Sacred Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Dialogues write by Nicholas Griffiths. This book was released on 2006. Sacred Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Spanish conquistador who posed as a sorcerer and cured native Americans as he trekked across an unknown wilderness; a French Jesuit who conjured rain clouds in order to impress his indigenous flock with the potency of Christian magic; a Puritan minister who healed a native chief in order to win him for God; a Mexican noble who was burned at the stake for resisting the gentle Franciscan friars; an Andean chief who was haunted by nightmares in which his native gods did battle with the Christian Father; a Huron magician who vied with French missionaries over spirits of the night in a shaking tent ceremony. These are a few of the individuals whose struggles are brought to life in the pages of this book. Their experiences, among others, reveal what happened when Christianity came into contact with Native American religions in three distinct regions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century colonial America: Spanish, French and British.
Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue
Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue write by Allen G. Jorgenson. This book was released on 2020-12-30. Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, Allen G. Jorgenson asks what Christian theologians might learn from Indigenous spiritualties and worldviews. Jorgenson argues that theology in North America has been captive to colonial conceits and has lost sight of key resources in a post-Christendom context. The volume is especially concerned with the loss of a sense of place, evident in theologies written without attention to context. Using a comparative theology methodology, wherein more than one faith tradition is engaged in dialogical exploration, Jorgenson uses insights from Indigenous understandings of place to illumine forgotten or obstructed themes in Christianity. In this constructive theological project, “kairotic” places are named as those that are kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially enlightening at the margins, where we meet the religious other.
Praying and Preying
Praying and Preying - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Praying and Preying write by Aparecida Vilaca. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Praying and Preying available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari’, inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission. Vilaça turns to a vast range of historical, ethnographic and mythological material related to both the Wari’ and missionaries perspectives and the author’s own ethnographic field notes from her more than 30-year involvement with the Wari’ community. Developing a close dialogue between the Melanesian literature, which informs much of the recent work in the Anthropology of Christianity, and the concepts and theories deriving from Amazonian ethnology, in particular the notions of openness to the other, unstable dualism, and perspectivism, the author provides a fine-grained analysis of the equivocations and paradoxes that underlie the translation processes performed by the different agents involved and their implications for the transformation of the native notion of personhood.
Christ is a Native American
Christ is a Native American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christ is a Native American write by Achiel Peelman. This book was released on 1995. Christ is a Native American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his visit to the shrine of the North American Martyrs in 1984, John Paul II declared that it is important that we all recognize that not only is Christianity viable for Native Americans but that "Jesus Christ in the members of his Body is himself Indian." This book is an extended meditation on the Pope's pronouncement and its consequences for Christian life and mission.
Following Jesus in Invaded Space
Following Jesus in Invaded Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Following Jesus in Invaded Space write by Chris Budden. This book was released on 2011-07-27. Following Jesus in Invaded Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christianity is never just about beliefs, but habits and practices - for better or worse. Theology always reflects the social location of the theologian - including her privileges and prejudices - all the time working with a particular, often undisclosed, notion of what is normal. Therefore, theology is never 'neutral' - it defends particular constructions of reality, and it promotes certain interests. Following Jesus in Invaded Space asks what - and whose - interests theology protects when itis part of a community that invaded the land of indigenous peoples. Developing a theological method and position that self-consciously acknowledges the church's role in occupying Aboriginal land in Australia, it dares to speak of God, church, and justice in the context of past history and continuing dispossession. Hence, a 'Second People's theology' emerges through constant and careful attention to experiences of invasion and dislocation brought into dialogue with the theological landscape or tradition of the church. Being a descendant of some of the first English invaders in Australia and a witness to the continuing inadequate recognition of the Church's past mistakes in this country, theologian Chris Budden felt a strong need to write this book. Leaving the past behind does not mean ignoring it, and an acknowledgement of mistakes is a prerequisite to any fruitful discourse between invaders and invaded. In our endeavours to help the marginalised and the indigenous, Budden warns us against the arrogance of pitying them as 'poor superstitious things' who can only be helped by our own superior concept of divine grace. As Budden puts it: 'We need to keep listening for voices that remind us that our normal is not necessarily everybody's normal.' His book encourages us to recognise and appreciate the diverse perspectives of minority theologians. It is not just about giving a voice to these people. It is about being able to hear their own voice, to understand it, and then reinterpret our own tradition according to it.
