The culture problem: How the honor/shame issue got the wrong end of the anthropological stick

The honor/shame issue is an important topic in mission, as portrayed in Georges’s The 3D Gospel for example. Proponents of the shame-guilt distinction draw on the popular culture concept of the early 20th century by assuming that cultures are objects that we can easily grasp and demarcate from one t...

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Main Author: Merz, Johannes (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2019]
In: Missiology
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 127-141
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
NBE Anthropology
RJ Mission; missiology
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Honor
B Shame
B Anthropology
B Culture
B Missiology
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