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Christianity and Animism in Melanesia : Four Approaches to Gospel and Culture.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nehrbass, Kenneth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animism--Vanuatu--Tanna Island.
- Animism.
- Christianity--Vanuatu--Tanna Island.
- Christianity.
- Christianity and culture--Vanuatu--Tanna Island.
- Christianity and culture.
- Tanna Island (Vanuatu)--Religion.
- Tanna Island (Vanuatu).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Christianity and Animism in Melanesia
- Place of Publication:
- William Carey Library 2012
- Littleton : William Carey Publishing, 2012.
- Summary:
- Four Approaches to Gospel and Culture In this book, Kenneth Nehrbass examines the interaction between traditional or animistic religion (called kastom) and Christianity in Vanuatu.
- Contents:
- Folk religion for the Bible and early church fathers
- Folk religion and modern anthropology
- Kastom and knowledge
- Cosmology (ghosts and spirits)
- Magic and "goodness"
- Healing "badness"
- Ethics and taboos
- Cargoism
- Ritual
- Mission history and the integration of Kastom and Christianity
- The gospel-response axis
- The cultural-integration axis
- Mixers, transplanters, contextualizers, and separators.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64508-024-2
- 9781645080251
- 1645080250
- 9781645080244
- 1645080242
- OCLC:
- 1090423139
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