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The Ontological Turn for Christians
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Meneses, Eloise Hiebert |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Some time ago, I remember someone asking on the Fishnet listserve for Christian anthropologists, “What ever happened to worldview?” The writer was pointing out the fact that while missiologists still use the term freely, contemporary anthropologists rarely use it at all. In the response, Brian Howell’s helpful critique of the term was mentioned (Howell 2006). Howell had suggested that the term “lacked theoretical rigor” (310), and that it would be better to view people as drawing upon multiple “systems of knowledge” in the context of globalization (311). Globalization, he said, entails a “complex interplay of local and global factors within the local community” (317), yielding results that are not reducible to a single worldview held in common by a group of people. He pointed out that the same critique might be made of the term, “culture”. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.18251/okh.v2i2.35 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.okhjournal.org/index.php/okhj/article/download/35/37 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.18251/okh.v2i2.35 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
