DEEP INCULTURATION
Global Voices on Christian Faith
and Indigenous Genius
Antonio D. Sison, editor
Traditionally, inculturation has referred to a strategy employed by Western missionaries to evangelize non-Christian cultures. But what does this look like from the other side, from the perspective of indigenous cultures of the Global South and immigrant-heritage cultures in the interstices of dominant cultures? Deep Inculturation features original essays by seven leading global theologians with a focus on what this inculturation looks like in particular contexts: Africa, Mexico, Japan, Australia, and Indonesia.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Foreword: Inculturation Revisited vii
Peter C. Phan I
Introduction xi Antonio D. Sison
Contributors xxvii
Part I: Ritual and Performance
1. A Liturgy That Heals: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mexican American Ritual 3
Christopher D. Tirres
2. Dancing, Eating, Worshiping: Inculturated “Third Space” in Rarámuri Celebrations 25
Ángel F. Méndez Montoya
3. Contemporary Inculturational Performing Arts in the Indonesian Christian Church 57
Marzanna Poplawska
Part II: Method and the Lessons of History
4. Ceremonial Genius: Australia’s First Peoples and Liturgical Inculturation 89
5. Silent Inculturation: Japan’s Hidden Christians and the Criterion of the Cross 127
Antonio D. Sison
6. God, Canaan, Egypt, and the Stories of Migration in Intercultural Perspective 158
Ferdinand Ikenna Okorie
7. Pedagogy of Hospitality: Transforming Missionary Onslaught into Mutual Transformation and Enrichment 187
Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
Acknowledgments 217
About the Cover Image 219
Index 221
