Worldview
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Religion
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Culture
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Kraft
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“the
culturally structured assumptions, values, and commitments/allegiances
underlying a people’s perception of reality and their responses to those perceptions”[1]
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“… a
means of relating to and dealing with an important part of the nonhuman
universe.”[2]
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“a
society’s complex, integrated coping mechanism, consisting of learned,
patterned concepts and behavior, plus their underlying perspectives
(worldview) and resulting artifacts (material culture).”[4]
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Hiebert
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“A
worldview provides people with their basic assumptions about reality.”[5]
“the
foundational cognitive, affective, and evaluative assumptions and frameworks
a group of people makes about the nature of reality which they use to order
their lives.”[6]
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“Religion
provides them with the specific content of this reality ….”[7]
“Religion
… is the model man uses to explain the reality of all things.”[8]
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“the more or less integrated systems of ideas, feelings,
and values and their associated patterns of behaviour and products shared by
a group of people who organize and regulate what they think, feel, and do.”[9]
“… the
integrated system of learned patterns of behavior, ideas, and products
characteristic of a society.”[10]
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Conn
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“…the
prescientific factories and bank vaults of presuppositions…”[11]
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“[Religion]
is the core in the structuring of culture, the integrating and radical
response of humanity to the revelation of God. Life is religion.”[12]
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“[Cultures]
are integrated, holistic patterns structured around the meeting of basic
human needs.”[13]
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This is very tentative - an attempt to create a mediating space for worldview that acknowledges that there are some aspects of life, e.g. views of time and space, that are basic but nevertheless culturally relative. (The software sadly doesn't let me draw lines in all the right places.)
Kraft
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Culture
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Worldview
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Religion
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Other aspects of culture
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Hiebert
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Culture
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Religion
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Other aspects of culture
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Worldview
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Religion expressed
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Conn
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Religion/Worldview
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Culture
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My Proposal |
Cultures/Religions
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Worldview
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Religion
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[1]
Charles, H. Kraft, Christianity with
Power (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant, 1989), 20.
[2]
Kraft, Anthropology for Christian Witness,
197.
[3]
Charles, H. Kraft, “Is Christianity a Religion or a Faith?” in Appropriate Christianity (Charles
H. Kraft, ed.; Pasadena: William Carey Library, 2005), 87 (original
emphasis).
[4]
Kraft, Anthropology for Christian Witness,
38.
[5]
Paul G. Hiebert, Cultural Anthropology (2d ed.;
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983), 371.
[6]
Paul G. Hiebert, Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological
Understanding of How People Change (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008), 25-26.
[7]
Hiebert, Cultural Anthropology, 371.
[8]
Ibid., 356.
[9]
Paul G. Hiebert, Anthropological Insights for Missionaries
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1985), 30.
[10]
Hiebert, Cultural Anthropology, 25.
[11]
Conn,
“Culture,” 254.
[12] Ibid.
[13]
Ibid.,
253.
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