_aChristianity and other religions.
650		0	_aChristianity and other religions _xIslam.
650		0	_aIslam _xRelations _xChristianity.
650		0	_aReligious pluralism _xChristianity. _940394
651		0	_aAfrica _xCivilization _xWestern influences. _974423
830		0	_aWorld Christian theology series. _974269
902			_c1 _dCYNTHIA SNELL _a1 _bCYNTHIA SNELL
907			_a.b10849506 _b08-16-12 _c01-22-08
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