Urbanization: The Challenge of Latin America in Transition
What is life really like for the people whom we are seeking to reach with the gospel? What are the basic anxieties, problems, distresses and frustrations to which the gospel must speak if it is to effectively reach the masses who crowd our mushrooming cities and who are caught in the rapid cultural...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1960
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Practical anthropology
Year: 1960, Volume: 7, Issue: 5, Pages: 205-209 |
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| Summary: | What is life really like for the people whom we are seeking to reach with the gospel? What are the basic anxieties, problems, distresses and frustrations to which the gospel must speak if it is to effectively reach the masses who crowd our mushrooming cities and who are caught in the rapid cultural change that is characteristic of the smaller towns and villages throughout the world? Why does the Christian religion, both Catholic and Protestant, so often fail to adequately meet the needs of these people? Oscar Lewis's book Five Families, of which this article is a review, has no cut-and-dried answers, but it does provide highly significant data for the study of these and a host of other questions which the Christian church must ask it if is to meet its commitments in a modern world. The setting of this book is in Mexico, but its implications reach throughout Latin America and into the other continents as well. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical anthropology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182966000700502 |
